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December 15, 2009 2009 was a flagship year for Joyful Noise. Several milestones were passed along the way... 2009 saw the signing of our first international artist (Austria's Valina), as well as the signing new artists from across the US (NYC-based Hi Red Center, Philly-based Hermit Thrushes, LA-based Bizzart, Indianapolis legends Marmoset, Kansas City fuckups I Love You, and nomadic traveler CJ Boyd). In 2009 JNR poached our first band from a bigger label - one of our favorite bands of all time - Marmoset (by way of Secretly Canadian - we still love them SC boys!), we co-released our second record with friends Asthmatic Kitty Records (Jookabox's "Dead Zone Boys"), and we released our first Steve Albini-recorded album (a right of passage for any decent label). In the end, we released 14 albums in 12 months, which, for an operation as humble as ours, is stupidly ambitious. Our creditors may have regrets, but we do not! 2009 saw JNR attaining a level that we could not have conceived of back in 2003 when Melk the g6-49's s/t album was released with a pressing of 500. We feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to release albums from some of our favorite bands this year. In 2010 we will be making some changes. Namely we will pressing a whole lot more vinyl, including some vinyl re-issues of some key back-catalog releases. In addition, beginning January 1, our website will allow you to stream every JNR release for free! So you can keep coming back and digesting our catalog in its entirety even when you're broke. There will be some new signings and new releases announced in due time. Thanks for making 2009 a memorable year folks. xoxo
December 7, 2009 Our favorite Austrian super-human-power-trio Valina is touring Mexico and Israel in December and January. If you are in the area check them out! If not, there has never been a better time to travel to the world's most populated city or the birth-place of monotheism. DATES! MEXICO: ISRAEL: MUSIC! Listen to the song Phantom Of My Longest Day from the album A Tempo! A Tempo!.
November 24, 2009 As of today Brooklyn-based Hi Red Center's flagship album Assemble is finally available on vinyl throughout the globe! Originally released on CD and digital formats in February, Assemble is an endearingly odd album - academic experimentation and an honest yet manic gleefulness deftly nestles vibraphones and barbershop quartet harmonies with noisy guitars and highly controlled melodic breakdowns. In Pitchfork's words, HRC's "energetic, rhythmic approach combined with moments of unabashed, childish glee makes for some highly adventurous pop". In honor of the release, we are offering a new single from the album: Chicken Gorlet Purchase the LP HERE
November 21, 2009 Try Googling "ridiculous tour schedule" and you will discover our very own CJ Boyd and his tour schedule, which is indeed ridiculous. Stretching from today until July of 2010, and covering two continents, this massive tour is in support of the recently released aural masterpiece Aerial Roots. Considering the scope of this tour, it is unlikely that you will have any excuse to miss a CJ Boyd performance near you, unless you live South of the Equator or are performing scientific experiments in northern Greenland.
November 10, 2009 Joyful Noise is pleased to announce today the release of two amazing albums: CJ Boyd's Aerial Roots and Stationary Odyssey's Sons of Boy. CJ Boyd "Aerial Roots"C.J. has been creating his ethereal soundscapes for nearly a decade, playing hundreds of shows, conveying his particular artistic ideals and a certain undefined spirituality wherever he plays. JNR sister label Sounds Are Active released CJ's last album (proper) "The Greatest Weight" in 2006. Today, Joyful Noise is releasing his newest work - the 3 song, 45 minute "Aerial Roots". Often flowing from singular, meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex walls of sound, CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. Never suffering from the structureless experimentation so prevalent in improvised music, CJ Boyd's vision spawns a record that is quite beautiful, and at times enlightening. As Tiny Mix Tapes puts it, “this is heavenly stuff”... Listen to a 7 minute excerpt from the epic 19 minute album closer We Know Time Purchase the LP / CD / MP3 HERE CJ Boyd is kicking off a major 21-date US tour on Thursday in support of "Aerial Roots". Tour dates are below: Nov 12, 2009 - Louisville, KY @ Skull Alley Stationary Odyssey "Sons of Boy""Sons of Boy" is an 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty. A somewhat genre-less album, “Sons of Boy” rides an undefined line somewhere between instrumental post-rock, punk, ambient, prog and grind. The "Mud Center" Indiana-based duo of Aaron Tanner and Brett Siler released their previous full-length “Head! Foot! And The Pink Axe” on Joyful Noise back in 2006. One split with Child Bite later, they have resurfaced with the more polarized "Sons Of Boy". Featuring a host of guest musicians such as Chris Schlarb (Asthmatic Kitty, I Heart Lung), Shawn Knight (Child Bite), and Aaron Tanner’s seven-year-old son - the Stationary Odyssey boys have created an 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty. Listen to Rib Letters Purchase the CD / MP3 HERE Also check out the FREE Johnfriend EP TOUR DATES!
