Andrew Lowell in conversation with Varia Instruments co-founder Simon Schär. Speaking with ISC from his workshop in Berne, Switzerland, Varia Instruments co-founder Simon Schär is beaming with energy. […]
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Although major stories on it are frustratingly rare these days, the vibrancy and range of community-run internet radio collectives delivering human-selected music in human-selected combinations makes that region […]
A look into the young label behind the first-ever official reissues of Les Rallizes Dénudés and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Surround. Temporal Drift is an independent record label launched by […]
Get lost in a great online portal for New Age music. For more than a decade, the cassette hub Sounds of the Dawn has explored the infinite well […]
Do your new pair of loudspeakers not sound like you envisioned after reading that super positive review? You may have a room acoustics issue. This is a topic […]
A few spots are now open for the record club. Join today for personally curated records delivered to you monthly! Last month a package arrived from Los Angeles […]
Rahill shares five favorites with us in anticipation of her debut headlining show on May 14th at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood. Iranian-American singer-songwriter Rahill first caught our […]
Although everyday is Hosono day, those in need of a specific boost on this Monday might find fuel in some video game music by Haruomi Hosono. Inspired by […]
Pre-Hispanic instruments meet synthesizers, drum machines, jazz, and progressive rock on Séance Centre & Smiling C’s latest cosmic meeting. Earlier this week, in perfect alignment with the solar […]
Contrary to popular belief that the discotheque and dance revolution didn’t begin until the mid-’70s, the whole two-turntables-and-a-mixer thing started happening a half-decade earlier. Demand was such that […]
Favorites from the ’70s beloved by hi-fi enthusiasts and music lovers alike including Donna Leake and Ed Seven of Vintage Hi-Fi Plants. Background: Founded in London by Guy […]
This quiet storm classic is perfect for an eclipse afternoon. The first time we met Sade, she was skeptically casting her eye at a man. As if glaring […]
Explore our newly designed and expanded webstore developed in collaboration with bean.la. Free shipping this week on orders over $100! Hey friends! It’s been a little while since […]
The scene: Greece, with Halley’s Comet floating overhead. It’s the 1970s and we’re watching three “titans” of synthesizer music prepare to battle it out onstage. “Whoever scores the […]
Step into the creative home base of one of the visionary architects of the Los Angeles beat scene. Last week, the William Grant Stills Arts Center opened its […]
British pianist/keyboardist Greg Foat has been releasing records at a steady clip since 2011, when he and his Greg Foat Group connected with UK label Jazzman Records for […]
Tana Yonas in conversation with Western Acoustics’ founder Liam Porr. Hi-fi culture in the United States has long been an obsession of mature audiences with deep pockets and […]
In 2022, the BBC broadcast a documentary that traces the history of the Hacienda, the Manchester club that helped transform the sound of electronic dance music in early […]
Here’s a scenario that virtually anyone who has entered the home listening game by investing in a vintage power amp or receiver has likely confronted. You’re aware of […]
Join us 2-5pm today at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to the great Growing Bin Records. One of our absolute favorites, Growing Bin Records […]
Next year will mark the Sony PlayStation’s 30th anniversary, and as time passes the technology that helped define contemporary gaming is rendered more and more obsolete. Other than […]
Eilon Paz shares five selects from John Abercrombie, Cannonball Adderley, Kutiman, Quincy Jones, and King Britt. Eilon Paz is a publisher, photographer, collector, selector, and the eyes and […]
A couple weeks ago, Roland released a new short film about Detroit’s greatest musical collective since Motown, the cooperative and record label dubbed Submerge and UR (Underground Resistance). […]
Join us at ISC NYC for a Brian Eno Dedicated Listening Session today. If history has taught us anything, it’s that when Brian Eno starts talking about art, […]
New Islands’ Dino Soccio & Patrick Billard share five “unknowingly” balearic LA favorites in celebration of their reissue of Kim Yaffa. In the early ’80s, Hollywood indie label […]
Those fortunate enough to have seen the brilliant jazz pianist Austin Peralta before his heart wrenching death in 2011 at 22 understand the bittersweet thrills of listening to […]
DFA’s Infinity Machine aka The Juan MacLean and Gee Dee share five meditative healing songs. Infinity Machine is a new project from Juan MacLean – as in the […]
At the end of World War II, the US military loaded up all the equipment it used for communication and warfare against the Nazis and brought it back […]
If your budget for a new turntable can stretch to $1,000, the Pro-Ject Debut PRO Turntable is definitely the one to buy. 30 years have come and gone […]
To truly appreciate our conversation below with the brilliant Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas, you should get a sense of the artist’s approach to his instrument. The video at […]
Atmospheric bass, country & gospel music, Monterey, Grown at M Bar, inc., and more with Daniel Aged. Back in 2020, in the heart of the global pandemic, Los […]
It’s safe to say that few record labels have been as sampled as Blue Note. The classic New York jazz label, which was founded by Alfred Leon and […]
A deep dive into one of the most influential UK Soul groups of the ’80s. Arriving on the scene right around the same time as Sade, Loose Ends […]
