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Nice Sounds? Check. Nice T-shirts? Check!...Planting Seeds Records you gotta love 'em! Pick up your shirt and other goodies over at: PlantingSeedsRecords.com
Check out a Linda Draper live performance (Portland, OR - June 15th) of "Shine" from her Summer 2007 "Keepsake" tour with bassist Rob Woodcock.
Here is the latest video from The Tamborines "Come Together" from the EP "Sally O'Gannon"
Please enjoy The Voyces promotional clip for the single ""Kissing Like It's Love"
You can also pick up the latest music from Jim Reid and Ben Lurie (JAMC) - "Back On The Water"
Planting Seeds Records is home to the best in independent popular music. From the fuzzed out melodic pop/rock of Freeheat (featuring Jim Reid, Ben Lurie and Nick Sanderson of The Jesus & Mary Chain - plus Romi Mori of The Gun Club), International Jetsetters (featuring Mark Crozer and Loz Colbert of the Jesus And Mary Chain) and The Tamborines (Fuzz folk pop from London via Brazil) to the gentle mellow atmospheric flow of NYC folk chanteuse Linda Draper's angelic vox and acoustic guitar - try even the superb pop excellence of The Voyces or the can't miss ultra cool electropop from Alex Sharkey's Pinkie - Who can forget the rebirth of PSR's first band Sunday Smoke Kit led by singer/songwriter/PSR co-founder Scott Meiggs...a rather simple formula...it's Timeless, Essential, Cool, music.
Planting Seeds began back in 1998 with the release of low-fidelity heroes, Sunday Smoke Kit. The label followed with a slew of releases from Astropop 3, bossa nova ala Jumprope, CMJ darlings and garage pop with boy/girl exchange in Athens, GA's Gritty Kitty, 3AM moods via the UK's Dakota Suite, psych folk with Michael Barrett (of The Essex Green and Ladybug Transistor among others), and a slew of other fine crafted pop music.
Along the way Planting Seeds' have worked with many artists on a variety of projects - Merge Records' Camera Obscura, The Mendoza Line, Sister Vanilla (Linda Reid and William Reid of JAMC), Mark Gardener (of Ride), The Essex Green, pop legend Marshall Crenshaw, guitarist John Beland (Rick Nelson, Flying Burrito Brothers), Jeffrey Foskett (The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt band) and more!
With over 40 titles, Planting Seeds’ continues to explore new and exciting music worldwide. Great things are in store for the future...we look forward to your company...Enjoy!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/7/2005
Band Website: plantingseedsrecords.com
Band Members: ATTENTION BANDS/ARTISTS: Please ***DO NOT** send messages or contact us via our myspace page about demo submission inquiries etc. Please visit our lovely website at: www.plantingseedsrecords.com for complete details. An FAQ has been set for your reading pleasure. We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks much.

BANDS:
1888
(Norfolk, VA)
Astropop 3
(Virginia Beach, VA)
Michael Barrett
(Boston, MA)
Dakota Suite
(Leeds, UK)
Linda Draper
(New York, NY)
Fonda
(Los Angeles, CA)
Freeheat
(London, UK)
International Jetsetters
(Oxford, UK)
Pinkie
(Worthing, UK)
Sunday Smoke Kit
(Chapel Hill, NC)
The Tamborines
(London, UK)
Jumprope
(Boston, MA)
Gritty Kitty
(Athens, GA)
The Voyces
(New York, NY)
Xavier Pelleuf
(Paris, France)

PLANTING SEEDS HAS ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH:
•Asteroid No. 4
•John Beland (The Flying Burrito Brothers, Rick Nelson)
•Call And Response
•Camera Obscura
•Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels)
•Marshall Crenshaw
•Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads)
•Dolorean
•Liz Durrett (Vic Chestnutt)
•The Essex Green
•Jeffrey Foskett (The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson Band)
•Mark Gardener (Ride)
•Goldrush
•The Heavy Blinkers
•John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
•The Mendoza Line
•The Primary 5 (Teenage Fanclub)
•Oed Ronne (The Ocean Blue)
•Sister Vanilla (Linda & William Reid - JAMC)

and many others! Thanks everyone for the support!

