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 | Oct 11, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
“The Sound of Young Scotland” was Postcard’s tag line. In its first run from April 1980 to August 1981, Postcard released essential early recordings from Orange Juice, Josef K, Aztec Camera and The Go-Betweens (originally from Australia, but relocated to... 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 13, 2012 | Sound, Uncategorized |
New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records is one of the great DIY labels that rose in the Post-Punk storm of the early 80s. Still operating today, the label is responsible for bringing some of country’s finest indie artists to the rest of the world. When Australia’s Triple J...