Speak of the Devil – Reverend Campbell Interviews Toybox Records. Recently relaunched, Toybox Records is releasing Crud is a Cult’s Love Hate Life Death album and we are going to talk about it all with Toybox Records owner Sean Bonner. Join live in chat and share your love of mid ’90’s hardcore/punk with us.
Show Notes
- Sean Bonner
- http://blog.seanbonner.com/about/
- In 1997 I made the difficult decision to walk away
- I was heading up the design department at Victory Records
- for the last 10 years I’ve spent most of my time and energy working on an environmental non-profit that I co-founded in 2011
- Toybox Records
- http://toyboxrecords.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/toybox_records/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRKDkfcDKTjNzI1IywOW1w
- https://soundcloud.com/toyboxrecords
- https://toyboxrecords.bandcamp.com/
- Independent record label and distribution originally founded 1992 in Bradenton, FL.
- It was owned and operated by Sean Bonner, later from Gainesville, FL, then from Chicago, IL until it closed in 1997.
- Reopened in 2020
- The separation of global quarantines brought Toybox and the surviving members of Crud Is A Cult back together
- A record of course, but also a proper send off to our lost friend
- Crud is a Cult
- https://www.noecho.net/features/crud-is-a-cult
- 25 years in the making
- frontman Sean Patrick McCabe died in 2000
- Love Hate Life Death will be the anthology of everything Crud Is A Cult recorded, remastered for this new release, but it will also serve as an appropriate tribute to Sean.
- record will be accompanied by a book
- announce this today–Friday, November the 13th–which would have been Sean’s 48th birthday.
- tentative release date of Spring 2021, Love Hate Life Death will have a single limited vinyl release
- book will remain available and will come with a digital download of tracks.
- releasing the song Busy Little Beaver as a pay what you want download which will add you to our mailing list for news and updates on this project as it gets closer to release.
- A second track, Emotion, which provided the name for this album can be streamed on SoundCloud.
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