Good news! After three years of legal battles, Kindercore Records is back. You can read today’s official announcement here. The Athens-centric label put out some great albums by the likes of Japancakes, Dressy Bessy, Of Montreal, and Masters of the Hemisphere, as well as a few killer compilations. Kindercore Records Christmas, Vol. 2 is a perennial favorite in my house.
Ryan Lewis, who co-founded Kindercore with Dan Gellar, says in that release, “Our priority is to help progressive artists – be they musicians, illustrators, animators, film makers, fashion designers or writers – to create and deliver their inventions directly to the people, providing a place for people to come together and dig on art, music, science, fashion, politics and life in general.” Apparently they are branching out a bit.
I’m of course in it for the tunes and their first original release of that nature will be by King of Prussia, whose song “Campaign Kids” on their MySpace page is pretty cool. They will also put out an EP by Ruby Isles, featuring Gellar and Mark Mallman. David wrote about Mallman’s Between the Devil and Middle C here last year.
I see iTunes icons on the bands’ profile pages at the Kindercore site, but no mention of eMusic. As of this moment the old releases are still available. Let’s hope the new stuff makes its way to our favorite download service too.
That’s pretty neat. They put out a bunch of stuff I liked back in the day, and it’s good to see them back. Definitely a label to keep an eye on.