Hassle in Thoughts Data, 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 right now on social media, revealing that Hassle in Thoughts “ceased to exist as an lively label as of June 1st of this 12 months.” Discover their full assertion under.
Invoice and Lisa Roe based Hassle in Thoughts in 2009. It got here to life across the identical time that they welcomed their first little one, Veronica “Ronnie” Moon. To begin, 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, Destructive Scanner, and lots of others.
Hassle in Thoughts made a reputation for itself for the storage, punk, and psych-rock music it championed, however the Roes at all times supposed to supply a wide range of music on their label. “The label has morphed as our tastes have,” Invoice Roe mentioned 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 document assortment. We discovered extra what we wish 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 type of music appears fairly limiting—we’ve put out garage-punk, psych, experimental music, digital music, and non secular jazz information. Maybe it makes our label more durable to pin down or categorize, however fuck that, who cares?”
Hassle in Thoughts Data:
ADIEU
TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025
FRENZ. We’re unhappy to announce that Hassle In Thoughts Data has ceased to exist as an lively label as of June 1st of this 12 months. We might level to a myriad of explanation why, BUT as an alternative we’re going to give attention to the positives. To all of the artists we’ve ever labored with – with the ability to have even a minor half in releasing your artwork into the world was one of many biggest privileges we might have ever requested for & we love you all. If in case you have ever purchased an album, streamed a track, noticed one among our artists on tour, learn an article or interview about us, informed a pal in regards to the label, or supported us in any means, form, or kind, we respect you & sincerely thanks in your assist. YOU are the rationale 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 occurring 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
