Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band. Joy Division’s debut Unknown Pleasures sold only 20,000 copies in its initial period of release, but the T‐shirt emblazoned with its cover art — an image of radio waves emanating from a pulsar taken from an... See more

It was while reading a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad, about the history of punk and hardcore—which is a world I’ve also come from—that I started to think about the label format, especially the indie label format, as a really nice analogue. Because there’s this beautiful moment of all these great indie labels where they... See more

After disbanding tragically in 1996, the ska group reunites with Bradley Nowell's son Jakob filling in for his late father