IT'S A DIGITAL WORLD

Hear "Hot Bubblegum"

2012-01-26T11:12:00.000-08:00

"an exercise in raw beauty" right HERE

Digital Leather "Tour" Tour

2012-01-23T09:06:00.001-08:00

2/09 Seattle, WA@ Comet Tavern w/ Crypts, Grave,Dude York & Sick Secrets
2/10 Portland, OR@ East End w/ Therapists, Fine Pets & DJ Chris Hnat
2/11 Oakland, CA@ 1-2-3-4 Go! Records w/ Blasted Canyons & Glitz
2/13 San Diego, CA@ Soda Bar w/ Tar Halos
2/14 Tucson, AZ@ Plush w/ Lenguas Largas & Otherly Love
2/16 Phoenix, AZ@ Rhythm Room w/ Acid Dawgz, Weird Ladies & Ryan’s New Band
2/17 El Paso, TX@ M’s Lips w/ Boring Boyfriends, Villes & Bat/Caves
2/18 Austin, TX@ Beerland

Re: Modern Problems-
the label now has fewer than 75 copies left. get one HERE

MODERN PROBLEMS cover (by Sinboy)

2012-01-21T15:00:00.000-08:00

Running Low on Copies of Modern Problems

2012-01-14T11:19:00.000-08:00

it's a month away until the official release of the record and copies are going pretty quickly. Get yours HERE

SYFFAL decides SPONGE is good

2012-01-09T12:08:00.000-08:00

better than anal? HERE

MUSIC FOR YOUR BRAINS

2012-01-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

Sponge by Digital Leather

Pre-Order Modern Problems This Month and Win Stuff!

2012-01-02T09:01:00.000-08:00

if you order this month you get a FREE EP as well as the opportunity to win items from FDH. Read more about it HERE. Scroll down to the "LPs" section under "STORE" to order

DOWNLOAD: Digital Leather - Young Doctors In Love - RCRD LBL

2011-12-27T19:33:00.000-08:00

DOWNLOAD: Digital Leather - Young Doctors In Love - RCRD LBL

THRILL IS GONE LIVE

2011-12-16T11:47:00.000-08:00

just your typical saturday in Omaha. we're all a little drunk. nothing too bad

"Thrill is Gone" by Digital Leather | HN Live from Hear Nebraska on Vimeo.

Hear a NEW Song on SPIN

2011-12-13T10:00:00.000-08:00

from the first DL LP since warm Brother. right HERE

mr. funny face

2011-12-11T08:09:00.000-08:00

hello

2011-12-07T19:19:00.000-08:00

xoxo

2011-12-06T19:56:00.000-08:00

Last Chance to Get the Tape

2011-12-06T12:00:00.000-08:00

the Sponge limited cassette is almost gone. get it while you can here.

recorded vs live sound

2011-11-30T12:46:00.000-08:00

when you put on a record or play an mp3 or tape it's a one on one situation: you and the artist. that's why i make my recorded sound more intimate. when i play live, there's a different dynamic. the music becomes a dialogue between a living audience and myself.

therefore, these two sides of music, while having comparable aspects, will always contrast, rather, complement each other.

Seattle's Digital Leather

2011-11-29T14:31:00.000-08:00

fuck you right here

Drawn by a Fan

2011-11-26T13:40:00.000-08:00

interesting description of DL

2011-11-22T12:21:00.000-08:00

get bent has some choice words. check them out here

Limited Cassette from Crash Symbols.

2011-11-15T16:43:00.000-08:00

Hear some stuff here

2012

2011-11-11T14:53:00.000-08:00

Just a quick mention- the first Digital Leather LP since 2009's Warm Brother is slated to be released in early February 2012.

because i'm dumb and nothing to say

2011-11-05T20:36:00.001-07:00

Get Bent on Infinite Sun

2011-10-31T09:59:00.000-07:00

Sure, there are some misquotes and ambiguities. But generally, this is a nice little summary

HERE

sorbet

2011-10-25T19:57:00.000-07:00

weird odors pissing off my genius nose.

i smell a future. a devil.

empty plate of fried fish and chinese hot sauce half drunk half drunk.

pleasing is the comedy of the flesh.

laugh at my balls. they won't shrink.

they won't need needles or lifting weights.

drink. inhale the taste of your blood.

the cat walked into the room and laid down next to my arm.

then there wasn't a tomorrow.

borrowing music

2011-10-15T14:44:00.000-07:00

music just evolves and plays off of other music. it takes humility and talent to graciously borrow from other writers and make something new. thinking you're purely original is disrespectful to the spirit of music. only novices do that.

