Pre-Order “One H.E.L.L. of a Compilation” today!
I just wanted to repost this to get it some more visibility again. Please repost this to help spread the word! We’re at 75 preorders for the 2xLP comp right now, 33 shirts and 40 cassettes. It’d be amazing to hit 100 pre-orders of the LP (if not more) before the pre-orders are done. 2 1/2 weeks to go before they are! So help get the word out.
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In 2007, Gordon Riker & Kelly Wallace both tragically passed away in bike accidents in Boston, MA. Shortly after, friends of their’s started a non-profit organization titled H.E.L.L. (Helping Everyone Live Longer). H.E.L.L. is a DIY group that primarily operates in Boston’s punk and hardcore scene that both Gordon and Kelly were heavily involved in. H.E.L.L.’s main goal is to give out free helmets from donations while raising bike safety awareness. You can learn more about H.E.L.L. at www.helpingeveryonelivelonger.org
For the last year, we’ve been working on a compilation to help raise money and awareness for H.E.L.L. This compilation features songs and artwork from Gordon and Kelly’s friends, family, and favorite bands, as well as a few others who have lost someone close to them. Contributions are not just primarily from the Greater Boston area, but also Florida, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Quẽbec. All proceeds from this compilation will go directly to helping keep H.E.L.L. alive.
HELL Compilation from hate5six on Vimeo.
The compilation includes NEW, EXCLUSIVE, and UNRELEASED songs from 108, Alanna (ex-Medicated Kisses), Jason Anderson, Attica! Attica (ex-Marathon/De La Hoya), Battle!, The Faux, The First Annual (ex-Guns Up!), Fly Upright Kite, Form & File, Foxfires (ex-Last Lights/Four Year Strong), Give and Take (ex-Battle!), Hunger (ex-Unrestrained/Crucial Times), Late Nite Wars, Life & Limb (ex-Maintain), Brian Marquis (ex-Therefore I Am), Our Lives (members of Vanna/Always & Forever), Powerwolves, Roadrage, Oscar Albis Rodriguez (of Ghost Robot Ninja Bear/ex-Nakatomi Plaza), Peter Long, Ten Thirty Nine, Undark and the Radium Girls, Vanna, Wrong Body (ex-A Loss for Words), yellowbirddd(ex-Fly Upright Kite), and rare songs from Converge, Paint it Black, Four Year Strong, and Freezepop.
It also includes songs from A Loss for Words, Actor | Observer, Alive & Well, Autochrome, Bike to the Future, Born Without Bones (ex-Therefore I Am), Bullshit Tradition (ex-Unrestrained), Darkwoods, Casey Desmond, DJ Flack, Dreamtigers (members of Defeater, ex-Ambitions), Early Morning Blues (ex-Boys Like Girls/Therefore I Am/Lions Lions), The End All Marathon, Fresh Aire, Ghost Thrower (ex-Therefore I Am), Giant Target, Gone Bad, GraveRobbers (members of Roadrage, ex-Have Heart), Harvest Escaper, Phill Hunt, Last Excuse, Lie Captive, Lions Lions, Luau, Lucy Grace, Man Overboard, No Submission (ex-Crucial Times), Sounds Like Funeral Music (ex-Francine…And Hey Ruby Slippers), The Stereo State, Street Sweeper, Think Again, Tightrope, The Tower and The Fool (ex-Therefore I Am / Hot Rod Circuit), Transit, Trapper Keeper, Van Khai Truong, Unrestrained, Valencourt, Villain, Wolf Whistle (ex-XFilesX, Have Heart), and Yale, Massachusetts.
The compilation is a 70 song digital comp. A selection of these songs that are rare/exclusive/and written specifically for the compilation are also available on a 2xLP vinyl record set (limited to 500 copies) as well as a cassette tape (limited to 100 copies).
Pre-orders for the 2xLP and digital versions, as well as an exclusive tshirt, are now available exclusively through MerchNOW. The black and grimace purple aside/bside vinyl is exclusive for pre-orders. The tshirt is a collaboration between H.E.L.L. and Art Terror, the clothing company Gordon Riker started while attending the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. If you pre-order the album through MerchNOW, you’ll also have a chance to win a test press of the compilation.
