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The label has also recently announced they'll be reissuing I Will Be My Own Hell Because There's a Devil Inside My Body, the debut album from Teen Suicide, the occasionally active Baltimore band fronted by Sam Ray, who also records as Ricky Eat Acid and operates in the same tight-knit, vaguely internet-centric community as Elvis Depressedly. "Mat and I had the same goals and the same ideals when it comes to how a record label should work." "It's very rare that something is sent to us out of the blue where I'm just like, wow, this is amazing," Casazza says, "and that's how I felt about the Elvis record." While our GEN F profile about Elvis Depressedly from last summer suggested New Alhambra would be released by Orchid Tapes-a boutique bedroom label with a lot of heart that Foxes in Fiction's Warren Hildebrand and visual artist Brian Vu run out of their apartment-Casazza says that the band's deal with Run For Cover feels like a true win-win. One of the albums we're most excited about is New Alhambra, the long-awaited new full-length from FADER favorite Elvis Depressedly, the South Carolina band fronted by Mat Cothran aka Coma Cinema. Casazza says they've already got, like, 30 releases on the books (weirdly, none of them are by Boston bands). There's some fresh 2015 buzz around Run For Cover. "I never wanted to be a 29-year-old guy putting out records for young kids," he says. While there will probably always be a built-in audience for emotional rock music about breakups, Casazza seems pretty hell-bent on making sure the definition of a "Run For Cover artist" keeps expanding. "I don't think a lot of people realize I was an 19-year-old kid putting out those records," he says, speaking over the phone from Run For Cover's office in Boston, which now houses seven full-time employees and a revolving cast of interns. The label has issued heaps of music in the years since, including some taste-making releases by a bunch of rising stars in the pop-punk, hardcore, and emo spheres they pressed the first 7-inch by everywhere-right-now punks Title Fight, for one. The Massachusetts label has been putting out rock records for more than a decade, ever since labelhead Jeff Casazza started packaging hardcore singles inside his downtown Boston dorm room.