DRAINED

2011-10-11T16:22:00.000-07:00

2011-09-18T18:49:00.000-07:00

wow. info Sun

HERE

halos

2011-08-31T18:47:00.000-07:00

i think i've shared this before. i'll share it again. my cover of "white coats and halos" by 80s/90s psych-goth group The Tear Garden

here

blackness fills my life now

2011-08-13T13:35:00.000-07:00

some new interviews.

2011-07-26T15:55:00.000-07:00

read about Infinite Sun and Jay Reatard

here

read about touring and such

here

nothing new

2011-07-10T08:58:00.001-07:00

haven't blogged anything in a few days. let's see. since then some shitty records have been lauded as groundbreakers, murderers are going free, arabs are pissed, tv sucks, i went to the library, i'm working on a collection of goth-pop songs and i'm getting ready to go to the farmer's market.

2011-07-04T20:14:00.000-07:00

surf spit and rabbit noise exactly explain why americans are fat retards. indulge in either? die

The Cover for Infinite Sun

2011-06-18T11:29:00.000-07:00

An expressive face in another dimension. A time witch. Godhead.
Sound travel.

From RCRD LBL

2011-06-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

Infinite Sun is one of those albums that's more biography than mere collection of tracks. Shawn Foree is the brains behind Digital Leather, who started blowing up with 2009's Fat Possum-released Warm Brother. The passing of friend and manager Jay Reatard brought a swift break from music and move to Berlin, and only now has Foree returned to the grid. Rather than pick up the pieces, "Sea Of Hate" demonstrates Digital Leather's shift to a more DIY approach in both process and product, a change that has benefitted his electro-infused blend of grime pop. Grab the LP June 21 on Volar.

Scion Split w/ Cola Freaks

2011-06-14T15:58:00.001-07:00

Scion A/V Garage: Cola Freaks / Digital Leather by ScionAV

ROCK

2011-06-09T06:31:00.001-07:00

band sandwich

2011-06-08T11:47:00.000-07:00

The more I read about bands signing to ostentatiously indie labels, bragging about their press agents and booking agents and management and distribution, the more I vow to make a big sandwich and eat it. I mean really eat it. What the hell else is there to do?

Limited Red Cover for "Sponge" single on Ghost Highway Recordings

2011-06-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

Digital Leather, The Cure cover

2011-06-07T08:39:00.000-07:00

Plainsong (The Cure) by digitalleather

Material

2011-05-31T12:12:00.000-07:00

It's now getting to the point where I have several albums worth of stuff lying around. I'm not sure what will become of it yet, but it is good stuff, so I really should share it. Otherwise, I'm just a narcissist or something. A dude in a room with a tape machine.

Reatards cover

2011-05-26T11:54:00.001-07:00

Latest tracks by digitalleather

Volar blog

2011-05-26T11:39:00.001-07:00

really excited about the upcoming Volar release. Check out their blog

volarrecords.blogspot.com

dream crying

2011-05-22T09:06:00.000-07:00

crying in dreams is weird. so is actually crying while dreaming. but crying in a dream while not actually crying. that's strange. how do you know you're not actually crying? it's so cathartic. especially for someone who doesn't usually cry.

