Trouble in Mind Records, 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 Hassle 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 Hassle in Thoughts in 2009. It got here to life across the similar 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, Ultimate Painting, Doug Tuttle, Negative Scanner, and plenty of others.
Hassle in Thoughts made a reputation for itself for the storage, punk, and psych-rock music it championed, however the Roes all the time meant to supply quite a lot of music on their label. “The label has morphed as our tastes have,” Invoice Roe said 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 discovered extra what we wish to launch and plus our ears additionally get bored with listening to the identical factor again and again. We launch what catches our ear, so chaining ourselves to a sure style or fashion 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 tougher to pin down or categorize, however fuck that, who cares?”
Hassle in Thoughts Information:
ADIEU
TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025
FRENZ. We’re unhappy to announce that Hassle In Thoughts Information 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 deal with 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. When you have ever purchased an album, streamed a tune, noticed one in all our artists on tour, learn an article or interview about us, informed a good friend in regards to the label, or supported us in any means, form, or type, we admire you & sincerely thanks in your assist. YOU are the explanation unbiased labels can nonetheless exist, so maintain the religion! We’ll nonetheless be sustaining our again catalog for the foreseeable future and we hope you’ll make the most of 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
