Recap: Mixes for Others
Some great news from our friends at Front & Follow – they’re going to play our guest mix as part of the Gated Canal Community radio show on Sunday 30th! …
Unspooling the Thread: Roky Erickson Playlist
Erickson’s 1960s band, the 13th Floor Elevators, have been called the originators of psychedelic music. They were certainly the first to apply the word to disorientating, acid-warped rock, influencing the …
Unspooling the Thread: Scott Walker Playlist
Remembering singer/songwriter Scott Walker (1943-2019) with a little help from our followers. What's your favorite Scott Walker song? — Billy Joel / France is Bacon / Bryan Eno (@Iheartnoise) March …
Stream new Skyjelly EP via Echoes and Dust
Boston’s Skyjelly are back with a brand spanking new EP. Having first come across our radar a couple of years ago with their album Gost, described elsewhere on these pages as …
Watch: 40 for 40s – Petridisch/Cryostasium
Beautiful, moody dark ambient music that conjures shadowy worlds with just a few layers of synth. Think about it – just one sentence, but a kind of sentence that captures …
Label News: Skyjelly, Petridisch, Bill Whitten / Grand Mal, Turkish Delight
In case you weren’t aware IHN is a label as well as a blog and we got a plethora of digital compilations and physical releases to offer! Not to boast, …
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Unspooling the Thread: Best Places to Start with Beefheart, Acid Mothers and Oren Ambarchi
Calling on collective power of our followers to help us get through the vast discographies! The artists in question this time are Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), Japanese psych-rock …
Recap: Report Cards for Burn My Letters + Bill Whitten Reflects on Johnny Thunders / NYC
As mentioned previously, we are completely sold out of Burn My Letters – first solo album by ex-St Johnny / Grand Mal mastermind Bill Whitten! Couldn’t have happened without people …
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If You Don’t Like Fascism… // Beginner’s Guide to Noise, Punk and Industrial
See also: Twitter Thread The dumping of Skullflower from the lineup of essential UK psych/noise fest Raw Power certainly seems to have kicked off a lot of social media threads, …
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Unspooling the Thread: Vinyl and Indie Record Labels
Its no secret that at this point vinyl production is an obscenely expensive and slow process. Yet, in spite of all the production/cost flaws vinyl also remains one of most …
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