Local buzz-label Bladen County Records holds its MFNW showcase tonight at RonToms, featuring 12 of the label’s bands and spanning three separate stages. Kicking off at 5 pm, the evening will also feature various vendor booths from a bevy of Portland’s finest record labels, designers, photographers, and chefs. The bill, topped by hometown favs Oh Captain, My Captain (for whom the showcase will also serve as release party for their new CD Recklessly She Split the Sea), includes a couple of recent North Carolina additions to the roster: Wilmington’s the Love Language and freshly-reunited indie-popsters the Mommyheads, who also celebrate their record release this weekend.

Meanwhile, after the showcase be sure to head over to Berbati’s Pan where that other Bladen Co. PDX cornerstone and 2008 BNB champion the Builders and the Butchers plays its own MFNW show tonight, going onstage at 1 am.

And in other Bladen Co. news, the label has announced plans to launch an inhouse media wing under the moniker Bladen County Media, while the next year will see distribution expand with both the coming inauguration of Bladen County Distro and arrangements made recently to work with indie online distributors IODA—known ’round here as the dudes who scored Blind Pilot the iTunes “free download of the week” spotlight.

Oh Captain, My Captain

Links:
Bladen County Records
Oh Captain, My Captain

Photos courtesy of Bladen County Records