Out Of Your Head Records

Out Of Your Head Records An artist-run label dedicated to releasing creative music and original visual art in limited runs.

06/10/2026

One more sneak listen to WRENS - LIVE @ NUBLU, out this Friday June 12. Link in bio, this is ELBOWS.

It’s awesome to see Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop! in the Top 50 Albums of 2026 (so far) in both SPIN and Paste Magazin...
06/08/2026

It’s awesome to see Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop! in the Top 50 Albums of 2026 (so far) in both SPIN and Paste Magazines. There typically aren’t many jazz albums in either list, so we are thrilled to see it included! Big thanks to everyone who has taken time to listen, or to write and help spread the word about this great album. We’re looking forward to more with Tomeka in 2027, stay tuned!

“Noisy, ebullient, ferocious and free, dance! skip! hop! has all the right moves.” —SPIN Magazine

“The Tomeka Reid Quartet begins at infinity.” —Paste Magazine

06/05/2026

WRENS - LIVE @ NUBLU out next Friday June 12, link in bio. 🎥 is CHARLIE PARKER from the album.

From a concert review in Queens Ledger:

“The next act was WRENS, whose show this was. Performing songs off their album, Half of What You See (2025, Out of Your Head Records), from November, the Brooklyn quartet blasted a jazz-rap-noise-punk hybrid that that may very well be of its own kind. This is a group, like TV On the Radio about 20 years prior, that steps on a scene and not only mixes genres but stretches them to their limits. The band’s musicianship is so deft, however, that all of their songs emerge fluidly.”

OOYH Second Mondays at is a very special concert for June, with artists .joviaarmstrong presenting a full night of m...
06/02/2026

OOYH Second Mondays at is a very special concert for June, with artists .joviaarmstrong presenting a full night of music. This one is do not miss, please come support these incredible musicians! Doors at 7:30pm, music at 8:00pm, $15 door.

Mankwe Ndosi’s Body Memori Tour 2026 deepens long-standing musical relationships and shares Ndosi’s Body Memori practice - sensory practices she is developing to reconnect us to intuition and life-giving wisdom drawn from her study of Somatics and the land. Each evening includes a solo set (voice/didj/mbira), a sensory practice invitation, and a set with resident music innovators using the senses as frames for composition / improvisation . The tour builds on her critically acclaimed 2021 album felt/not said with Body Memori, sensory practice in musical creation and performance.

Today is release day for Columbia Icefield - A Silence Opens (OOYH 045), a memorial to the late legends of improvised mu...
05/29/2026

Today is release day for Columbia Icefield - A Silence Opens (OOYH 045), a memorial to the late legends of improvised music Ron Miles and Susan Alcorn. It will also be the final album by Nate Wooley’s Columbia Icefield, who is Nate with Susan Alcorn, Ava Mendoza, and Ryan Sawyer, and a choir of Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, Wendy Eisenberg, gabby fluke-mogul, Laura Ortman, and Patrick Holmes on El Derecho 3. A Silence Opens features three Ron Miles compositions, one of Nate’s compositions, the folk song Wildwood Flower, and five short arrangements of one of Susan’s favorite songs, El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (we highly recommend you also check out her recording of this song, the final track on Susan’s album Canto). You can listen via the link in the comments.

It is hard to say just how much it means to put this album out on OOYH. Susan was a friend from Baltimore dating back to 2009 at the start of the Out Of Your Head Collective, and was one of the most incredible improvisers and kindest people I’ve ever known. I never had a chance to meet Ron Miles, but everyone close to him has similar things to say. If you can find some time to listen to this from start to finish, it is very rewarding. We hope you love this music as much as we do.

The packaging/design by is one of our favorites to date, with a black on black spot gloss for the CD, which includes 8-page liner notes by Nate. Those are shipping now from Bandcamp.

