Unlimited Editions: Trost
Source: The Wire. The Austrian label Trost was founded in 1991, documenting bands that performed at the Vienna punk club Flex on cassettes. The music ran the gamut from almost pop to hardcore punk and...
View ArticleRogueArt Creates Space for Jazz Adventurers
Source: Bandcamp Daily. France’s RogueArt label has established one of the starkest and most instantly recognizable “looks” in all of music by going as far as possible in the opposite direction. Every...
View ArticleTzadik: Righteous Avant-Garde Music
Source: TIDAL Magazine. After three decades and more than 800 albums, John Zorn’s legendary experimental record label is now on streaming. TIDAL spoke to eight Tzadik artists about their favorite...
View ArticleThe Strange World Of… Buh Records
Source: The Quietus. Jakub Knera speaks to Luis Alvarado, founder of essential Peruvian label Buh Records, and offers a beginners guide to their vast discography that takes in the country’s rich...
View ArticleObscure Records Profiled
Source: Burning Ambulance. In the mid-1970s, Brian Eno — who had left the band Roxy Music in 1973 and almost immediately released two solo albums, Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain by...
View ArticleBead Records Profiled
Source: The Wire. The consistently surprising and varied nature of the music released, sporadically, by Bead since its inception makes compilation of a representative playlist a tricky undertaking. The...
View ArticleThe Debate over Streaming Access to John Zorn’s Tzadik Records
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Some fans respected Zorn’s decision and the thoughtfulness they say he showed in the process. Zorn rarely gives interviews — he did not respond to Jewish Telegraphic...
View ArticleNonesuch Records Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Source: Nonesuch Records. Nonesuch Records, founded in New York City in 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary throughout 2024. The label and its friends mark the occasion with events including special...
View ArticleFire Records: Blazing a Trail for 40 Years
Source: Bandcamp Daily. Lots of avant-adjacent bands on this label. Throughout its 40-year run, Fire Records has championed music that lives on the fringes, from quick-witted post-punk to tell-all...
View ArticleMapping the Tzadik Universe
Source: Qobuz Magazine. Tzadik means many things to many kinds of listeners—to say nothing of its ability to withstand extended metaphors: Like water cascading through a river, Tzadik is never the same...
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