CyTunes launches at midnight tonight (12/12/08)

Cy Rawls, a longtime friend and fan of the Triangle music scene, lost his battle against a malignant brain tumor in early October. But his friends haven't forgotten. CyTunes.org, a digital music retailer started with the intention to benefit Cy's mounting medical bills couldn't be completed in time, but the organizers soldiered on anyhow, shifting the site's monetary benefactor from the Raws family to the Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University.

Here is a list of artists whose music will available on CyTunes at launch:

Studio Tracks:

All Night
Chew Toy
The Dirty Little Heaters
Evil Wiener
The Ex-Monkeys
The Flute Flies
Greenades
Hammer No More The Fingers
I Was Totally Destroying It
Josh Zaslow
Mercury Birds
The Nein
Red Collar
Ryan Pound
Starmount
Wes Phillips

Live Tracks:

Superchunk
Polvo
The Rosebuds
Birds Of Avalon
Cantwell Gomez and Jordan
Fin Fang Foom
Magic Babies
Double Negative


** For more info on what CyTunes is about: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_cytunes.html

**For more info about Cy Rawls: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_cy.html

**For more info about the Tisch Brain Tumor Center: http://test.cytunes.org/about/about_tisch.html

Red Collar unveils new recordings

Ever since the release of The Hands Up EP in March of 2007, Durham-based Red Collar's increasingly large fanbase has been clamoring for the promised full-length follow-up, recorded by Brian Paulson, and tentatively titled Pilgrim.

The LP is still without a release date, or even a label to back it.

But, as of today, four cuts from the unreleased record are available to tease eager ears via MySpace. Three of the featured tracks are re-recorded songs from the EP, "Stay," "Hands Up" and "Used Guitars," but "Rust Belt Heart" will be new to anybody that didn't get a chance to download the band's live session at Duke University's radio station, WXDU, a few months back.

Red Collar at Myspace

photo by Allie Mullin.