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Danielson "Best of Gloucester County" is out now!
February 22, 2011

Best of Gloucester County is Danielson's first album in five years - and the followup to their widely acclaimed album "Ships" (Pitchfork gave that one a 9.1). Featuring the banjo/vocal work of Sufjan Stevens, and a cameo from Jens Lekman, "Best of Gloucester County" displays Danielson's trademark bizarre, squeaky art-folk and theatrical spiritualism in it's most mature and refined state. Read more about the album here.

The amazing Sounds Familyre Records has the LP & CD - and we have the tape!

The cassette version of the album...
  • is limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies
  • is pressed on high-quality white cassettes with chrome tape
  • comes with an INSTANT high-quality MP3 download.

    ORDER for just $8: Add to Cart

    Joan Of Arc "Oh Brother" Out Today!
    February 8, 2011

    Oh Brother, the new limited edition 2xLP from Joan Of Arc is out today! Featuring collaborations with 14 musicians, including Zach Hill of Hella & Rob Lowe of Lichens, Oh Brother is the combination of four distinct albums embarked upon but never completed by Joan Of Arc curator Tim Kinsella. This is Joan Of Arc at their most esoteric and expansive.

    Oh Brother is...

  • a vinyl & digital-only release
  • limited to just 500 hand-numbered 2xLPs
  • packaged in a gatefold jacket
  • includes high-quality MP3 and FLAC download

    ORDER:
    Order the 2xLP for $18: Add to Cart
    (sorry, the white vinyl is sold out)

    DOWNLOAD:
    Don't have a turn table? Download the entire album for $8: Add to Cart

    FREE DOWNLOAD SAMPLE:
    Download a 9 minute sample of the song "Oh Brother #2" here!
    (sorry, we can't give you the whole song since the damned thing is 20 minutes long)

    Akron/Family Cassette Out Today!
    February 7, 2011

    Akron/Family's new album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT is out today! Joyful Noise has a limited edition cassette version of the album, alongside Dead Ocean's release of the LP and CD.

    The Akron/Family cassette is...

  • pressed on high-quality purple tapes
  • limited to 500 hand-numbered copies
  • includes digital download (MP3 & FLAC)
  • includes full 8 panel artwork

    ORDER:
    Order the limited edition cassette w/ download for $8: Add to Cart

    Grampall Jookabox debut album finally on vinyl!
    February 1, 2011

    Grampall Jookabox's 2007 debut album Scientific Cricket is finally available on vinyl thanks to our friends at Altin Village & Mine Records. The near-classic debut from Jookabox (as the band would later be called) is a score of sophisticated, epiphanic Alvin and the Chipmunks. There are hints of early blues, notes of civil war ballads, and children's sidewalk-chalk rhymes, all filtered through spastically epic and innovative intuition, creating a final product not unlike the early work of Daniel Johnston, though far more refined.

    This is a super rare German import, and we have fewer than 30 copies in stock!

    ORDER FOR $12 HERE: Add to Cart
    (includes instant MP3 download)

    Danielson "Best of Gloucester County" on limited edition cassette!
    January 26, 2011

    Joyful Noise is very happy to announce the release of the new Danielson album on cassette (w/ digital). Best of Gloucester County is Danielson's first album in five years - and the followup to their widely acclaimed album "Ships". Featuring the banjo/vocal work of Sufjan Stevens, and a cameo from Jens Lekman, "Best of Gloucester County" displays Danielson's trademark bizarre, squeaky art-folk and theatrical spiritualism in it's most mature and refined state.

    On February 22, Joyful Noise will be releasing an extremely limited edition of Danielson's "Best of Gloucester County" on cassette (w/ digital), alongside Sounds Familyre's release of the LP and CD.

    The cassette edition of the album...

  • is limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies
  • includes digital download (MP3 & FLAC)
  • includes full 8 panel artwork
  • is pressed on a white cassette with high-quality chrome tape

    PRE-ORDER!
    Copies can currently be ordered here: Add to Cart
    The $8 cassette purchase is accompanied by an MP3 & FLAC download code.

    DOWNLOADS:
    Download the album's first single: Grow Up

    And watch the video via Pitchfork TV:

    Last but not least, be sure to check out the band on tour:

    03-25 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
    03-26 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club Lounge
    03-27 Pittsburgh, PA - Smiling Moose
    03-28 Cincinnati, OH - Mayday
    03-29 Louisville, KY - 930 Listening Room w/ Jookabox
    03-30 Chicago, IL - Schubas 04-01-02 Minneapolis, MN - Southern Theater
    04-05 Seattle, WA - Vera Project
    04-06 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
    04-08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
    04-09 Los Angeles, CA - Satellite
    04-10 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture Gallery
    04-12 Austin, TX - 501 Studios
    04-13 Dallas, TX - The Loft
    04-14 Memphis, TN - The Hi Tone
    04-15 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
    04-16 Washington, DC - Red Palace
    04-17 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Hermit Thrushes

    Deerhoof vs. Evil released Today!
    January 25, 2011

    Deerhoof's 10th studio album is out today! With Deerhoof vs. Evil the band explodes out of the speakers with gawky triumph and inflamed sentimentality. These are songs that practically demand that you dance and sing along (however elastic the rhythms, or abrupt the melodies).

    But this will all make sense once you order the album.

    ORDER ON CASSETTE FOR $8: Add to Cart
    The Cassette version of the album...

  • comes with INSTANT mp3 download
  • is limited to 500, hand-numbered copies
  • is pressed on a green tint cassette with high-quality chrome tape.

