Baggage Claim Records

09/21/2024

I think you're gonna like our latest release.

09/19/2024

Hey Folks! If you're local, kinda local, or just passing through Sacramento, you can pick up a copy of the Compatible Osmotica compilation from the fine folks at Kicksville Vinyl & Vintage and Phono Select Records. Support your local record stores, they'll be happy you did.

08/13/2024

I'm happy to announce that the fourth Baggage Claim Records release, "Compatible Osmotica", has finally hit the streets. This compilation of noise, drone, experimental, left-field WTF sounds wouldn't have happened without the contributions of the artists (ralph haxton large ensemble, No Friends Band, Rod Meyer, Sky Blue Lodge, Damn The Deer, and Kettleman City Unemployed) and a few friends who helped with production. If you'd like to purchase a copy of the LP, please contact me at: baggageclaimrecords [AT] gmail [DOT] com. More information to follow in the days/weeks ahead.

11/15/2023

The tracks for the Compatible Osmotica LP are off being mastered. We're one step closer.

02/18/2023

Baggage Claim Records... not dead, just resting. Depending on the backlog at the pressing plants, the Compatible Osmotica LP should come out before the next presidential election. Still available are great LPs by Swimming In Bengal, Invasive Species, and No Friends Band.

10/03/2022

No Friends Band - Destitution Gardens (No Sides Records) 2022
I'm happy as a clam that Kevin Cascell aided and abetted his own tape archive to produce 13 more tracks of NFB goodness _and_ No Sides Records had the good taste to release these beauties as a 3" CD. Kevin's handful of keyboard explorations herein expose his love for the mighty Sun Ra and he once again shares his take on working man blues for those listening with a bent ear. Kevin adds a clarinet to his quiver to be as free as he wants to be. I'll include a copy of this CD with the next three orders of the "To All My Friends" LP on Baggage Claim. $25 post paid. DM me here or send an email to baggageclaimrecords at gmail dot com for more details.

06/30/2022

Hey Sacramento and Bay Area Folks - Just wanna let you know that a very talented group of improvisors will be gathering a week from tomorrow at the Cafe Colonial to blow the roof off the place. See you there.

09/26/2021

Hey Folks - Happy Fall! I hope y'all are doing well. We're still selling records over here. Like the ad says, $20 each postpaid. If you order more than one LP, I'll make it worth your while. You say: "Yeah, but what does this stuff sound like?" I'm glad you asked. Gimme a holler at: [email protected]
https://nofriendsband.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR13_k6TdyXMkNRWdUlbhD0yjOA05mFUbr-ZV5xgvL4aBzqU4Pg2zb8iDX8
https://invasivespeciesduo.bandcamp.com/album/adapter
https://sanskazakgascarsolo.bandcamp.com/album/garden-of-idle-hands

07/15/2021

Yes, we're still here and still have some wonderful records for sale! Thank you for your support! - The Baggage Crew

06/05/2021

While you're waiting for your pizza to arrive, might I suggest enjoying this No Friends Band tune.

I might live a thousand years before I know what this means

05/04/2021

Yellow Green Red (http://www.yellowgreenred.com/) just posted a nice review of the No Friends Band LP.

"For a full-length collection of four-track recordings recorded over the course of nine years, To All My Friends, by the winkingly-named No Friends Band, sounds surprisingly cohesive! I suppose if you’re playing rowdy garage and noisy indie-rock, the chance of it all swirling together is somewhat high, as is the case with this, the solo project of one Kevin Cascell. He played in Trumans Water, and No Friends Band shares a similarly scrappy and underrated sound, picking up those dusty rock riffs off the floor and beating them like a carpet. I’m reminded pretty strongly of Brother JT’s work with The Original Sins, though not as strictly tethered to a garage structure… maybe throw a little of Sonic Youth’s discordant moves and Times New Viking’s dirty hooks into the picture. Cascell covers Dead Moon and Pere Ubu here (as well as… Bob Dylan?), which not only works with the style of his No Friends Band originals, it also acts as a reasonable guide for Cascell’s sonic reference points. Not sure if he’s anti-band or simply can’t find three other people to play music with, but considering the above-average quality of To All My Friends and the numerous lesser groups comprised of multiple people, some aspect of our society is deeply flawed."

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