The Alternative Tone

As a way of thanking their fans,  Count Your Lucky Stars Records  has released their ENTIRE  DISCOGRAPHY FOR FREE/PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK on their Bandcamp page. Tell all your friends! Go here and go crazy. 

Right, troops. Count Your Lucky Stars - i.e, pretty much the best record label ever - are celebrating their 50th release in true, amazing style. Read below, spend a couple of moments contemplating CYLS' awesomeness, and then do everything they tell you to. HEY! Do you want to get the entire  Count Your Lucky Stars Records  discography for FREE DOWNLOAD/pay-what-you-want?! Heck yes you do! All you have to do is like us on Facebook and share this status. For every 100 shares, we will unlock 10 albums for FREE download. If this status gets to 500 shares, ALL 50+ RELEASES WILL BE FOR FREE. If it gets to 750, we will even put up all 5 of the records on pre-order for free! You have one week to accomplish this task! ALL FREE DOWNL OADS START NEXT MONDAY, 5/13 AND WILL LAST FOR ONE WEEK. Look at all the albums you could get:  http://countyourluckystars.bandcamp.com/ We will even pick one lucky winner from each medium this status is shared in (Facebook, Tumbr, Twitter, Instag...

Topshelf Records  and Count Your Lucky Stars  are doing an unofficial SXSW showcase on March 15. The showcase involves Kind Of Like Spitting , Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) , Caravels , Weatherbox , Joie De Vivre , Tall Ships (US), Octaves , Two Knights  and many more. Check out the Facebook event for it  here .

Kind of Like Spitting   is joining the  Count Your Lucky Stars  family for a new LP and a vinyl reissue. The brain-child of Ben Barnett, a sometimes singer/songwriter, sometimes full band endeavor from Portland , Oregon .  Running the span of an entire decade and releasing eight (count ‘em, eight) full lengths on labels such as Barsuk and Hush Records, and sharing the stage with the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and Braid,  Kind of Like Spitting  originally called it quits in 2006.  Last year, Ben decided to pick up the outfit again and start writing new music and touring. 2013 will see him plunge back into action with new friends (Lizzy Costello of the Special Explosion) and the same fervor that has driven his entire career with a new LP released on  Count Your Lucky Stars , as well as a vinyl reissue of his quintessential LP from 2000  Nothing Makes Sense Without It  on Count Your Lucky Stars and Run For Cover Records....

I recently spoke with Keith Latinen, co-owner of the extremely awesome label, Count Your Lucky Stars . The Alternative Tone loves Count Your Lucky Stars Records. So should you.  For the record, who are the people behind Count Your Lucky Stars Records? And what are their roles? My name is Keith, and I run the record label with my wife, Cathy.  I run most of the day to day activities, from packing orders to making sure everything is getting where it needs to be going to calling/e-mailing bands and companies, etc.  Cathy also packs a million orders every week, and when I’m gone on tour and she can’t go, she has to run the whole show.  We both wear many hats, we both do a little of everything.  What's the history behind CYLS?  We started it as a vehicle to put out records for our band, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) and decided that we had too many talented friends not to help out.  The whole thing grew every organically....

Yet another Count Your Lucky Stars sampler featuring the usual suspects. http://countyourluckystars.bandcamp.com/album/free-download-count-your-lucky-stars-sampler-2 RIYL: Into It. Over It., Football Etc, Emo, Post-hardcore

Count Your Lucky Stars sampler. Featuring Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Into It. Over It., Football Etc. and a host of post-hardcore and emo.   http://countyourluckystars.bandcamp.com/album/free-download-count-your-lucky-stars-sampler-3 RIYL: Emo, post-hardcore, the Count Your Lucky Stars roster

Count Your Lucky Stars label sampler. Emo and post-hardcore brilliance. Merchant Ships and Moving Mountains are on it. It's free. Why are you still reading and not downloading? http://countyourluckystars.bandcamp.com/album/cyls-sampler-4 RIYL: Merchant Ships, Moving Mountains, Music