Wake Up Mordecai

AUG. 22
Thank you, thank you to all of you who came out and made our second edition of Communivale a great day of friendship and pop songs. The music was great, the rainy forecast was wrong, and we met some new fans. If you want more, check out Wake Up Mordecai this Friday as they open up for The Wooden Birds (Barsuk Records) and Dan Mangan. The all-ages show is August 27 at South Park Tavern in Dayton.

AUG. 21
Happy Communivale. Even if it does rain, we'll still be pop rocking the day away. We'll just move the music from the beautiful shade under the tree to the woodshop barn. It will be cozy and punk rock. Today is the debut of Wake Up Mordecai as a four-piece. It sounded pretty good in practice.

JUL. 31
It's just three weeks until Communivale happens on Aug. 21. Wake Up Mordecai will be there and assuming practice goes well, this will be the debut of Wake Up Mordecai as a four-piece. Contact us if you want to join in on a great, friendly night of perfect pop songs.

Thanks to Sean for the mention of Wake Up Mordecai at Generation Music Online. Check them out for a lot of other free releases.

MAY 17
Thank you New York for being fine hosts to Wake Up Mordecai and Kris N.

MAY 12
We're on our way to New York. Wake Up Mordecai plays Thursday May 13 in Brooklyn. The details are here. See you there? To celebrate we are giving away an exclusive song from Wake Up Mordecai. Just sign up for the free Poptek Song Club and that and many other songs will be yours.

MAY 6
Click on our WPTK page tomorrow night (Fri. May 7) at 8PM EST to check out the newest addition to the Poptek family, L'Albatros, which includes the Wake Up Mordecai boys backing up their friend Christopher Palassis. The performance will be streaming live from the Poptek house. Kris N. then plays at 9PM EST.

New York is next week. We're getting excited to play some music and see the Sounders.

MAR. 30
Wake Up Mordecai are playing an all-ages weekday show this Thursday April 1 at South Park Tavern in Dayton. Yes it is a tavern and yes it is all-ages. For those of you who have Good Friday off this is practically a weekend show so come on out.

MAR. 18
More show details are in the Dates page. Wake Up Mordecai is playing a house show in Dayton on Saturday. If you want to come ask us how. In other news, it looks like Wake Up Mordecai may be doubling from a duo to a quartet.

MAR. 6
Wake Up Mordecai and Kris N. are going east on a May tour. Already confirmed is a show in Brooklyn. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. are potential destinations as well.

JAN. 30
We recently offered "Dignan", a long lost Wake Up Mordecai tune, as our Poptek Song Club "Song of the Month". If you want to pick up that song and many more sign up for the free monthly newsletter on our News page and it will be yours.

JAN. 26
Tune in to WPTK on Friday January 29 to watch Wake Up Mordecai, Kris N., and Jill Potter play live. The web broadcast starts at 7:30PM.

JAN. 19
Listen to Wake Up Mordecai play solo and in-studio at Bearcast Radio. Listen in at 10PM EST on Wednesday Jan. 20. Wake Up Mordecai also plays Jan. 29 for a show that will be video streamed online at WPTK.

JAN. 1
If you need anything more to do this New Year's weekend, Poptek presents another show in Dayton/ OH at the Dayton Dirt Collective. Wake Up Mordecai, the drummer from Enlou (Bear (The Ghost)) his friends from CO- Paean and Sour Boy Bitter Girl, and The Capital all play Sunday night Jan. 3. The show starts early at 7:30PM and is all-ages. Check out the Dates page for details.

DEC. 22
We are pleased that so many of our Poptek Recs were chosen by the Dayton Daily News as some of the best local albums to be released in 2009. We obviously agree. Wake Up Mordecai's Too Young for the Disco was ranked the #8 full-length. Yesterdays Forever by XL427 was the #1 EP. Kris N.'s Lo-Fi Movement even got a special mention but was left out of the rankings. Read the article for yourself at the Dayton Daily's web site.

DEC. 8
Wake Up Mordecai played on WPTK recently and you can re-watch it on our experimental video channel. The duo even played a new, yet-to-be-finished song.

NOV. 28
Tune in tonight as we run a little Poptek experiment on WPTK. Wake Up Mordecai will be playing live and video streaming online at 6:30 PM EST.

