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We're not much for memes here at ADAL Records, but this gave us a chuckle.

(Created by Band Memes 666)

Last month, the original Sweet 'N' Gross trio (Joe King, Kody Smith, and Mike King) reunited on The Gulf Shore to work on a new album.

They've created music in recent years through file-sharing, but this was the first time they'd worked together in-person since 2009, and the first recording since 2008. Not much can be said about the album except that it will be the most ambitious A.D.A.L. outing to date.

In all honesty, it's far too early to be mentioning the project or what it's all about, but the fellas had such a fun time with their ridiculous recording set-up that they thought they would share.

Sweet 'N' Gross! No one asked for it... but they're back!

OFF-KILTER KARAOKE by Joe King & Kody Smith.

For your listening and viewing pleasure, head to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyTNrWVjOXhtM2Ix2iT6oiuIUTqEH6fxB

But if you don't need the visuals, and want to download the album (for FREE), head to Bandlab: https://www.bandlab.com/adalrecords/albums/b8f1de8d-41e9-ed11-9f73-0022484437ba

We're often asked: "Since you record all of your albums in living rooms, basements, and sheds, with frizzled microphones and laptops that only run Windows '98, what does an average A.D.A.L. recording setup look like?"

Well, it just so happens we have a behind-the-scenes photo of Joe King & Kody Smith as they work on their new album (available later this month!).

All Day All Long Records would like to take a moment to appreciate HOME RECORDO! It's the device we've used to create the hundreds of songs in our ADAL library, and we have no intention of updating our equipment anytime soon. Thanks, HOME RECORDO!

New for 2022: 'Sweet and Gross' vaporizers!

That's right! Now you can listen to all of your favourite A.D.A.L. Records music while puffing on this incredible, fashionable, high-tech, resin-vaping stick.

Simply insert your handy-dandy resin cartridge into the vaporizer (similar to how you used to insert games into your Super Nintendo), and suck to your heart's delight! You'll know the vaporizer is working when lights appear on the back, and your lungs feel like they're about to burst! It's just that easy!

So what are you waiting for? Put your copy of Slow Burner into the stereo, and order your 'Sweet and Gross' vaporizer today!

DISCLAIMER (One of a kind product; not actually for sale).

Text from a fan.

Tonight is October’s full moon, and today is Bloody Cat Eggs’ CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF!

We know this album isn’t going to be palatable to everyone. It’s not the kind of thing you’d blast in the car to rid yourself of anxiety during the Monday morning commute; nor is it the choice album when dinner guests arrive. But if you don’t mind your music a little kooky and your stories a little spooky, then you might find a chuckle or a chill inside.

Audrey, Charlie, and Kody picked away at this for ten months, but they had help from lots of good friends. Therefore, many a thank you is in order.

“Thanks to Chantelle Daigle because she has to live with us.

Thanks to Matt Tabor, Ken Potter, and Joe King; who each created new music specifically for this foolish endeavour. There’s no way we could have pulled this off without you guys.

But they aren’t the only fellas who play on this. We were fortunate enough to be granted access to previously recorded instrumental jam sessions, and given full rein to manipulate them into Bloody Cat Eggs songs. The musicians involved in those sessions are: Julian Merlin, Joe Potter, Justin Adams, Adam Matthews, Matt Williams, Mike King, Chris Gooding, Chris Brown, and Joe King again. Thanks, guys! You are all men of fine breeding.

Lastly, we have to thank Gary Busey, Bernie Wrightson, and, of course, Stephen King. Please don’t sue us; we’re only kids!”

CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF audio version: https://www.bandlab.com/adalrecords/albums/c7e41896-462d-ec11-981f-0004ffd34262 (You may be asked to sign in to Bandlab; simply ignore and X out of the window that pops up, and you'll find the album.)

CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF illustrated version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyTNrWVjOXhs3xwir_7M3swot1hEPVywH

(CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF is rated R for language, terror, violence, and gore. Viewer/listener discretion is advised.)

