Joyful Noise Recordings (2025)

27/10/2025

With music from (covering ) & mixed by - Meet Max Roach.

He is our inspiration and our mascot as a post-apocalyptic indie record label. His tenacity inspires us every day.

But Max needs your help. For a measly $5 a month, you can become a VIP and get a bajillion perks - one of which is supporting the life of this iconic bug.

We also have our Early Bird VIP program, where you pre-pay to receive all of our 2026 VIP releases, as well as a VIP membership for the year.

Do it for Max.

22/10/2025

OUT NOW! A new, legendary collaboration - “Live at Big Ears” from the Joyful Noise Players! This kismetic session is streaming only on Youtube, available digitally on Bandcamp and our webstore, and is out now on vinyl only to our VIP members. You can be a VIP member, too, for $5/month. Link in bio for all that.

Earlier this year, Joyful Noise had the pleasure of attending Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, a four day gathering of some of the most adventurous artists in the world, primarily presented in beautiful and ornate concert halls and churches all within walking distance of the downtown area of the city. We were excited to have a smattering of Joyful Noise artists attend in various forms: Greg Saunier performing with Wadada Leo Smith, Finom’s Macie Stewart supporting her new solo record for International Anthem, Kramer and Wendy Eisenberg both performing solo and with Squanderers, as well as Thor Harris, Tall Tall Trees, and two JNR-adjacent homies Shahzad Ismaily and Hope Littwin all performing solo and/or with various other projects.

As the festival neared, we dutifully set to work finding a venue and PA system to host an improvised performance to capture what would be a rare and unmissable meeting of the minds. That venue ended up being the back patio of the very casual and un-pretentious local brewery/glass blowing studio combo, Pretentious Beer Co.

“Live at Big Ears” represents well the chaos that we’re all about. Listen now online and become a VIP to own a physical copy. Links are in our bio.

15/10/2025

Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust 10th Anniversary Tour & New Single!

2026 will be the 10th anniversary of Kishi Bashi's critically-acclaimed album Sonderlust. To celebrate, we're announcing the Sonderlust 10th Anniversary Tour, starting on 3/31. Kishi Bashi is also releasing a never-before-heard single from the Sonderlust era today - "Comin' To You." You can stream the new single here https://kishibashi.lnk.to/toyouFA.

We're also planning a 10th-anniversary reissue of the album, coming early next year. Keep an eye out for that announcement in the new year!

Sonderlust is renowned for its playful arrangements, whimsical production, and Ishibashi’s distinctive pop sensibilities. The album remains one of Kishi Bashi’s most personal and artistically adventurous works to date. While making Sonderlust, he ventured into new sonic territory by embracing more synths, sampling, and resampling.

“Comin’ To You,” built around a frenetic looped sample and Kishi Bashi’s soaring, euphoric vocals, exemplifies this experimental and playful spirit.The Sonderlust 10th Anniversary Tour will feature Kishi Bashi playing songs from the album in their entirety. The tour starts on 3/31 in Athens, GA, spanning much of the Eastern and Midwest US. Tickets are available starting Friday - https://www.kishibashi.com/shows
Stream the new Kishi Bashi single, "Comin' To You." https://kishibashi.lnk.to/toyouFA

01/10/2025

Rare reissue announcement:

In 1998, experimental rock legends Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo collaborated on a project called “Strange But True.” Around that time, David Fair had been turning headlines from the checkout-aisle tabloid Weekly World News into short, poignant, and funny narrative poems. He shared them with his brother Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo, who set them to music.

Today, as a collaboration between Joyful Noise and Bar/None, we’re announcing a reissue of this often-overlooked and rare gem of an album. It’ll release on 12/12 on specialty “Tabloid Teal” vinyl and CD. It’ll also be on streaming for the first time.

Now streaming is the lead single from the album, “Texas Man Abducted By Aliens For Outer Space Joy Ride.” Take a wild guess what it’s about. Link to listen and pre-order the reissue are in our bio.

Photo by Gail O’Hara

18/09/2025

Joyful Noise x NO MUSIC FOR GENOCIDE 💿🚫

JNR has given our artists the option to geoblock their music in Israel as part of a boycott - see for more info.

No Music for Genocide is a new cultural boycott initiative asking artists and rights-holders to remove their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to its genocide in Gaza; ethnic cleansing of the Occupied West Bank; apartheid within Israel; and political repression of Pro-Palestine efforts wherever we live. This is a decentralized, global volunteer movement with no institutional backer.

