March - June 2026
🦌🥩 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!