Fat Elvis Records

26/07/2022

Do it for the musicians!

Can you take action to create a new streaming royalty for musicians? UMAW has been working with US Representative Rashida Tlaib and her staff to develop a Congressional bill to create a new streaming royalty. Streaming companies would be required to pay royalties directly to musicians, both featured...

07/01/2022

https://www.fatelvisrecords.com/products/cheval-sombre-althea-ep

27/11/2021

The last few copies of Timothy Eerie -Ritual (on smokey blue vinyl) are available for $15.

https://www.fatelvisrecords.com/products/timothy-eerie-ritual-smokey-blue-vinyl-exclusive

LIMITED TO 150 COPIES!TIMOTHY EERIERITUAL Side A- Transformation of Things- Bicycle- Ritual #3- The Cave- She Talks To MushroomsSide B- Ritual #4- Sold My Sunshine- Yeah Baby Alright- Lick- Ritual #5- West Coast- Ritual #6- Flower WaltzMixed By Jeff McAlear at High Five Studios Deland, FLCover Desig...

24/11/2021

Pop Talk etc... #7 Depuis ses commencements il y a 12 ans, la musique de Cheval Sombre a toujours évolué entre le ciel et la profondeur des terres ... Et c'est à nous, bipèdes un peu coincés dans nos uniformes, que le new-yorkais Christopher Porp…

24/11/2021

Head over to Le Village Pop to hear a brand new podcast with Cheval Sombre

https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/cheval-sombre-109153/

Pop Talk etc... #7 Depuis ses commencements il y a 12 ans, la musique de Cheval Sombre a toujours évolué entre le ciel et la profondeur des terres ... Et c'est à nous, bipèdes un peu coincés dans nos uniformes, que le new-yorkais Christopher Porp…

19/11/2021

It's not too late to pick up the latest record from Cheval Sombre

Covers from the Grateful Dead and Dire Straits and a remix from Sonic Boom will make your ears happy!

If you already picked one up, post a photo or video and tag Fat Elvis Records. Let's see it!

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16/11/2021

A video for the track "Teacher" by Gyasi debuted today. Evidently it was buried on a hard drive somewhere. Glad to see it debut! It's beautifully shot.

The song is vailable on 7 inch vinyl at Gyasi's Bandcamp page as well at FatElvisRecords.com

Listen to Teacher here:https://GYASI.lnk.to/GsjanROQIDFollow Gyasi:www.instagram.com/gyasithebandwww.facebook.com/gyasithebandwww.twitter.com/gyasithebandCre...

06/11/2021

The Culturium has a wonderful interview with Cheval Sombre . He discusses his latest albums, the new Althea EP, and what he's up to now. A truly great read!

Cheval Sombre's intimate interview on his tripartite musical triumph—albums "Time Waits for No One" & "Days Go By", coupled with final EP, "Althea".

05/11/2021

The new Cheval Sombre EP is out now. ‘Althea’ is available on all digital platforms, with a limited edition 10” vinyl version available exclusively from:

Fat Elvis Records – https://www.fatelvisrecords.com/products/cheval-sombre-althea-ep

Bandcamp – https://chevalsombre.bandcamp.com/album/althea

Norman Records – https://www.normanrecords.com/records/189798-cheval-sombre-althea

The title track features Dean Wareham on guitar and is a cover of a track from The Grateful Dead’s 1980 album, ‘Go to Heaven’, one of two covers on the EP.

“I’ve always loved the Dead,” says Cheval Sombre (aka Chris Porpora). “Luckily, I got to see them a few times before Jerry Garcia passed away. I always found his voice to contain all the very best things about music – tenderness, toughness, knowing, humanity, sweetness, experience, weariness, innocence.”

The other cover is a version of Dire Straits’ ‘So Far Away’.
“Just as my punk rock friends despised the Dead, so too would Dire Straits have been considered a joke,” says Chris. “But I always found beauty in ‘So Far Away’. Recent experience with isolation brought it back from nostalgia to the fore.”

The EP is rounded out by a crystalline Sonic Boom remix of ‘Are You Ready’, from ‘Days Go By’, the second of the twin albums Cheval released earlier this year.

