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anyone know anything about it? I feel like there are a decent amount of arts/design people in the area that I follow/interact with here so hopefully this won’t be too tough. I know that this stuff is around but I don’t really have any leads to follow.

I’m working on making some fancy tapes of some music I made this past year (with this kickstarter thing) and originally I was going to get the inserts printed by the same company that’s going to be dubbing the tapes, but I’ve heard some iffy things about the quality of their printing and the type of paper that they use (heard nothing but great things about their tapes though!). I’d like them to be as nice as possible (and after making two albums with handmade artwork, I’d like to try my hand at doing it a bit differently), so I’m thinking I’d like to do the artwork separately and focus on making it look and feel as good as possible. an opportunity to support local business is cool too.

so basically does anyone know about printing in rochester, and where might be a good place to get somewhere between 50 and 100 cassette inserts printed? places with friendly people are a plus. or any other helpful information is great too.

I still won’t be getting the stuff printed for at least another month or two (plus I have to actually make the artwork first) (and also raise the dough) but any information I can get together on this stuff to help get it done later would be awesome. thanks!!

SO, I’m currently a student at University of Rochester, and I’m pretty heavily involved at the school radio station. A few weeks ago I was talking with some of my friends from the station and we realized that a lot of us made our own music and wanted to work on finding a way to share the stuff we make with other people from the station and the campus community in general but without exactly being tied to the school (which already has its own concerts and activities board which apparently for some reason has held a grudge against WRUR for a few years).

Basically we want to start hosting dingy house shows where we can hang out, play for each other, get filthy, etc., which is kind of a hard thing to find/introduce at a fancy private school with little to no support or enthusiasm for that sort of thing coming from the student body, at least in any easily discernible way. And maybe eventually we could turn it into a regular series of things and start bringing in outside bands from elsewhere in the area or even from outside of Rochester. Basically I guess I’m just trying to copy what my sister did when she was in college?

We have a handful of people from the station who will be living off campus next year and have said they’d be willing to host shows and stuff, but what I want to know, people of western NY, is a) are there resources available for trying to put this sort of network or whatever you want to call it together? b) are there already organizations in Rochester putting on house shows and things? c) if so, are there people out there for us to get in touch with if we want to maybe try and contribute/become part of whatever house show culture there might already be in Rochester?

Any advice or anything else that might help would be greatly appreciated, and if you want to get in touch with me you can either put stuff in my ask box or whatever or you can email me, blovell “at” u.rochester.edu is the address. Thanks!