NOV. 12
Cute little Johnny C. is going through his annual writer's block. Some new songs are attempted to being written but sometimes nothing works. We hope and plan to stream some live shows soon on WPTK, even if they are just songs from Wake Up Mordecai's wonderful Too Young for the Disco. Stay tuned for that.

OCT. 7
Poptek presents another show at the Dayton Dirt Collective this Saturday October 10. Wake Up Mordecai, Enlou, and The Tiger and the Duke are playing as well as a rare U.S. appearance from Poptek's newest artist, Las Golondrinas, from Barcelona, Espana. These shows are all-ages.

The previously mentioned Buddha Den show has been cancelled.

SEP. 26
The Buddha Den presents Wake Up Mordecai, State School and others on Sunday October 18 at South Park Tavern. This venue is all-ages and features great pizza.

SEP. 19
Communivale was a perfect night.

SEP. 12
The new "Kris N. Song of the Week" is a celebration of all of you crazy, loyal, and ridiculous Wake Up Mordecai fans. "The Wake Up Mordecai Show" is free to download by clicking on the title.

SEP. 7
Wake Up Mordecai has jumped on the release party for The Tiger and the Duke. The show happens Saturday September 12 at the Dayton Dirt Collective. This will mark the second of three Saturdays in a row that the duo will share a show with the wonderful Matthew Shelton.

AUG. 13
If you missed Wake Up Mordecai playing in-studio on WYSO, the performance has been recorded and posted at WYSO.org Listen or re-listen to it and enjoy the memories. Thanks Juiet for having us on "Kaleidoscope". Click on WYSO to find the stream.

AUG. 7
Wake Up Mordecai will be playing live on your radio or over your internet connection on Wednesday August 12. The duo have been invited to play at WYSO by Juliet Fromholt. Juliet hosts the weekly radio show "Kaleidoscope". The show airs 8-11PM. We are not sure when Morti and Francis will play but we will find out. You can listen over the air at 91.3 FM if you live in Dayton/ OH. If not, listen to the stream at wyso.org. Talk will most certainly center on their show happening the following Saturday with a wonderful band called Enlou. Surely many of the songs from Too Young for the Disco will be heard as well.

JUL. 28
Wake Up Mordecai is playing a special solo set tomorrow at the Vandalia Public Library. it's something to do with "Teen Week" or a similarly-named event. The performance is free, all-ages and starts early at 3PM

JUL. 22
A bunch of new shows have been added or updated for Wake Up Mordecai. Check Dates for all the information.

JUL. 8
Wake Up Mordecai plays two shows this weekend. Friday happens as part of our "Poptek presents" showcase at the Dayton Dirt Collective. The duo also play Saturday in Cincinnati at Rohs St. Cafe. Check Dates for more info.

JUN. 23
The two latest releases from Poptek, Wake Up Mordecai's Too Young for the Disco and Lo-Fi Movement by Kris N. are now available from iTunes if that is your prefered way to buy music.

Also, the Wake Up Mordecai boys are touring around Germany. Unfortunately they aren't playing any shows, just visiting friends and family. If you want to keep up with the fun, follow along at Wake Up Mordecai's blog and at Poptek's Twitter.

JUN. 4
Wake Up Mordecai is playing a somewhat secretive house show/ cookout in Dayton on June 5 with a wonderful trio who goes by the name of State School. Email us if you want some info and we'll see what we can do.

MAY 29
The second album and first full-length from Wake Up Mordecai is out now. A great crowd witnessed the new songs played live during the record release show and now Too Young for the Disco is available in the Poptek Shop for everyone else. The disc + digital combo is just $5 while we are giving away the digital version for absolutely nothing. We are very proud of the childish melodies Johnny Callon has crafted and we hope everyone else will enjoy them as well.

MAY 25
We want to thank everyone who came out and made the Too Young for the Disco release party an absolute blast.

MAY 20
Fellow Poptek labelmates Kris N. and Wake Up Mordecai got together to chat about the new Wake Up Mordecai album. Kris runs the local music blog at daytondaily.com so read it here.

MAY 19
Too Young for the Disco, the new full-length from Wake Up Mordecai, releases on Saturday. The Buddha Den has posted a little preview of the show and album. We are also pleased to post two songs for you to preview. Feel free to download "Disco = Crack" and "Cowboys and Indians".

MAY 9
Wake Up Mordecai's second album and first full-length , Too Young for the Disco, is now done and has been sent off to the printer. The release show is set at the Dayton Dirt Collective for May 23 and will see XL427, Towhee, and Jesse Remnant and the Trainwrecks play as well. Here is the final track listing.

