Personal Archives

27/01/2023

Look at these beauties - preorder up now at the Personal Archives båńdçâmp. Dig!

https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/

02/12/2022

Bandcamp 20% off sale continues - code: yearend -
Down to 5 copies of this jammer with Lisa Cameron/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Joshua Thomson/Jonathan Horne. Check out Lisa & Alex Cunningham out on tour this month!

https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/place-is-the-space

26/11/2022

20% off everything in the Personal Archives bandcamp store - including vinyl, preorders, and all available 2022 releases - through the end of the year. Use the code: yearend - looking to make room for lots of exciting releases in 2023! Here's a photo of the new Illusion of Safety & Z'ev LP, out a week from today.

30/10/2022

Found 4 copies of the Conformity Cortortion CD (Thollem & Sara Lund [Unwound] duo exchange), as well as 3 copies each of the embral (expansive political electronics) and Josh Miller (American primitive found sound ragas) pro CD-rs. 6 each, 4 combined sh, comment or message!

14/08/2022

Our friends Thollem McDonas and Angela Villa had all their belongings stolen from their rental car yesterday. This included Thollem's Korg Wavestate keyboard (if you're in the Bay Area keep your eyes peeled, please) and Angela's computer and hard drive (meaning all her creative work has been stolen as well).

While it won't get back their art or artistic tools (or their clothing, medicine, etc.), we want to help in our limited way - the entirety of all CD and digital sales of the new Hot Pursuit Of Happiness album will go to Thollem and Angela. Physical orders will include extras as a thank you for supporting artists during a time when, frankly, it can feel quite defeating to be an artist.

Let's take care of each other.

https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/this-days-called-tuesday

11 track album

28/06/2022

Preorders are up for the new Hot Pursuit of Happiness album. Thollem McDonas presents a song cycle/manifesto for these complicated times. This is exciting material, succinct songwriting wrapped in avant-garde influences, catchy and complex all at once. Get one at the Personal Archives bandcamp.

https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/this-days-called-tuesday

03/05/2022

Stoked to have the SLW cc Watt LP + song zine (plus select other Personal Archives releases) available at Skeleton Dust Records in Dayton, OH, Grapefruit Record Shop in Omaha, NE and The Dark Slide in Des Moines, IA. Support these fantastic local businesses!
Copies also available through the PA bandcamp store, or hit me up on messenger.

28/04/2022

Have you picked up your copy yet? Giving it a spin right now, and dang do I dig it. You may too - scope it out at the Personal Archives bandcamp page. If you're in Iowa and want to nab it in the wild, Record Collector in Iowa City, CDs-4-Change in Dubuque, and Ragged Records & Music in Davenport have copies.

15/04/2022

Finishing layout on some of the upcoming releases on Personal Archives:
PA//186 - Lisa Cameron/Jonathan Horne/Ingebrit Håker Flaten/Joshua Thompson - Place Is the Space
PA//187 - Drew Gowran & JayVe Montgomery - Reality Warping
PA//188 - Dead Hawk/BBJr - split C22

11/04/2022

Fantastic review from A Closer Listen of Dead Air Freshener's 2021 release on Personal Archives, A Collection Of Drone and Noise Sea Shanties, still available on CD/download. Seth Davis also gets a shout! We'll be releasing their new album, Unfriended, in September.

https://acloserlisten.com/2022/04/09/dead-air-fresheners-a-collection-of-drone-noise-shanties/

One of the strangest music stories of the pandemic was the crossover internet success of Nathan Evans’ “Wellerman,” a 19th century sea shanty that became a TikTok sensation. For …

30/03/2022

Wonderfully written review of the new Sam Locke Ward & Mike Watt LP, Real Manic Time. Brad at Foxy Digitalis looks at the album from a multimedia perspective, highlighting the 30 music videos for each tune, and featuring exclusive scans of the accompanying zine by Sam. Get the LP + zine at: https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/real-manic-time
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/03/30/premiere-slw-cc-watt-illustrations-videos/

This whole project is a goddamn delight. Iowa City’s Samuel Locke Ward, an award-winning cartoonist, and prolific home taper joins forces with the inimitable Mike Watt (known best for being Mike Fu…