“With A Silence Opens as the band’s final statement, Wooley suggests there are universal mysteries that may transcend what we see and hear and yet unite us all nonetheless. It speaks to something larger than us, than a band, or than a specific recording. Columbia Icefield will be missed, but one cannot think of a finer requiem for the band.” —PostGenre

“A Silence Opens inhabits mourning fully, discovering within loss not consolation, but a more profound awareness of connection, fragility, and love.” —The Big Takeover

“Wooley’s trumpet sounds like a chorus of screaming sirens, with the quartet churning powerfully as one force.” —Downtown Music Gallery

dance! skip! hop! by Tomeka Reid was just reviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Big thanks to Martin Johnson for this!...
05/20/2026

dance! skip! hop! by Tomeka Reid was just reviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Big thanks to Martin Johnson for this! Link in the comments to listen. Tomeka Reid Quartet is Tomeka Reid with Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke, and Tomas Fujiwara.

“Tomeka Reid expands the possibilities of jazz avant garde on dance! skip! hop!”

WRENS got a great sounding live recording from their album release show at Nublu in December, and the concert was incred...
05/15/2026

WRENS got a great sounding live recording from their album release show at Nublu in December, and the concert was incredible. WRENS - LIVE @ NUBLU (OOYH 046) will be released June 12 digital, streaming (no Spotify), and on cassette tape. This is our first tape, and is limited to 100 copies. We have 50 for sale on Bandcamp and the band will have 50 for sale live, then they are gone. Check out a preview track SAYFWYERB on Bandcamp now, which is also live on AppleMusic (link in bio to listen and pre-save). WRENS live is a whole different experience than the studio record, and on LIVE @ NUBLU you can hear the insane chemistry they’ve developed together as improvisers. Don’t miss it!

WRENS is Ryan Easter // Elias Stemeseder // Lester St. Louis // Jason Nazary

Album art + design by // WRENS photo by

Big thanks to DownBeat Magazine + Phil Freeman for the label spotlight on Out Of Your Head Records in the June issue! We...
05/15/2026

Big thanks to DownBeat Magazine + Phil Freeman for the label spotlight on Out Of Your Head Records in the June issue! We are very honored, and appreciate the kind words. Photo by TJ Huff taken after the Marc Ribot concert night one of Ossicles Fest back in March.

“Is it weird that so much of the most forward-looking jazz being made in Brooklyn is being released on a label based in Richmond VA? Perhaps, but it’s undeniably the case.”

Release day! GEORGE - Looking for Consonance (OOYH 044) is out now, available on LP, CD, digital, and streaming everywhe...
05/08/2026

Release day! GEORGE - Looking for Consonance (OOYH 044) is out now, available on LP, CD, digital, and streaming everywhere except Spotify (link in comments). GEORGE is John Hollenbeck’s latest working band, featuring Anna Webber, Chiquita Magic, and Sara Rossy, about which Pitchfork said “When the band nails down its unique blend of vintage funk and futuristic electronica GEORGE’s energy is as infectious as a perfect pop tune.“ All merch is shipping now, and hot pink LPs are going very fast! Stay tuned for a Wax Mage drop over the next couple of days as well. We hope you enjoy this, we love GEORGE! Tour dates below as well, and if you are anywhere near one of these GEORGE is especially awesome live.

Photography + super A+ album art by TJ Huff.

“On Looking for Consonance, Hollenbeck’s GEORGE is on a whole other level of harmony, sonics and monster beats.” —New York City Jazz Record
“Richly detailed” [...] “Strands of alternative synth-pop, new wave, and electronica-inspired experimentation evoke the legacy of artists like Gary Numan and Kraftwerk.” —JazzTrail

May 8, Festival des Musiques de Création, Saguenay, QC CANADA
May 13-16, The Rex, Toronto, ON CANADA, w/ guest pianist Yvonne Rogers
June 28: Solid Sound Festival (WILCO), Mass MOCA
June 30: Montreal Jazz Festival
August 8: The Mill, Westport NY

05/07/2026

GEORGE - Looking for Consonance OUT TOMORROW! Pre-save and listen via the link in our bio. GEORGE is John Hollenbeck Chiquita Magic, Sara Rossy, and Anna Webber.

Animated GIF + photography by TJ. Music is bounce, the first track from Looking for Consonance.

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