Northern Spy is a Brooklyn-based independent record label formed by former staff of the legendary ESP-Disk’ imprint. As an artist-run label, Northern Spy shines the light on musicians who are tenacious, forward-thinking and making devil-be-damned fine music, while finding substance in the disparate worlds of free improvisation and popular music.


Volcanic Tongue is a Glasgow-based international internet mailorder site that specializes in new, second-hand & rare underground music & associated sub-cultural ephemera including vinyl, CDs, cassettes, books & magazines, apparel and DVDs. Their website also functions as a magazine and a weekly newsletter with full in-depth reviews of current underground, experimental, psychedelic and left-field releases. They only carry stock that they love themselves and operate a heavy filter policy, scouring the sub-underground to bring you the most earth-shattering examples of unknown tongue from around the world, with a particular emphasis on artist-produced and self-released editions, private presses and punk primitive vinyl, cassette, CD-R, 7″, book/magazine and lathe formats you won’t find anywhere else. The focus is basically anything birthed from the fists and throats of free thinking humans including Free Folk, Psych, Japanese Underground, Noise, Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Blues, Experimental, Garage, Punk/DIY, Drone, Minimal Synth, Industrial, Sound Poetry, Prog, American Primitive, Private Press, Acid Folk, Classic 60s/70s Rock, Basement Scum & Assorted Outsider Modes. They also promote concerts, program festivals, DJ and host readings and performances in their shop.

City Slang is an independent record label founded in 1990 with offices in Berlin, London, Paris and New York. Artists: Caribou, José González, Boy Harsher, Noga Erez, Roosevelt…

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