You only need read the opening sentences of the liner notes to get a sense of the Habitat Ensemble’s world. Deep in the south of the Czech republic, […]
For our next Art & Design: In Focus feature, we look into the mystical pop art of Tadanori Yokoo. A contemporary and close friend of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s […]
For a long time, casual fans of 1990s British instrumental hip hop, which eventually became known as trip hop, likely only knew the purveyors so-called Bristol Sound: Tricky, […]
In 1981 New York City, the artist Joseph Nechvatal obtained a compilation album called Just Another Asshole #5. Curated by the artist-musician Barbara Ess (Y Pants) and the […]
Piano-cello duo Salenta + Topu share five favorites ahead of their live performance this Friday at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. “Two old souls creating music not of this […]
Listen to hundreds of hours of mixes (with tracklists) from “The Guv’nor” Andrew Weatherall. File under: Internet is Beautiful, DRVR is a new creation from The Flightpath Estate, “an […]
This is a post about New York musical collective the Sonic Arts Union, but it could be about the magical intricacies of virtually any earthen revelation. Push aside […]
A classic home speaker from JBL featuring crisp high frequency response and a wide soundstage. Background: In production from 1974-1977, the L65 aka Jubal is a 3-way bass […]
All hail the most durable and iconic turntable ever made. On the way to finding your forever turntable, many vintage brands and models will try and catch your […]
Join us this Friday at Sound & Vision for a listening party and solo performance from Anenon aka Brian Allen Simon. Anenon is the ongoing solo studio and […]
“Here’s some music for listening or not.” It’s been nearly three years since the brilliant musical explorer Jon Hassell passed, and even in that brief time his influence […]
A deep dive into one of the unsung heroes of Jamaican popular music’s gestation, birth and adolescence. In conversations around Jamaica’s greatest reggae producers, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Clement […]
And: Mazzacane Connors live performances with Darin Gray, Jim O’Rourke, and David Grubbs. Few guitarists approach their instrument with the delicacy of Loren Mazzacane Connors, and fewer still […]
The $190 Grado Labs Prestige Red3 might be the affordable cartridge upgrade your turntable needs. Based on the reaction to my CAF 2023 editorial, many of you agree that […]
Celebrating the album that birthed Yellow Magic Orchestra. Haruomi Hosono released his fourth solo album, Paraiso, on April 25, 1978, three short months after he and members of […]
The prolific Italian-born, UK-based drummer-composer talks beginnings, inspirations, and collaborations. The most featured drummer/artist on our 2023 end-of-year favorites list, Valentina Magaletti has over the years built a […]
The late Mexico City composer’s recordings move like Autechre and Aphex Twin tracks. Before MIDI or the 808, before Ableton, before the first home computers, an Arkansas-born, Mexico […]
Feel like watching an A+ drummer let loose? On Friday, British musician Yussef Dayes released the second in a series of live sets, Live in Malibu, to streaming […]
Join us 2-5pm today at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to Efficient Space! Few labels command our attention as consistently and completely as Michael […]
Psychedelic pop sounds from Tokyo via Washington D.C. label Peoples Potential Unlimited. Andrew Morgan’s Peoples Potential Unlimited is widely regarded for its singular presentation of outsider boogie and […]
A new reissue by Wewantsounds brings back a raucous free jazz, soul funk session recorded in an empty St. Louis sanctuary. In 1973, the late alto saxophonist Luther […]
A guide to hi-fi audio terms pulled from a 1974 manual from Altec Lansing. Looking to get deeper into hi-fi, but not sure where to start? Plenty of […]
ISC NYC will feature Hancock’s classic records during today’s dedicated listening session. It’s been a little more than 40 years since keyboardist Herbie Hancock, searching for new sounds […]
LA-based DJ and choreographer Colored Craig shares the record from his first solo dance routine. One of our favorite DJ’s in Los Angeles, Craig Hollamon aka Colored Craig […]
Read McIntosh engineer Gordon Gow’s famed ‘Speaker Wire Listening Test.’ If you hang out in a hi-fi group for any length of time, inevitably the question of speaker […]
In the mid-1970s, Palo Alto and vicinity was becoming a home computing hub. In Cupertino, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had partnered to begin building the first Apple […]
Join us 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to Awesome Tapes from Africa. One of the great archival labels of our time, Awesome […]
Looking back at an iconic moment from the ’90s when dream pop made its way to Hong Kong… With shoegaze and dream pop going off in TikTok land, […]
The musician and visionary, a founder of the genre, died Saturday. The best path for understanding the music and philosophies of the artist known as Iasos is to […]
Does the Thorens TD 1500 merely pay homage to one of its classic decks or is there something more here? Does familiarity truly breed contempt? Having invested a […]
In Krautrocksampler, his great book about German cosmic music, the musician, collector and writer Julian Cope describes the sensation of being a fan of Can, Neu!, Cluster, Amon […]
A beloved 2-way home system from iconic theater loudspeaker makers Altec Lansing. Background: Released in 1976, the Altec Lansing Model 19 was a 2-way vented floor type speaker […]
By the mid-1970s, Herbie Hancock had left bop and post-bop behind as he grew increasingly fascinated with electric keyboards and early synthesizers. Long a genre-straddling innovator, Hancock embraced […]