November 3, 2009 We are extremely happy to be bringing you yet another amazing Jookabox album today, in co-operation with our friends at Asthmatic Kitty Records. Jook's new album, titled Dead Zone Boys, is an infectious soundtrack to humanity's last stand against decay and the dead... Last year after wrapping up Ropechain, the genre-warping Jookabox lost a Grampall (after a haunting vision), and regrouped, gaining a second member/drummer, Ostry Okerson. This year Jookabox absorbed two-fifths of Indianapolis' psych-pop ringleaders, Everthus the Deadbeats. Expect this one to quickly become a cult classic. Purchase the LP ($12), CD ($10), or MP3s ($7) HERE.Also, the band is currently on tour! Live dates below: Nov 4, 2009 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Thunderbird CafeNov 5, 2009 - Buffalo, New York - Mohawk Place Nov 7, 2009 - Brooklyn, New York - Bruar Falls Nov 9, 2009 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 941 Theater Nov 10, 2009 - New York, New York - Cake Shop Nov 12, 2009 - Washington DC - The Red And The Black Nov 13, 2009 - Durham, North Carolina - Duke Coffeehouse Nov 14, 2009 - Athens, Georgia - Go Bar Nov 16, 2009 - Austin, Texas - The Mohawk Nov 17, 2009 - Houston, Texas - The Mink Nov 18, 2009 - Denton, Texas - Hailey's Nov 19, 2009 - Little Rock, Arkansas - StarLight House Nov 20, 2009 - St. Louis, Missouri - The Antarctica Nov 21, 2009 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vollrath w/ Child Bite, Abner Trio
October 28, 2009 Post-rock-punk-ambient-prog-grind-rockers Stationary Odyssey have today released a FREE digital EP titled Johnfriend. This digital EP is an accompaniment to the 8-track mini-opus Sons of Boy - which will be released worldwide November 10, 2009. The "Mud Center" Indiana-based duo of Aaron Tanner and Brett Siler released their previous full-length Head! Foot! And The Pink Axe on Joyful Noise back in 2006. One split with Child Bite later, they have resurfaced with the more polarized "Sons Of Boy". Featuring a host of guest musicians such as Chris Schlarb (Asthmatic Kitty, I Heart Lung), Shawn Knight (Child Bite), and Aaron Tanner’s seven-year-old son - the Stationary Odyssey boys have created an 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty. With the Johnfriend EP we get a glimpse into the new Odyssey album wrapped in feedback-laden amusement. The EP contains a new track from the album, a feedback-laden cover of T-Rex's "Children of the Revolution", a remix, and an A Capella demo. Download the entire EP HERE Stream the EP HERE Also check out... TOUR DATES!
October 27, 2009 We are happy today to offer the new album from Kansas City's I Love You. Since their self-released their debut "Drone, Drugs, and Harmony", the band has been championed by Alarm Magazine as "conceptually daring in both dance-punk and art-rock" and was called "a welcome breath of fresh air" by Beyond Race. Though "Drone, Drugs, and Harmony" definitely caught (and confused) our ears, the bands second album Bell Ord Forrest left our jaws on the floor. These are twisted, slightly menacing, yet somehow danceable tunes of indulgence and self-destruction. Their combination of noisy DIY punk with thumpin' dub bass is catchier than you think - conveying emotional depth, pop sensibility, and madness. But mostly madness. As of today, the new album is available for purchase! Read more and buy the album HERE, and download the album opener "The Colloquialism Is Simply "Gas'" HERE.
October 13, 2009 Brooklyn-based Hi Red Center's flagship album Assemble will finally be available on vinyl November 24! Back in February of this year, Joyful Noise was privileged to release HRC's second album, which turned out to be one of our favorite albums. Now, the term "favorite album" is not one which we use lightly. But the fact is that "Assemble" is not just one of our favorite albums of this month or this year, but one of our FAVORITE FUCKING ALBUMS. Ever. Originally released on CD and digital formats, "Assemble" will finally see a proper LP release on November 24. This is an endearingly odd album - academic experimentation and an honest yet manic gleefulness deftly nestles vibraphones and barbershop quartet harmonies with noisy guitars and highly controlled melodic breakdowns. In Pitchfork's words, HRC's "energetic, rhythmic approach combined with moments of unabashed, childish glee makes for some highly adventurous pop". In honor of the release, we are offering a new single from the album: Chicken Gorlet Also available for free is the original album single: Symmetry Chameleon
September 27, 2009 An 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty, Sons of Boy, the new album from the near decade-old band Stationary Odyssey rides an undefined line somewhere between instrumental post-rock, punk, ambient, prog and grind. We haven't heard from the boys in Stationary Odyssey in some time, and apart from the band's split CD-in-a-tin-can they shared with Child Bite, the Evansville based band has not released a recording since 2006's Head! Foot! And The Pink Axe. With "Sons of Boy" the Odyssey resurface with a collection of seriously intense guitar shredding (Torticline, Neon Seals) juxtaposed with more soulful and playful qualities than the band has explored in the past (Chunk Feeder Blues, Cherry Teeth). It bears mentioning that the recording of “Sons of Boy” was beset with numerous tragi-comic episodes: computer failures, battles with utility companies, medical emergencies, stints in jail, blown fuses and tubes, an epic flood, robberies and assaults, locust invasions and other setbacks that would have seen other bands saying, “To hell with this…” Luckily, with the help of a laundry list of contributors (including Chris Schlarb from Asthmatic Kitty and I Heart Lung, and Shawn Knight of Child Bite) Aaron Tanner and Brett Siler have conjured the spirit of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Steve Reich into yet another worthwhile endeavor. Sons of Boy will be released November 10, 2009. Until then, check out the track Rib LettersMAN AT ARMS' "SWAMP THINGS" VIDEOFebruary 24, 2009 Man At Arms have just released a video for the song "Swamp Things", which was directed by Graham Mason and Dax de la Monta. The song is from their recently released A Waste Of Time And Space. While the song lyrics might conjure up images of the Proterozoic Era, the filmmakers have gone the route of the Adams Family - dueling "thing" hands battle while Man At Arms preform safely on the television.
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