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hardly art

GET YOUNG is OUT NOW !

About Me


Seattle-based record label. Young. Tiny. Looking.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Musicians, photographers, designers, superfans, listeners, community folks...
All the good ones.

If you'd like to join our mailing list, please send a note to [email protected] .

AND HEY BANDS! GET IT TOGETHER! If you want your work to be considered, please send an actual, bona-fide email to us instead of using myspace. Not that we don't love myspace, but that inbox is a mess. If you want to send us a package with a physical copy of your music (which you should), check out this here page . Both of these tactics will add great joy to your lives and ours, and as you can imagine, are far more engaging than the spam-esque "hey! listen! here is link!" notes that we tend to get.. Also, don't ask if you can send material in. We covered this in the part where we said "we are accepting demos at this time." So save yourself some time and just send those fuckers on in.

Music:

Local bands, unsigned wonders, and naturally, the famed duo of Arthur & Yu . And the 7-piece revelation that is Le Loup . And the unstoppable pair known as The Dutchess & the Duke . Plus, of course, spastic tazer rockers Pretty & Nice . And the sitar-laden pop tunes of The Pica Beats . Not to mention those down-home twangers, courtesy of The Moondoggies . And hopefully probably many more to come.

Oh, and we like these videos pretty well too:

Television:

Turn off the TV and go listen to some records.

Heroes:

Sub Pop

My Blog

Get Young is OUT NOW!

            Yes yes yes! This very morning, the entity known as Hardly Art woke up, looked around, stretched a bit, and thought to itself, "OH $%^! THE NEW PRETTY & N...
Posted by hardly art on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:50:00 PST

Pretty & Nice - now for you to preorder!

      Welcome back to the latest installment of that thing you've come to know and love as the Hardly Art preorder! We've got one more for the year, and it comes from a little group by ...
Posted by hardly art on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:35:00 PST

Beating Back the Claws of the Cold is OUT NOW !

    Indeed! We've busted out the fake champagne yet again and made a toast to The Pica Beats, whose new record hits the record store shelves on this very day. As always, you can also find it...
Posted by hardly art on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:41:00 PST

hardly art preorders build character!

Bulletin readers! It would appear that so far this year, we've (we think) successfully released two records, and we are now ready for another. And wouldn't you know it, we have one lined up from The P...
Posted by hardly art on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:49:00 PST

A whole lot of Moondoggies

Well, today is the big day. Yes, yes it is.Long have we all waited, and today is in fact the day that Don't Be A Stranger, the debut record from Seattle's own Moondoggies, is available to the publi...
Posted by hardly art on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:45:00 PST

WHATS THAT SMELL??

Why, it smells like a tour! A Pretty & Nice tour, in fact! And wouldn't you know it, our tazer-rock troubadours are kicking off their national tour no other night than TONIGHT at the Rock Room in ...
Posted by hardly art on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:08:00 PST

The Moondoggies: now on preorder!

We here at Hardly Art would like to continue with our tradition of selling you things, and next in line is our fourth release, courtesy of the Moondoggies! Comprised of a handful of Seattle whippersna...
Posted by hardly art on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:48:00 PST

THE DUTCHESS & THE DUKE: CD release party! And tour!

NEWS FLASH! TONIGHT, August 9th, marks the events that all three esteemed local papers are telling you to attend: FIRST, an in-store at the Capitol Hill Sonic Boom, which is all-ages and free, startin...
Posted by hardly art on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:52:00 PST

HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO US!

........That's right! Today is the day that kicks off the event known as you purchasing the new album from The Dutchess & the Duke. Starting today, you can buy it as many times as you please, comp...
Posted by hardly art on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:03:00 PST

A REMINDER

Well well well, look who snuck out on the road when you weren't looking! The Dutchess & the Duke begin their national tour with the Fleet Foxes tonight, so we decided it was high time to remind yo...
Posted by hardly art on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:36:00 PST