Tag: TLVS

HSAL #67 (BANDCAMP EXLUSIVE)

Posted on Posted in RELEASES, THE LABELTagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

RELEASE: HSAL #67
RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2025

AVAILABILITY: DIG
ARTWORK: Courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

This, our ninth compilation, is a total “family & friends” affair. We’ve seen many artists come and go since dreaming this all up back in 2009. Consider this collection of tunes as a random card you get in the mail one day from a long-forgotten friend. It is steeped in nostalgic references and mile-markers from their journey that they think will at least hold your interest and at most rekindle a connection.

Here’s a track-by-track description of the compilation:

  • Track 01 – Fainting Couch, “So Long”:  new single from the guitar half of “Powerviolet,” who we featured on HSAL #65.
  • Track 02 – Lost In Space Camp, “Aquatone (Attic Session)”:  Instrumental take on a track that may include vocals on a future release…
  • Track 03 – honeybrandy, “Closed For Learning”:  new track from upcoming album, “File Under Contemplative Protest,” due out later this year.
  • Track 04 – Plastic Hacks, “Slow Glow”:  new single from the forthcoming album, “Fabulously Melancholy,” due out Spring 2025 on Friend Club Records.
  • Track 05 – Young Hierophant, “From A Room Forever”:  this track is an unreleased composition from the sessions for his STELLAR 2024 album “Return To The Healing Church.”
  • Track 06 – Sheetrock, “Herald”:  new single from RVA members of Toan Team.
  • Track 07 – asentimentalsong, “The Calm Before The Calm”:  new piece presented by Joe from TLVS. #dronelife
  • Track 08 – Times Tables, “Zoom Meeting”:  new single from Roanoke’s faux-midwestern emo sons. EP drops later this month.
  • Track 09 – TLVS, “Honey From Every Wind”:  only track from last year’s split with Powerviolet that’s never been played live.
  • Track 10 – Steve Scott, “On A Personal Note (Stilyagi Drone Mix)”:  Per Steve, this is a rough sketch of something being worked on.

TLVS / SOPORUS RECAP

Posted on Posted in SIGHTINGSTagged , , , , Leave a comment
TLVS @ Infinite Repeats, Charlottesville (PC: Office Of Creativity)

TLVS are back home after a weekend of dates with Philly’s Soporus. Thanks to everyone who came out to the LYH show. It was a great turnout for their first show at a new venue. Here’s to continued success for the Music Hall at 722 Commerce and the Academy Center of the Arts at large. Also, super thrilled to see longtime bud Thomas Dean’s Infinite Repeats Worldwide thriving up in Charlottesville. Here’s to future engagements with a swell arts scene up that way.

For these shows, the band invited Aaron from L.A. Dies to sit in on second guitar and percussion. Turned out really great. Up next – TLVS is going into the studio to track some new pieces that debuted this weekend. If all goes well, they will show up on wax before 2025’s done…

HSAL #66: “RITUAL DETERGENT”

Posted on Posted in RELEASES, THE LABELTagged , , , , Leave a comment

RELEASE: HSAL #66
RELEASE DATE: September 6, 2024

AVAILABILITY: DIG
ARTWORK: Courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

FFO: UNKLE’s “Psyence Fiction,” Vacation Bible School, Early Nicolas Jaar

The creative itch for this single was birthed out of writing sessions for TLVS in the summer of 2024. Both Joey and Nathan shared a desire to push into more experimentation than what made sense for the three piece. Joey suggested that honeybrandy material may be just the thing to scratch said itch.

The upfront commitment to rhythm and samples mark something of a shift in the duo’s composition style. As they continue to work toward a new album, look for this newfound direction to compliment the more drone-based tension of previous releases.

HSAL #65: “POWERVIOLET / TLVS”

Posted on Posted in RELEASES, THE LABELTagged , , , , , , Leave a comment

RELEASE: HSAL #65, FCR110
RELEASE DATE: February 2, 2024

AVAILABILITY: CASS / DIG
ARTWORK: Rhys Meatyard, CASS layout courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

FFO: New Order, Trans Am (A Side), Tarentel, Tristeza (B Side)

FCR110 & HSAL #65: A take on “instrumental rock music” that glides across a sonic pendulum using electronics and groove to measure its amplitude. This is a co-release with a VERY LIMITED run of super special cassettes. TLVS had created a new EP’s worth of material to follow 2022’s “Beauty In The Ghost” and began shopping it around. Buffalo’s Friend Club Records expressed interest and the two parties began to collude on a release. TLVS connected with Powerviolet, who had released “Wavelengths” through Friend Club in 2022, on the prospect of a split release.

Fast forward to the winter of 2023 becoming 2024…The digital version of this collection is available to stream most everywhere. The physical version has been meticulously crafted and is nearly in the hands of Friend Club, who has decided to close up shop. Your friendly neighborhood record label has taken the reigns on this and are currently shipping out the last few unclaimed copies.

TLVS Tour Update!

Posted on Posted in SIGHTINGS, THE LABELTagged , , , , , , , Leave a comment

The recent mid-Atlantic run was a smashing success for TLVS. Shows in Lynchburg, Norfolk, and Durham proved to be the perfect way to celebrate the physical release of HSAL #65! Super swell performances by Philly’s Soporus as well as Nashville’s Silence & The Unwinking Minds to boot. The band still has a few copies of the new split cassette in the merch box if you are itching for some interesting, energetic rock music sans vocals. Next up is a local show with labelmates L.A. Dies on the 24th at Rivermont Pizza.

