Legendary Seattle label Sub Pop turned 30 this August! For three decades it served as a home not only to grunge heavyweights like Nirvana and Soundgarden, but also to a slew of well respected (if lesser-known) and diverse acts like Earth, Godheadsilo, Clipping and Wolf Eyes. We asked we our readers to share their…
Three Lobed Recordings, one of our favorite labels, is celebrating 18 years of activity and they offer plenty of gifts to the supporters! Right now you can use "ufos_are_real" code to get 15% off of anything on their Bandcamp page and in September TLR is running a Day Party in Raleigh, NC featuring Grouper, Daniel Bachman…
In the days when Drake rules music landscape/Spotify we would like to turn our attention elsewhere - namely, smaller/indie record labels. Recently, we asked Community Radio Tapes (Colorado), WarHen Records (Virginia) and Blue Tapes (UK) to talk to us about challenges they face, their views on streaming services and more. Community Radio Tapes Recent…
It would be an understatement to say that I Heart Noise gets a lot of submissions / inquiries about our namesake label. While we can't possibly review or put every single record we like (though we wish), we did decided that it would be ideal to have sub-division of IHN that would focus on releases…
And we just lost another one...talking about Brooklyn label Root Strata, a quiet but intense presence on the experimental scene, that shut its doors after more than a decade of activity. Formed by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma and Maxwell August Croy in 2005, the label was responsible for putting out material by both its founders and countless…
A couple of years ago we were introduced to UK label Happy Robots through a series of mixes by their artists - its time to revisit those and see what robopop family was up to lately! Rodney Cromwell Mix Featuring: Cavern of Anti-Matter, The Leaf Library, Let's Eat Grandma, Innerspace Orchestra Twitter | Bandcamp…