LOVEMACHINE5000, That's What She Said, xoxo, Kinky Girl Scout Cookies, Bach Called, Infinity x2, Cowboys and Indians, You're the Bomb(bay), Disco = Crack

Disco = Crack can be previewed over at the band's MySpace.

APR. 7
Morti and Francis recorded drum tracks for "Disco = Crack" and "Infinity x2" last Thursday. That means that all the drums are now finished for Too Young for the Disco. It is now Spring Break for Vandalia-Butler High School so Morti is going to take the time to record a big chunk of the bass lines and any unfinished guitar tracks. The album is getting close to completion which is very exciting.

MAR. 29
Here is the tentative tracklisting for the upcoming Wake Up Mordecai full-length, Too Young for the Disco, which comes out May 23.

LOVEMACHINE5000, That's What She Said, Kinky Girl Scout Cookies, Orange Soda, Dignan, Bach Called, xoxo, Infinity x2, Disco = Crack, You're the Bomb(bay), Cowboys and Indians

MAR. 8
Save the date. The second album from Wake Up Mordecai, Too Young for the Disco, will be ready and available at the Dayton record release party on May 23. The show will be at the Dayton Dirt Collective which is always all-ages. There will also be a release party in Springfield on a still-to-be-determined date. As always there will be more to come.

FEB. 23
Wake Up Mordecai is playing a quickly-put-together show in the wonderful town of Bloomington, Indiana this Sunday. Check out Poptek Live for information.

In other news, Francis and Morti re-recorded the drum tracks for "xoxo". It is much faster now and quite a sweet, danceable drum line. This song is sure to be a single from the next album. Really, every song is shaping up to be a good single and that is just the way Poptek likes things.

JAN. 29
We have updated the design of wakeupmordecai.com. You probably already knew that though.

JAN. 25
Wake Up Mordecai played a great show at Un Mundo last night. Thanks for everyone who drove all the way to Springfield. Pictures and video can be found at Morti's blog.

JAN. 16
The first bit of recording has taken place for Wake Up Mordecai's next album. Actually quite a bit of recording was finished in the first session. The album will be the first full-length for Wake Up Mordecai which usually means there will be ten songs. Drum tracks for six of them have been done. Oh, the title is going to be Too Young for the Disco. The songs include "Cowboys and Indians", "Kinky Girl Scout Cookies", "xoxo", "That's What She Said", "Orange Soda", "Dignan", "Bach Called" and a few more that need to be written or finished.

Morti has started a new blog. Go here to read his adolescent ramblings.

JAN. 2
Morti and Francis tossed around titles for the next Wake Up Mordecai album. The finalists are Brights, Pastels, and Neutrals or Too Young for the Disco.

JAN. 1
Poptek welcomes 2009 with some nice news. Dayton legend Don Thrasher selected North to the Nth Degree from Wake Up Mordecai as one of the top debuts to come out of Dayton in 2008. You can read his article in print or online from Active Dayton.

DEC. 24
Happy Christmas everyone. For those of you who are a part of the Poptek Song Club, we are giving away the digital versions of "Disco Santa" by Wake Up Mordecai, "I (Don't) Remember" from XL427, and Kris N.'s "Christmas Song". All were on the Scribbles Christmas '08 benefit compilation. Now all are digital exclusives for members of the Poptek SC. Sign up for free at Poptek News for past downloads, a monthly newsletter, and a free "Song of the Month".

DEC. 14
Wake Up Mordecai has recorded a Christmas song that will be on the Scribbles Christmas '08 benefit comp. The song is "Disco Santa". Scribbles is a coffee shop in Kent/ OH. The benefit is for women and children fleeing domestic abuse in Portage County.

SEP. 15
The debut from Wake Up Mordecai, North to the Nth Degree, is now available in the Poptek Shop as well as online from your favorite digital retailer. Those include iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster, LaLa, Last.fm, Sprint, Verizon, and many others. If you want to support Morti financially, go to the aforementioned or buy the physical copy from the Poptek Shop. We don't really care though so we are favoring generosity over business sense by giving away the digital album for absolutely nothing. Go to the Poptek Shop to download freely. We alo have posted three exclusive live tracks at Poptek Media. How can you resist some much love much less a hit like “Girls Don’t Ride in Viking Ships”?