Upcoming TLVS Tour!

Posted on Posted in RELEASES, SIGHTINGSTagged , , , , , , , Leave a comment

TLVS is back to work in support of HSAL #65 (split release with Friend Club, may they rest in peace). In a few weeks, they will be taking their unique instrumental rock stylings around the mid-Atlantic with some wonderfully talented friends in tow. Check out the details on each date over at the shows page and, if you’re able to catch one of these dates, be sure to tell Will from Soporus/HYMY Industries how swell these screen-printed tour posters are!

“S T I L Y A G I”

Posted on Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , Leave a comment

RELEASE: HSAL #61
RELEASE DATE: December 9, 2022

AVAILABILITY: CASS / DIG
ARTWORK: courtesy of Joanna McGlothlin
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

FFO: The Art Of Noise, The Bomb Squad, 400 Blows (UK)

After turning in remixes and individual tracks for compilations over the past few years, Stilyagi has put in the work to craft a standalone collection of samples and rhythm. Detail-oriented visitors will find new things within conspicuous layers on repeated listens, while the causal listener will be content to bob their skulls to the pulsing bluster.

The physical copy of this EP is magnetic tape housed in a golden shell contained in a “Maltese cross” style case. Each case has been printed by HSAL house visual artist Joanna McGlothlin using gelli prints, screens, and stampers.

“BEAUTY IN THE GHOST”

Posted on Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , Leave a comment
“Beauty In The Ghost” by TLVS

RELEASE: HSAL #59
RELEASE DATE: October 1st, 2021

AVAILABILITY: DIG
ARTWORK: courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

FFO: Mogwai‘s “Rock Action“, Pan American‘s “Cloud Room, Glass Room“, Forest Swords‘ “Fjree Feather“, Every Bono-free moment of U2‘s “The Unforgettable Fire“


This may be the most adventurous outing in TLVS’ history. It may also be the most focused. Early in the writing, drummer Nathan McGlothlin found inspiration from the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, namely “The Golden Echo.” From this poem, TLVS captured the album’s title and its direction. Across its eight tracks, “Beauty” floats down streams of hopeful meditation toward moments of euphoric release.

Sonically, the trio employs some new pieces to their formula. The electronic beats and programming on album high point “Mt. Zion Temple of Love” create a vibe as potent without live drums as they do with them. Members of L.A. Dies provide ethereal vocal work (a first for TLVS) on “District Interpretation” and “Fragaria Virginiana.” Kaily Schenker (Graven Image, Meridiane), offers an enchanting cello melody on “Rupert Rainelle.”

Live drums and some early tracks were recorded in Richmond with longtime friend Allen Bergendahl (ShyLow, L.A. Dies), who also mixed the record. The band sent the album off to the UK for a stellar mastering job by Simon Scott (Slowdive, Fennesz).

HSAL #60 IS HERE!

Posted on Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

HSAL #60: PORCELAIN (DELUXE EDITION) by TLVS

  • A fresh retooling of the entire album by TLVS
  • A collection of remixes from over the years by members of the band (Stilyagi, asentimentalsong) as well as friends (White Laces, Ben Mauch, PJ Sykes)
  • An unreleased 2010 master of the original album by Chad Clark, who went on to work on the Fugazi live series
  • A stockpile of photos from acclaimed RVA photographer PJ Sykes

IT’S BANDCAMP FRIDAY!

All proceeds from the purchase of this album go toward our continued efforts to support the unconventional rock action happening across the commonwealth of Virginia.

PRE-ORDER: HSAL #60

Posted on Posted in UncategorizedTagged , , , , Leave a comment
HSAL #60: TLVS, “Porcelain (Deluxe Edition)”

RELEASE: HSAL #60
RELEASE DATE: October 4th, 2020 (pre-order is live now)

AVAILABILITY: DIG
ARTWORK: courtesy of HSAL
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

HSAL is partnering with our flagship artist, TLVS, to re-imagine “Porcelain” for the album’s 10 year anniversary. Back in 2010, Joe Morgan and Nathan McGlothlin had come through a few years of experimenting with lineups and instruments to land on the two-piece model, which had debuted on the “Pebble Azalea Starfish” single (HSAL, 2009). They decided to record their debut album as “TLVS” (shortened from “The Late Virginia Summers”) at Joe’s house. The album, mastered by Chad Clark (who took on the Fugazi live archive project soon after) dropped on September 21, 2010.

With some prodding from friends and fans, TLVS opted to revisit those old sessions with the idea of not just remixing but addressing some of the “loose ends” left on the original. The result is a tighter, more present mix of each tune, cut as stand alone tracks (with the exception of “Lagoon”, which still bleeds into “Marbled Atlantic”).

We have also included a handful of remixes that have been culled from the original source material over the years. As a bonus, the digital download of “Porcelain” comes with a different master (the “dynamic” version) that TLVS received from Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy) prior to the release of the album. It’s not the master that appears as HSAL #03, but the band feels like it may be the superior version.