Labeled: The Stories, Rumors & Legends of Tooth & Nail Records

Doug Van Pelt has been focused on our music scene well before it ever existed. He was drawn to heavy music and then Christian music since he was a kid in the 70's. It’s safe to say that he has witnessed the entire phenomenon. What’s more, he literally made it his business to pay attention and share it with others. Doug is very entrepreneurial and began his own publication, HM, in the 80's. Doug is a phenomenal writer and journalist, but not a music “critic” so much as an enthusiast. He is 

deeply analytical and a passionate fan. He sees special moments, people, groups, & stories and has spent his life trying to share the special experiences, meaning & beauty he finds in the heavy music & spiritual communities. Doug has observed and covered this movement expertly for the last 40 years.

You can check out HM Magazine at https://hmmagazine.com/

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Song List

Lust Control - If You Fail

Stavesacre - Gold and Silver

MXPX - Chick Magnet

mewithoutyou - In A Sweater Poorly Knit

Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste

For this final Labeled episode of 2021, we are partnering with Aaron’s Sprinkle’s brand new podcast, Moontraveling. This episode takes a deep dive into Aaron’s many years at The Compound studio in Seattle working on many iconic Tooth & Nail albums along with some other amazing projects. Be sure to subscribe to the Moontraveling podcast and definitely check out Aaron’s brand new EP, Certainty. Great stuff - see you in 2022!

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It used to be that you could tell the reaction to an album by things like first week sales or reviews in major publications, but in 2021 it's a lot different. You can still feel the energy around an important release like this one, but the buzz comes from places like “reaction videos” from prominent YouTubers and other new media. It's a little bit of a different landscape, but there is still just an air about some records that indicates something special, some type of credibility, and The Fire Itself definitely seems to be one of those records.

Sean from Phinehas has a sharp and unique mind that comes from what could be called the gamer generation or a millennial, but he shares qualities with emerging and younger generations in a way that is relevant to his approach to art, creativity, and engineering. Sean & I talk about his background and how he was and still is a gamer and how that has helped him with networking & forming relationships. We also talk about how music has evolved and how people consume it evolved, especially around the time of MySpace and digital music. Of course, we extensively discuss The Fire Itself album that is getting a tremendous amount of attention, the song-writing process and how Sean’s list-writing becomes songs.

Listen to Phinehas' latest album The Fire Itself: https://spoti.fi/3G8swb1

Follow Phinehas on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3IbHNKc

Buy Phinhas merch and The Fire Itself on Vinyl: https://solidstate.merchnow.com/collections/phinehas-1

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Phinehas - The Fire Itself

Phinehas - Eternally Apart

Phinehas - In The Night

Phinehas - Hell Below

Haste The Day - Autumn

As Cities Burn - Clouds

As Cities Burn - Thus From My Lips, By Yours, My Sin Is Purged

After The Burial - Pi (The Mercury God Of Infinity)

Aaron Sprinkle and his brother Jesse began playing in the band Poor Old Lu 30 years ago in 1991. Poor Old Lu broke up in 1996, but Aaron was already well on his way to building an absolutely legendary career of influence on our scene. He’s been a guest on this pod before where we covered the early days of Tooth & Nail, but today we will cover his entire career as a producer. Aaron is also a top-tier songwriter and artist who has never spent any significant time touring and building his individual career. As such, he has been able to engage hands-on with many extremely talented artists over & over again for more than 20 years in a way that would never be possible by pursuing a single band full-time.  It’s common for bands to report that he is really was an additional member creatively in that he composed, produced, recorded, sang on, played on, and in a variety of other ways shaped some of the most important music in our scene.  After all this time, Aaron is now focusing more on his individual career and interacting with fans, something he has never really done until now.

Follow what Aaron is doing:

Listen to Aaron’s podcast Moontraveling anywhere you listen to podcasts!

You can now stream Aaron’s new EP Certainty on Spotify!

Silent Planet’s new album Iridescent is OUT NOW!  

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August Burns Red is a creation born of our scene, and by all accounts one of the most successful outputs of the whole culture. ABR has sold over a million records in North America alone, has 2 Grammy nominations, and has played over 2000 in shows in 45 countries while having no member changes in the last 18 years. It's astonishing to see what can come out of a very small group of people with shared interests that begin by goofing off together but made steady progress over many years refining their machine and discovering their purpose.The groundwork laid by first and second generation bands was dirty and often dangerous to navigate personally and professionally. ABR was just the right group of individuals that came at just the right time to avoid the common traps, failure modes and gatekeepers by always focusing on the task at hand and by taking our culture's values & aesthetics much farther & wider than any of us or them could have imagined. Huge props to Brent and the whole band, but on this episode I wanted to focus on JB. I’ve learned a lot from him and plan to continue to do so as ABR continues to innovate and deliver at an incredibly high level.

Pre-order the new Silent Planet album Iridescent! It will be on sale and streaming everywhere November 12th!

http://silentplanet.ffm.to/iridescent

Listen to the new Silent Planet singles now!  

