Columbus Discount Turns 4

Let’s cut straight to the chase: Columbus Discount Records owns Columbus, most of Ohio and a good portion of the Midwest. In four lightning-fast years, Adam and BJ and Josh – we all know them on a first-name basis now, right? – have become our region’s most notable independent producer of underground punk/rock. This past year has been their most successful to date, beginning with a trip down to SXSW and continuing with a batch of seven-inch releases nearly selling-out before their release dates. Now, with a new, gigantic recording studio in Olde Town East set to open next month, along with a steady schedule of releases set for the Fall and Spring ’08 (including CDR’s first non-Columbus act!), Columbus Discount seem determined for world-domination with colored vinyl as their weapon.

This weekend, in what is quickly becoming a late-Summer tradition here in Columbus, CDR will be throwing themselves a birthday bash of epicly drunken proportions. At Carabar Friday night you have the return of long-time Mike Rep collaborator Tommy Jay, whose Tall Tales of Trauma album will be lovingly reissued by CDR this Fall. Later in the night you can catch one of Columbus’ most unpredictable groups, Deathly Fighter, who’ve recently spent a weekend recording at the original CDR facility.

Saturday brings us back to Columbus Discount’s home turf of Washington Beach with a cookout in the afternoon at the CDR homestead (everyone’s invited, seriously) and a strong batch of Columbus mainstays to play at Bourbon St., capped off with a one-two throw-down of the constantly marginalized Unholy 2 and psychedelic-noni supergroup El Jesus de Magico. Both shows and the cookout, along with any black eyes and scraped knees, are FREE. Play safe.