Happy New Year from all of us at In Sheep’s Clothing! Thanks for your support, good taste, enthusiasm, curiosity, and generosity. We appreciate you attending our events, record […]
Avant-comedy with Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, and the Portsmouth Sinfonia. As record collectors, we’re often digging through the bins for the best in music. Who performed […]
Built to last and often easily refurbished, models from Advent, Cerwin Vega, Klipsch, JBL, and more will transform your system. A great stereo system, the saying goes, is […]
More discoveries from Aquarium Drunkard, Boomkat, Test Pressing, The Quietus, NPR, and more. Before we even start discussing the most illuminating “Best of” lists for this year, you […]
A near hour-long showcase style documentary on Lloyd Barnes’ legendary Bronx-based reggae label. One of the most iconic reggae labels around, Wackies was founded in 1976 by Prince […]
In the 1990s, there was no better club in America than Lounge Ax in Chicago. Located across the street from where John Dillinger was killed in Wrigleyville, the […]
Our favorite archival releases from Peruvian disco to Indian Musique Concrète to Chicago deep house. Our 2023 end of year roundup continued… Reissues, compilations, and archival projects continue […]
Turn up the volume on a newly discovered take on the Christmas classic, recorded at the Village Gate with Eric Dolphy. Did you know that “Greensleeves,” a song […]
“One night in a Japanese jazz kissa changed music listening for me forever.” Every now and then, a listening session turns into something more. You lose yourself for […]
Now Sound favorites selected by all of us at In Sheep’s Clothing. Part 2 Archival & Compilations coming soon. It’s been another year of unexpected changes here at […]
We asked a popular vintage audio forum for gear tips. Here’s what came back. Here’s a scenario that virtually anyone who has entered the home listening game by […]
Join us for a labels we love listening session at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC dedicated to Now-Again Records. Now-Again Records is a Los Angles based imprint that specializes […]
Introducing Soundsystems, an in-focus feature series on the Hi-Fi equipment of the past, and the notorious clubs and DJ’s that used them. An absurd amount of precision, fine-tuning […]
An interview with Jacob Gorchov, whose label has released essential recordings by Yasuaki Shimizu, Woo, Mariah, and, most recently, Dorothy Carter. Over the past decade, the NYC-based label […]
Essential tips from Paul W. Klipsch featured in a vintage brochure. Klipsch loudspeakers are the next best thing to original sound. It’s like being there. Klipsch loudspeaker systems, […]
A love letter to curated collections and the people who make them. Seventy-five years ago, Folkways Records began issuing a series of themed albums that corralled recordings made […]
Cousin’s latest EP HomeSoon is out now via Vancouver-based label Mood Hut. Followers of this site will know that we’ve been in a collective dubwise headspace here at […]
Each December in the 1970s, the monthly magazine High Fidelity delivered a holiday gift guide that offered suggestions for sound freaks — accessories, components, etc.
For our latest “Art & Design In Focus” feature we take a look at our favorite canine album covers. With the National Dog Show having just passed this […]
Randall takes us to one of his favorite local spots in Columbia, Missouri. College town record shops rule, and for a pretty specific reason: a polyglot clientele with […]
Full service retipping, diamond-only replacement, coil rewinds, suspension repairs from Joseph Long aka Groovetickler. You likely know this, but the mechanical thing at the tip of your tonearm […]
Loveshadow’s sophomore album II is out now via Dark Entries. Two of our favorite DJs / musicians from the Bay Area, Anya Prisk and Izaak Schlossman make up […]
It’s sweater season in much of the country. The leaves have turned. The mice are coming in from the cold. Fire in the fireplace. Coffee steaming. Melancholia. Blankets. […]
Join us for the opening of SOUND & VISION at the ROW in DTLA! Hello friends! It’s only been about two months since our record store on Fairfax […]
Last week she released Exit Simulation, her debut album for Chicago-based Kranky Records. The South Carolina-based artist Niecy Blues grew up in a religious household, where she absorbed […]
Peter Hahn, Owner and Founder of Turntable Lab in New York City, joins eCoustics for 10 questions. If you shop for records, DJ equipment, HiFi equipment, or turntable […]
Join us today at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to Arthur Russell. For those who believe in the notion of hallowed ground, of land […]
Time is Away’s latest compilation Searchlight Moonboom is out tomorrow via Efficient Space. Time is Away is the London-based DJ / historian / artist duo Jack Rollo and Elaine […]
This year marks Luluc’s 15th anniversary, and in that time singer Zoe Randell and multi-instrumentalist Steve Hassett have produced five LPs worth of precisely crafted, sublimely streamlined songs. […]
Join us at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for an entire day of Music from Memory. It’s been a few weeks now since Music from Memory co-founder Jamie Tiller’s […]
Ecoustics shares their top 13 audiophile upgrades for 2023 featuring a variety of affordable products. Audiophile publications have been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism […]
Her new album, There is only love and fear, is driven by what she calls ‘messy minimalism.’ You should go deep with the percussionist Bex Burch’s new album, […]
LA3C festival will take place in DTLA’s historic core from November 10-12. Tickets available now! We’re bringing the In Sheep’s Clothing record fair to a festival setting for […]
