our secret lies beneath the creek is now officially available, and you can find it here and in your local record store, especially if your local record store happens to be a part of the the alliance of independent media stores. if your store is part of AIMS, you’ll find it in the listening station. so make your way to the store and throw on some headphones!

in related news, people have said some very nice things about the album: david greenwald from cokemachineglow weighs in, along with the allmusic guide, indieworkshop, and aiding & abetting, to name a few.

several tell-all artists participated in dave heaton’s 100 musicians answer the same 10 questions project. you can see answers from liam singer, scott solter, and the kallikak family alongside such great artists as paul duncan and eluvium. excellent reading.

the Kallikak Family enhanced audio RITCHEY CD-ROM with extra special content including self-designed software, text, video, and an episode of “Twin Peaks” is now available from the Yarn Lazer label. let us know if you would like more information about this extra special limited release. also please check out this nice review of may 23rd 2007 from soundsect.

in technical news, tell-all recently completed a migration to a new server. if you notice something missing or broken, please let us know — write dave AT tellallrecords.com and we’ll fix it straightaway.

we’re proud to announce the latest addition to our twelve ep series, B by MANTA(R), aka M. Ritchey, collaborator and musicmaker with such outfits as Dear Nora, The Badger King, et al. check it out. subscribe already.

there have also been some very nice reviews of scott solter’s record, in foxy digitalis and tiny mix tapes. check them out.

also, our secret lies beneath the creek got a mention on 30music.com. its official release is august 29th, and you’ll see it in listening stations at select independent record stores around the country during the month of september. exciting!

there have been two great reviews of one river published in the past two days from two wonderful sites : dusted magazine, who who reviewed the album here, and from pitchfork media’s cory byrom, who wrote this kind review.

if you’re here for the first time, be sure to check out liam singer’s new album, our secret lies beneath the creek, which was engineered by scott. you’ll hopefully be reading some great reviews of it in the near future as well.

our copies of liam singer’s new album, “our secret lies beneath the creek”, just arrived in the mail today, and we’re way excited to finally have them in our hands. this album was recorded in december and january with scott solter engineering, it sounds and looks GREAT! we have some samples and an order form up on the website, so click here if you’re ready for some piano action.

scott solter’s own album, one river, has been officially released for a few weeks now, and has begun to receive much positive press - check out new reviews from indie workshop, almost cool, erasing clouds, and illinois entertainer. scott is currently in san francisco, producing and recording john vanderslice’s next album, as well as mixing a project he recorded for grant miller (of mandible chatter). however, he and his wife have recently relocated to north carolina, where he will continue running his own studio - so if you’re in that area, and are lookin g for an amazing engineer, be sure to check him out! his website is scottsolter.com, and he plans to be up and running sometime in june.

new sound samples from the twelve series are up, including new entries from one umbrella and jack shriner. give them a listen.

we’ve also got a new distro item in stock, “little darla has a treat for you vol. 24,” a compilation from darla records. it’s 36 tracks on 2 cds for only $7 plus shipping, so check it out! the comp includes an exclusive track from the kallikak family, plus new music from robin guthrie (!), run_return, aarktica, and more. check it out here.

be sure to join our mailing list using the form above, because you can get a free tell-all vol. 1 compilation. really, it’s great, and we’ll send it to you just for giving us your e-mail address! we promise not to write to you too often.

remember that we’re always accepting submissions and that we will listen to them, though; it may take us a ridiculous amount to do so, and; we can’t promise that, even if we love it, we’ll have the resources to release it! that said, it’s always great to hear the exciting sounds that people are making.