Kiam Records

02/02/2025

Amy Bezunartea will be performing a short set of new material opening for our friends Jim Andralis & Larry Krone on Sunday February 23 at Francis Kite Club in NYC. ❤️❤️❤️

New songs? Yes! Old songs? Probably!

Tickets are on sale now - link in the comments!

Amy Bezunartea Andralis Larry Krone The Francis Kite Club

10/11/2024

10/10/14 10 years ago tonight in Nyack!

Also playing a hurricane relief benefit tomorrow night 10/11/24 in Brooklyn at Union Pool with Sloppy Heads

❤️❤️❤️

07/12/2024

6 short weeks from tonight I will be in Cambridge MA with Eric Bachmann at the legendary Club Passim! There are only a handful of tickets left - link in comments to grab one of the remaining tix. 🎟️

07/12/2024

CREEM Magazine gets it. Thanks guys ❤️

Choo Choo la Rouge's 'The Sunshine State' is 14 weeks or 3.5 months old today! Links to purchase vinyl and stream are available below!

Also, subscribe to Creem. They are doing the Lord’s work.



https://orcd.co/cclrsunshine

06/05/2024

Jennifer O'Connor will be playing three East Coast shows in late August with Bachmann of Archers of Loaf and Crooked Fingers

Boston only has a handful of tickets left from the looks of the ticket chart so hop to it!

Tickets are on sale now, link in the comments 🔗🎟️

06/04/2024

Big thanks and love to CREEM Magazine and Zachary Lipez for shouting out Choo Choo la Rouge's recent album ☀️The Sunshine State ☀️in their new June issue ❤️❤️📔📔

Grab a copy on vinyl while we still have a few left! Link to purchase and/or stream in the comments!

05/06/2024

It’s been 1️⃣ month (and 1️⃣ day - oops!) since by Choo Choo la Rouge was released into the world. Ironically, I send this message to you while currently in the sunshine state. ☀️

Do you have a favorite track? What is it? Any other thoughts you want to share? We are all 👂👂👂

Thanks to Ken Napzok of for this lovely snap of his copy on vinyl. 📷

Want your own? We have some left - not a ton - so be quick about it, ok? Just ust visit kiamrecords.com or kiamrecords.bandcamp.com and hook yourself up!

04/15/2024

Big love to Ed Zeitz and his The Chasing Infinity Radio Program (WRUW-FM) in Cleveland for rocking the new Choo Choo la Rouge album The Sunshine State on vinyl yesterday.

Get your own copy right here:
https://choochoolarouge.bandcamp.com/album/the-sunshine-state
or here:
https://www.kiamrecords.com/shop/p/choo-choo-la-rouge-the-sunshine-state-lp

04/06/2024

Today at Noon at Main Street Beat, Kiam Records recording artist Choo Choo la Rouge will be in the shop playing a few songs acoustic style from their brand new album THE SUNSHINE STATE.

Come on down! We’ll be selling the LP too and they’ll be signing em! Then they rush off to play Boston tonight!

☀️☀️☀️☀️

04/05/2024

The Sunshine State, the fantastic new album by Choo Choo la Rouge, is out now!

Stream it wherever you get your music, purchase a copy on vinyl on the Kiam website or over at Bandcamp (hey it’s Bandcamp Friday, too!) - links in comments

Check out Choo Choo la Rouge live if you are in the Northeast this weekend!

April 5 Brooklyn, NY - Main Drag Music w/ Antietam, Jennifer O’Connor, Jay Walsh (of The Douglas Fir)
April 6 Nyack, NY - Main Street Beat - Performance & LP signing at Noon
April 6 Boston, MA - Midway Cafe w/ Lupo Citta, The Bret Tobias Set, Jay Walsh (of The Douglas Fir)
April 7 Providence, RI - Myrtle w/ Volcano Kings, Jay Walsh (of The Douglas Fir)

Big thanks to all involved in making this record happen including Tom Beaujour for recording, Matthew Barnhart for mastering, album and band photos by Andrea Sloan and album design by Brew Daniel

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

04/05/2024

Choo Choo La Rouge - The Sunshine State Choo Choo La Rouge is like the cicadas, emerging once a generation or so from hibernation to make a racket. Their first album, Wall to Wall, landed in my mail...

04/05/2024

4/4/24 Kingston NY
Night one of tour!

04/05/2024

Scene report from Kingston at

04/04/2024

Big love to Rosy Overdrive for their great take on the new Choo Choo la Rouge album The Sunshine State - out tomorrow!

“Choo Choo La Rouge’s latest (named for the state to which Scorziello moved at the age of ten after growing up in New York) is a brief (under 30 minutes) but rock-solid return–it feels like classic New England college rock, with some jangly guitars, some offbeat Miracle Legion-esque pop rock, a bit of Silos/Vulgar Boatmen-esque rootsiness/folksiness, and even a bit of darker, Paisley Underground/Dream Syndicate-ish desert sound.”

A classic Thursday edition of Pressing Concerns is contained below! In it, you’ll find three albums that come out tomorrow–new LPs from Ther and Choo Choo La Rouge, plus a compilation from Sk…

04/02/2024

Tomorrow night, Wednesday April 3 at 7pm EST we are having a listening party event on Bandcamp for the new Choo Choo la Rouge album The Sunshine State!

If you aren’t in any of the upcoming tour cities this is your chance to “see” the band! We’ll begin to gather around 6:30pm and the record will start to play at 7. Hang out with us and CCLR and hear the entire album two days before you can hear it anywhere else! Ask questions! Profess love! Tell us stuff! You can also buy the record while you listen…genius!

Link to RSVP and attend is in the comments!

See you tomorrow 🩷☀️

03/29/2024

Have you preordered the new album The Sunshine State? It comes out one week from today and preorders begin shipping tomorrow!

You can preorder direct from us or on our bandcamp page (link to both in bio)! The band will also have copies at their shows next weekend. This pressing is VERY limited so if you want to grab a copy, act now!

03/28/2024

It’s a very emo WOW Wednesday playlist for you just under the wire here in Nyack, NY.
Enjoy.

1. Hurray For The Riff Raff - Hawkmoon
2. Choo Choo la Rouge - In Between
3. Cynthia Nelson Band - The Perfect Curse
4. Everything But The Girl - Lost
5. Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me
6. Tierra Whack - Difficult
7. George Michael - To Be Forgiven
8. Aimee Mann - Simple Fix
9. Maggie and Terre Roche - Jill of All Trades
10. Amy Bezunartea - Nothing Goes Away

Hurray for the Riff Raff Choo Choo la Rouge Everything But The Girl Maggie Rogers Tierra Whack George Michael Aimee Mann Terre Roche Musician Amy Bezunartea

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2apWrvreAgY8nRjy3YVQAV?si=19fbb6fee6a046dd

03/27/2024

Thank you The Ash Gray Proclamation!
"The fact that Choo Choo la Rouge are back and by all accounts sounding as good as ever is a gift that I welcome wholeheartedly."

Photo by Andrea Sloan Choo Choo la Rouge has shared “In Between,” the third and final single and video from their forthcoming new album The Sunshine State, their first LP in 1…