Cooking Vinyl

The U.K.'s Cooking Vinyl Records established itself in the second half of the '80s as a folk-revival label with releases by Michelle Shocked, Cowboy Junkies, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Later on in the '90s, Cooking Vinyl expanded its scope to include acts like The Wedding Present and Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Today Cooking Vinyl has assembled a remarkably eclectic high-quality roster which includes Ani DiFranco, Pere Ubu, Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, and Billy Bragg.

Cathal Coughlan
The former frontman of the acerbic London post-punk outfit the Fatima Mansions, Cathal Coughlan goes solo with dark, haunting, beautifully arranged songs that tell lyrical stories about desperate people on the wrong side of life.

Black River Falls


Luke Vibert/BJ Cole
Legendary pedal steel guitar player BJ Cole teams up with avant-garde electronic producer Luke Vibert (aka Plug and Wagon Christ) to stimulate your non-conformist aural senses. If Salvador Dali had had an E-mu instead of an easel, he would have made tracks like this.

Stop The Panic