Sympathy For The Record Industry
Led by the infamous Record Industry Anti-Mogul Long Gone John, Sympathy for the Record Industry has established itself as one of the most eclectic and prolific labels in Indieland since it emerged back in 1988. With a catalogue of more than 600 releases, the Long Beach-based label is one of the world's most discriminating purveyors of garage, punk, indie rock, and strange, wonderful esoterica.
'68 Comeback
Listen to this band for one minute and you'll understand instantly why they're named as they are. Motor City rock collides with Memphis blues in a hallucinatory conflagration that will transport you three decades back in time.
Mr. Downchild
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1994
Golden Rogues Collection
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1994
Acid King
Low-end lovers, listen up. Acid King is so incredibly heavy they've been known to cause some of their more fragile listeners to lose all bowel control. Taking the phrase "power trio" to an entirely new level, the band creates sinister, deeply distorted, sometimes disturbingly beautifully sludge-rock epics.
Zoroaster
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1995
Billy Childish and Dan Melchior
English garage-punk cult hero Billy Childish teams with Midwestern blues rock revivalist Dan Melchior for a one-off project that, as you might expect, is gritty, ultra-stripped-down garage-blues. Just right for those who prefer their rock to steer clear of technical hoo ha and strive for passionate, visceral expression.
Devil In The Flesh
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1998
Billy Childish
He's rock and roll's prodigal son, one of the most prolific and genuine artists to record in the last two decades. He's the ultimate renaissance man, the creator of not only dozens of albums, but novels, books of poetry, and paintings. He also claims to be the greatest lover in the world. He's Thee Incomparable Billy Childish, the beautiful bastard offspring of punk and the blues.
Crimes Against Music: 1986-99
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1999
Holly Golightly
Turn down the lights and turn up the heartache as Holly Golightly and friends offer up dusty country- and blues-tinged love songs that are often as creepy as they are sultry. Her music is straight out of the noir movie gin joint -- so pull up a barstool!
Your Love Is Mine Seven-Inch
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1998
Up The Empire
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1998
April March
Remember that magical mystery land called childhood? April March does, and she'll take you on a tour of it with colorful, effervescent little ditties that are lighter than air and brighter than sunshine -- all with a decidedly sexy French twist.
Paris In April
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1995
The Nomads
Stockholm's The Nomads have been kicking out the jams and warming up the long cold Swedish winters for two decades with their fiery, direct, metal-edged garage rock. It's grimy, driving, satisfying stuff, made even more better by the band's willingness to experiment occasionally with rockabilly, metal, prog, and blues.
Powerstrip
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1994
Korla Pandit
Turbaned keyboard impresario Korla Pandit has been an enigmatic icon on the shadowy edges of pop music since the mid '50s, crafting wonderfully campy, exotic, Eastern-flavored organ ditties that never cease to be utterly enthralling and delightfully weird.
Exotica 2000
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1996
Redd Kross
Rock and roll philistines Redd Kross have been adamantly refusing to act their (now advancing) age since the early '80s, celebrating the kitschy, the schlocky, and the out-and-out trashy with these infectious pop-punk. These guys take themselves so unseriously it was inevitable that they should become indie rock cult figures, and indeed they have.
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
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1984
Teengenerate
Teengenerate launches a rock and roll kamikaze attack on your unsuspecting ears, a Japanese garage punk explosion so violent and destructive it seems on the verge of self-immolation.
Savage
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1996
The White Stripes
Man, the things you can do with just a drum kit, an electric guitar, and a whiney rock star voice. That's all the White Stripes use, but their minimal rock is incredibly eclectic, somehow combining aspects of garage, punk, blues, metal, and arena rock.
The White Stripes
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1999