As their nom de guerre – BLOODY CAT EGGS – Charlie Smith, Audrey Smith, and Kody Smith (with the generous help from a bevy of Springhill musicians) have spent the past ten months recording and piecing together a full length concept album/radio adaption/audio book inspired by Stephen King’s novella, CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF.

They're still working on some finishing touches, so that’s all they're going to say about it for now. It’s set to be released on October 24th, with a five minute sampler available sometime next week.

For now, please enjoy their band photo.

Springhill, Nova Scotia: a community best known for its tragedies (from coal mine disasters to fires that flattened Main Street) and its musicians (from Anne Murray to Jester’s Destiny to some kid banging on a drum kit in their basement on Pleasant Street).

It was French writer Antonin Artaud who said: “No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.” Could the inexhaustible volume of Springhill musicians be the fallout of past tragedies? As a forty year old man who calls himself Pimp Daddy Hoe Bucket, I’m probably not the right person to answer that question. But it’s something to consider.

While visiting Springhill you could tour The Anne Murray Centre and see actual Gold records, Junos, and Grammys that Springhill music has achieved; however Springhill music is much more than accolades in pop, country, and adult contemporary.

Springhill music is catchy, original rock groups, and bar bands that can immaculately cover classic rock tunes. It’s singer-songwriters harmonizing poems they’ve transmuted into music, and electronic wizards flicking switches and switching records. It’s musical theatre and the odd punk or metal band. It’s someone rapping to themselves in their bedroom, and early morning shower-singers, and that old, well-dressed, bald guy who used to live on McGee Street and play his grand piano while wearing a suit every day at 4 AM.

I know what you’re thinking. “Hoe Bucket, you dummy, that describes just about any ol’ town. There are talented musicians all over the damn place.” And I’ll pleasantly agree with you.

However, per capita, it’s always seemed that Springhill has had more musicians running through its veins than any other ol’ town. You can’t walk two blocks without running into seven people who play guitar.

And that’s wonderful.

But far on the outskirts of those wondrous Grammys and rock bands and grand pianos you’ll find the Springhill musical equivalent of a mutant chained to the rafters in your attic: ADAL Records.

Founded in 2005, All Day All Long Records is an imaginary record label that actually cranks out an album every now and again.

It’s an idea that music doesn’t have to always rely on theory or pristine recording conditions to be entertaining.

It’s a place where otherwise conventional musicians can loosen their ties, put their feet up, and act like weirdos for a little while.

It’s a collection of music recorded by friends with bellies full of alcohol; in the finest living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, basements, sheds, and cabins that Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has to offer.

Some songs were captured with high-end dynamic microphones and others with 1998 we**am microphones. Such is the way of ADAL Records.

Anyway, the point of all this babble is that we’ve finally uploaded our entire back catalogue to a website where it can easily be streamed or downloaded for free. We currently have 194 songs on the site; featuring solo artists Queen Slowstep, Average Sound, DJ S’Nuff, Clampton Clawes, Shirtless Dirk, and Doctor Chis, plus bands like Sweet N’ Gross, Morris Code and the Signal, Straight From The Heptagonal Ring, Maimed by Hooves, Bloody Cat Eggs, Jeremy Reads, Camp Jams, Dawn and the Candles, Chantal’s Wedding, The New Bagsweat, and probably some other stuff that I’m forgetting.

For the people involved in ADAL Records, this site can act as a time capsule of sorts; since the majority of these songs were created when we were in our twenties, and that wasn’t yesterday.

And for fans of weird, low budget music from the Maritimes… https://www.bandlab.com/adalrecords/albums

- Pimp Daddy Hoe Bucket

(EDIT: You may be prompted to sign in to Bandlab. Simply X out of the window and you'll be taken directly to the ADAL albums. Thanks for listening!)

SURPRISE!

We have a brand new DJ S'Nuff album for you; right here, right now! It is titled THE RET-CONNING, and we were able to catch up with Mr. S'Nuff recently to get a few words on the album.

"I'm sure if you're reading this than you've been thinking to yourself that this pandemic would have been a lot more enjoyable with some homemade electronic beats.