    Cut your teeth on the new song / video "Super Duper Rescue Heads":

    Akron/Family Cassettes Now Available for Pre-Order (Instant MP3 Included!)
    January 17, 2011

    Akron/Family's new album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT is coming out on cassette! That's right, Joyful Noise is releasing a limited edition cassette version of the album, alongside Dead Oceans' releases of the LP and CD, on February 8th. As of today the album is available for pre-order w/ instant MP3 download.

    The cassette edition of the album is...

  • pressed on high-quality purple tapes
  • limited to 500 hand-numbered copies
  • includes digital download (MP3 & FLAC)
  • includes full 8 panel artwork

    And here is the kicker: your $8 cassette purchase is accompanied by an INSTANT digital download. That's right, if you pre-order today you get an MP3 download today.

    PRE-ORDER: Add to Cart
    (Orders ship 1/31/11)

    Announcing... Akron/Family on Cassette!
    January 6, 2011

    What can be said about Akron/Family? From their epic 2007 album "Love is Simple", to the collaborative work with jazz master Hamid Drake on "Meek Warrior" to 2009's "Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free", Akron/Family is a band as free and prolific as they come. And that is right up our alley here at Joyful Noise. Their uniquely original and always shifting blend of folky experimentalism has made them one of the most consistently interesting bands in the modern musical landscape.

    Today we are very excited to announce that Joyful Noise will be releasing the band's new album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT on cassette alongside Dead Oceans' releases of the LP and CD.

    The cassette edition of the album is...

  • pressed on high-quality purple tapes
  • limited to 500 hand-numbered copies
  • includes digital download (MP3 & FLAC)

    The album is officially released February 8th. Pre-order begins on January 17, and your $8 cassette purchase will be accompanied by an INSTANT digital download (prior to the official release date).

    As reported by Pitchfork yesterday, the band has just released the album's first single: So It Goes
    (download it using that there link)

    The band is also touring a shitload. Check out tour dates here.

    Big Bear release two new albums via Joyful Noise
    December 14, 2010

    Boston quintet Big Bear are jigsaw alchemists. Beginning with their self-titled 2005 debut on Monitor Records, the band has been a beacon of East-Coast-hope to all who seek the reconstructing, recontextualizing and reinventing of aggressive indie rock. Big Bear subvert the ideas of traditional melody and harmony, using vocals as a rhythm instrument and epileptic dual-guitar labyrinths as a snaky logic puzzle. What results is disorienting, uneasy, exciting and somehow intelligible.

    In the fall of 2010 Big Bear sadly decided to call it quits. What was even more sad was the fact that they did so with two completed amazing albums left unreleased. Well, we decided it was too grave of a sin to let these albums go unheard, and as of today (December 14, 2010), both albums are available to the masses. Both albums, the unreleased sophomore album Under The Beach and the final EP See Out, are available today via iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, and wherever else people download music these days.

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    FREE DOWNLOADS:
    Song 26 (from "See Out")
    Song 20 (from "Under The Beach")

    FULL ALBUM DOWNLOADS:
    Download "See Out" for $4 here: Add to Cart
    Download "Under The Beach" for $7 here: Add to Cart

    HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY / TINY MIX TAPES MIX / MAGNET MAGAZINE & HERMIT THRUSHES
    April 1, 2009

    Happy April fools day everyone! Just a quick note to direct your attention to the new Chocolate Grinder Mix from Tiny Mix Tapes, entitled "Theme from Grutzi Elvis". This amazing collection of songs contains bands like Crystal Antlers, Swan Lake, DM Stith, and even our own Hi Red Center.

    Listen to the Mix here: tinymixtapes.com/Chocolate-Grinder-Mix-07

    Also, the notable Magnet Magazine has taken a liking to our new signees Hermit Thrushes and have posted a free download of their track "Snowflake Heart" from their album Slight Fountain.
    Read Magnet's synopsis and download the track here: magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/20/mp3-at-3pm-hermit-thrushes

    NEWS ARCHIVE

  • Various Artists
    Joyful Noise 2012 Flexi Disc Series

    Flexi: $4/mo  
    (new exclusive songs from 12 of our favorite bands, pressed on clear flexi discs, limited to 500 copies each)

    of Montreal
    Paralytic Stalks

    Cassette + MP3: $10  
    (limited to 500, hand-numbered copies on green tint cassettes. Instant MP3 download included.)

    Victor Villarreal
    Invisible Cinema

    MP3: $8  

    Jad Fair + Hifiklub + kptmichigan
    Bird House

    Vinyl + MP3: $12  
    (limited to 255 hand-numbered copies on single-sided translucent yellow vinyl screen-printed with red ink)

    MP3: $5  

    Dinosaur Jr.
    Cassette Trilogy

    OUT OF PRINT

    of Montreal
    Cassette Box Set

    Cassette + MP3: $99  
    (10 cassettes w/ MP3, screen-printed wooden box, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Purchase includes $4 off coupon code for "Paralytic Stalks")

    SWAPS
    SWAPS

    Vinyl + MP3: $10  
    (mint green vinyl, limited to 438 hand-numbered 10" records)

    MP3: $6  

    Sleeping Bag
    Sleeping Bag

    CD + MP3: $10  

    Vinyl + MP3: $14  
    (blue vinyl)

    Vinyl + MP3: $12  
    (black vinyl)

    MP3: $8  

    Sleeping Bag + MP3: $20  
    yes, an actual sleeping bag - screen-printed and packaged with a download code

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