One of the scariest film scores ever was the product of a gift placed under a Christmas tree. “My father bought me a pair of bongos for Christmas […]
Blake Wagner takes us to legendary Detroit record shop Peoples Records. Walking around the sleepy edge of downtown Detroit, you might not realize you are standing at the […]
A lost gem from NPR classical critic Tom Manoff and master vocalist Jill Talvé. Jill Talvé was in her late teens when, in the early 1980s, she moved […]
Daniel Villarreal’s Lados B is out now on International Anthem. Panama-born, Chicago-based percussionist Daniel Villarreal’s new album, Lados B, is powered by a mere three players — him, […]
Join us for a listening session today 2-5pm featuring favorites from Ontario-based label Séance Centre. Founded in 2017 by Brandon Hocura and Naomi Okabe, Séance Centre is an […]
The Music from Memory and Rush Hour affiliate plays Sound of Make Believe this Saturday in Los Angeles. Madrid-born, London-based DJ & record collector John Gómez is known […]
The late composer co-founded “a kind of musical version of the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, with every entry registering like a report from some farflung orbital station.“ […]
Il Sesso della Strega (‘Sex of the Witch’) is available on vinyl for the first time via CAM Sugar. Launched in 1959 Rome to capitalize on the ascent of […]
For Monday’s dedicated listening session, we’re going deep on the trumpeter’s expansive creative output. “Repetitious boredom.” “An insult to the intellect of the people.” “Nameless, faceless go-go music.” […]
Swedish-Filipino-American artist Baba Stiltz talks growing up, Vacaville, and his favorite things to do in Los Angeles. I first met Baba Stiltz back in 2016 when he was […]
Featuring The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, Cool Herc, John Cale, Afrika Bambaata, Fab 5, and more. “If it doesn’t work in New York, we’re in […]
A transcendental futuristic sounds experience in Philadelphia… Three weeks ago, a group of us traveled from Los Angeles to Philadelphia in search of a transcendental experience. Most us […]
Join us for a listening session today 2-5pm dedicated to Be With Records. 2024 will mark the 10-year anniversary of one of our favorite archival labels Be With […]
Blake Wagner shares his experience digging for records at Rooky’s Records in the Lower Haight. You would be a fool to run aground in San Francisco without paying […]
So much Zorn! The Tzadik Records catalog is now available on streaming… Last week, more than 25 years after it launched, the crucial New York label Tzadik released […]
Josh Dibb aka Deakin shares five favorites with us in celebration of Animal Collective’s new album. Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist meet genius producer […]
Join us 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to jazz-funk classics. For a long time, “fusion” was a dirty word in jazz circles, […]
Join us Saturday, October 7th at Platform Park with Good Boy Wine and Sound of Make Believe. What better way to end the summer than with an outdoor […]
Visit the Numero Group pop-up shop at Rappcats this Thursday through Sunday. One of our favorite labels, Numero Group is back in Los Angeles this week for a […]
Our friend Sam Wilkes shares some favorites w/ personal write-ups on each pick… You could be forgiven for scratching your head at news that the Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist […]
The iconic Technics SL-1200 turntable gets a facelift and some improvements aimed at increasing the overall sound quality. The turntable category continues to be a source of strong sales […]
If you’ve never done so or it’s been a while, you should cue up “Metronomic Underground,” the opening track on Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup. Released in March, 1996, […]
Brilliant Corners’ Aneesh will be playing the Sound of Make Believe party this Saturday, September 23rd! Aneesh, along with his brother Amit, are founders and owner of the […]
There are records that are as potent as psychedelics. Records that whoosh you into another realm the moment the stylus locks into the groove, embrace you in their […]
This week, while much of the music world has been discussing the blowback from Rolling Stone cofounder Jann Wenner’s confounding interview with David Marchese at The New York […]
Join us September 18th from 2-5 p.m. at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to EM Records! While building our in-house collection at In Sheep’s […]
Back with our recent favorites from Los Angeles, Xiamen, Sweden, UK, Ghana, Chicago, New York. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and […]
In advance of her mesmerizing new album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, the LA-based harpist recommends some gems. You’ll want to carve big chunks of time out of your busy […]
Carmen Villain shares five recent favorites in anticipation of her live performance next week at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. One of our favorite artists performing at the upcoming […]
Join us for a listening session dedicated today to Richard D. James’ aka Aphex Twin from 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC. Although many consider Aphex Twin’s two […]
The Gondwana Records boss shares five essential favorites. Manchester-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Matthew Halsall has a new album coming out tomorrow! Inspired by the breathtaking sea views […]
Inside the Harvest Time Project, an ambitious archival initiative created for Pharoah Sanders’ website, is a simple story about the birth of ‘Love Will Find a Way,’ the […]
The U-Turn Audio Orbit has been refreshed with a new tonearm, revamped drive system and other changes. The little engine that could is tucked away in a suburb […]
Join us for a listening session dedicated to Japanese ambient classics today 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC. Let’s talk about the sonics of water and the way […]
