It is with great excitement that I share with you the news that Jr. Juggernaut is the latest to join the Suburban Home family. I proudly use the word family as Jr. Juggernaut have had close ties with many of our bands and it is just makes sense that their debut album will find its release on Suburban Home. I first found out about the band from Jeff Caudill, a great singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles that I have been talking to about possibly doing a record on Suburban Home. He mentioned Jr. Juggernaut as they share a bass player and when mentioning them, he said that I should check them out as he was sure I would dig them.
The next thing that happened shows how truly small this world is. Wal Rashidi, Jr. Juggernaut’s drummer, sent me a promo pack just days after talking to Jeff. I have known Wal since the 1998 as he played in this killer pop-punk band called Co-Ed. Wal is also one of the greatest rock journalists I know and I am not just saying that because he has given more than a couple Suburban Home releases favorable reviews. Wal is one of the good guys and whenever we spoke in the past, it was uncanny how close we were in musical taste. It was not surprising that I was absolutely blown away by the disc he sent me. The songs had the perfect balance between rock and country and I found myself listening to the CD about a hundred times.
I called Wal and we talked about the band. He described the band as the perfect middle ground between Two Cow Garage and Armchair Martian who they play with every time the bands come to Southern California. We discussed doing a record and I explained that we are just this really small label with very limited resources and that although music sales are not really happening these days, I was having more fun now putting out some of my favorite records. Whatever I said worked as Wal and the rest of Jr Juggernaut were into doing a record.
Please stop by their myspace page, check out the songs, and prepare yourself for their debut album, Ghost Poison, which should see light of day around March/April 2008.
I am stoked! And if you dig some of our bands like Drag the River, Two Cow Garage, and Armchair Martian, you will dig what these guys do.
