Bother in Thoughts Information, the Chicago label that specialised in punk and garage-rock for greater than a decade, has ceased operations. The label’s founders, Invoice and Lisa Roe, shared the information at this time on social media, revealing that Bother in Thoughts “ceased to exist as an lively label as of June 1st of this 12 months.” Discover their full assertion beneath.
Invoice and Lisa Roe based Bother in Thoughts in 2009. It got here to life across the similar time that they welcomed their first little one, Veronica “Ronnie” Moon. To start out, they pressed solely 7″ vinyl singles because the Roes balanced the label with parenthood, work of their band, CoCoComa, and day jobs. (Lisa is a librarian, and Invoice labored as a manufacturing supervisor for Chicago Unbiased Distribution.) By 2010, they issued the label’s first full-length album, a self-titled endeavor from the Limiñanas. Because the years continued, they launched albums from Mikal Cronin, the Tubs, Dummy, David Nance Group, Final Portray, Doug Tuttle, Adverse Scanner, and plenty of others.
Bother in Thoughts made a reputation for itself for the storage, punk, and psych-rock music it championed, however the Roes at all times meant to supply quite a lot of music on their label. “The label has morphed as our tastes have,” Invoice Roe stated in 2017. “It’s all in the identical wheelhouse but it surely’s a greater reflection of what you’d see in the event you checked out our private file assortment. We found out extra what we need to launch and plus our ears additionally get uninterested in listening to the identical factor time and again. We launch what catches our ear, so chaining ourselves to a sure style or model of music appears fairly limiting—we’ve put out garage-punk, psych, experimental music, digital music, and religious jazz data. Maybe it makes our label more durable to pin down or categorize, however fuck that, who cares?”
Bother in Thoughts Information:
ADIEU
TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025
FRENZ. We’re unhappy to announce that Bother In Thoughts Information has ceased to exist as an lively label as of June 1st of this 12 months. We may level to a myriad of the explanation why, BUT as a substitute we’re going to give attention to the positives. To all of the artists we’ve ever labored with – having the ability to have even a minor half in releasing your artwork into the world was one of many biggest privileges we may have ever requested for & we love you all. If in case you have ever purchased an album, streamed a tune, noticed certainly one of our artists on tour, learn an article or interview about us, instructed a buddy concerning the label, or supported us in any means, form, or type, we admire you & sincerely thanks in your help. YOU are the explanation impartial labels can nonetheless exist, so preserve the religion! We’ll nonetheless be sustaining our again catalog for the foreseeable future and we hope you’ll benefit from our BIG SALE taking place over at our Bandcamp web page. Take a whopping 30% off something within the webshop utilizing the code: ADIEU
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In closing; ALWAYS SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS & LABELS, PROTECT TRANS PEOPLE, FUCK ICE, FREE PALESTINE and will all of your scratch-offs be winners.
Sending love from our kitchen in Chicago, IL.
XOXO,
Invoice & Lisa Roe
