Bankrupt Track on Cleopatra Records Punk Rock Christmas Compilation

We are proud to announce that a new Bankrupt track will be featured on a punk rock allstar Christmas compilation to be released on LA cult label Cleopatra Records on 30 Oct. We’ll be in the illustrious company of Iggy Pop, The Vibrators, UK Subs, Reel Big Fish, Slaughter and the Dogs, Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Suicide Machines, The Members, Unwritten Law, Smash Mouth, and other great bands. Our track is a revved up punk cover of Cheap Trick’s biggest hit.
Here’s the cover and the track list:

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Rewound available on CD as well

As we promised, we’ve made a limited amount of Rewound CDs for all those oldschool guys out there that still buy CDs.
It can be ordered from our webshop for 2 euros (plus postage), but if you haven’t got our earlier releases yet, you should first check out our action packs, which now contain the Rewound CD as a bonus. We have a 3-CD pack with the last 3 CDs for 3 euros, a 4-CD pack with the last 4 CDs for 8 euros, and a 6-CD pack with all our CDs for 14 euros. We also have an action pack that includes a T-shirt, the last 3 CDs, a button and some stickers for 8 euros.

Death of the promo CD

The evolution of music formats has made CDs obsolete. One of the main reasons bands are still releasing CDs is that they need it for promotion. And that’s because the majority of reviewers and promoters still don’t accept submissions in digital format. Bandwidth is no longer a problem, you can download even albums encoded in high resolution formats within seconds. Sure, they don’t want to receive huge attachments in e-mail, but there’s the likes of yousendit.com as a solution for sending large files, or even slicker options, like the download code functionality on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, a service developed exactly for this purpose. Continue reading