The Planting Seeds Myspace Is Maintained By: Neil DelParto
Influences: ARTISTS:
•The Beatles
•Rick Nelson
•The Jesus and Mary Chain
•The Byrds
•Bob Dylan
•Neil Finn
•Crowded House
•Split Enz
•My Bloody Valentine
•Swervedriver
•The Clean
•The Monkees
•The Velvet Underground
•The Beach Boys
•Big Star
•Lime Spiders
•The Fall
•Close Lobsters
•The Go Betweens
•The Church
•Ride
•Tim Buckley
•Spacemen 3
•The Wedding Present
•Neil Diamond
•Teenage Fanclub
•Cardinal
•Simon & Garfunkel
•Galaxie 500
•Sloan
•Luna
•Nick Drake
•The Cyrkle
•Joni Mitchell
•The Five Americans
•The Mamas & Papas
•The Stone Roses
•Holiday
•Velvet Crush
•Buffalo Springfield
•The Lilac Time
•Nancy Sinatra
•Gram Parsons
•The House of Love
•Echo And The Bunnymen
•The Leaves
•Gene Clark
•Donovan
•Belle and Sebastian
•John Denver
•Joy Divsion
•New Order
•Duran Duran
•The Warlocks
•Brian Jonestown Massacre
•Televison Personalties
•Eugenius
•Beachwood Sparks
•Dinosaur Jr.
•The Lemonheads
•Lloyd Cole
•American Music Club
•Jacques Brel
•The Mighty Lemon Drops etc.

LABELS:
• 4AD
•Slumberland
•Half A Cow
•Simple Machines
•Pre 90's Dischord
•Spinart
•Sarah Records
•Creation Records
•Elephant 6
•Kindercore
•Colgems
•1960's Blue Note
• mid 60's Columbia Records
•Bus Stop Records
• Summershine
•Subpop
•Flying Nun ...more

Sounds Like: ...You folks having been missing out...we've been at it for almost a decade with a slew of top notch artists...ever sit down and listen to 'em? You should, their pure timeless, essential listening...

DISTRIBUTION:
•Darla - North America/World*
•Dot - Scandinavia
•Junk - Spain/Portugal
•Ioda - Digital / World

PUBLICIST/RADIO PROMOTIONS:
•Backpage Publicity - USA/World*
•Explosive PR - USA/World
•Ivory Promotions - USA/World

Record Label: ...Yes our label is really cool!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

04.02.08 :: PLANTING SEEDS IN LONDON PHOTOS

Wow, so we managed to get back to the states after a great week and half in London/Oxford.  In a week we were able to catch up with some great friends - some we missed : (   - no worries we ...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:56:00 PST

02.13.08 :: PHOTOS - THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

We've gone a little nostalgic here at Planting Seeds Records.  With the new press photos of the International Jetsetters hitting our desks, we decided to break out some past and present PSR press...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:31:00 PST

01.31.08 :: INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS TAKE FLIGHT THIS SPRING!

Very exciting news from the PSR Offices! Please welcome the addition of Oxford's International Jetsetters to the Planting Seeds Records stable of artists. The band includes: Bert ...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:00 PST

11.15.07 :: TAMBORINES COME TOGETHER

The Tamborines are back with a new video - "Come Together" from their Planting Seeds Records release "Sally O'Gannon" - you can view right here on this ole myspace page! To buy the CDEP please visit...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:44:00 PST

10.01.07 :: A MESSAGE FROM JIM REID

..>   MISQUOTED AT BRIXTON ACADEMY i just thought i should write this to anyone who is interested. It's been reported in a couple of reviews (the NME and The Independent) that at our Brixton ...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:30:00 PST

09.05.07 :: THE TAMBORINES U.S. DEBUT IS OUT NOW!

You can now hear the fabulous Tamborines track "Sally O'Gannon" right here on our myspace page!  After you've hit repeat a bunch of times, check out ace songs from Linda Draper, The Voyces, and F...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:01:00 PST

05.16.07 :: SEE YA 'ROUND?

Wow - so not much of a blog via myspace huh? - I know it was pretty predictable - a short lived "good idea at the time"  sort of thing...but worry not - we're gonna move the "Nice Sounds" po...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:30:00 PST

04.01.07 :: UNDER THE APRIL SKIES

Well Well -  Welcome to another edition of Planting Seeds' Myspace "Nice Sounds."  Well it's now April and we're approaching those fun filled Spring and Summer days with alot of projects and...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:16:00 PST

03.05.07 :: WORDS WE SAY

Wow and welcome to March's "Nice Sounds". In between promotions for our latest releases, we managed to put togther another enstallment...it's just another step to those Spring and Summer days...Let's ...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST

02.26.07 :: NEW LINDA DRAPER & VOYCES TRACKS

Okay folks, Indeed it's all about "Nice Sounds"   - sample new tracks from the latest PSR releases: Due for release May 8, 2007 is Linda Draper's "Keepsake" (PSRCD-048) - you can sample "Too...
Posted by Planting Seeds Records on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:01:00 PST