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Buy tickets to August Burns Red Leveler 10 Year Anniversary Tour!

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Episode Watch List

August Burns Red- Speech Impediment Cornerstone 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HbUQZ4-vM&ab_channel=zao24

Me without you - Son of a widow Cornerstone 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hE5HrE9-o4&ab_channel=JoelSwanson

Episode Song List

August Burns Red - Vengeance

August Burns Red - Truth of a Liar

Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste

Underoath - its Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door

August Burns Red - Pangea

August Burns Red - Cutting the Ties

Emery - I’m Not Here For The Rage Im Here For The Revenge

August Burns Red - Composure

Silent Planet - Anhedonia

Josh Kemble is someone who instantly strikes me as having two of my favorite qualities, mindfulness and authenticity. Combined, they give the experience of being present in a conversation while able to tie in multiple layers of meaning. It's almost as if Josh is aware of the experience he is creating in others, and that's key in crafting music or art that is going to connect with people.

From the stories I've heard over the year and the way they are discussed, and from a few conversations I've had with Josh, it's obvious that Dogwood was a very self- aware and principled band whose micro-culture navigated the emergence of the San Diego pop punk scene of the late 90’s, and then was able to become part of the canon of important artists in our scene.

Listen to Josh's Podcast - The Punk Chef's Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/1XGFbA884BaoDXFbchtnkB?si=e523795c1f8a4f2f

If you're in Southern California, check out Harvest Kitchen where Josh is the executive chef! https://www.harvestkitchen.com/

Keep up with Solid State this October during their 13 Days of Halloween Vinyl Sale by following them on Instagram: https://instagram.com/solidstaterecords

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Episode Song List

Dogwood - Never Die

Dogwood - Building a Better Me

Stretch Arm Strong - When Sorrow Falls

Pedro the Lion - Almost There

Two Thirty Eight - The Sticks Are Woven In The Spokes

Fit For A King - Backbreaker

Dogwood - All Hands On Deck

Furnace Fest was over a week ago but we’re still coming down from the FF high.  Brandon stops by my basement to talk about his top three Furnace Fest moments.Learn more about the upcoming Beloved hometown show that Knuckle Breakers Productions will be capturing and how you can be a part of it. https://fb.watch/8rr9wz8o4H/https://labeledpodcast.com/MORE FROM TOOTH & NAIL:

In 1995, The Get Up Kids began exploring their surroundings and expanding their horizons in much the way that early Tooth & Nail and Solid State artists did. In the midwest emo scene, they were sharing the stages with bands of seemingly all genres, while making friends in many other states. They didn’t ask permission for what they did, and no one stopped them from blazing new pathways that would connect the regional underground scenes together and really open up the all-ages movement. 

Matt Pryor, TGUK frontman, currently hosts a Vagrant Records podcast series celebrating 25 years of Vagrant releases. This conversation with Matt gives us a great opportunity to look at the Christian piece of the all-ages scene through the eyes of a personality similar to many on this show, but also with an outsider’s perspective.

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Emo Night:  https://bit.ly/3BBNiym

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Mark Salomon is a legend and forefather of the Tooth & Nail scene. He was pioneering new artistic and cultural territory while being iconic, professional and a showman 

all at the same time. 

He has been massively influential from The Crucified and Stavesacre to Neon Horse and his podcast, Never Was, and his reputation for having solid personal relationships across decades with so many other legends.

What a rock singer, a podcaster, and great relationships all have in common is the ability to connect & communicate ideas from your mind though your voice.  Everyone loves Mark's voice regardless of what he is doing. If it is his voice expressing his mind, it just works.

Labeled Fest: bit.ly/2UIHYbW

Emo night w/ Josh Head starting at 10:30 : bit.ly/3BBNiym

Song List:

Stavesacre - Keep Waiting

Stavesacre - MCMXCV Hymn

Roadside Monument - Iowa Backroads

MXPX - Your Problem, My Emergency

Ghoti Hook – Two Years To Never

Neon Horse - Some Folks

Welcome back to labeled, the stories rumors and legends of tooth and nail records, I’m your host Matt carter and today’s episode features the not only legendary but iconic drummer Steve Kleisath from Strong arm, Shai Halud, further seeems forever, and the darling fire.  

He is a legend because he had tremendous  influence on records that were tremendously influential and his style inspired many. 

He is iconic because he comes in a package that’s different than you might expect.  He  plays left handed on a reverse setup drum kit and plays quirky parts that seem to come from another dimension.  This on top of the fact that Steve has become an a expert at many things including poker and holding world record video game scores.  He clearly has a special mind that accesses information and makes decisions in a uniqe way that has had a big impact. 

I’ve never spoken to Steve and was very happy to have the opportunity to explore his mind a bit and I think you will enjoy that too. 

Strong-arm - council of perfection, 

slick shoes - rusty, 

stretch arm strong - all we’ve lost, 

Velour 100 - Your Sky

Labeled Fest

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