John Carroll Kirby continues to expand the world of his Huell Howser-inspired travelogue series. John Carroll Kirby has been keeping busy this past year. Since we hosted him […]
Remembering a musician and thinker whose work created a singular kind of bliss. When Stars of the Lid started releasing music in the mid-1990s, critics and tastemakers had […]
The birds aren’t an affectation on the first record by Flaer. Their chirps score Preludes because the artist behind the project, the visual and musical artist Realf Heygate, […]
Join us for a dedicated listening session today 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC. The Chicago-born, Los Angeles based label Numero Group recently celebrated it’s 20th anniversary. Founded […]
Join us for a krautrock listening party this Friday at the JACCC private Japanese garden. Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt: The core members of visionary […]
When it tore through London before taking over the world in the early 1990s, the jungle/drum ‘n bass scene was unlike any other in the world. Harnessing samplers, […]
Enter the world of Planet Q, a “beautiful, secluded safe space” lovingly hand-crafted by artists Kyoko Takenaka and Tomoki Sanders. A little over a year ago, Pure Person […]
On Monday in New York, we’ll be spinning Brazilian classics as part of a weekly listening session. Unless you’re looking for a collection of toe-tapping ditties designed for […]
The 200 watt per channel vintage amplifier contains two separate mono amplifiers and can drive almost anything. If you’ve never spent any time on HiFiShark while searching for […]
Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground. In a disputed territory called Fashaga near the border of Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea lives a man whose name, […]
Join us Saturday at ISC HQ to celebrate Brin & Dustin’s album release on Leaving Records. Two of our favorite local electronic artists come together on Texture II, […]
Many deep listeners and hi-fi heads have been inculcated into the Church of Spiritual Jazz through prominent disciples including Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra, all travelers […]
Nostalgic world music from longtime Hosono collaborator Soichiro Suzuki a.k.a. World Standard. Today, we present one of the more understated but also consistently prolific artists from the extended […]
Dive into a favorite from our collection at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC and join us for a listening party Thursday 4-8pm. The story goes that Hydroplane, the self-titled […]
The Birmingham, England band led by Trish Keenan left an indelible mark on the post-shoegaze sound of the ’90s and ’00s. It’s a Tuesday and we woke up […]
Join us for a dedicated listening session today 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC. As we continue our opening days at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC, we thought we’d […]
The Akron-based “Lemon friends” have a new album coming soon on London’s Last Resort. In Akron, Ohio, four friends get together every Tuesday with gas station snacks and […]
“They were from the left, these kids, but the traditional left didn’t agree with their ideas, and the right neither.“ During an interview with the director Marcelo Machado, […]
Ecoustics guides us through the history of recorded playback from Edison’s Phonograph to Thorens and Technics. Almost 145 years have elapsed since Edison’s Phonograph was patented. Since then, […]
Ever the explorer, the British folk guitarist and songwriter carved a singular path, mixing jazz, dub and Echoplex textures. Few testimonials carry more weight than that of the […]
Planet Q is available for pre-order now via In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi Selects and Pure Person Press! To explore and absorb Planet Q, the new record by artists […]
Experimental trailblazers join Meredith Monk for a supercharged musical ride celebrating her 80th birth year. Easily one of the most influential vocalists of our time, Meredith Monk is a […]
Contort yourself !! Let’s talk about logo hunting, one of the many strategies for finding jewels amid the junk when you’re out looking for unknown sure-shots. It shouldn’t […]
Munich-based Mongolian singer Enji Erkhem expands her sound with an international quintet. Following up on her amazing 2021 album Ursgal, Mongolian singer Enji Erkhem dives further inward on […]
Join our ECM Dedicated Listening at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC today from 3-7pm! On Monday at our new location in Lower Manhattan, we’ll officially resume our regular programming […]
Join us every Monday 2-5pm for dedicated listening session at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC. With our new location now open in Lower Manhattan, it’s finally time for us […]
The go-to book on the Lower Manhattan post-disco scene is required reading – and a great resource. One of the first tasks after moving into a new neighborhood […]
The legendary Japanese designer has worked with everyone from Nike to Pokémon. He’s also made dubwise dance and pop music… Hiroshi Fujiwara is a name most often associated […]
His sublime score for Burden of Proof, the HBO limited true crime series, is as haunting as it is beautiful. The haunting Chuck Johnson score for HBO’s limited […]
Planar magnetic and ribbon speakers offer a unique aesthetic and approach to sound reproduction. Planar magnetic headphones have been the tip of the spear during the Head-Fi revolution and […]
One of our all-time favorite records is finally getting a proper reissue… By 1977, Pharoah Sanders was moving through a particularly notable transition. Three years prior, his eight-year […]
‘Point of Entry’ is a serenely beautiful “personal folk” album perfect for the small hours. Years before the recent ambient music boom, Scottish musician Jonny Nash and his […]
