Jan Lankisch Interview | How Marshall Allen’s ‘New Dawn’ Came Together
There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real...
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Glenn Morrow: From Hoboken and The Individuals to Bar/None and Cry For Help
Glenn Morrow remembers a Hoboken where trash blew down mostly empty streets, the waterfront was lined with abandoned piers and six rooms could be rented for $80 a...
Tee Pee Records Brings The Heavy Underground Back To Brooklyn With Cosmic Sonic Rendezvous
Tee Pee Records started in New York City in 1993 and somehow still feels like the kind of label you would find by accident in the back room...
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records Revisits His Lost Garage Band: Mogan David & His Winos Return With ‘Savage Young Winos’
Before he helped turn Rhino Records into the gold standard of reissues, before the books, the Grammys, and the reputation as one of rock’s most obsessive historians, Harold...
Maqom Soul Records: Yashlik, Uyghur Psych, and the Modal Jazz of the Soviet Underground
Tashkent in the 1970s was far from the quiet cultural outpost many Western listeners imagine. The city was a lively meeting point where Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Uyghurs, and...
Building a World of Sound: PFR Records on Shoegaze, Psych, and Vinyl
'Paradigms II' manifests as a kaleidoscopic cartography of contemporary shoegaze, refracting the genre’s obsidian-hued tendrils through a global lattice of aural transmutation. PFR Records, an artist-run nexus, operates...
Introducing Drage Records | A New Era of Musical Exploration Begins…
Formed by drummer André Drage (Draken, Tip the Scales), Norway’s Drage Records will take flight in 2025 and focus on a unique range of prog-rock, jazz-fusion, world music,...
CMH Records | Interview | “The idea is to reproduce the most honest playback of the master tapes”
CMH Records has maintained its independence and focus on great music throughout its nearly 50-year history, evolving from its early days under founders Martin C. Haerle and Arthur...
Bright Carvings | “Music from the Underground Era”
Bright Carving Records started in 2023 and has already released eight previously unknown treasures into the world. Either private press or just unreleased works of British artists from...
Folklore Tapes | Interview | “Reinterpreting England’s folklore, myth, and magic through diverse artistic expressions”
Folklore Tapes epitomizes a dynamic multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to exploring and reinterpreting England's extensive folklore, myths, and cultural narratives through a diverse array of artistic mediums. Embracing...