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Spotlight on punk labels keeping it DIY and small print. Cassette and vinyl releases preferred—send in your physical records to get featured.
Label Feature: Noise Itch Cassettes
Like many Generation Y millennials, my first exposure to music came from cassette tapes my parents and older siblings owned. When I discovered punk, I went through various subgenres, and by…
Label Feature: The Weird DIY World of John Steam Records
Are you the kind of person who buys/trades tapes (but also vinyl, CDs, and the occasional VHS) just to stack them up to the ceiling, barely finding time to listen to music at all while…
Label Feature: VapaaPäivä Records
For many, the spirit of punk is an eternal flame that burns with unflinching intensity. It's a sentiment that encapsulates the ethos of VapaaPäivä Records, a Finnish punk label that has…
Still Fueled By Political Punk: An Interview With Fight For Your Mind Records
With bands such as Fall of Efrafa, Witch Hunt, Resist And Exist, Migra Violenta, Visions of War, Nuclear Death Terror and Resistant Culture among many others in its extensive catalog, Fight…
Label Feature: An Interview with the Punk-Oi!-Hardcore Imprint Mendeku Diskak
Hailing from the Basque Country, Mendeku Diskak (Revenge Records in Basque language) is among our favorite labels when it comes to modern-day Oi! bands with a hardcore sound attached to…
Label Feature: Orb Tapes – Sonic Myth-Making
Orb Tapes is an experimental music label based in Central Pennsylvania and founded in 2015. I first discovered the imprint through the Bastard Noise interview we published last summer.…
A World Divided Tapes: The Home of Mediterranean Underground Punk
A World Divided Tapes is exactly what DIY punk is all about. The label focuses on underground bands from the Mediterranean punk scenes and is 100% non-profit. To keep costs at a minimal,…
Label Feature: Not Enough
There are some jaded old punks on my Facebook friends list. And among all the other rants about the state of punk today, there seem to be WAY too many people in the scene who think that…
Label feature: Tapetalks
Ukraine is a country that feels so close and so far in the same time. My first and only visit there so far happened last August. I spent a few days in the beautiful and calm capital city of…
Label feature: AUDIO. VISUALS. ATMOSPHERE.
Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. (AVA) is one of these labels that can really get you hooked if you have a heart for cassette tapes, collecting obscure music, are into contemporary visual arts,…
Time as a Color: Emo Revival on Vinyl
If there’s one thing that music can do probably better than any other form of expression it’s evoke emotions. Yes, the purpose of music is not musicianship, it's about making a sound that…
Balkan Noise: A Brief Intro to the Ex-Yugo Underground Music Compilations
For those who missed the last 25-30 years or skipped history class, Yugoslavia was a socialist and communist country in the Balkans. But unlike similar Eastern European countries "behind the…