Pre-orders for the cassette version are available exclusively through Antique Records, a new small label out of Boston. You can get order them now at http://antiquerecords.storenvy.com/
The release shows will be February 25th and 26th. The Facebook event page is up at https://www.facebook.com/events/225933590818111/
http://new.merchnow.com/catalogs/hell
The compilation includes NEW, EXCLUSIVE, and UNRELEASED songs from 108, Alanna (ex-Medicated Kisses), Jason Anderson, Attica! Attica (ex-Marathon/De La Hoya), Battle!, The Faux, The First Annual (ex-Guns Up!), Fly Upright Kite, Form & File, Foxfires (ex-Last Lights/Four Year Strong), Give and Take (ex-Battle!), Hunger (ex-Unrestrained/Crucial Times), Late Nite Wars, Life & Limb (ex-Maintain), Brian Marquis(ex-Therefore I Am), Our Lives (members of Vanna/Always & Forever), Powerwolves, Roadrage, Oscar Albis Rodriguez (of Ghost Robot Ninja Bear/ex-Nakatomi Plaza), Peter Long, Ten Thirty Nine, Undark and the Radium Girls, Vanna, Wrong Body (ex-A Loss for Words), yellowbirddd (ex-Fly Upright Kite), and rare songs from Converge, Paint it Black, Four Year Strong, and Freezepop.
Also there’s a bunch of other bands on it! 70+ song digital comp, 28 songs on a 2xLP set!
Also there’s a cassette version available at http://antiquerecords.storenvy.com/! They’re almost out of the pre-order tapes.
Please support this! please repost!
One H.E.L.L. of a Compilation release shows! Feb 25th and 26th!
One H.E.L.L. of a Compilation: Pre-order now!
Happy Holidays! We’re very excited to finally be able to announce this project in its entirety.
In 2007, Gordon Riker & Kelly Wallace both tragically passed away in bike accidents in Boston, MA. Shortly after, friends of their’s started a non-profit organization titled H.E.L.L. (Helping Everyone Live Longer). H.E.L.L. is a DIY group that primarily operates in Boston’s punk and hardcore scene that both Gordon and Kelly were heavily involved in. H.E.L.L.’s main goal is to give out free helmets from donations while raising bike safety awareness. You can learn more about H.E.L.L. at www.helpingeveryonelivelonger.org
For the last year, we’ve been working on a compilation to help raise money and awareness for H.E.L.L. This compilation features songs and artwork from Gordon and Kelly’s friends, family, and favorite bands, as well as a few others who have lost someone close to them. Contributions are not just primarily from the Greater Boston area, but also Florida, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Quẽbec. All proceeds from this compilation will go directly to helping keep H.E.L.L. alive.
HELL Compilation from hate5six on Vimeo.
The compilation includes NEW, EXCLUSIVE, and UNRELEASED songs from 108, Alanna (ex-Medicated Kisses), Jason Anderson, Attica! Attica (ex-Marathon/De La Hoya), Battle!, The Faux, The First Annual (ex-Guns Up!), Fly Upright Kite, Form & File, Foxfires (ex-Last Lights/Four Year Strong), Give and Take (ex-Battle!), Hunger (ex-Unrestrained/Crucial Times), Late Nite Wars, Life & Limb (ex-Maintain), Brian Marquis (ex-Therefore I Am), Our Lives (members of Vanna/Always & Forever), Powerwolves, Roadrage, Oscar Albis Rodriguez (of Ghost Robot Ninja Bear/ex-Nakatomi Plaza), Peter Long, Ten Thirty Nine, Undark and the Radium Girls, Vanna, Wrong Body (ex-A Loss for Words), yellowbirddd (ex-Fly Upright Kite), and rare songs from Converge, Paint it Black, Four Year Strong, and Freezepop.
