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Home » Kranky Records

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As Earthen Sea, Jacob Long makes dub-damaged bangers for dystopian dance floors

by Brad Cohan April 13, 2022April 11, 2022

Jacob Long has been knee-deep in the DIY punk underground over the past two decades, spending time in a couple of beloved bands. In the early aughts, Long doled out a batshit-crazy mess of postpunk and free jazz with his pals in the way-too-short-lived Dischord Records outfit Black Eyes before jetting from D.C. to San […]

Posted inMusic

Kranky partners with Ambient Church to celebrate its 25th birthday in the city of its birth

by Bill Meyer November 29, 2018August 18, 2021

Update 12.06.18: Windy & Carl will no longer be performing at this event due to a family emergency. Matt Jencik has been added to play an opening set. The drifting, beatless songs and subtly abraded electronic textures of Labradford’s 1993 LP Prazision were a shot across the bow of corporate grunge, indie rock, and pretty […]

Posted inBlogs

Disappears debut a track from their upcoming LP

by Luca Cimarusti November 13, 2014August 18, 2021

The spacey local act has a new record coming out early next year.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Let’s stay indoors and listen to Tim Hecker

by Tal Rosenberg January 28, 2014August 18, 2021

“Hatred of Music I,” from 2011’s Ravedeath, 1972, sounds pretty good right now.

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Kranky turns 20 and cranks it up over the next four nights

by Peter Margasak December 12, 2013August 19, 2021

Artists from the label’s current and old roster convene in Chicago.

Joel Leoschke
Posted inMusic

Kranky’s 20 uncompromising years

by Peter Margasak September 12, 2013August 19, 2021

As Kranky turns 20, its cofounder shares the label’s five most overlooked Chicago releases.

Posted inMusic

Erectoral Politics

by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson October 21, 2010August 19, 2021

Meet your new mayor, Cynthia Plaster Caster. Plus: Steve Shelley, honorary Chicagoan, Svenonius on Nation of Ulysses reunion rumors, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Belated Recs: The Atlas Sound, With Broadcast Monday at the Bottom Lounge

by Peter Margasak October 26, 2009August 19, 2021

Review of the new album by Bradford Cox’s solo project, Atlas Sound

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The old-fashioned analog drones of Gregg Kowalsky

by Peter Margasak June 8, 2009August 19, 2021

Oakland drone master Greg Kowalsky does multichannel analog the old-fashioned way.

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