Holy Crap. Its actually been a year since I sent out an update. So I
figure a few folks receiving this are going to forget they signed up
and think its spam. I got a bit to content using the website and
myspace. Sorry Folks. I'm only going to mention the latest releases
instead of trying to catch up for the whole year...

-Blake

P.S. Not an Empty band, but family none the less, word has come down
that the Knockout Pills are calling it a day :)


Here are our newest release and well worth the trouble to check out.
Scroll on down to get more details on each.

Bamboo Kids - Feel Like Hell LP/CD
Destruction Unit - Death to the Old Flesh LP/CD
Digital Leather - Monologue CD
Snitches Get Stitches - Even A Butched Carcass... CD
Blank Its - Happy Accidents CD/LP

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Bamboo Kids - Feel Like Hell
http://www.emptyrecords.com/empty/releases/
record_detail.asp?intRecordId=235

In a culture growing tired of itself, it's rare that you hear a band
that might actually still give a shit. Pounding out rock and roll
devoid of irony or trends, New York City's Bamboo Kids seem to be one
of only a few bands that have no wall dividing their hearts from
their music. No wall dividing gutter fun from social conscience.
Cheap booze and sex share the same space in their world as Iraq and
civil rights. The Bamboo Kids have taken the celebrated garage
rawness of their self-titled first album and injected it into a much
fuller and more powerful sound. There is no filler on this album,
only rock and roll at its finest. Thirteen rabid songs that make
America's idea of heaven feel like hell and hell like a place you
just might want to go on a Saturday night.


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Destruction Unit - Death To The New Flesh
http://www.emptyrecords.com/empty/releases/
record_detail.asp?intRecordId=236

Back for a final conflict is Destruction Unit. This last
collaboration between the trio of Jay and Alicja of Lost Sounds and
Ryan Wong will shatter your world. . Developed by Ryan Wong in the
Arizona desert sometime in the past, the Unit unleashed the "My
Disease" recording on Discos Cagados and debut "Self-Destruction of a
Man" in 2004. The out-of-control beat met with electronic keys, a
deafening guitar and damaged vocals that wanted you dead. Fueled by
an unknown disease that mutates in the sun. So, stay in the shadows.
Go out at night. Destruction Unit is here. And it wants you dead.


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Digital Leather - Monoloue
http://www.emptyrecords.com/empty/releases/
record_detail.asp?intRecordId=232

Taking cues from late 70's/early 80's synthpunk pioneers as the
Screamers, Nervous Gender, and The Units, this Arizona based one man
band rely on just keyboards, drum machines and vocals to set the
scene of gloomy electronic desert landscapes and gay night club
discotheques.This is the life of Sean Foree, who created this
masterpiece in his one bedroom apartment in Tempe, Arizona. Live he
borrows members from the Wongs, Reatards, Lost Sounds, and
Destruction Unit. Ten tracks that are sure to appeal to fans of the
current rebirth of keyboards in punk... but this record surely pushes
the boundries of that.



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Snitches Get Stitches - Even A Butched Carcass Can Shine
http://www.emptyrecords.com/empty/releases/
record_detail.asp?intRecordId=233

Like a blood-engorged death tick buried neck-deep in Seattle's
blubbered underbelly, Snitches Get Stitches are a fearsome reminder
that the neutering needle of domesticating commodification has not
pricked every band. Stripped down to the power of three, SGS are a
battle-hardened trio of gutter veterans who've led corpses into war
on the scenes of LA, NYC, Miami, and St. Louis before running ram
shod over Seattle's precious taint. Their first release, "I Liked You
Better When You Were a Corpse" sent a spiral of confused critics into
the unanimous decision that: a) SGS's rock is fucked and b) SGS
fucking rocks. Their second release, "Even a Butchered Carcass Can
Shine" takes their first release, hangs it from a hook, slits its
throat, and carves it for sport. Faster. Meaner. Rottener.


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Blank Its - Happy Accidents (MTR413)
http://www.emptyrecords.com/empty/releases/
record_detail.asp?intRecordId=231

Plopping out of Seattle with the likes of the SPITS come BLANK ITS.
Likened to the Buzzcocks these guys (Justin:guitar, Betsy:bass and
Jon-Paul: drums) have a sound that's gonna make you wanna! As
Smashing Transistors put it "... Mangled two finger chords...and a
high-strung backbeat... Think of them as if the Urinals at their most
agitated writing songs they'd like to hear the Monkees cover..."
Still rooted in the Northwest, these guys have played throughout the
Midwest including Horizontal Action's Chicago Blackout with the
Pagans, and in Hamtramck by themselves, and just recently at SF's
Budget Rock. This debut full length, Happy Accidents, recorded by
Kurt Bloch (of the Fastbacks) at Egg Studios, has all the record
hounds chomping at the bit just like they did for their singles. 100
on color vinyl.