This tangible act is just one step toward honoring Palestinian demands to isolate and delegitimize Israel as it kills without consequence on the world stage. The successful cultural boycotts against apartheid South Africa prove that our creative work grants us agency and power. When we wield it together, we add unified pressure to a growing, global, interdependent movement, from Hollywood to the docks of Morocco. We don’t boycott to target individuals: this is a rejection of apartheid Israel’s cultural industry, which works hand in hand with global music and media institutions to whitewash apartheid and genocide.

17/09/2025

Early Vird VIP 2026 is now LIVE!

Get VIP Membership for all of 2026, each of our 2026 VIP records at a discount, support the artists and the label, and extra goodies, all for $225.

Our Early Bird VIP package is one of the most impactful and direct ways to support both our artists and the label itself. It’s a strange time in the music industry, and it’s still getting harder for artists to make a living. Purchasing records directly, via our VIP Early Bird program, can help fight the powers that be.

Early Bird VIP 2026 is limited to 333 spots, so reserve yours soon. Click the link in our bio to sign up and see more details.

Early Bird VIP 2026 includes:

⭐️VIP Membership for 2026: Lossless downloads of every new release, access to exclusive vinyl, advanced streaming of unnanounced albums, early announcements (like this one), 15% off all purchases, and more.

⭐️All 10 VIP Edition LP Releases: We’ll send you every VIP edition vinyl release of 2026. This is the most limited edition of the record, on specialty-colored vinyl with attention to audio fidelity. VIP Editions also include exclusive bonus content (7” flexi-discs, art prints, etc).

⭐️Cassette Sampler: A new addition to our 2026 package, this JNR “Past / Present / Future” cassette will feature deep cuts from the JNR vault, present bangers that sound swell on tape, and demos for upcoming albums.

⭐️Exclusive Tee: We always put extra sauce into the design of our exclusive Early Bird T-shirt. The design will be revealed in a future update, and only available as part of Early Bird VIP 2026.

Sign up at the link in our bio!

12/09/2025

"8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living" is out now!

Asher White's masterful genre-collage is streaming and available on our store: https://asherwhite.lnk.to/8tips

Paste Magazine says that the album is "experimental and playful, with singles that range from sounding like doom metal-meets-Brazilian Tropicália and circus music (“Cobalt Room: Good Work / Silver Saab”) to garage rock transforming into industrial techno (“Beers with my name on them”). Even its gentle moments, like “Voice Memo,” sound haunting."

Order and listen here: https://asherwhite.lnk.to/8tips

04/09/2025

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03/09/2025

Ok people. Rise and grind. Eyes up. Come to Symposium Books in Providence, RI on 9/12 for a celebration like you’ve never seen….

02/09/2025

🌻Announcing: Kishi Bashi Sonderlust live stream on Thursday!🌻

We’re almost ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Kishi Bashi’s Sonderlust. In celebration, K will be treating us with a live-streamed performance of the entirety of the album.

The Sonderlust “Lunch Break Live” stream will be on 9/4 at 1PM EDT / 10AM PDT on both Instagram on ’s account and on Youtube.

As part of the live stream experience, we’re making lathes of each live version limited to 100. These lathes will go on sale at the time of the stream.

Tune into the live stream and reserve a piece of the performance! Link in bio to pre-save the stream on Youtube.

27/08/2025

Deerhoof News! 🦌

Today, we’re announcing a reissue of the Deerhoof album “Friend Opportunity,” out 11/7. With that release comes 2 remixes - “Perfect Me (This is Lorelai Remix)” and “Perfect Kidz (Body Meat Remix).” One of those remixes is out today - “Perfect Me (This is Lorelai Remix).”

By 2007 Deerhoof had firmly established themselves as one of the most forward-thinking, fun-having, and expectations-exploding indie rock bands around. 16 years later, Friend Opportunity remains a poignant feat of reinvention. Originally released January 23, 2007 on Kill Rock Stars, Friend Opportunity was written by the trio of Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier, following the departure of guitarist Chris Cohen.

In a discography so vast, varied, and consistently mind-blowing, “Friend Opportunity” is a standout. For many people, this record was their introduction to the kaleidoscopic wonder that is Deerhoof. We’re excited to be reissuing it.

The Friend Opportunity Reissue will be available on 11/7 in a VIP Edition on Green & Mauve vinyl with a bonus Flexi Disk containing “Perfect Me (This is Lorelai Remix)” and “Perfect Kidz (Body Meat Remix).” It’ll also be available on a standard edtion Hot Pink vinyl.

Link is in our bio to listen to the first remix and preorder the reissue!

📸: Simon Fernandez

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