There’s a new collection of previously unreleased Arthur Russell music out now… Last year marked the 30th anniversary of Arthur Russell’s passing, a melancholy milestone that served as […]
A breathtaking new vinyl version of John Coltrane’s ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ comes to the market. Over the past five years, a growing number of specialized labels or sublabels have […]
Phi-Psonics sophomore album ‘Octava’ is out now via Matthew Halsall‘s Gondwana Records. Longtime friends of In Sheep’s Clothing, Phi-Psonics is a rising jazz group from Los Angeles, led […]
Epic concerts and excerpts that illustrate why the Boredoms’ mesmerizing tribal explorations are unlike anything else on the planet. We’ve celebrated the Boredoms before, and recently added DJ […]
Ethereal dream pop, ambient jazz, electroacoustic, low-key indie rock, and more recent favorites. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
It’s not a coincidence that the birth of electronic dance music coincided with the rise of animated computer graphics. Scene: It’s 1993 and you just called the rave […]
Making Time ∞ returns to Fort Mifflin with 100+ acts. Check out some of our favorites. This site generally focuses on happenings in our home turf of Los […]
Incredible 16mm footage featuring Keith Hudson, Big Youth, John Lydon (Sex Pistols), Ari Up (The Slits), Tapper Zukie, and more! Few have experienced more than Don Letts when […]
Don’t miss Eli Winter this Sunday, June 25th at the Lodge Room in Highland Park. Over the past half-decade, the Houston-born, Chicago-based instrumental guitarist and writer Eli Winter […]
Listen to ambient music in the natural, biodiverse landscapes of the Descanso Gardens! Following up from last year’s smash hit, Tonalism, dublab’s night time ambient music extravaganza, returns […]
First-ever vinyl release of the artist’s Eno-mixed 1989 concert near the World Trade Center. We’ve previously written about Jon Hassell’s legendary 1989 performances at the Financial Center in […]
Ritualistic soundscapes from one of the leading figures in Mexican ambient music. As ambient music continues to rise in popularity in the United States and around the world, […]
Affordable vintage CD players from Marantz, Harman Kardon, Sony, Nakamichi, Rega, and more! For decades, the main format-facing argument between analog freaks and their CD-loving counterparts revolved around […]
Remembering a Detroit legend… To hear the late Ron Murphy discuss cutting records is like getting the lowdown on designing lamps from Charles Lewis Tiffany. The Detroit audio […]
Oddly therapeutic, ambient club sounds from the mysterious Noriko aka Dream Dolphin. Definitely one of the best artist names we’ve ever heard, Dream Dolphin is the ambient and […]
Jack J and Suzanne Kraft will play Zebulon together on Saturday, July 1st. If you’ve been following the selections on this site, there’s a very good chance you’ve […]
The McIntosh ML1 MKII is a unique loudspeaker where vintage style meets contemporary sound. Vintage Audio has become a huge trend in the high-end space; loudspeaker companies including Klipsch, […]
A subtle, cool masterpiece that upended popular music. Astrud Gilberto recorded “The Girl from Ipanema” because no other singer in the studio could do so in English. It […]
The story of Deep City Records, Miami’s Motown. In the early 1960s, Willie Clarke and Johnny Pearsall were two school teachers who met at Florida A&M University and […]
Words, tracks, and guest playlists from Ghostly International’s founder Sam Valenti IV. Dig in the crates all you want, but if you don’t have a clue what you’re […]
And: How a multimillion-dollar audio company was born after a series of listening sessions. In the early 1950s, a 32-year-old audio afficiando named Hideo Matsushita landed a job […]
Ally O’Neil chats with jazz legend Azar Lawrence. Los Angeles saxophone player Azar Lawrence is known for his work with McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis, but that just […]
Celebrating the eye candy that sold ear candy. This is a post without many words. Mostly the aim is to offer drool-worthy, curious, or otherwise engaging advertisements from […]
Essential albums from Chicago-based from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Gia Margaret. “Instrumental music it can be kind of endless. Sometimes you wonder if what you made is music at […]
Don’t miss Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald, King Britt, and DJ Holographic this Thursday at MOCA Geffen. Detroit techno visionary Carl Craig needs little introduction, but for our […]
Listen back to Nuggets producer Lenny Kaye in conversation with Tana Yonas. On April 20, 2023, dublab, In Sheep’s Clothing, & Rhino Records presented the first listen of […]
This morning’s post is devoted to the Japanese graffiti artist turned occasional music video animator Katsura Moshino. Though hardly a household name, and despite the minimal output available […]
Klipsch and Wharfedale speakers can work exceptionally well in smaller spaces with the right components. Space. Not the final frontier but the amount of room that all of […]
A look at the experimental musician and video artist’s work and influence (and featuring a Peter Brötzmann cameo) This week the renowned American Masters series on PBS premiered […]
Rare grooves from Armenian selectors Zach Asdourian and Anaïs Gyulbudaghyan. Discotchari is a new project from LA-based record selectors Zach Asdourian and Anaïs Gyulbudaghyan. Named after a song […]
The 33 track playlist features Alva Noto, Erik Satie, Ennio Morricone, J.S. Bach, Debussy, and Laurel Halo. When David Bowie passed, he gifted the world his final album, […]
A home for vinyl and analog culture in Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv cultural hub Beit Romano (Romano House) is a stunning compound that houses restaurants, a jazz […]
