Tre Orsi is staying busy, writing new songs, recording, and booking a bunch of shows for the Fall:

With The New Year and Dirty on Purpose:
Oct 9: Philadelphia,PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Oct 10: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 11: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs

With Magnolia Electric Company, Everest (Oct shows), and Bottomless Pit (Nov shows):
Oct 27: Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
Oct 28: Houston, TX @ Walter’s On Washington
Oct 30 : Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
Oct 31: Norman, OK @ The Opolis
Nov 1: Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot
Nov 2: St. Louis, MO @ The Bluebird
Nov 3: Chicago, IL @ Abbey Pub

Stumptone has raked in a number of nominations in both the Fort Worth Weekly and Dallas Observer Music Awards.

Fort Worth Weekly Awards 2008
Nominated for:

- Best Rock Album of the Year
- Best Rock Song of the Year
- Artist of the Year

Dallas Observer Awards 2008
Nominated for:

- Best Album
- Best Indie Act

We just added a few new records (related and otherwise) to our mail order catalog, including a few hard-to-find TX classics from Light Bright Highway and The Baptist Generals. A lot of these are very limited in quantity, so we suggest you stock up on them ASAP.

We’re proud to announce the release of Stumptone’s Gravity Suddenly Released LP, the long-awaited follow-up to their 1999 self-titled debut. It’s been hard to keep this thing under wraps for so long (advance CD-Rs have been floating around the Metroplex for more than a year now), but it’s been worth the wait. It’s adventurous and comforting, psychedelic and grounding, all at the same time. You can listen to a few tracks at the band’s MySpace page. (For a more dramatic presentation, see their web site, with photography by bassist Peter Salisbury.)

Gravity is available as a limited-edition green and white vinyl LP, with hand-screened covers and a CD included for your convenience. You can order a copy from our catalog, or pick it up in person at their upcoming release shows:

Apr 26 @ Good Records, Dallas, TX (4:00 PM, free)
May 2 @ J&J’S, Denton, TX
May 3 @ Lola’s, Fort Worth, TX
Jun 6 @ Dan’s Silverleaf, Denton, TX

Hi folks. Welcome to our new website. We’ll be filling in the holes and adding more stuff in the coming weeks.

We’ll be releasing the fantastic new Stumptone LP+CD, Gravity Suddenly Released this April. It will be a limited edition (500 copies) marbled color vinyl LP with a CD included, packaged in beautiful hand-screened jackets.

In the catalog: we have our first release, Tre Orsi’s no. 7 7″ + CD, a Tre Orsi t-shirt and some lovely, limited-edition silk-screened Joe Lally/Edie Sedgwick/Tre Orsi posters done by Nevada Hill.

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