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After hearing his tracks, hearing his live set, we decided it would be in both parties interest to collaborate on a project and release an album.  RP connected with beatmaker Ill Pill, also from the Seattle area, and created, “The Kids in the Back.”  An album that is both fun and somber in the correct places.

It is officially for sale today, the release party will be happening tonight - follow @rockwellpowers or @illpill on twitter to get the latest updates - if you want the album, you can purchase it here in all of its 192kbps mp3-format un-drm’d glory OR you can listen below. Respect, good album fellas.

Album design by @candyhugs.

As with anything related to Sonny, the song comes with a story. You see, his toyota van broke down the last time he was in Portland for a show. He had to rent another van to take his band back to their homes in San Francisco. Those costs were high.

Hence, his Portland family got together to throw a, “bring back the winny to San Francisco” benefit. As I sit on a couch and write, he is playing, “Year of the Cock.” A Sonny Smith house concert is quite a treat.

He also informed me of his desire to release a 7″ full of new material and comics for the July HomeSkillet Fest. This is something to look forward to for fans of Sonny and champions of the label. The picture posted is of Sonny and his friend Garth playing music in their friend Chris’s living room.  It was a late night.

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w/Strummin’ Dog & Lee Asnin

March 7th. 2009 10PM - 2Am

Tickets available for $15 at Old Harbor Books

$20 dollars at the door.  All proceeds benefit HomeskilletFest a non profit 501(c)(3) event.

Come support our local music festival.

New Artists and upcoming Album Release information:

Rockwell Powers & ill Pill… This album is HOT, hit the link to be the first to hear a track off this album(its worth it).

Phonetic/Employee of The Weak.  This is Phonetics sophomore album, we are pleased to welcome Phonetic to the budding Homeskillet roster.  With the launch of this album, Phonetic will be on tour throughout the AK with his Home Invasion Tour.   Watch for his collaboration with Rhymesayers artist Eyedea!

Sonny Smith will be releasing a 7″ vinyl project with Homeskillet records in July!

Silver Jackson is currently in the studio recording music for a 7″ Vinyl Project set to release in July!

LSF is also in the studio, set to release a 7″ Vinyl project due out in July!

Jack Ruby Presents and Jed Delong are also currently working on new projects.

Homeskillet Records is currently organizing a tour after Homeskillet Fest in July.  We will head north and are open to venues, please contact us for more information.  The traveling roster is not yet confirmed but might include artists Sonny Smith, Breathe Owl Breathe, Silver Jackson, LSF, Jed Delong, GEO and more…

Homeskillet Fest 2009 Spoilers:

Thursday July 16th, 2009.  Breathe Owl Breathe - confirmed

Rockwell Powers link

We shot the video at Madison High School in Portland, Oregon, the same place Paranoid Park was film. It might have even been the same room. We’ll be posting more media soon - the new album is hot and will be for sale here and on iTunes.

Hank has been a blessing to the music community in Sitka and has always lent a helping hand wherever he could.  We recently were informed that Hank has been battling cancer and we have decided to work with local non-profits to throw a benefit concert for him.

We’re not sure when, we’re not sure where, but we’re doing it.  If you have any ideas or would like to volunteer, please leave a comment to this post or contact us. Keep checking back for more info.

We were so busy planning the festival we didn’t do anything about promoting the four new albums we released. But first, how about some perspective. In our first four years as a label, we released a measly four albums. Side hustles have feelings too, so it’s not that we are ashamed of that, it’s just…low.

This year, on the ramp up to Home Skillet Fest, we planned four brand new releases - three out of the four from the original Home Skillet Records Artists, Jed Delong, Silver Jackson, and Little Stones Father - leaving GEO as the only member left to put out a release.

We are going to try and do a series of video interviews for the artists behind these albums - but for now, find satisfaction in listening to these sweet sweet releases.