One of the greatest dancehall videos on YouTube… Precious dancehall history on YouTube… In the early ’70s, the People’s National Party (PNP) and Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) began […]
A sonic trip through Latin America with selections by El Marchante’s Osmar Romero. Last Friday on Cinco de Mayo, we presented a special listening session at the Japanese […]
Listen to one of the great jazz quartets from the CD era. The 1990s will never be known as a decade of great jazz. An era in which […]
Recent favorites from Chicago, Brooklyn, New Zealand, Basque, Amsterdam, Munich, Tokyo, and Sweden. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
The jazz supergroup features Benji B, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, and more. The new double album London Brew was originally slated to be a 50th anniversary ode to […]
The LA-based ambient country-folk duo share recent favorites! Last month, the meditative Los Angeles instrumental outfit North Americans released Long Cool World, its fifth album overall and second […]
One of the best used electrostatic loudspeakers if you can find one… I vividly remember the day I flipped over the copy of Stereophile at the newsstand and saw my […]
In 1964 as the Beatles were going viral among the kids and remaking youth culture along the way, Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy were ferrying the adults to […]
Outsider experimental electropop from Russia. One of our favorite recent discoveries… Virtually unknown outside of the motherland, Тальник (written as Talnik in English / translates to Willow) is […]
The science of sound – how high-fidelity systems do what they do, and why – has been a subject of obsessive fascination since the rise of stereophonic systems […]
An essential album in any collection, ‘Erik Satie: Piano Music’ featured cover illustration by Pablo Picasso. One of the best additions to your record collection, and to your […]
In anticipation of our upcoming collaboration in New York, In Sheep’s Clothing’s Phil Cho speaks with Port Sa’id co-founder Zack Bar. Years before our first listening bar opened […]
Folklorist Derek Piotr speaks with Austrian experimental electronic producer and guitarist Christian Fennesz. I am pleased to tidy up my “Heroes Series” with a fifth and final entry […]
The long out-of-print holy grail private press album is finally being reissued on vinyl. One of the best parts of being a music freak is having your brain chemistry forever […]
Understand the basic audio components of a Hi-Fi stereo system so you know what to look for when shopping for audiophile equipment. Amplifier. Amp. Preamp. Integrated amp. Phono […]
“It’s all business as usual, really. Chaos, but good chaos.” That description of Mark E. Smith and the Fall opens the BBC 4’s 2004 documentary of the Mancunian […]
Minimalist ambient guitar music inspired by John Martyn, Erik Satie, Alice Coltrane, and Terry Riley. Santa Cruz-based label Smiling C returns with another lost gem from the archives. […]
Black Editions Group presents Shizuka’s sole studio album, 1994’s Heavenly Persona, for the first time on vinyl. Mind your volume control when dropping the needle on the opening […]
“Imagine the future” with Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum and Los Angeles-based rave project DISCOSXXX. One of the great UK chill-out room legends, Jonah Sharp began his career […]
Folklorist Derek Piotr shares recordings from his fieldwork archive. I made my first recording for the Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive in March, 2020, and formally launched the project […]
“One of Rota’s most eerie and enigmatic scores, as if the Maestro had finally poured into a soundtrack all of his love for esotericism.” Those who follow the […]
Coming soon to Lower Manhattan, the new space will include a listening bar, record store, restaurant, and record library. We are excited to announce a collaboration with one […]
The event will include a Ras G streetwear drop and performances from Dibiase, Mndsgn, Koreatown Oddity, and AshTreJinkins. On April 4th aka “Ras G Day”, Roland, Poobah Records and dublab are […]
The beloved Ethiopian jazz pianist was 99 years old when she passed earlier this week… You likely know by now that Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guèbrou, the piano-playing, Jerusalem-based Ethiopian […]
John Jones in conversation with South of North founder Dominik Rodemann. I was first introduced to the Amsterdam-based label South of North by way of their 2018 debut […]
39 minutes of futuristic electronic music and psychedelic visuals on MTV’s Amp program. As one of the earliest artists on the essential 1990s label Astralwerks, Future Sound of […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. A Chance For Peace. Soul And Soledad. The Universal Truth. Today marks the historic return of one of our all-time favorite independent […]
The massive set features new music by Nick Cave, Blake Mills, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Seu Jorge, Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes and dozens more Listen to the birds. That’s […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye shares his experience with a stunning direct drive turntable. Back in 2021, I wrote about what attracts me to Vintage Audio. I discussed several factors, like style, […]
Listen to one of Thurston Moore’s favorite guitar recordings. In 1967, a young electric guitarist named Sonny Sharrock joined flute player Herbie Mann’s jazz band. It was a […]
Recent ISC favorites from Malmö, Kingston, Newcastle, London, and Los Angeles. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks […]
The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion […]
