Foreign Leisure

09/16/2025

We couldn't be more excited to finally announce the 20th anniversary vinyl edition of Troubled Hubble's Making Beds in a Burning House. Is it a lost classic? It's certainly a classic. Originally released on Lookout Records in 2005, it's been out of print since (and only getting better). The Foreign Leisure edition offers a beautiful gatefold sleeve, complete lyrics, new liner notes by Jim Hanke, and beautiful "house on fire" colored vinyl. Limited to 500 copies. Pre-order now. Oh, and if you're in Milwaukee, come see the first Troubled Hubble show in the city in two decades, this Saturday 9/20 at Bay View Bash. Pre-order now at
troubledhubble.bandcamp.com

08/01/2025

It's Bandcamp Friday, which means that more of what you spend on records goes right to the artists and lil' labels. So it's a perfect day to buy The Hallelujah Ward's Everybody Swoons, which offers emotionally resonant echoes of The Cure and The Wedding Present and/or the second pressing of Clem Snide's deliriously great Oh Smokey, both on random-colored vinyl. Links for each are below! And the next Foreign Leisure title will be announced soon, so stay tuuuuuuned.

https://thehallelujahward.bandcamp.com/album/everybody-swoons

https://clem-snide.bandcamp.com/album/oh-smokey

05/30/2025

Happy release day, Everybody Swoons by The Hallelujah Ward Head to thehallelujahward.bandcamp.com or foreignleisure.com to buy!

11/29/2024

On the beach outside Foreign Leisure HQ a few things washed ashore. There's a few Maritime "Glass Floor" original pressings, five more limited "Glass Floor" sleeves, a few Vermont "Living Together" records, the re-issued Vermont "Calling Albany" record, AND the Clem Snide "Oh Smokey" record we released earlier this year. All of these are available now for your purchasing needs. www.foreignleisure.com/shop

10/04/2024

Attention Midwestern people: Your friend and mine, Eef Barzelay aka Clem Snide, is playing some shows in your midst this weekend. Chicago (Forest Park, technically) tonight, then Madison, then Minneapolis, then Oshkosh. Dates at clemsni.de. And today is Bandcamp Friday (again!), which is an ideal time to buy his new record, Oh Smokey, on vinyl. www.clem-snide.bandcamp.com

8 track album

09/27/2024

The vinyl version of this fantastic new Clem Snide record is officially out in the world today courtesy of Foreign Leisure, the barely existent record label run by me and Daniel J Didier. Order yours today.

8 track album

09/06/2024

Bandcamp Friday is the perfect day to preorder the new Clem Snide record, out soon on Foreign Leisure and pressed by Smashed Plastic Record Pressing.

8 track album

08/24/2024

Hey friends, perhaps you know or perhaps you don't that Mr. Dan Didier and I operate a micro-indie label called Foreign Leisure, releasing limited runs of records we love once every few years. We're psyched to be releasing the vinyl version of an excellent new Clem Snide full-length in about a month, which you can pre-order at clem-snide.bandcamp.com. Only 500 hand-numbered copies, manufactured by the fine folks at Smashed Plastic Record Pressing on a sultry, smoky grey-ish vinyl. All songs were made by Eef Barzelay with the multi-talented Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman and other fine projects. Reserve yours TODAY.