Bay Area hardcore heavyweights Spy hit like a sledgehammer to the jaw. If you missed out on their early vinyl pressings or want the band's most crucial material in one place, Two Things At Once brings together SPY’s initial two standout EPs—2020’s Service Weapon and 2021’s Habitual Offender—compiled on a single CD format via To Live A Lie Records. Bursting onto the scene out of San Francisco during the pandemic era, Spy quickly established themselves as one of the most ferocious and uncompromising bands in modern hardcore. Blending dirty, mid-tempo groove with explosive power-slams and snotty, distorted vocals, this collection features 10 tracks of pure, unadulterated aggression. Key Release Details Catalog Number: TLAL295-2 Format: Compact Disc (Jewel Case) Content: Complete audio from both the Service Weapon and Habitual Offender EPs. Recommended For Fans Of: Gag, Gulch, Bib, Hoax, and raw, blown-out American hardcore. Tracklist Breakdown Service Weapon EP (Tracks 1–5) Violent Majority Running Out Of Space Bootlicker Service Weapon Afraid Of Everything Habitual Offender EP (Tracks 6–10) 6. Obtained Under Duress 7. Exceptional American 8. Habitual Offender 9. Labor Dispute 10. Negative Mind Power Order & Stream Don't sleep on grabbing physical copies for your collection or car CD player. Grab the CD on To Live A Lie Stream and buy digital on Bandcamp

Straggler (photo by Raul Sandoval) 2025 has sort of been a crazy year. I shipped a few orders for the first time internationally which seemed like a cool milestone (thanks Royal Mail). Getting to see a little bit of the world for the first time at 40 with my wife was amazing and I hope to explore Europe more again in the future. I've had to deal with some family medical things where I have had a few weeks out of town that have slowed down shipping if you happened to have ordered at that time. And I tried to book two shows and successfully only booked a single show but it was a full rager (see previous post with Dry Socket show flier, unfortunately the Assholeparade show didn't happen). What will be new in 2026? Not much, a few releases planned. Will, then why post this? Finally have a free moment. I upgraded my webstore which shouldn't be too obvious to anyone but figured out a bit of the templating to make my life easier. I still seem to have some hosting problems but I made a backup site in case I need to move away from my host - who is legitimately kind and has let me run on free or cheap hosting for years so that has been my hesitation. The site has been fully optimize which means I took all last weekend to delete 1800 old disabled long out of stock products and resized all images down to under 200kb for faster loading. Both processes should help hedge against the issues I have on new release days. What else is still the same? Still distribute amazing 625 Thrashcore releases. Amazing to work with Max and love that he still puts out releases and trusts me with retail. Our releases are still available from Independent Label Distribution who does a great job getting copies in mom and pop stores across the country and internationally. Ebullition is still helping getting records of ours to the DIY-sters of the world. Still trying to keep up the Bandcamp page and releases up on digital platforms (other than a lot being removed from Spotify). I want to hear more about you personally. Well I got married last year and I work a lot. I am a systems administrator at the university here and would love to talk nerd stuff with anyone interested. Also attended a few tech conference this year. I have tried out for a backup player of a local band who worships Man Is The Bastard but haven't had time to fully learn the songs but other than that I'm not actively playing music. I joined a D&D group with old friends from college and appreciate that other people can make it fun and creative as I am not bringing either of those to the table. This year I continued to be a heavy supporter of my local men's D2 soccer team but in a crazy turn of events the owner has basically paused the team for three years so I'm sad to see my favorite players at NCFC announce where they are headed to next. I'll become a strong NC Courage supporter in 2026. In 2025 I did manage to see Arsenal v. Bournemouth which was the sports event of a lifetime. Since the pandemic I've gotten more into PVP games and play a lot of Fortnite which includes reconnecting with members of the band Deathrats. Feel free to add me, I think my Epic name is fastcore and my PSN is willfastcore. In 2025 I watched a lot of movies, 150 per my Letterboxd (feel free to add me I'm fastcore on there, and don't judge me that I just watched Romper Stomper). I feel like post-pandemic life has been a lot more solitary. I spend a lot of time with my wife but I think a lot of social interactions have been cut down and not reformed. I honestly haven't had even a lot of time to interact online including the TLAL Discord channel. Okay nevermind, tell me about what is coming up on the label now. STRAGGLER - Without A Country 7" - Check their Bandcamp for older material, but the material we have coming out are three songs of modern hardcore with blastbeats akin to SPY worshipping HARM'S WAY. A bit more cleaned up compare to their previous releases. Bay Area represent. SPY - Service Weapon 7" 2026 repress - You absolutely know what this is and love it. The new pressing has a recut B-side which I only mention because we pressed so many that the plates just fell apart. This time we have smoke vinyl with silvery definitions on the printed material and center labels. DRY SOCKET / VIOLENCIA - split 7" 2026 repress - This things sold out in a week so we are making another 500. Most copies are on mixed vinyl with one special colorway for DS's overseas run SUPER SECRET 12" - This is a classic that I'll try to say just enough that maybe a few people will get it. But it was pressed to a 7" and it is two originals and a cover song. Remastered with new artwork. Bigger hint, if you have the EP you might have the country's flag colorway and be excited you have that. Those are the main things percolating here. Oh well wait there will be a Black Friday sale but most of you expect that, might be more generous this year however. Thank you all for all the support and stay tuned.