It also includes songs from A Loss for Words, Actor | Observer, Alive & Well, Autochrome, Bike to the Future, Born Without Bones (ex-Therefore I Am), Bullshit Tradition (ex-Unrestrained), Darkwoods, Casey Desmond, DJ Flack, Dreamtigers (members of Defeater, ex-Ambitions), Early Morning Blues (ex-Boys Like Girls/Therefore I Am/Lions Lions), The End All Marathon, Fresh Aire, Ghost Thrower (ex-Therefore I Am), Giant Target, Gone Bad, GraveRobbers (members of Roadrage, ex-Have Heart), Harvest Escaper, Phill Hunt, Last Excuse, Lie Captive, Lions Lions, Luau, Lucy Grace, Man Overboard, No Submission (ex-Crucial Times), Sounds Like Funeral Music (ex-Francine…And Hey Ruby Slippers), The Stereo State, Street Sweeper, Think Again, Tightrope, The Tower and The Fool (ex-Therefore I Am / Hot Rod Circuit), Transit, Trapper Keeper, Van Khai Truong, Unrestrained, Valencourt, Villain, Wolf Whistle (ex-XFilesX, Have Heart), and Yale, Massachusetts.
The compilation is a 70 song digital comp. A selection of these songs that are rare/exclusive/and written specifically for the compilation are also available on a 2xLP vinyl record set (limited to 500 copies) as well as a cassette tape (limited to 100 copies).
Pre-orders for the 2xLP and digital versions, as well as an exclusive tshirt, are now available exclusively through MerchNOW. The black and grimace purple aside/bside vinyl is exclusive for pre-orders. The tshirt is a collaboration between H.E.L.L. and Art Terror, the clothing company Gordon Riker started while attending the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. If you pre-order the album through MerchNOW, you’ll also have a chance to win a test press of the compilation.
Pre-orders for the cassette version are available exclusively through Antique Records, a new small label out of Boston. You can get order them now at http://antiquerecords.storenvy.com/
The release shows will be February 25th and 26th in the Boston area. More details coming soon!
VTHC: Past & Present Compilation CD.
The Vermont Hardcore: Past & Present Compilation CD is out now (actually its been out for a few months and we just haven’t updated this website)! You can buy the CD directly from us for $5 on our web store. The disc consists of 30 tracks spanning nearly 30 years of punk and hardcore from the Green Mountain State. This release is limited to 100 copies, so get it before they’re gone for good!
selling records+shirts!
I’ve been posting a bunch of records/tshirts/etc. on eBay to help raise money for putting out the H.E.L.L. compilation. Please keep an eye out here for anything you might be interested in and spread the word ! Thank you so much. http://www.ebay.com/sch/diggingforfire/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562 Please reblog this and share it with anyone that might be interested!
Bands: Have Heart, Bane, The Rival Mob, Free Spirit, INVASION, The Receiving End of Sirens, Vanna, Four Year Strong, Verse, Smashing Pumpkins and more to come!
Here’s a sneak peak of the cover for One H.E.L.L. of a Compilation! The illustration was done by a friend of mine, Brian Butler. You can check out more of his work at http://www.theupperhandart.com/.
The compilation is coming together really well. Hopefully I’ll be able to make the final announcement soon. We’re just waiting on a few last songs, and then the mastering process begins while I finish compiling all the artwork. Everything is coming out way better than I ever expected, and their are some killer songs on this, so please spread the word to your friends and keep an eye out here for more updates!
Helping Everyone Live Longer
Hello everyone,
Four years ago today, a good friend of mine by the name of Gordon Riker was killed while riding his bike down Huntington Ave in Boston. Gordon was a classmate of mine from MassArt, a friend, a fellow designer, and someone who I really respected artistically. Gordon would have turned 23 a few weeks later.
Approximately a month after Gordon passed away, a young woman named Kelly Wallace was killed while riding her bike at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Harvard Ave in Boston. Gordon and Kelly had been friends and soon after his death she had begged people to be careful when riding. Kelly had “wishful thinking” tattooed on her arms and had been described as someone who got along with everyone. I didn’t know Kelly, but we share many friends and I feel like I would have liked her if I had.
