Uvu-News

Ritt Deitz' Upstream Now Available


Jon Hain - News

Ritt Deitz releases his fifth full-length CD of original and traditional songs, Upstream, on Uvulittle Records. Ritt spent the winter in the studio with longtime collaborators bassist Joe Meisel and guitarist / dobro player Craig Totten, sons Wilder (piano, percussion) and Mitch (percussion) and hammered dulcimer player Dave Foss. Singer-songwriter Sara Pace guests on backing vocals on four songs, including a lovely duet version of the Southern gospel standard "Wayfaring Stranger." Ritt's neighbor Andy Ewen, frontman of the Madison... [read more]

Jim Schwall solo CD now available


Jon Hain - News

We just got the new Jim Schwall CDs back from the printer so they are now available. You can pick one up here or from Jim at any of his upcoming shows. The Madison release party will be at Mother Fool's on Nov. 10.

Jim Schwall's 2007 CD "Getting Old" features Jim performing solo, singing and playing acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars, recorded live in venues in or near Madison WI. There is one traditional song, one song of unknown origin and three songs by... [read more]

2 New CDs !!


Jon Hain - News

This is turning out to be a busy spring. We've got brand new releases by MiLkBabY and Stephanie Rearick. Both are great recordings that show off two artists in their prime.

Both are doing shows to promote their new releases and will be touring later in the year.

Democracy, Rearick's fourth solo CD, is dark piano-driven experimental pop music. It is her most political work to date -- fiercely critical while shining rays of hope into the rubble of 21st century scorched-earth politics. Democracy was recorded and produced by... [read more]

Uvulittle artists and friends nominated for music awards!


Jon Hain - News

Once again, Uvulittle is well represented in the nominations for the Madison Area Music Awards.
Ritt Deitz is up for 2 awards - Folk/Americana album of the year for After The Mountains and Folk/Americana artist of the year for himself.
db pedersen is nominated for Unique album of the year for Carrot, Carrot!
Sunshine For The Blind is nominated for Rock song of the year for "See the River Rise" and "No More Suffering " from See the River Rise and Rock artist of the year for themselves.

The awards ceremony will be... [read more]

New Ritt Deitz CD, Collected (1999-2000) now available


Jon Hain - News

Collected (1999-2000) Ritt Deitz' newest release is now available. We're excited about this collection of favorites from Ritt's first 2 CDs.
Since STAY is now out of print and HILLBILLY will soon be, Ritt has put together a collection of favorites from his first 2 albums for Uvulittle Records. Included is a new single, "Shake," on which Deitz plays all the instruments.

In addition to Deitz on acoustic guitar and vocals, a wide cast of players including Steve Burke, Joe... [read more]

Music Videos and Live performance videos


Jon Hain - News

Uvulittle is pleased to announce the existence of a Uvulittle Gallery at YouTube.com. We are posting video by our artists and by artists that we carry in our catalog. So far we've uploaded stuff by The Coma Savants, Stephanie Rearick and Rearick & the ManSisters. We've added stuff by MiLkBabY, NoahJohn, Josh Cole, Katie Todd, Rose Polenzani and others as we find them..Uvulittle at Youtube

Rearick debuts new band, The ManSisters


Jon Hain - News

Stephanie Rearick debuted her new band, Rearick & the ManSisters (myspace) at The 36th annual Great Midwest Harvest Fest at Library Mall on the UW Campus in Madison, WI.

The band is made up of the original members of The Your Mom, Stephanie Rearick, Jon Hain, Justin Berens and David Fawcet. In this version of Rearick Inc., David is playing electronic drums.

From their... [read more]

Uvulittle Podcast Featured at Podcast Lounge!


Jon Hain - News

We are quite excited to have the Uvulittle Records Podcast Broadcast featured at The Podcast Lounge. They highlight three podcasts per week with an interview of the host. In our case, that is label chief Jon Hain. Read what he had to say about podcasting, music, etc at the Podcast Lounge.