Jed Delong - Dream Machine

Silver Jackson - Self-Titled

Little Stones Father - Change the World

Jack Ruby Presents - The Cardboard EP 

Our bet was this - Home Skillet Record’s artists could carry most of a show and prep an audience for the headline act we brought in, Sonny and the Sunsets. We also made a big push to release four albums Saturday night. With all of this, the pressure was big on our label’s artists to deliver - and they did.

The night started off with Sam Cavanaugh playing some solo singer/songwriter music while people were filing in. It’s always good to see the up and comers playing their own stuff.

Hank Moore, a local who showed up in town one day with his guitar and a microphone, hosted this show. Hank has always been very supportive of what Home Skillet Records and has been showing up to our events long before we were ever a label - he is a very important part of the music community in Sitka.

Another very talented guitar player, Zach Wass, played a few tracks to get the night started as well. It’s funny, a lot of us play guitar and then we see Zach play and we see what playing the guitar really is. He is gifted.

The first Home Skillet Records act that came up was Jesse Hughey, who was representing his full band, Jack Ruby Presents. Jesse really held it down with a solid set of music, some of which will be released on his next Home Skillet Records project, some tracks were from The Cardboard EP, which was for sale. 

Next up was Home Skillet Records co-founder GEO - he played four tracks, one of which is on Silver Jackson’s latest album. If anything he drank his way into the role of the hype man - his set preceded that by about 10 minutes. 

One of the original Home Skillet four, Jed Delong played a set of new songs that weren’t on his album, which we also released that night. He’s over those songs I guess, but we’re not. Well, I guess he played Louie & the Market - but that’s it! And Dream Machine is a great album - buy it.

Co-founder of the Home Skillet Records project, Silver Jackson, played next with his band.  It was at this point in the night that we progressed from singer/songwriter music to full bands - which means it was also at this point that people began to get up and dance. Silver Jackson also had a self-titled album release - it’s an expansion of his Moves Like Music EP project - buy it!

A long time ago the core group of Little Stones Father played a show that got so rowdy people lost fingers - this is no lie. So you can imagine with their new drummer, LSF put on a high energy show. Before the set, frontman Jerrod Galanin and GEO discussed the possibility of a stage dive - with crowd participation high, they got their wishes and a stage dive was dived. Just when you think it couldn’t get any better LSF begin to throw free beef jerky to the audience - now we know people go nuts for free beef jerky.

Headlining Saturday night’s show was Home Skillet Fest repeat Sonny Smith. We brought up his whole band, “The Sunsets” to really bring the energy needed for a rowdy crowd. As always Sonny Smith played and the audience loved it. Let’s see, highlights include: people dancing on tables, on the stage, and GEO dancing with all the poor underage women whose underage boyfriends are too scared to dance - he sees an opportunity, he takes it! With every festival there are many moments where we pinch ourselves and think, “is this really happening?” When about twenty festival goers got up on stage to dance to Sonny and the Sunsets encore - we pinched ourselves. It was a brilliant moment in Home Skillet Fest history.  Thank you Sonny!

After the show we cleaned up a bit and then headed to the world famous Pioneer Bar to do a little partying and unwinding. I must admit, I didn’t last long - but it was fun to take a deep breath and realize we made it through another year.

Thanks to all those who volunteered and helped. Thanks to my sister Ashia for wrangling us in - we were so organized this year! Thanks to Amelia Budd for helping us get all of our sponsors together - we couldn’t have managed that without your help. Thanks to JoAnn Huff, the accountant, who definitely has us on a track for a smooth taxes year. Thanks to the Ferricks for running our audio/video and lending your equipment, we cherish your continued support and patience. Thanks to the venues that hosted our event: Sheet Ka Kwan ‘Naa Kahidi Community Center, The Sitka Moose Lodge, and The Harrigan Centennial Hall. Thanks to all of our sponsors. If I missed you, please leave a comment and thank yourself - you did a wonderful job.

Lastly, thank you to the community for showing up and making this event something we can do every year.

Look for more media of the event soon - cheers.