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History

Label History & Releases

Lau derette > Squirrel Thing Recordings > Heroic Cities > The Musick Group


2008

Dan Dzula & David Herman launch Lau derette Recordings; Connie Converse’s One by One digital sampler EP released


2009

Connie Converse’s How Sad, How Lovely released on CD (digipak edition)


Label changes name to Squirrel Thing Recordings; The Great Republic of Rough and Ready release The Angel of Death (7” and digital EP)

2010


Partners with Ba Da Bing! Records to release Molly Drake s/t album on CD (limited Edition letterpress sleeve); Partners with Captured Tracks to release Molly Drake on vinyl and expanded CD run; Connie Converse’s, How Sad, How Lovely pressed on vinyl for first time; CDs reissued in slipcases. Both versions include the bonus track: I Have Considered the Lilies; Luzmila Carpio’s Yuyay Japina Tapes released on CD/Vinyl

2013 - 2015


2017

Partnership with Captured Tracks ends; label operations move under Dan’s company, Heroic Cities; Realistic Bodies release Open Your Mind digitally and on limited lathe-cut vinyl (b/w Self-titled EP, less than 10 editions pressed); dzuls releases self-titled LP dzuls (limited run of 300)


Connie Converse’s Sad Lady EP and Jules in Trouble’s Dark Jewels EP released digitally; dzuls’s Wasteland Nudes series of digital singles released

2020 - 2021


Dan relaunches the Heroic Cities label as The Musick Group

2023