Scat Records is an independent label that was spawned in Cleveland in 1989 and is presently located in St. Louis, Missouri. Scat does not specialize in any particular kind of music, beyond the good kind. I like artists with vision, natural talent and expressive ability playing in a basically rock context. Timeless rock albums are the goal. Wholesale inquiries should be directed to my distributor, Revolver USA. Other matters can be addressed to scatrecords (at) gmail (dot) com.

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April 16, 2010

The Styrenes - 35th Anniversary Dymaxion Tour:
Featuring a triple guitar attack from John Morton (Electric Eels), Jamie Klimek and Ulli Rattay. They'll be playing Mirrors and Eels songs as well as delving into the Styrenes' catalog. Speaking of, they have the last 11 copies of the We Care... vinyl with them, cd still available here.
4/17: Baltimore - Orion Studios
4/18: Washington DC - Velvet Lounge
4/19: Richmond - The Triple
4/20: Asheville - The LAB
4/21: Athens - Caledonia Lounge
4/22: Nashville - Betty's Grill
4/23: Cincinnati - Art Damage Lodge
4/24: Chicago - Empty Bottle
4/25: Cleveland - Beachland Ballroom
4/26: Columbus - The Summit
4/28: Philadelphia - M Room
4/29: Boston - The Church
4/30: Brooklyn - Death by Audio
5/1: NYC - Cake Shop

Bill Fox in Canada:
May 12: Toronto - Horseshoe Tavern
May 13: Montreal - Cagibi
May 14: Ottawa - Mayfair Theatre (Kelp Recs 16th Anniversary)

Bill does perform pretty regularly these days, but usually we hear about the shows after they happen! I should have some projection of when the Transit Byzantium reissue will be out in a few weeks.

There are maybe 15 copies of the GBV Director's Cut CD left.

December 3, 2009

Bill Fox double vinyl preorders have all shipped. Thank you for your patience, enthusiasm and support!

September 5, 2009

The reissue of Bill Fox's Shelter from the Smoke is well into the production phase, and the likely street date for the CD is October 20th. Double vinyl will follow a few weeks later. Once I'm a little more confident that the date is firm I will set up a preorder link, so stay tuned for that as well as more detail. I started talking this up a bit more than a year ago, but as you may have noticed, the music industry and economy in general are a bit of a mess these days. The past year has been frought with many personal and technical challenges as well (this update was done in Notepad, heh). Point being, I regret that it has taken so long to get this rolling, but am also happy that it is happening at all. If all goes well, Transit Byzantium will follow next year.

My old buddy Tom Dark has released a solo CD culled from newer recordings as well as a few unreleased tracks from his various groups over the decades. Check it here.

Low stock (1 left of each as of 9/5/09):
* NOTHING PAINTED BLUE Emotional Discipline CD link
* SPIKE IN VAIN Disease Is Relative LP link

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