“Round the time Pete sent me that version, I was listening to it on headphones while walking, and I saw this beautiful car,” explains Chris. “I blinked three times. I don’t think I’d ever seen an Aston Martin before. I wrote Pete and told him: ‘Your mix sounds like this car looks.”

Special thanks to Sonic Cathedral for all their help!

CHEVAL SOMBREAlthea EPON SALE November 5, 2021 at 11AM EST (3PM GMT)UK & ROW: To avoid higher shipping costs for the US, please visit Cheval Sombre on Bandcamp or Norman Records Cheval Sombre releases a new EP, Althea, available on a limited edition 10” clear vinyl pressing by the Knoxville, T...

05/11/2021

Today is the day!

The Cheval Sombre 10" clear vinyl Althea EP goes on sale at 11 AM EST

https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZdCNgot5AG1JiqA4KCzoA?si=2RZ0Wrn_Rser_auYwW_UOA

Cheval Sombre · Single · 2021 · 3 songs.

04/11/2021

We are about 24 hours away from the release of Cheval Sombre's Althea EP!

Outside of the US and want to save on shipping? Norman Records and Sonic Cathedral should have you covered!

Tomorrow at 11AM EST and 3PM GMT!

CHEVAL SOMBREAlthea EPON SALE November 5, 2021UK & ROW: To avoid higher shipping costs for the US, please visit Cheval Sombre on Bandcamp or Norman Records (links will be active on November 5). Cheval Sombre releases a new EP, Althea, available on a limited edition 10” clear vinyl pressing by ...

19/10/2021

One-man band Cheval Sombre (aka Chris Porpora) has announced the release of a new cover EP, Althea. It will feature covers of the Grateful Dead’s 1980 song “Althea,” Dire Straits’ “So Far Away,” and “Are You Ready” by Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember, who produced the EP’s title track....

19/10/2021

CHRIS PORPORA, the artist whose twin album releases from earlier this year, Time Waits For No One and Days Go By, are the gentlest, brittlest sucker punches to the heart and so should be in your tu…

19/10/2021

BrooklynVegan has the debut of more new music from Cheval Sombre in "14 New Songs Out Today".

Cheval Sombre joins Dean Wareham and Sonic Boom in a beautiful cover of The Grateful Dead's Althea.

Official video in comments

Listen to new songs by VHS (ft. Trevor Strnad), Heriot (Machine Head cover), Cheval Sombre (Grateful Dead cover), an all-star Ink & Dagger cover, and more...

19/08/2021

It's been way too quiet here lately.

Expect things to change very soon! A new release on the way!

04/07/2021

On July 4, 2019 Fat Elvis Records released the debut of Nashville’s American Goon

The band is a side project of Blackfoot Gypsies (now Deeohgee ) drummer Zack Murphy. It all came about after Zack contacted me asking if I would be interested in putting out a record of his new side project. Loving what he was doing with The Blackfoot Gypsies, I jumped at the chance!

It was a super easy record to put out. Zack already had the music recorded (A side “Blood Eagle” / B Side “RoundaKnockout”) as well as the cover and logo designed. I had my brother whip up the standard FER center labels. George Ingram at Nashville Record Productions (truly the best around!) do the lacquer cuts and had the records pressed by Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

When deciding on the color variants, with a name like American Goon you must go with Red, White and Blue. Since the cover looked a bit distressed, we did a “dirty” red and blue vinyl, and a cream color white.

July 4th seemed to be the prefect date for the release as well!

It’s a great record! If you haven’t heard it head over to the American Goon social media pages and pick up a copy!

11/06/2021

On June 11, 2013 Fat Elvis Records released the label’s first record!

After thinking of starting a record label for quite a while, I finally took the plunge and asked Nashville 2-piece rock n’ roll band, Blackfoot Gypsies (now Deeohgee ), to be the first release.

The band recorded 2 songs in their kitchen and decided on the title “The New Sounds of Transwestern”. After settling on the label name Fat Elvis Records, we were on our way!

We pressed 175 Translucent Blue copies, 175 Translucent Red copies, and 50 numbered Vinyl B**g variants.

