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What could be a bigger waste of time and money these days than running a music blog? Starting a record label, duh! It’s the natural progression for bloggers: First you get the hits, then you sponsor the shows, then you start releasing the albums. And then you get the women? Powerful DFW-based blog Gorilla Vs. Bear is venturing into the lucrative and exciting world indie label-dom with the announcement earlier this week that they are teaming with Weekly Tape Deck to create Forest Family Records. This is really the indie trifecta for success in naming, we think. You have Gorilla vs. Bear bringing their odd animal pairing title, Weekly Tape Deck providing the retro format cred, and all that’s missing is some rustic, woodsy notion that is taken care of with the name Forest Family. For their first release, they are offering up a 7″ from the band Cults, which is pretty good stuff. You can download the track “Go Outside” below. What’s more, a portion of the proceeds from every release on Forest Family goes to a charity benefiting animals, according to their website. That’s cool and all, but they don’t say what portion, or what charity, or perhaps most importantly, what animals. We really don’t want our money to inadvertently go to supporting jihadist lemurs or something. But good luck to Forest Family! And you can order the highly recommended Cults 7″ here, follow Forest Family Recs on Twitter, or be in like with them on Facebook, because that’s what you do.
Mp3 from Cults 7″:
Go Outside