ode to acceptance

2011-05-19T07:15:00.000-07:00

when i started doing music someone told me that unless i had a nice electric guitar, i wasn't good enough. so i got a decent electric guitar and learned how to work it pretty well. then, i started playing in bands and some dude told me unless i had something out on vinyl, i wasn't good enough. so i put something out on vinyl. a few things actually. later, someone mentioned that unless i had a catchy album, i wasn't good enough. i wrote a catchy album. then it was: if you don't have proper publicity, you're not good enough. with the help of some friends, i got that, too. point is, after all that, here i am. feeling not good enough. and there they are: they keep coming. telling me i suck because i don't meet this or that standard. an endless barrage. i'm just like everybody else. i bust my ass to meet a status quo and the pay off is insufficiency. take from that what you want.

coming soon

2011-05-17T13:40:00.001-07:00

Digital Leather- 1000times by digitalleather

city

2011-05-14T10:44:00.000-07:00

How boring and uninspiring can a place be? it's cold all the time, even in spring. everyone drives too slow. the food sucks. you can't walk around. you have to drive everywhere. behind those slow stupid drivers. there's nothing to write about. there's generally nothing to do. what a great waste of life and time.

2011-05-11T10:18:00.001-07:00

availble from http://ghosthighwayrecordings.blogspot.com/

2011-04-19T22:11:00.000-07:00

i said the shit first. remember that before i fuck up your face

2011-04-14T21:16:00.001-07:00

murder the most popular person you know

2011-03-16T22:21:00.001-07:00

rape

dumb video

2011-03-05T18:25:00.002-08:00

2011-02-27T14:57:00.000-08:00

home alone 5, total recall 2,
new star wars film
new my record
talkin' shit

2011-02-07T17:40:00.001-08:00

2011-01-24T14:12:00.002-08:00

currently working on a new collection of songs that i think could be the most rockin stuff i've done

2010-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

it's amazing i've come this far by not only rejecting popular bandwagons but flat out denouncing them. figured i would have sold out by now. maybe i'm too stupid to sell out. or not stupid enough. what does selling out even mean anymore? i guess it means compromising your integrity for money. but everybody does that once in a while on some level, right? does an artist have a greater personal responsibility? that seems like false grandeur. maybe it depends on where your art comes from. like, does it come from your id, ego or superego.

maybe selling out has something to do with a distortion of success. seems like most of the music i like comes from people who are no longer around; either dead, missing or defunct. so, logically, if i see these people as successes, i can never be a success in my own eyes because i am alive and not defunct. but then, i guess i need to define success as per me. something simple. doing what i love to do.

i am not claiming to be all original, but i know my approach is a little dramatic. it's pretty obvious plenty of bands get into it for egocentric reasons; to be accepted among certain people; to get laid; to get paid. that's fine. i've go nothing against that. but i do it because if i didn't, i'd either end up in an asylum or jail or any other of the various cells people are trapped in. it's like meds for me. i know plenty of artists feel this way as well. and i don't know if my reason is the honorable reason. i'd guess not. maybe i have a weak constitution. maybe i'm just bored. maybe i'm lying and secretly i want all the excess. but it's not like i haven't known excess. and it's different to see excess. it used to entice me. now it disgusts me.

the shit

2010-09-13T11:05:00.001-07:00

2010-09-07T03:27:00.001-07:00

i rock harder than you so shut up

2010-08-10T06:31:00.001-07:00

2010-08-04T14:57:00.000-07:00

if your reverb is past 5, you're full of shit

2010-07-25T04:16:00.000-07:00

nervous gender is real punk

2010-07-23T21:52:00.000-07:00

saw an actual copy of this at the jewish museum in berlin

2010-07-22T08:32:00.000-07:00

speak for me, dude

2010-07-22T07:30:00.001-07:00

2010-07-21T00:19:00.001-07:00

2010-07-17T07:10:00.001-07:00

2010-07-17T06:33:00.001-07:00

IF YOU GOOGLE "PIGFUCKER"

2010-07-17T06:26:00.000-07:00

this is the first image. I think I know her.

my metal MIXXXXXX

2010-07-15T06:29:00.000-07:00

CLICK DUDE

2010-07-12T01:29:00.000-07:00

2010-07-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

2010-07-03T12:10:00.000-07:00

chat on facebook

2010-07-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

Chaé
are u working on a new Album btw?