It was quite the shock that two deaths like this happened so close to each other in the same city within the same circle of friends. Immediately afterwards, there were a slew of tribute concerts, fundraisers, and ghosts bikes to honor Gordon and Kelly. Also, a few friends of Kelly’s decided start up a non-profit organization titled H.E.L.L. (Helping Everyone Live Longer). While it raises awareness of bike safety, H.E.L.L.’s main goal is give out free helmets with the proceeds they receive. In it’s highly successful first year, H.E.L.L. gave out over 300 helmets to folks throughout the world. H.E.L.L. shut down in Summer 2008, and was left with an uncertain future…
In late 2009, Andrew Murray restarted H.E.L.L. with the permission of those who originally ran it. Andrew narrowed the focus of H.E.L.L. to the Boston-area in order to play a greater role in the local community. They still hand out bike helmets, and also sponsor and organize cycling-advocating events in the Boston area.
Last April I moved to Burlington, VT. Soon after getting here, I got involved in the local music scene and started a DIY record label called Get Stoked! Records with two friends of mine, Michael Wierzbicki and Matt Kimball. All we wanted to accomplish was to try to help friends of ours put out some awesome music for others to hear.
I’m very excited to announce a project that we’ve been working on for the past 6 months. Get Stoked! Records will be releasing “One H.E.L.L. of a Compilation”, a collection of music from friends of Gordon and Kelly, bands they liked, as well as people that may have known someone else who got into a bike accident or just want to support H.E.L.L.’s mission. The compilation is really diverse and is from musicians from all over including Boston, other parts of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Florida, and New York. A bunch of songs on the comp will be exclusive, new, and rare songs.
The compilation will be released on CD and hopefully a very limited run on vinyl (most likely it’ll be a 2 or 3 LP set). Not only is it a collaborative music project, but there are also 10+ artists that are contributing artwork that will be included in the insert along with bike safety information.
There isn’t a release date at the moment. We’re still waiting on some bands to submit music and are working on the artwork. We hope to start pre-sales sometime in the next few months. In the meantime, here’s a list of some of the confirmed bands. There are more bands to come!
The single asterix (*) is for bands that are submitting rare songs. The double asterix (**) is for bands that are submitting new and exclusive songs.
- A Loss for Words
- Actor | Observer **
- Attica! Attica! (ex-Marathon/De La Hoya) **
- Autochrome **
- Bike to the Future
- Born Without Bones
- Brian Marquis (formerly of Therefore I Am) **
- Converge *
- The Credentials
- Darkwoods *
- DJ Flack
- The Faux
- The First Annual ** (ex-Guns Up!)
- Fly Upright Kite **
- Form & File **
- Four Year Strong *
- Freezepop *
- Ghost Robot Ninja Bear ** (ex-Nakatomi Plaza/De La Hoya)
- Ghost Thrower (ex-Therefore I Am) **
- Giant Target **
- GraveRobbers
- Harvest Escaper
- Jason Anderson **
- Late Nite Wars **
- Lie Captive (from Plattsburgh, NY) *
- Life & Limb **
- Luau
- Lucy Grace
- Our Lives (members of Vanna, Always & Forever, Seeker Destroyer)
- Paint it Black *
- Peter Long **
- Powerwolves **
- Roadrage **
- Ten Thirty Nine **
- Therefore I Am
- Think Again
- The Tower and The Fool (ex-Therefore I Am, ex-Hot Rod Circuit)
- Transit
- Stand Accused
- Unrestrained (from Vermont)
- Vanna **
- Villain
- Wolf Whistle
- Wrong Body **
- yellowbirddd (ex-Fly Upright Kite) **
- Young Victorians (ex-Lucy Grace)
ALL profits will be going to H.E.L.L. to help buy more helmets, lights, and to work on bike safety programs. Get Stoked! Records will not be making any money off of this beyond paying off what it cost us to put out.
Keep an eye on this site for updates on this project. Please tell your friends. If you’re in a band or are an artist that would like to contribute, feel free to get in touch at GetStokedRecordsVT at gmail dot com. I can’t promise anything but there may be room for more contributions. I will know more over the next month as everything comes together.
Thanks everyone,
Justin
+Stay Positive+
Please check out http://helpingeveryonelivelonger.org/