You probably have not been thinking about what DJ S'Nuff has been doing these last few years besides enjoying the legalization of ma*****na.

Well, DJ S'Nuff - ever the procrastinating recluse - has come back to the ADAL fold.

Like previous DJ S'Nuff projects, this album is an ode to personal strife. It's also a reaction to the pandemic and even though it is late in the game, I hope it helps take your mind off the world's misery for at least a little while."

Enjoy THE RET-CONNING on Bandlab: https://www.bandlab.com/adalrecords/albums/70ab759b-57a7-eb11-85aa-0004ffd34857

or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyTNrWVjOXhuUT4n6-7lv_9BSU5UVHlFh

Solstice has arrived and so has A LANDFILL OF FORGOTTEN FRUITCAKE!

The track listing (which may entice some and repulse others) is as follows:

1. I SAW DADDY KISSING KRAMPUS (featuring guitars garbed in garland by Julian Merlin)

2. LITTLE BABY DOLLOP TROTS

3. COAL IN MY STOCKING (featuring seasonally slick techno beats by Matt Tabor)

4. NOGS

5. BLOODY CAT EGGS IN A PEAR TREE

Kody, Charlie, and Audrey hope you enjoy this and they wish you a Merry Christmas!

A.D.A.L. Records reminds you that this is best enjoyed through earbuds or decent speakers. Santa puts people who listen to music through crappy tablet speakers on his naughty list.

The YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAHFu5GJkdI&list=PLyTNrWVjOXhsxsZR8-pzfwbzc3Hfrvecg

And a link for Dropbox in case anyone is weird enough to want to download these songs: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cgljxu90hqrnifb/AADmoMC6mop5LrawDwADvD0Ua?dl=0

Dropbox may ask to you sign in; just ignore that and X out of it. You should then be taken to the songs.

Last January the folks at A.D.A.L. Records had a couple of projects on the back burner that would've been completed by now if this year hadn't ended up the way it did. But sometimes good comes with bad, and different projects arose that likely wouldn't have happened if this year hadn't been like a feverish, toddler tantrum.

Two of those projects are: another E.P. from Bloody Cat Eggs (their second this year!) and a brand new, full-length album from A.D.A.L.'s very own master of the dance floor, DJ S'Nuff, with his first new output since 2009!

Both of those will be released before the year's end, but for now we figure it's the proper time to remind everyone of 2019's lo-fi, Christmas E.P., JESUS & PRESENTS, which contains:

AN A.D.A.L. FAMILY'S THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS by various A.D.A.L. artists.

DON'T FORGET TO BRUSH OR ELSE SANTA WON'T COME by Clampton Clawes.

ONE-UPPING THE NEIGHBOR'S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS by Average Sound.

And a completely ridiculous cover of Monster Magnet's DEAD CHRISTMAS by Pimp Daddy Hoe Bucket.

JESUS & PRESENTS is the kind of lo-fi nonsense that you'll either instantly forget or return to year after year. Enjoy!

We'll talk to everyone soon about the new releases!

Click the link for JESUS & PRESENTS!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4AN7s8-4L8&list=PLyTNrWVjOXhtMVyI6QWyUrVzy_MCXA5XV

Has your food been sending you messages? Even worse, have you been responding? Cabin fever can happen to the best of us, so here's a new compilation of forgotten or unreleased songs to stop you from scaling your living room walls.

The album is called JARS OF PICKLED JAM BANDS and it contains music from Jeremy Reads, Camp Jams, Sweet N' Gross with DJ S'Nuff, and Clampton Clawes and the UNB String Ensemble! JARS OF PICKLED JAM BANDS can be found on either YouTube, or for free download from our Dropbox! Here are the links for both.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jsQoPa9yuo&list=PLyTNrWVjOXhsgZgzAWFbcgmpEZHg131D9

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2gv8hzkvufihpbt/AACSodiJsbWYnD5UuoE08r-Wa?dl=0

Stay safe, everyone. And wash your damn hands!

Old posters, live photos, recording photos, and other nostalgia.