MAD Dragon Records has just announced a series of singles entitled Making Moves, which will feature six releases between April and November of 2012. This series, curated by Motion City Soundtrack and recorded at Drexel University’s recording studios, will feature a single by RVA indie rockers Goldrush!
MAD Dragon Records has just announced a series of singles entitled Making Moves, which will feature six releases between April and November of 2012. This series, curated by Motion City Soundtrack and recorded at Drexel University’s recording studios, will feature a single by RVA indie rockers Goldrush! Motion City Soundtrack bassist Matt Taylor discovered Goldrush in a quite unconventional manner, as he explains on Motion City Soundtrack’s tumblr:
It’s a funny story. I was cleaning my house with iTunes blaring on shuffle. A song that I didn’t recognize came on. It sounded like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with bits of Elvis Costello, Soul Coughing, Led Zeppelin, with two classical instruments thrown in. It blew my mind so I checked to see what it was. Of course it was labeled Track 01 and there was no band name. I remembered that from time to time my friend Kevin would send me songs that he had recorded, so I took a shot in the dark and asked him who it was. The song in question ended up being “Touch” by a band called Goldrush that he had recorded months earlier. I had never heard them until that moment when they shuffled their way into my life. I immediately did some research on the band and found out that they were playing a show. I went to see them and was blown away. I knew then that I had to work with them in some fashion. When the Making Moves series came about, Goldrush was my only choice.
The Making Moves singles will be co-released, on limited edition 7” vinyl and digitally, on MAD Dragon Records and Motion City Soundtrack’s recently launched record label, The Boombox Generation, and distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA). This should be an excellent opportunity for this hardworking group of local music scene veterans to reach a wider audience, and the release of this single will surely be a huge event for the RVA scene in general. It’ll be a few months before we can hear the full results of this collaboration, but for now, Goldrush have posted a teaser video from the recording session, which you can check out below:
Awesome, right? Stay tuned for more details as the release of this single draws closer.
