This summer, we’re very excited to have teamed up with Community Record to bring you a 27 song sampler for the upcoming months featuring bands we love from all across the US. 

Download it free at communityandchinquapin.com!

This Free Summer Sampler is a reflection of the dedication that these two New Orleans based labels have to independent music and the pursuit of presenting that music in a radical way. Chinquapin & Community Records are most basically a group of friends. We are united by our goal of wanting to help each other spread our music to new friends (that means YOU).

The dudes in Habitat are taking their first trip up the east coast! Here’s where to catch them:

May 18th (Friday)
Nola CD Release/Tour kickoff - | Circle Bar | w/ Moths/Native America

[RSVP]

May 19 (Sat)
Atlanta, GA - | Wonderroot | w/ Powerkompany/Futo/Melanie/Annabel and the Sparrow

May 20 (Sun)
Raleigh, NC - | Kings | w/ Cassis Orange/White Life

May 21 (Mon)
Richmond, VA - | House Show | w/ 8t88/Basmati/Volcanoes

[RSVP]

May 22 (Tues)
Charlottesville, VA | TBA | w/ KILOS

May 23 (Wed)
Baltimore, MA/Washington, D.C. | - |

May 24 (Thur)
West Chester, PA - |My Parents House | w/ John Crodian/Ratburn/Oyster Boy

[RSVP]

May 25th (Friday)
West Philly, PA - | House show | w/ Snuffy

May 26th-29th
Recording - Philly

May 30th (Wednesday)
Boston, MA - |Butcher Shop | w/ Fat History Month

May 31 (Thurs)
Providence, RI | TBA | need help!

June 1st (Friday)
Willimantic, CT - | Handsome Woman | w/ California X and the Clippers

June 2nd (Saturday)
Baltimore, MA | TBA | w/ Wing Dam/Omoo Omoo/Fell Band

June 3rd (Sunday)
Harrisonburg, VA | TBA | need help!

June 4th (Monday)
Greensboro, NC | TBA | w/ Forest Tourist/Economy/White Rifles

June 5th (Tuesday)
Charlotte, NC | THE WORLD FAMOUS MILESTONE CLUB | w/ Forest Tourist/The Orchidales/Secret Hospital

[RSVP]

June 6th (Wednesday)
Charleston, SC | The Milestone | w/ Forest Tourist

June 7th (Thursday)
Jacksonville, FL | TBA | need help!

June 8th (Friday)
Tallahassee, FL - | Saint Michael’s Pub | w/ Quiet People/World’s Strongest Man/Echo Base

[RSVP]

June 9th (Saturday)
Mobile, AL | The Blind Mule | w/ Sunshine Factory

Dear friends,

In the not too distant future, there exists a world where finals are unheard of, where every barista is a bartender, and the days of the week aren’t defined by your class schedule but your grass schedule (i’m sorry)… Though apocryphal, this future is approaching our reality at the speed of Caddywhompus… on speed! This Thursday, May 10th, Chinquapin Records would like nothing more than to help you get assimilated into this strange new world with the much anticipated release Country Club’s New Album!

In an effort to repress all things college and to express our unconditional love for uptown’s only hope, local dreamboats Country Club…

We’re making this show an all-night love affair

that means CRAY-FISH BOIL from 8 til ten, and a FREE KEG until it runs out (so arrive early and claim your American born right to free alcohol!)

The show will feature new and interesting musical endeavors from Caddywhompus and Sun Hotel

proceeded by the extraordinarily beautiful and talented Country Club
(in what is sure to be their most daring performance to date, but very possibly their last for an inhumane amount of time)

we’ll have WTUL all-stars KG Accidental spinning before the show and between sets.
Also, be sure to check out the brand new single from Country Club’s new album called “Stranger”, available on this very website

Hope to see you there!
xoxo
Tyler & The Chinquapin Family

If you haven’t seen these already, check them out! Some sick performance shots of our very own Habitat, Caddywhompus, Choi Wolf, and others!

All photos from this past Saturday at The 2012 Community Records Block Party, taken by our good friends at Barryfest.

http://www.barryfest.com/2012/04/photoset-community-records-block-party-04-21-2012/

A BIG THANKS to all our good friends from Community Records, and WTUL 91.5 for putting on the awesome SKA-filled event we all know as BLOCK PARTY yesterday! 

And thank you to the all the bands (locally and nationally) that did what they do best, and to all you awesome people who helped/went to make it all possible!

ALSO, if you thugged-out with Sun Hotel @ The Circle Bar for the After Party/Show/Rager last night, you rule!

Rest up from all of the body-slamming that went down yesterday, because TOMORROW is the Post-Block Party Event!  

Sponsored by NOLA’s very own DARK Clothing and Community Records:

LOMA PRIETA | CHOI WOLF | DONOVAN WOLFINGTON | HIGH IN ONE EYE 

April 23rd, 2012 @ The Big Top

$5 // 7 pm. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/303294686373668/

This weekend has been long awaited by we Chinqua-heads along with many others. This Saturday, April 21st marks Community Records’ 5th annual Block Party, an all day & night DIY music festival on Clio St. near Lee Circle.

This year, 26 bands will be featured on the linuep, with five Chinquapin Records-affiliated artists included in the festivities (Glish, Caddywhompus, Habitat, Dominique LeJeune, and Choi Wolf).

The show is all ages and there are a lot of incentives to lower your ticket price or help out people in need if that’s what you’re into.

National headliners include Mustard Plug, Stuck Lucky, Good Luck, A Billion Ernies, and our good Houston friend B_L_A_C_K_I_E.

The fun doesn’t stop (or start) there, as we are about to dive into a weekend of pre and post Block Party shows, highlighting, but not limited to a Chinquapin Records after party at the Circle Bar (starting after Block Party, featuring another Houston outfit, The Tontons, among others) and a 4/20 Sun Hotel pool party w&&d show at Ampersand.

Check out all the pre and post events associated with the fest RIGHT HERE.

In case you couldn’t tell that we’re mad stoked about this whole music feeding frenzy, we wanted to make it perfectly clear.

We’ve compiled a new batch of TREATS (snack-sized digital downloads) which feature some music from a few of the artists who are a part of this cray cray tornado of a weekend.

Enjoy the tunes and we hope to see you out there sweatin’ and groovin’ the weekend away.