🦌🥩 Deerhoof teamed up with the enigmatic dance/electronic producer Body Meat to released "Perfect Kidz," an epic remix masing together "Perfect Me" and "Kidz Are So Small," 2 tracks from the band's transcendent eighth album, Friend Opportunity, which was reissued last year.

🇬🇧🎸 Wendy Eisenberg announced UK tour dates including a two night run at London's legendary Cafe Oto. Grab tickets here.

🦍🎪 We announced one of our most elaborate boxsets to date Sleepytime Gorilla Museum'sTriptych. We are collaborating with fellow Indianapolis label Avant Night to release the band's first three records for the first time on vinyl in the US in a deluxe hand-made wooden box set.

🎫 🎢 El Ten Eleven released a ripping cover of Joy Division's song "Disorder" and announced East Coast tour dates supporting their new album Nowhere Faster. Tickets can be found here.

🌗 Asher White released the new single "Nightingale Version (Sailor's Moon)," a rework of a song she wrote in 2019 "that [she] feared losing to time and wanted to dust off." Asher White is heading out on tour next week to the west coast! Tickets here.

⋔ Wendy Eisenberg's self-titled album received Best New Music in Pitchfork! Wendy is playing all around in several different capacities this year - keep yourself updated on their upcoming tour dates here.

🌱 We announced the Sound Sanctuary series with the inaugural release: Deerhoof and the Sound Sanctuary. The Sound Sanctuary, JNR's newest signing is a living plant ensemble centered around a towering money tree (Pachira aquatica) and four rubber trees (Ficus elastica). We'll be releasing four unique collaborations seasonally from Kishi Bashi and Tall Tall Trees, JD Pinkus (Butthole Surfers) and Yoni Wolf (WHY?). All of these can be purchased a la carte on 10" vinyl or you can get all four housed in a laser-etched hand-built wooden box, hand-numbered out of 300. Follow the Sound Sanctuary on Instagram here.

🏊🏿 🎨 We released the official soundtrack for the film Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted for Record Store Day! Check with your local shop to see if they might still have it available.

💤🦍 In partnership with Avant Night we will be releasing a very special pre-order on May 13th for a massive reissue project by the legendary Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Watch this space and be ready on May 13th.

👂Joyful Noise rolled deep for Big Ears Festival last weekend. Deerhoof and Kishi Bashi played to packed crowds, Wendy rocked Cobra with John Zorn, and we threw our second annual improv pop up on the Patio of Pretentious Beer Co. in Knoxville, TN. That festival is a true vibe and I recommend any fans of Joyful Noise to make a point of going if you ever get the chance. Our show was captured by a few folks which you can check out here, here and here.

🐘 Wendy Eisenberg released a new music video for "Vanity Paradox" off Wendy's new album. It features Lucy the Elephant and was filmed surrounded by the crashing waves of Atlantic City. The video was made by Joyful Noise's very own marketing director, Ruby Mars!

📼 We released My Dinner with Daniel on VHS at the end of March, a short documentary made in collaboration with Jad Fair. The tape is sold out but you can still grab the digital!

🎸🥁 El Ten Eleven dropped a video from the studio jamming their new single "Formerly Fresh." Seeing it played live like this really opens up the track in a whole new way. It's the perfect teaser for their upcoming tour happening on the West Coast tour. Also just heard from them that east coast in the fall is booked and almost ready to announce. Stay tuned!

📰 🎸 We got a new single from Wendy Eisenberg called "Old Myth Dying" off their totally stunning self-titled album dropping April 3rd. Wendy is playing a ton of shows in a plethora of formats. Tickets and info can be found here!

🌌🎻 Kishi Bashi released the 10-year anniversary edition of his seminal record Sonderlust - a 2xLP featuring a bonus record of early demos and a booklet of liner notes, essays, photos and other archival content. The anniversary tour starts this month - grab them tickies now!

🐘 Joyful Noise will be at Big Ears Festival this year! Kishi Bashi and Deerhoof are rocking sets and we'll be participating in the label fair. I've also been invited to speak on a panel hosted by the one and only Liz Pelly. We'll be posting more info on our socials as it comes up, but give me a shout if you're at the festival - one of my favorite parts of this job is meeting our VIPs in person!

👴🎸🥁 El Ten Eleven poke fun at their prolific longevity on the blisteringly cinematic single "Formerly Fresh" off their upcoming album Nowhere Faster. They're hitting the road in April - a one and a two, and a you know what to do!

