Strategic Tape Reserve is a cassette label owned by Eamon Hamill (possibly the most well-spoken lad in the underground music game) -- who operates out of Cologne, West Germany. Though STR's canon is not genre-specific in any way, the complete body of work shares a common theme of explorative home-brewed quality. In an effort to... Continue Reading →
Hausu Mountain is a legendary Chicago-based experimental label (owned and operated by duo Max Allison and Doug Kaplan) that has been churning out quality noises and transmissions since 2012. Unlike many labels, the Hausu dudes go out of their way to restock tapes (for two years after the album release date) when they get low -... Continue Reading →
My best friend once told me about a teacher he had when he was in elementary school. He remembers him to this day for a number of reasons, but mostly because he taught him how to build a birdhouse. “He’s probably dead by now,” he said, “but that birdhouse still feeds birds.” It was years... Continue Reading →
Do you ever wonder how many pieces of yourself you’ve left behind over the years? I’m not talking about the pair of leather gloves you accidentally left on the bench in the subway station last winter or the shoebox of polaroids you forgot in the closet of your ex-lover’s apartment. Such items may have a... Continue Reading →
Yes, a new cassette label has surfaced on Bandcamp. Anyone who’s privy to the frequency of cassette label start-ups knows that this is not necessarily newsworthy. Saying there’s a new cassette label on Bandcamp isn’t much different than saying there’s a new series on Netflix. However, you might abandon this train of thought when you... Continue Reading →
Field Hymns Records, a self-proclaimed “wee label” based out of Iowa City that has been releasing quality experimental rarities since 2014, is on indefinite hiatus. The label’s operator, Dylan McConnell, is soon moving to Toronto, Canada—where the future of his operation is yet to be determined. In response to the possible end of one of... Continue Reading →
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