by Mood Media | Jul 1, 2013 | Sound, Uncategorized |
In 1979, an elementary school teacher named Robert Vermeulen AKA Tescoe Vee and his friend Dave Stimson started a punk zine called Touch and Go. The zine became a vital source on the emerging US hardcore scene and provided early coverage of bands like Black Flag, Big... by Mood Media | Sep 27, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
What’s Your Rupture? is a New York based label that’s been putting out great DIY indie rock and punk music since the early 2000s. The common path with labels of this ilk is to build a reputation putting out promising local releases, but WYR took a different path by... by Mood Media | Sep 20, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
Radar Records was an ambitious but short lived label that was active in England in the late 70s and early 80s. The label worked closely with Warner/Electra/Atlantic and Polydor to bring some of the more prominent underground UK artists of the era to a wider audience.... by Mood Media | Sep 6, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
Red Bird was a short-lived but highly influential record label that put out some of the finest girl group sounds and pop music of the mid 60s. The label’s most famous release, The Shangri Las’ “Leader of the Pack”, is a perfect example of the melodrama and flawless... by Mood Media | Aug 16, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
Bloomington, Indiana is the unlikely home to an alliance of great independent record labels. Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar and Dead Oceans all share offices in this relatively small Midwest college town. Featured this week is Dead Oceans, the newest of these three...