7:56pmMe
yes. it's pretty much done. should be out later in the year
once i sort through label bullshit
hehe

7:57pmChaé
always label bs getting in the way

7:57pmMe
pretty much

7:57pmChaé
i look forward to it

7:58pmMe
yeah. it's definitely a different step for DL

7:58pmChaé
how so

7:59pmMe
it's almost all live band, songs are mostly fast...a la cameltoe. but it still is something that grew out of warm brother

8:00pmChaé
Ohhh ok

8:00pmMe
oh and all the songs are about death!

8:00pmChaé
haha. ok

8:00pmMe
haha

8:01pmChaé
Ur band reminds me of Joy Division in certain ways
so it makes sense

8:01pmMe
right

8:01pmChaé
death being a topic
beautifully tragic

8:02pmMe
yep. i try not to be so morose about it though. more like how a child sees death
i',m basically a four year old with a moustache

8:03pmChaé
haha. i can digg it!

Influences

2010-06-30T05:51:00.002-07:00

I drew from a lot of my favorite bands on this record: The Fall, Violent Femmes, Joy Division, Nirvana, Tangerine Dream, and Gary Numan to name a few

there are parts of the new record that are obviously inspired by the work of film composer John Murphy. I love what he did with Sunshine.

non-musically, i drew from just hanging out with friends, convoluted drunken conversation, the news, travelling, love, death; the usual stuff.

infinite sun

2010-06-30T00:25:00.001-07:00

i just wanted as much synth action as possible.

2010-06-28T06:45:00.000-07:00

in cologne, germany. eating schniztel. playing guitars. album is complete and will have surprises. synthesizer party. yeah.

2010-06-14T10:05:00.001-07:00

2010-06-14T09:57:00.000-07:00

2010-06-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

From "Said the Gramophone" re: Photo Lie

2010-06-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

I came into school one day tired and dragging my feet. Wet toast and water and tylenol and there I was. My bag was half-open and people buzzed around me, all more awake and enjoying the morning like they knew just how. I limped up to my locker, or what I thought was my locker, and started opening the lock. I didn't even realise; I was in the senior's hall, on the whole wrong side of the building. I had come in a different entrance 'cause I caught the city bus that morning and I was all turned around. Anyway, not only did I get the wrong locker, I got THE wrong locker, I got Jamus Gart's locker. The super-popular, had-sex-at-thirteen, senior that everyone loved and wanted to be. And even more amazing than that, in my tired stupor, I got my lock combination way wrong, and somehow guessed his correct combination. The locker clicked open and I was preparing myself for the smell of a flat apple and the look of a Batman Forever poster, my usual daily routine of disappointment. Instead I was greeted to a fine musk, a rich smell similar to animal fur or, like, a sweaty prince. The locker was tidy, books stacked on a middle shelf he had installed himself, a pair of sailing shoes sat neatly at the bottom, thin planks of cedar in the top compartment to neutralize possibly aromatic locker neighbours. Soft music seemed to play, like a thin veil of Curtis Mayfield and the Ave Maria, and a small mirror sat humbly and easy at eye level. A little photobooth photo stuck out from under the corner. A vision of beauty, a strong defiant bone-structure with a high collar; Jamus' college-aged girlfriend. I knew the whole time, at some level, I had made a mistake, but for a second I remember clearly thinking, "Woah, I really do have my shit together."

2010-06-10T19:59:00.000-07:00

2010-06-10T19:56:00.000-07:00

2010-05-11T21:30:00.000-07:00

been really enjoying Stone Roses' first album a lot lately. when it first came out, i guess my ear was too geared toward dirty, heavy sounds, which i still love. but i can now see value in clean, well produced material as well, as long as the content thereof is interesting, i.e. stone roses

Desert & the Sea (clip)

2010-05-05T10:13:00.000-07:00

albummmm

2010-05-04T09:03:00.000-07:00

this is shaping up to be the ultimate Digital Leather record. The synths are demonic, drum machines are over-blasted. plus, the full band stuff is so catchy. i like how it seems like a party album at first, but really it's the antithesis of that. you can party to it, you can do it to it, but you can also kill yourself to it. can you kill yourself to andrew wk?

