Lots going on here at SSD HQ, which is soon to make the journey out of Manhattan into the preferred borough of Brooklyn; Greenpoint to be exact.  Blog posts may slow due to increased pierogi and kielbasa intake.

If you happened to tune in for the 51st annual Grammy awards a few weeks back, you would not have seen Brian Roettinger in his Sunday best, as the nominees for the most important award of the show get no airtime.  Brian was nominated for best album package for his work with No Age on their latest release, Nouns. Despite being beat out by Metallica’s latest effort, Death Magnetic, as voted by the same committee that granted the best album honors to Robert Plant and Allison Krauss over Lil Wayne, Radiohead and much adored Coldplay. Either way, we believe Brian the real winner of that night for simply getting to see the Rap Pack live and in person.

Anthem magazine recently wrote a nice piece on the children’s alphabet books we recently announced.  Read it here.

Inventory is running low on the first installment of our ongoing quarterly wearables series, Vinyl is Forever, designed  Human Empire.  Hooded sweatshirts and totes are almost gone, and as this is a limited edition series, they shall not be repressed.  We look for edition 02, designed by the wonderful Andreas Samuelsson, will be released in May.

Stay tuned for updates on Rock Paper Show, Touchable Sound, and ReFRAME.