Soap's new e.p. "The Quick Of It".

Soap has recorded a new e.p. titled "The Quick Of It". The e.p. contains three new tracks and can be downloaded for free on their website http://www.soaptheband.net/ Visit the downloads section to listen and download the new songs.

The 4th annual Summer Rebellion

The 4th annual Summer Rebellion concert will host performances by Ciaran Flynn (Dublin, Ireland), Annie Minogue (NYC), Boss Tweed (NYC), Stone Deaf (Tokyo, Japan), and David Peel & The Lower East Side (NYC). Music starts at 2pm and continues until 6pm on Saturday September 22nd at Tompkins Square Park in New York City.

For more information concerning sponsorships, guest speakers, and vending please contact Gary Gaskin at g (at) digitonerecords.com or by phone at (800) 595-4937.

Cy Taggart "It's Alright"

We’re pleased to announce the release of Cy Taggart’s new recording “It’s Alright”. The new CD features 10 original songs recorded at Detached Sound in Richmond, Virginia. Cy’s Chicago grown Americana arrangements and abridgments present a fresh outlook on the genre of 20th century popular music with tight vocal harmonies and great dance grooves.

"A Blast from the Past with a Nod to the Mod"

“It’s Alright” will be in stores, online, and available for download September 4th, 2007, but you can pick up a copy early at the release party which will be held at The Capital Ale House in Richmond Virginia on August 31st.

For more information please contact us at g (at) digitonerecords.com or by phone at (800) 595-4937

2007 Summer Rebellion Festival

The 4th annual Summer Rebellion will be held at Tompkins Square Park in the east village of NYC on September 22nd, 2007 (last day of summer). The Summer Rebellion is the ultimate outdoor urban festival experience in its 4th year, this annual 1-day music blowout features 1 stage offering live music all day.The festival celebrates diversity in music and art including everything from alternative, rock n' roll, punk, folk, reggae and more.

Last year's Summer Rebellion performers included David Peel, and the lower east side, Soap, Red Metric, & Alizon Device. This year's Summer Rebellion will continue to provide free and exciting entertainment for all ages and musical tastes, plus a variety of food, information, political speakers, and other activities.

Performers will be announced soon.

For more information concerning sponsorships, speakers, and vending please contact Gary Gaskin at g (at) digitonerecords.com or by phone at (800) 595-4937.

The Story

It all started in a small room in the back of my office with records, magazines, one-sheets, records, stickers, records, records, and more records. Friends and family helped and continue to, but there is one main thing I’ve learned by starting it from the ground and building it myself. The only things you get for free in the music business are passion and ideas. Everything else, from Soap shirts to mixing time, costs a lot and not just monetarily.

If we are all affected by everything around us, then we are part of the surroundings for everyone else. Digitone seeks to bring it home to the fans, consumers, kids (call them what you will) because that's where everything begins, in the kitchen, in the bedroom... or in this case, a small room in the back of my office.

The ultimate failure of “Do It Yourself” is that it so rarely becomes “Do It Ourselves.”

Digitone started in 2000 as a whim and became a lifestyle. There is no particular genre of music we corner other than what we know feels right. Our mission is to just release what we think is good regardless of genre or style. That is where the politics of the music business get messy. The problem with maintaining a politicized presence is that your ideals can turn to rhetoric, and rhetoric is inherently limiting and disempowering. And though Digitone seeks to encourage radicalism as an ideal, the musical output emphasizes aesthetics and innovation over any specific stance or message. Digitone and its bands comprise, not a collective, but a community; and just as a community isn't limited to one voice, it shouldn't be limited to one language.

Digitone’s not going anywhere until it goes somewhere. Bands come and go. Ideals are refined, reworded, and resought. But the music and the passion is what carries on.

Gary Gaskin
Digitone Records

Richmond, VA

Soap will be performing at this years 10,000 Lakes Festival.

Soap will be performing at this years 10,000 Lakes Festival. The 4th Annual 10,000 Lakes Festival (10KLF) takes place Wednesday, July 19th through Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 at the scenic Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

10KLF features performances by Phil Lesh & Friends, Trey Anastasio, String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, O.A.R. (Of A Revolution), The Benevento/Russo Duo featuring Mike Gordon, Umphrey's McGee and many more. http://www.10klf.com

More news to come, thank you for your support.

Soap (The Band)
www.soaptheband.com
www.digitonerecords.com

Soap & The 10,000 Lakes Cosmic Break Tour

Soap has been chosen to perform at The 10,000 Lakes Cosmic Break Tour in Champaign, IL at the Canopy Club on Tuesday April 18th. Please come out to the event and show your support Tuesday April 18th at 9pm. The winner of the evening goes on to perform at this years 10,000 Lakes Festival.

For more information please visit http://www.cosmicbreaktour.com or contact us at soap@digitonerecords.com


Canopy Club
708 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-2263

Soap (The Band) To Release New CD - Lather

Richmond, VA - Digitone Records announces today the release of Soap’s new CD “Lather” which will be in stores March 21st. Gary Gaskin A&R for Soap made the announcement.

“Lather” is Soap’s second full length CD release. Offering eleven dynamic songs, it is a truly inspired blend by one of today's most gifted bands. “Lather” is a unique album that values the unknown areas of improvisation as much as the construction of towering compositions. On “Lather,” listeners are treated to lush, polyrhythmic tones that crackle with the brainy togetherness of jazz and the freewheeling attitude of rock. With hints of funk and fusion, Soap’s sound takes on a life of its own. Guitar solos are alternately ferocious and restrained, keyboards break the surface of the music and plunge back into its depths, and the drums and bass provide a constant backdrop of eclectic rhythm.

The CD was recorded at Apocalypse Cow, in Montgomery, IL, and mixed and mastered by Bill McElroy at Slipped Disc in Ashland, VA. Three singles “Out of Luck”, “Penguin”, and “Miles Dankis” from “Lather” will be released nationally for radio airplay March 24, 2006.

Soap will promote “Lather” with a 42 date summer tour starting May 26th and continuing through the summer with a final show at Tompkins Square Park in New York City August 20th.

For more information or to review a promotional copy of “Lather,” please contact:

Gary Gaskin
Digitone Records
(800) 595-4937
g@digitonerecords.com

Soap Web
www.soaptheband.com

Soap Fan Site
www.soapfans.org

Digitone Records
www.digitonerecords.com

2006 Release Schedule (So Far)

Albums

Soap - "Lather" (DR14) March 21st, 2006
Red Metric - "Resonance" (DR18) TBA, 2006
Guilty Method - "TBA" (DR17) TBA, 2006
The Strap-Ons - "Covered Ass 2" (DR16) April 25th, 2006

COMPILATIONS

Digitone Records - "So Far" (DR19) June 27th, 2006

SINGLES & EPS

Soap - "Penguin" (PROMOTIONAL - RADIO/MEDIA) March 10th, 2006
Soap - "Out of Luck" (PROMOTIONAL - RADIO/MEDIA) March 24th, 2006
Soap - "Miles Dankis" (PROMOTIONAL - RADIO/MEDIA) March 24th, 2006

Thank you, For Your Support
Digitone Records
P.O. Box 11284 Richmond, Virginia 23230
www.digitonerecords.com
800-595-4937