Catbird Records is an independent record label

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, formed in September 2005, in Columbus

Columbus, Ohio

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. It is now based out of New York City. It was founded and is run by Ryan Catbird of music blog The Catbirdseat. The label follows a unique model in that it is financed solely by advertising revenue generated by the Catbirdseat music blog.

Discography

• CBR001 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is an indie pop band from Springfield, Missouri. Their first full-length album Broom, independently released in 2005, received good reviews from Spin Magazine and they are now signed with Polyvinyl Record Co....
  
  /Michael Holt
  Michael Holt (musician)
  Michael Holt is a musician who lives in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968, and raised in New York City, where he learned to play the piano as a child...
  
   - Someone Still Loves You Michael Holt: A Scrapbook For You
• CBR002 Pet Politics - In My Head
• CBR003 Hemstad - Hemstad
• CBR004 Get Him Eat Him
  Get Him Eat Him
  Get Him Eat Him was a five-piece indie rock band from Providence, Rhode Island that existed from February 2004 to February 2009.The band signed to Absolutely Kosher Records in the summer of 2004 and recorded their debut album Geography Cones with Jay Pellicci at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studio...
  
   - Do As I Tell You
• CBR005 Tap Tap
  Tap Tap
  Tap Tap is a series of rhythm games by Tapulous available for the iOS of which several versions, both purchasable and free, have been produced. The goal of the game is to tap each of the colored balls when they reach a line at the bottom of the screen. If the ball is hit on the beat, the player...
  
   - Lanzafame
• CBR006 Maestro Echoplex - Last Night I Saw God On The Dancefloor
• CBR007 Pet Politics - The Spring
• CBR008 Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts - Blue Birds Blood
• CSP001 Fulton Lights - Fulton Lights (Limited Edition Version)
• CBR009 Forest Fire - Psychic Love Star
• CBR010 Moviola - Dead Knowledge
• CB7001 Get Him Eat Him
  Get Him Eat Him
  Get Him Eat Him was a five-piece indie rock band from Providence, Rhode Island that existed from February 2004 to February 2009.The band signed to Absolutely Kosher Records in the summer of 2004 and recorded their debut album Geography Cones with Jay Pellicci at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studio...
  
   - There's A Guy 7"
• CSP002 The Underpainting - The Underpainting (Limited Edition Version)
• CSP003 Jason Zumpano - In The Co. Of Ghosts: Music For Jason McLean
• CSP004 Prairie Cat - Attacks!
• CBR011 Clear Tigers - EP
• CBR012 Manishevitz
  Manishevitz
  Manishevitz is an American indie rock band originally from Virginia and now based in Chicago. They have released material on Jagjaguwar Records and Catbird Records.-History:...
  
   - East To East
• CBR013 PWRFL Power - EP
• CBR014 Air Waves - EP
• CBR015 Forest Fire - Survival
• CSP005 Fulton Lights - The Way We Ride
• CSP006 Jason Zumpano - Roses $9.99 Dozen
• CBR016 George Washington Brown
  George Washington Brown
  George Washington Brown is a pseudonym used by two musicians:*Pete Gofton, English musician and producer*Van Dyke Parks , American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, and actor-See also:...
  
   - EP
• CBR017 Apollo Ghosts
  Apollo Ghosts
  Apollo Ghosts is a Canadian indie rock band. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the band consists of singer and guitarist Adrian Teacher, bassist and guitarist Jason Oliver, bassist Jarrett K, and drummer Amanda Panda....
  
   - Forgotten Triangle
• CSP007 Apollo Ghosts
  Apollo Ghosts
  Apollo Ghosts is a Canadian indie rock band. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the band consists of singer and guitarist Adrian Teacher, bassist and guitarist Jason Oliver, bassist Jarrett K, and drummer Amanda Panda....
  
   - Hastings Sunrise

Co-Releases

In Catbird catalog numbering, 'CSP' ("Catbird Special Projects) denotes a special release of some kind, or a co-release with another label, typically wherein Catbird provides a limited special-edition version of an album with a larger-scale release. Co-releases:

• CSP001 Split release with Android Eats Records
• CSP002 Split release with Tower Of Song Records
• CSP004 Split release with Fuzzy Logic Recordings
  Fuzzy Logic Recordings
  Fuzzy Logic Recordings is a Canadian independent record label, founded in 2002 and based out of Toronto, Ontario.Fuzzy Logic operates under the motto "Good Music, Good Friends, Good Times!"-Artists :*The Bicycles*Gravity Wave*The Midways*Peter Project...
  
  

Bonus Items

Catbird Records offers limited bonus materials with many releases, including bonus discs, special packaging variations and the like:

• CBR001 Unique hand-painted covers
• CBR002 Various cover colors
• CBR003 First 200 copies included 5-song bonus disc, in unique sleeves handcrafted by Hemstad
• CBR004 Various cover colors, various insert variations
• CBR005 First 200 copies in hand-bound, cloth-covered book, with 3-song bonus disc
• CBR006 First 100 copies included 4-song bonus disc, Songs About Planes
• CBR007 Various cover colors, various insert stamps
• CBR008 First 200 copies included 3-song bonus disc
• CBR009 Various cover colors
• CBR010 200 copies included bonus DVD with videos, photos, and demos
• CSP003 3 prints of art by Jason McLean included, in varying colors
• CSP004 Unique hand-painted covers
• CBR012 First 100 copies included 4-song bonus disc, in hand-decorated sleeves
• CBR013 Various cover colors
• CBR015 Available in 'Giant Size' (12" x 12") edition
• CSP005 Variant white cover
• CSP006 Unique hand-colored covers
• CBR017 25 copies with variant photo/acetate cover

T-Shirts

Catbird Records has done several limited-edition T-shirt pressings.

• Logo Tee (Summer 2006) - Edition of 50. Colors: red, blue, green, brown, grey, black
• Tap Tap Elephant Tee - Edition of 50. Colors: navy
• Hemstad Tee - Edition of 15. Colors: pink
• Logo Tee (Fall 2006) - Edition of 50. Colors: brown
• Logo Tee (Summer 2007) - Edition of 50. Colors: green, purple, aqua, slate, black

External links

• Catbird Records
• The Catbirdseat
• Catbird Records on Myspace
• Catbird Records on Virb
• Stylus Magazine Label Profile
• Behance Magazine Feature on Catbird Records

Band-Related External Links

• BiBaBiDi Interview with Hemstad Part 1 of 2
• BiBaBiDi Interview with Hemstad Part 2 of 2