G7 Welcoming Committee Records. Uncooperative since 1997.

Greetings earthlings. Today marks the release of G7’s 57th and final release of audio excrement out into this troubled sphere. It’s called This Time It’s Personal and it was crafted by one Chris Pastor, aka Jamaica Plain.

At first we didn’t know why his music was so bizarre and eccentric. He was, after all, from Boston, home of such clearly non-eccentric luminaries as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. But then we found he was now living in Sweden and it all made sense. Those people are freaks (see examples.)

Speaking of old Zinn-meister, here’s what he had to say about This Time It’s Personal:

We just listened to your wonderful new CD [sic] — it is as you want it to be — up-front and very powerful, with the words coming at you, entering into your consciousness. It is a really important thing you’ve done. Each one of the pieces is great.

The man certainly has a way with words, doesn’t he? And who are you to argue with him — he wrote the fucking People’s History of the United States!

Download This Time It’s Personal today - and also check out the recently-posted video for I Won’t Run (which, if viewed cynically, could be interpreted as endorsing suicide bombings. But we’re not cynics! And we don’t endorse suicide bombings. Nor do we endorse F16 aerial bombings. Unless you’re blowing up an F16 with a suicide bomb, that’s OK.)

You can also find the album on iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and other inter-web locations.

It’s been awhile since you’ve heard any actual news from us related to this whole record label business, and for this we apologize. We’ve all been very busy doing anything and everything that has nothing to do with this record label.

But that’s all about to change.

Instead of pretending that we’re actually still interested in the practice of accepting submissions and hunting for, then filtering and sorting, then negotiating and paying for, then promoting and distributing and accounting for music … instead of pretending that we like and are happy doing all THAT … we are doing the opposite. And opposite, is opposite.

No more. I’m going on 58, Chris is pushing 65, and Brent … well Brent’s only 34, but he spends half of his time in the drunk tank and the other half in the dunk tank, so he’s a write off.

Point is … well, let me illustrate. Go to the kitchen, open the drawer … no, not that one, it’s all full of old twist ties and plastic bags … no, one to the left … no no, the OTHER left … OK, good, that one … now get a fork. No, that’s a foon. THERE we go - now THAT’S a fork! OK now, what was I saying? Oh right - now stick that fork in us. Because WE’RE DONE.

All G7 releases will remain available in their current high-quality digital form into the foreseeable future. Watch for Chris’ forthcoming retrospective on the history of G7 from AK Press next year?

It’s been a slice dickwads.

Say hello to our 57th and final release, from the inimitable Chris Pastor, also known as Jamaica Plain. Now transplanted from Boston to Stockholm, Chris hits us once more with 9 tracks of politically-charged synth-pop wizardry.

“This Time It’s Personal” is available from the G7 download store and purveyors of digital music everywhere on May 6th. In the meantime, we suggest checking out the MP3 for “Proud to be an American.”

It is funny.

Next month brings tour dates from your two favourite G7 bands — Consolidated and … But Alive! Psyche. You wish.

Instead, you’ll have to settle for Propagandhi’s short stint in Japan, and The Rebel Spell’s jaunt across Western Canada with The Flatliners, who I’ve never heard of. Oh wait, they’re on Fat Wreck Chords, that must be why. Aaaah, hahahaha.

See tours here.

Head on over to the G7 blog to get the skinny on what we’ve got cooking for this year!