I spent Memorial Day weekend spray painting and hand stamping the sleeves. I wanted to do an alternate cover for the Vinyl B**g but wasn’t pleased with the chipboard covers with the rubber stamp. At the last minute, I asked Tom Needham at Broke, Or Made Better if he could come up with something to help me out. He used a deck of cards, a lighter, a trip to Kinkos, and a little paint to make sure they turned out right. I was shocked by how great they turned out. Each of the vinyl b**g records contained a playing card and a Fat Elvis Records sticker.

I was pleased that the first one worked out and wasn’t sure if I would continue after that. At least I had put out one! Here we are several years later, and I am still at it.

Thanks again to Matthew and Zack for taking a chance on a random unknown guy who asks them over the internet if they wat to release a record!

Were you part of that first Blackfoot Gypsies record release? If you still have your vinyl b**g, let’s see it!

10/06/2021

On June 10, 2016 Fat Elvis Records released FER-008, Fantastic Negrito “Working Poor”.

I was contacted by Xavier’s team (Hi Field! Hi Malcolm!) asking if I was interested in releasing a new 7 inch record with Fantastic Negrito. They were needing merch to sell for upcoming tour dates. After the success of the first one, I jumped at the chance for a second one!

We settled on the cover (thanks Aaron!) and decided we would do 500 copies on gray vinyl for the release. I asked if I could create a FER exclusive color to sell on my website, and the team agreed. So we decided 400 gray and 100 white.

The pressing plant tried to get a gray color, but the records turned out blue. I think the blue looks better than the gray would have anyway!

On June 11, I put up 50 copies of the blue vinyl, and 100 copies of the white. The records sold out within a couple of hours.

I hope to work with Xavier and his team again at some point, It was a great time!

Were you lucky enough to get a copy? Let’s see it!

29/05/2021

On this day in 2019, Fat Elvis Records teamed up with Nomad Eel Records to release Ritual, the debut album from Timothy Eerie .

Three different versions of the record were pressed:

25 - Wax Mage Chroma variants
150 - Smokey Blue (Fat Elvis Records Exclusive)
150 - Smokey Yellow (Nomad Eel Records Exclusive)

The album was later released on CD and cassette.

I recently uncovered a few remaining copies of the blue vinyl. If anyone is interested, contact me here.

I hear there may be a repress with different colors coming sooner than later!

Special thanks to Timothy Eerie and Nomad Eel Records for helping make this one happen!

17/05/2021

Don't you just love 10 inch records? New arrival at FER HQ from Pirates Press.

16/05/2021

On this date in 2019, Fat Elvis Records released FER-013. The record was a split 7 inch with Nashville rock bands, Hurts to Laugh and dead deads

The limited-edition 7 inch featured each band covering a song by the other artist. The Dead Deads covered the Hurts to Laugh song "Feel It Now" and Hurts to Laugh covered the Dead Deads song"Lonely Sound". The record was limited to 325 copies.

150 - Translucent Purple
150 - Translucent Green
25 - Wax Mage (amazing) variants

This record marked the debut vinyl release of Hurts to Laugh and the second vinyl release for The Dead Deads.

Both bands filmed videos for the tracks and did a short run of shows in the southeast to promote the release.

Fat Elvis Record no longer has copies of the record available, but you should be able to visit either band's websites to pick up copies.

03/04/2021

On this day in 2016, Fat Elvis Records released the vinyl debut of Atlanta-based band Reverends. The double A-side limited edition 7 inch featured the songs “Witch City” and “The Dark Demon” and cover art from Darren Grealish.

The record came in 5 different versions and a few variants within those versions.

Orange – limited to 100 copies
Pink – limited to 100 copies
Heavy Splatter – 75 copies
Wax Mage – 25 copies (11 of these came with a black and white numbered alternate cover)
Test Press – hand-painted, stamped, and numbered neon pink and orange chipboard covers.

The Wax Mage Variants were sold exclusively to the fairly new Facebook group indiewax. You had to be a member of the group to get one.

A few months after this release, Fat Elvis Records teamed up with Fonoflo Records (RIP) to release the debut LP from Reverends. Since then, the band has released another full-length LP on Little Cloud Record as well as a lathe cut 7 Inch from Chunklet Industries. We can’t wait to hear what they have in store for us next!

31/03/2021

Fat Elvis Records recording artist Gyasi has a fresh new tune for your ears!

Feed Your Face!

Listen to Feed Your Face by Gyasi.