2010-04-27T22:54:00.000-07:00

Got The New Record Name

Time to pitch in

2010-04-27T12:33:00.000-07:00

multi-tracks

2010-04-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

yesterday i sat down in the studio and dumped some mixes from my sequencer onto 4-track. suddenly, I have two albums worth of stuff on my hands; a punk record and an electro record.

2010-04-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

taking a week off to absorb life. then, it's back to work. i hate rest almost as much as i enjoy it.

SXSW 2010

2010-03-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

it's monday in austin and we'll be leaving here soon. i don't really have a feeling about sxsw. on one hand, it's a whack festival for already-overly-and-undeservingly-popular bands to spew hype into zombie ears. then, it's a showcase event/ oppotunity to see young, excited people playing raw music that is actually interesting and to small crowds. so it's schizophrenic and lame and cool. mexican food is a bonus. don't go to guero's. there's never any parking.

2010-03-14T17:13:00.000-07:00

touring is part of my essence. to not tour is to not be me.

March 2010 Tour Dates

2010-03-03T10:54:00.001-08:00

March 12, 2010 Oleaver's Omaha, NE w. Boy Toys
March 16, 2010 Replay Lounge Lawrence, KS
March 17, 2010 Soundpony Tulsa, OK
March 18, 2010 SXSW @ Shattered Austin, TX w/ Hunx, Wizzard Sleeve, Fucked Up + more
March 19, 2010 SXSW @ Beerland Austin, TX w/ The Spits, Tokyo Electron, King Louie
March 19, 2010 SXSW @ Mohawk Patio Austin, TX w// The Cool Kids, Uffie + more
March 20, 2010 SXSW @ Parade of Flesh Austin, TX
March 21, 2010 SXSW @ Beerland Austin, TX
March 22, 2010 Trash Bar Texas Houston, TX
March 23, 2010 Saturn Bar New Orleans, LA
March 25, 2010 Hal & Mal's Jackson, MS
March 26, 2010 Hi-Tone Cafe Memphis, TN
March 27, 2010 Subterannean Chicago, IL

2010-02-15T11:48:00.001-08:00

4 or 5 songs down

new record

2010-02-10T13:58:00.000-08:00

learning new stuff

2010-02-07T19:23:00.000-08:00

ready to tour.

Kisses

2010-02-04T12:23:00.001-08:00

STUFF I SAY AND DO

2010-01-31T21:13:00.000-08:00

i like music
not the businees of raping music.

some musicians are instant assholes
just add a drop of success.
add too much success and they get gross

this song was written for jay:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zyvwjmwizmw

2010-01-29T08:45:00.001-08:00

nothing is more repulsive and annoying than somebody who BELIEVES they're gonna be a star

2010-01-27T10:10:00.000-08:00

the new anti-terrorism is independent thought

Self-Potrait 23

2010-01-24T23:22:00.000-08:00

Fuck You All (except you)

2010-01-21T17:15:00.000-08:00

Why is 21st century music such vomit? We glorify and consume what's been thrown up, re-filtered and non-created. We praise plagiarism. We sing about surfing during tidal violence. We ravenously consume that which tells us it's okay to be lazy. We confuse the ambient for the abstract.

Our brains are iPods: small and always shrinking, disinterested in quality, obsessed with quantity. Our thoughts are mp3s: squished, fragmented copies of unknown origin; usually a file containing some vile and commercial thing.

In the future, people might have 8-bit minds; thinking in predetermined square shapes; experiencing life, but only within a limited, primitively programmed and compressed manner. This is the death of mystery.

Chronic fragmentation of thought is now evident in our new favorite medium of expression: the blurb.

Art doesn't have to be a struggle against injustice. Actually, it's best when it's playful. but that doesn't mean it shouldn't play seriously and reflectively. The current best music is a retarded child who, during hide and seek, hides behind his hands. If it is reflective, it reflects what's most embarrassing about those who enjoy it.

saturday night celebration (nazi pubes)

2010-01-16T16:19:00.000-08:00