Hey all, It's been an insane 2022. We have been pushing releases through as fast as we can and obviously the Spy LP was a huge push to get into hands a few months back. It was a huge success and a second pressing has been queued up. We also did a run of promotional posters. The fourth press of Service Weapon has almost sold through and we are revving up to have a fifth press. A CD version of Habitual Offender is in hand and is great to listen to full blast in the car, plus its professionally replicated as TLAL doesn't do CD-R duplicated CDs (other than our old sampler CDs). We are also spooling up to do some shirts and banners for the band. The TLAL Discord is my favorite place to go and talk these days, please head over for some great conversations - https://discord.gg/bB3nEaCJ5t Peace Test LP flew off the shelves and into hands, as did the NoComply discog LP and the new Backslider full length LP. Also totally fresh and new in is the Nashgul / Teething - split LP which is an amazing 200 gram picture disc of these epic Brazilian grindcore bands. Hot on its heels is the almost sold out Obsolete Man - Glory Be To The Bomb CS. Not old but less fresh than the above two coming out in the last week are No Comply / They Live - split 5", Deliriant Nerve - Post Collapse Cannibal Fantasy CS, and Chulo - Global Grindcore Alliance Vol 2.0 2021 Live CS. The NxC/TL split is awesome pv, DN is new grindcore from some Needle members, and Chulo you know as a great fast hc from Brazil I don't think I've officially announced this anymore but TLAL is very excited to exclusively license the  Prayer For Cleansing - The Rain In Endless Fall LP from Tribunal Records. While metalcore is in my blood from growing up in Winston-Salem and going to shows at Pablo's/533 Uprisings, not a lot of the music comes through in the label. Here is my chance to do a high quality reissue of one of the bands that meant so much to me growing up. We have taken the original mix and had Nick Townsend do his amazing work to give the release the bigger sound it deserves. This one is being pressed in Belgium and is a long way off in the release timeline but be prepared because this one rips. Upcoming releases/status:TLAL137 - Hummingbird Of Death - Forbidden Techniques CD (freshly at the plant)TLAL135 - Crom - The Cocaine Wars LP (2022 Remaster) (freshly at the plant)TLAL216 - NoComply / Sidetracked - split 7" (waiting on covers)TLAL221 - Herida Profunda - Power To The People LP (in the mail from Europe)TLAL224 - Hummingbird Of Death - Full Spectrum Dominance LP (freshly at the plant)TLAL225 - Musket Hawk / Grin and Bear It / Sidetracked / Ugly - split LP (at the plant)TLAL232 - Earthdogs - Cry Now Cry Later 7" (almost in my hands)TLAL237 - Prayer For Cleansing - The Rain In Endless Fall LP (freshly at the plant) I went and saw the last Joy show in my hometown. Wish the best to them and still have a few of their LPs bumping around looking for homes. Lastly, I know I've been bad at posting here but it's been an insane and hectic 2022. Our friends who we distribute at 625 have a big release schedule in addition to ours including the Stockholm Syndrome - Death Watch LP, Suffering Mind - Lifeless LP, and a few others. Make sure to lurk Preorders/New Releases in the store for the freshest releases. Stay safe y'all. Oh one last thing, have one show on the docket in Raleigh at The Pour House . Tickets available here.

So I've left this blog in a bit of void but don't worry I'm back with lots of major news. The biggest news is the new Spy record preorders are up. The bad news is most of the colors sold out about instantly. The next big things is this beast dropped: And then last week these also dropped: Pre-orders can all be found here More big stuff planned for the end of 2021 possibly but more than likely 2022.