Cheersquad Records & Tapes

Scene News: Spanish pub-rock/punk/country/gospel/soul luminaries Los Chicos announce Australian tour and new album

September 17, 2024 Scene News

Genre-hopping Spanish pub-rock/garage-punk/country/gospel/soul luminaries LOS CHICOS are set to tour their home away from home, Australia, for the SEVENTH time this November! To coincide with the tour, they will be releasing their EIGHTH album, Never Is Too […]

Scene News: Japan’s Blues Punks THE KING BROTHERS release Oz tour LP!

August 27, 2024 Scene News

With Japan’s Iconic Blues Punk band KING BROTHERS set to return to Australia in less than two weeks, Cheersquad Records & Tapes have today released a Limited Edition twelve-song Australian Tour LP entitled “HELL OH! […]

Scene News: Ahead of this year’s Melbourne Guitar Show, NICK CHARLES Shares his Fave SIX Guitars

March 2, 2023 Mary Boukouvalas

SIX FAVE GUITARS WITH NICK CHARLES The most recent guitar that Maton has made for me has most of the features that I’ve longed for and investigated over the years. So, for starters it’s essentially […]

Scene News: Ahead of this year’s Melbourne Guitar Show, JOYCE PRESCHER Shares her Fave Guitarists

March 1, 2023 Scene News

I guess I focus mostly on songs as a whole and where the voice, words and melody take me. It’s rare that I focus on a single instrument. But I do love it when there’s […]

Scene News: Tim Rogers Joins Hard-Ons Shock!! First Photo!

August 5, 2021 Scene News

Iconic Aus Rock dandy joins favourite band from his teenage years! Ageless Sydney punk-rock heroes solve their lead singer problem by handing long-time fan-boy the mic! Could it really mean…?! YES, TIM ROGERS HAS JOINED […]

Scene News: CHRIS WILSON’S Landmark “LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL” Album To Be Expanded, and Released On Vinyl, For The First Time Ever!

December 21, 2020 Scene News

Melbourne’s Cheersquad Records & Tapes are extremely proud & very excited to announce the long-deserved re-release – and first-ever vinyl release – of the classic Chris Wilson live album, Live At the Continental. Originally recorded and […]

Star Scene: Wally Kempton ~ EVEN, The MEANIES, Cheersquad Records & Tapes

August 28, 2020 Mary Boukouvalas

CHEERSQUAD RECORDS & TAPES turns 2! Wally “Meanie” Kempton took the plunge in 2018 and launched his brand-new record label Cheersquad Records & Tapes. Since then Cheersquad Records & Tapes has released new material from acts […]

Scene News: Pressing Plant Lockdown for Cheersquad Records & Tapes

August 21, 2020 Scene News

Cheersquad Records & Tapes products received news that their manufacturer’s pressing plant had to go in to lockdown. The fine folk at Cheersquad sent out the following email today: Although the pressing plant was initially […]

Scene News: The Meanies announce new record ‘Desperate Measures’, share single and video for Cruel To Be Caned

June 10, 2020 Scene News

Surprise! Australia’s momentous punk-rock heavyweights The Meanies have today lifted the lid on details of their forthcoming record, Desperate Measures, while also sharing ‘Cruel To Be Caned’, the lead single from the new album. Desperate Measures, slated for release in July 2020 via Cheersquad […]