You probably already know that defying expectations is standard operating procedure for El Ten Eleven. Seriously, who would expect two instrumentalists to create such a large and complex sound? But thanks to inventive arrangements and a masterful use of looping, Kristian Dunn (bass/guitar) and Tim Fogarty (drums) have developed a pulsating sound full of atmospheric intensity. 

The duo bring that technical trickery and boundless creativity to New Year's Eve, their new album that will be released in March 2022. A little bit disco, a little bit proggy, and a whole lot of what you know and love about El Ten Eleven, this album is the best way to kick off 2022. 

The VIP Limited Edition is pressed on Cloudy Blue and White Vinyl, and it's limited to 500 copies! The VIP Edition also includes an advance lathe-cut 7", featuring the lead single “New Year’s Eve” and an exclusive bonus track “Two Views Of A Secret (demo version)." Click here to preorder your copy.

Presales are now open for New Year's Eve! Along with a VIP Vinyl Edition, we are also offering this album on Silver Vinyl, double-CD, cassette, and digital formats. Click here to place your order.

El Ten Eleven
New Year's Eve
Release Date: March 4, 2022

1. New Year's Eve
2. Meta Metta
3. The Time Knife
4. Isn't Everything Enough?
5. Sixteen Circles
6. A Reflection Of A Reflection

Today is Juneteenth, the day in which we celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. But especially this year, we are reminded that there is so much more work to do for social equality.

To assist the movement for social justice, we have collaborated with several artists on new benefit release today. Each of the titles below are Bandcamp-only digital releases (at least initially). These releases are digital-only due to the timeliness of the cause, and using Bandcamp as our platform due to the fact that Bandcamp is donating their portion of all sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Also today, all of JNR and Artist proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter.

Please support these important causes by donating and downloading the incredible music below!

Deerhoof & Wadada Leo Smith

To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough

Sharing its name with a line from Walt Whitman's "I Sing The Body Electric" the new live album captures the band of Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier in peak form, and culminates in a thrilling five-song collaborative set with legendary avant-garde jazz trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith as part of New York City’s Winter Jazzfest at Le Poisson Rouge. 100% of album proceeds benefit Black Lives Matter. 

Wadada Leo Smith says of the organization: "Black Lives Matter has been doing fantastic work in keeping the rights and the liberty issues up-front in the minds of the Americans and international peoples. I think that BLM organization is an excellent place to give support to and to help bring democratic practices into the American society. Since in today’s world, true democracy is not practiced anywhere on the planet. Human Rights is a colossal type of event for anyone to realize, and it’s hard to do. But it must be done and I believe it can be achieved. What makes it so hard is that true democratic principles demand that all human beings respect the rights of others, and that we develop the capacity to share the wealth, the power and the earth and the sky together, with the condition that we collectively work to build a peaceful world. For all of us!"

Saunier adds: "Part of what makes touring life so great was how unpredictable it is. All the unexpected encounters, promoters and audiences and performers willing to take a risk. That's what playing together with Wadada was for us. The corporate world seems to want to define 'musician' as 'internet content competitor' but the actual people who make music have to find ways out of that trap. That's why I'm touched that a master improviser like Wadada would bring up true democracy. To me, democracy and improvisation are linked, and they appear spontaneously at times like these, when strangers come
together to take action, and there is no rulebook."

Download / Donate Here 

Three new EPs from Rob Crow:

Today Rob Crow has released THREE new EPs from three distinct projects. 

Optiganally Yours releases "Mr. Wilson (Redux) b/w Waves (Redux)" - reworking the band's classic material using the source audio files of the Optigan, obtained for their 2018 album O.Y. in Hi-Fi. 

Goblin Cock releases two new tracks, 3/4-5/4-7/2 [Liquid Landscapes] a cover of the band Afro-Blues Quintet Plus 1. And "Your Dragging Feet" a cover of the band Polyrock. 

And lastly, the new collaboration of Rob Crow + Kavius Torabi (Gong) + Mike Vennart (Oceansize) release two acoustic covers of Iron Maiden!

Download all three EPs in one fell swoop at the link below.

Download / Donate Here

Thor & Friends (feat. Low & Jolie Holland)
Mystery Train ("Lower" remix)

The otherworldly Thor Harris has offered a new single from Thor & Friends, "Mystery Train ("Lower" remix)". This track is off Thor & Friends - '4' which was offered as part of our 2019 Artist in Residence, and will get a wide release this year (shhh secrets). This mix features vocals from Low and Jolie Holland.

There is also a new video, watch it here.

Download / Donate Here

El Ten Eleven 

Nocturne

The latest single from El Ten Eleven's epic triple album Tautology is here. Check out "Nocturne" and download / donate for a good cause.