Curb Appeal Records

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Curb Appeal Records

Founded	2006
Founder	Jim Suptic, Al Duffy, Enrique Chi, Alex Brahl
Genre	Alternative rock indie rock
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Official website	Curb Appeal Homepage

Curb Appeal Records is an American record label founded in Kansas City, Missouri by former The Get Up Kids guitarist and Blackpool Lights frontman Jim Suptic.

1 History
2 Current artists
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

In July of 2005, The Get Up Kids split up, leaving the members to pursue their own side-projects. This allowed guitarist Jim Suptic to devote his full attention to his new band Blackpool Lights, comprised of himself, as well as former members of Butterglory and The Creature Comforts. Rather than accepting an offer from Vagrant Records to sign the band, Suptic decided that he wanted to start over from scratch, and in doing so, created Curb Appeal Records. Suptic co-founded the label with Al Duffy, a Kansas City entrepreneur who had previously run a beer distributor, Enrique Chi, a publicist who had worked with Vedera and Reggie and the Full Effect, and Alex Brahl, who had previoiusly worked at Vagrant Records, in addition to having produced The Get Up Kids' second album, Something to Write Home About.^[1] In the summer of 2006, the label released their first album, Blackpool Lights' This Town's Disaster. Soon afterward they signed the band 8mm, and in September of that year released their second album Songs to Love and Die By.^[2]

In 2007, The New Amsterdams, fronted by Suptic's old bandmate Matt Pryor announced that they were leaving Vagrant, and that they would be releasing their next album At the Foot of My Rival on Elmar, a collaboration with Curb Appeal Records. ^[3]

On October 29, 2007 Curb Appeal announced they had signed The Last Almanac to the label, and would be releasing their new album A Memoir in 2008.^[4]