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HUGGY BEAR ARTWORK + TEST PRESSING FUNDRAISER

Hi if you donate £5 ($6.75) or more to The Sameer Project and forward the receipt to hello@jabsjabsjabs.com you will be entered into a raffle to win Chris Rowley’s original artwork for the front and back cover of Huggy Bear’s ‘Basic Strategies for Going Out’ along with the test pressing for the record. There are only 10 (ten!) copies of the test pressing in the world, most of which belong to the band members. Raffle ends on March 5, 2026, please send your receipt before that date. 

The Sameer Project is a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza and every donation is a very good way to directly help suffering people.

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HUGGY BEAR – BASIC STRATEGIES FOR GOING OUT

hi friends—

Huggy Bear’s  Killed (of Kids) came out one year ago today so it feels like the best day to announce that the next record on JABS will be a 10″ with both of Huggy Bear’s Peel Sessions. I looked back through emails and we started working on this in 2022 (!), really happy that it’s almost a real thing in the world, finally. The record doesn’t come out until February 2026 but you can preorder it now HERE. There is a version on blue vinyl that is available directly from JABS. The colored vinyl version is limited to 200 copies, you can order it HERE. You can hear one track off the record on the JABS bandcamp page HERE.

Wholesale copies are available for stores and distros! Please email hello @ jabsjabsjabs.com to coordinate!

Press inquires can be directed to Ben Parrish / Jamboree MGMT: ben@jamboreemgmt.com

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thank you!

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PETTY CRIME – BRIGHTON, UK, 1999

Now! Brighton, UK, 1999 is the way to hear Petty Crime’s final recording session on a 7” EP. The 1998 Petty Crime 7” on Slampt is one of my all time favorite records: sharp, breathless, petulant. I love the lyrics, I love the prickliness of the guitar, I love the melodies of the bass, I love the tautness of the whole thing. I wish they made ten more singles! A hundred more! I said this often enough to band members Layla and Helen that they finally found the tape of their final recording session, three songs made in a bedroom shortly after Helen’s 1999 return to the UK following a year in Portland. Helen said that the songs draw on her experience in the very-short lived Portland band Modessa (JABS 06 did you buy it??), and I hear that tightrope strung between deliberateness and wildness. I also hear a bit of those Huggy Bear demos in here, particularly in the cardboard box/phone book percussion. Most of all I hear one of the great bands of my lifetime making three strange, unpredictable, urgent punk songs and I am SO EXCITED

Co-released by JABS and Raw Sugar Records
Click HERE to learn more and to buy !

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KILLED (OF KIDS) PHILADELPHIA BOOKLAUNCH

HUGGY BEAR – KILLED (OF KIDS)

Philadelphia booklaunch

Screening/discussion/performance by Clear Channel (DC)

Sunday, January 26/Doors at 6 PM
at God’s Auto Body, 5522 Baltimore Avenue
$10 – $15, NOTAFLOF
all ages

A benefit for Philly mutual aid collectives

This is a covid conscious masked event – masks will be provided & available for free at the venue & air filters will be running. Let’s keep each other safe!

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Killed (of Kids) Rochester NY launch

HUGGY BEAR – KILLED (OF KIDS) BOOKLAUNCH

Friday, December 13 / 7 PM / FREE

at Hipocampo Books, Rochester NY

with a screening and a reading by Ethan Swan, editor of Killed (of Kids)

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Killed (of Kids) Toronto booklaunch

HUGGY BEAR – KILLED (OF KIDS) BOOKLAUNCH

Tuesday, December 3 / 7 PM / FREE

at Emissions Records, Toronto

With a screening and a discussion with Ethan Swan, editor of Killed (of Kids)

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Killed (of Kids) Portland booklaunch

HUGGY BEAR: KILLED (OF KIDS) BOOKLAUNCH

Saturday, November 30 / 6 PM / FREE

at Super-Electric Records in Portland, Oregon

With screenings, snacks, and music selection by DJ Dog Daze