It’s been quite the year for blaseball fans, going from a scrappy “566 votes opens the Forbidden Book” to a story finale that abolishes the concept of money. But there’ll be enough of that another time.
Last year Mike Townsend is a Disappointment was the hot new bop. Let’s check in on where the Seattle Garages have gone since being called “the biggest punk rock opera since Zen Arcade” by Bandcamp Editorial.
First off, who are the Seattle Garages?
we are the garages, an anarcho-syndicalist blaseball band from the fictional location of seattle. we make songs about being gay, the apocalypse, and fighting the gods.
What’ve they done lately?
• They have a Garages 101 album if you just want to start listening while reading!
• Fourth Strike Records is a fully independent, queer-run record label dedicated to bucking the exploitative trends of the modern music industry by treating its artists fairly. Our mission is to create a fair platform for LGBTQIA+ artists to collaborate, learn, and share their work with the world in an equitable way. All of our artists own their work into perpetuity, and receive a majority share of profits as royalties. A better music industry is possible, even in this capitalist hellscape, and Fourth Strike records aims to make it a reality. – They started a record label, with 7 & counting bands signed to them and partnerships with musicians like Left at London!
• They have a sold-out vinyl production run coming out with official trading cards!
• They’ve bundled their discography in time for Bandcamp Friday!
But what are some highlights from this extensive lineup?
• They’ve released two country albums
• They have an album of original sea shanties & work chants
• Not one, two, not three, not four, but five live show EPs (with another coming shortly )
• Want something more 80’s? Neon Fakes has you covered
• “I really just need some lofi hip-hop beats to kill gods to” Good news!
• “This is all well and good, but I need something harder-sounding” – You want CONSUMED, with outstanding vocals work by Lamb
• “What’s with this Mike Townsend guy anyhow?” The Mike Townsend Quintilogy
• Ska? Ska. Skarages (vol. 1)
• This is a sports sim, right? How do they play? The Garages Suck, in fact We’ll Suck Forever, because success is for capitalists // so every time we fail it’s basically praxis