Killer Tofu: Local Label Father/Daughter Has Real Life Bands Cover Famous Fictional Songs

When press started rolling in for Father/Daughter's first Faux Real Compilation last Record Store Day, label founder Jessi Frick knew she was on to a good thing.

Record Store Day's arbitrary process for selecting exactly what albums get picked up as an official release is inconsistent and odd, but luckily, in 2014, Frick's label's project was accepted.

The idea was brilliant: get bands on the rise to cover a song of their choosing made famous by a television show or film, and then compile them onto a record. It's the perfect mesh of nostalgia and great music.

Last year, for example, Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis covered Josie and the Pussycats and SF band Cocktails put their own spin on a track from the 1983 film Eddie & the Cruisers. 

This year, however, things have changed. Record Store Day has become increasingly a vehicle for major labels to peddle music to an independently-minded audience, and indie labels, some of the very businesses RSD aimed to promote, are being turned away from inclusion.

So, despite the fact that Faux Real is one of the best compilation ideas to emerge recently from an indie label (and a local label at that), Record Store Day rejected the 2015 follow-up for being "not compelling enough", which, as Frick states, "is basically like someone dumping you but not telling you why."

Still, the album is being made, and they want to release it.

For more on Faux Real II, and to stream one of the new album's songs, head to Live 105.