We like to listen to vinyl on Fridays here at BSHQ, and we're starting a new tradition. Each week someone will close his/her eyes, randomly select a record from his/her personal collection, and bring it to the office. The person has to explain why the album is on his/her shelves, and then we listen to the album. We call this...Read more
We like to listen to vinyl on Fridays here at BSHQ, and we're starting a new tradition. A new person each week will close his/her eyes, randomly select a record from their personal collection, and bring it to the office. The person has to explain why the album is on his/her shelves, and then we listen to the album. We...Read more
Here we are. Today is the 20th Annual Bloodshot Records Yard Dog Art Day Party at SXSW! Back in 1996, Bloodshot and Yard Dog Folk Art Gallery in Austin, TX joined forces to bring some organic, homespun fun to the craven, corporate glad-handing and back-slapping nexus of the music industry: the South by Southwest music conference. We slapped together a stage, got...Read more
At the end of every year since the dawn of time, critics and pundits around the world tell us what works of art they liked in the past year (or rather, they tell us what we should have liked in the past year – since, after all, it’s their job). There were many mentions of Bloodshot releases in said best-of lists at...Read more
Marc Maron said it best: "Ranking artists and making lists is a dead culture's version of intellectualism."
Well, we're holding onto that dead culture with cold, lifeless fingers. It’s that terrific/terrible time of year in which we think about the things we didn’t find to be trite, monotonous drivel and give thanks for the things that made us hold a...Read more
"There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats.
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