Dip into the world of Tokyo’s 5AM and Thinner Groove ~ no matter what time you at ~ Perfectly out of time, 5AM’s debut album Pre Zz hasn’t […]
Two years ago, the Barcelona-based DJ, writer and electronic music expert Philip Sherburne teamed up with Albert Salinas to launch Balmat Records, a boutique label devoted to experimental […]
Past & present sounds from LA-based saxophone player Patrick Shiroishi. The Los Angeles saxophone player, improvisor, composer and inexhaustible creator-collaborator Patrick Shiroishi doesn’t seem to stay in the […]
If you can find a pair of DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 3 Loudspeakers, these are vintage bookshelf speakers that will never disappoint. DeVore Fidelity has been handcrafting world class […]
“An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.” Next year will mark the singular British label Hyperdub’s 20th anniversary, […]
Today, we’re sharing this beautiful recap article and videos from Grand Performances x dublab’s tribute concert to Alice Coltrane. As both a groundbreaking musician and spiritual leader, Alice […]
One listener’s experience having his sonic mind blown… Getting lost in music is an act of vanishing, and if the ultimate goal of high-fidelity sound, vinyl culture and […]
The definitive documentary of one of our favorite singer-songwriters is streaming until March 1st. Don’t miss! It’s hard to pin down where to start with an artist that […]
Going deep inside a hypnotic recording derived from a Serbian brass band. It’s up to you to choose which of the below pieces you want to listen to […]
Join us for the Moonface Experience on March 11th at XTR Studios, with music and sound curated by In Sheep’s Clothing. If you visited the In Sheep’s Clothing […]
“Visions of space and atmosphere – the absence of busy, human life – populate a lot of what I do. It’s regenerative, an existential thing.” Nearly 30 years […]
Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele follow the signal chain from Mancuso’s Loft parties to Klipsch and Hope, Arkansas. Love Injection is a monthly print-first music fanzine, record label, […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye takes a look at a few of the most prominent audiophile jazz labels around. A big bone of contention in audiophile circles is which stage […]
Abstract, ambient and classical music from the legendary Cologne-based electronic label. In 2001, electronic music was at a crossroads, one that felt more like a massive highway interchange […]
‘Raven’ is out now with contributions from OCA, LSDXOXO, Junglepussy, Bambii, Asmara, and KAYTRANADA. “When the world needed her most… she vanished.” Last Friday, after a six year […]
Want to get inspired about dance music? About the exuberant, profound joy of dancing itself? About the importance of physical spaces for stretching out and-or letting loose? And […]
Quality speakers don’t have to cost a fortune. Ecoustics shares eight budget speaker options from $60 – $499. We don’t need to tell our readership that inflation has […]
The mysterious true story of mid-century New York City singer songwriter Connie Converse… What happened to Connie Converse? When she vanished in 1974 at age 50, never to […]
Listening and analog culture meets a master of ceremonies and dance music at Dante’s HiFi. In the fall of ‘22, we flew to Miami, the Magic City, after […]
Watch Peter Greenaway’s ‘Four American Composers’ featuring John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley. Few people could discuss listening like John Cage. One of the great […]
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the home audio explosion was documented in real time. Online archives have digitized the bounty. It’s true. Those wanting to better understand […]
Dublab has released a new book chronicling the non-profit online radio station’s storied 20+ year history. It’s difficult to imagine what Los Angeles’ music scene would be like […]
On Feb. 2, 1973, the famed production premiered after The Tonight Show. For much of the 1970s and some of the ’80s, a weekly syndicated rock show called […]
Love Injection has launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish a compendium of Klipsch’s Dope From Hope newsletters. Here’s some big news for all our fellow Klipsch fans… Nearly […]
By now you’ve likely learned that Tom Verlaine, the brilliant New York guitarist, singer and lyricist best known for his work with Television, has passed. Though a foundational […]
“Motion is freedom of expression, motion is a real vibration on conventional rhythms, Motion is George Oban.” Though we’re music lovers constantly searching for the next new sound, […]
Hear the late Talk Talk founder’s early attempt at landing a record deal. Before forming Talk Talk in 1981, Mark Hollis was a singer and songwriter attempting, as […]
Mirage Loudspeakers are coming back. The storied Canadian brand has been reborn and we’re really excited to see if the M-1 is returning. If you are old enough […]
In the third issue of Synapse, a mid-1970s magazine devoted to news and features on the burgeoning field of electronic music, editors Douglas Lynner and Angela Schill offer […]
Art, mid-century furniture design, and stereo system all in one… One of the most iconic speakers ever made, the JBL-Ranger Paragon Integrated Stereophonic Reproductor was the first mass-produced […]
By the year 2000, various forms of electronic dance music had begun consuming global music culture, part of an evolution that began with the rise of home computers, […]
South African kwaito, bhangra, dancehall, Nigerian digi-roots, and more from Toronto’s Gripbuster, Kool Ty. Gripbuster is an online record shop run by Toronto’s Kool Ty, one half of […]
With his passing, celebrating the great drummer, singer and composer through video footage With his metronomic timing, calm vocal delivery, and movie-star good looks, musician Yukihiro Takahashi left […]
“Cute” space age healing music from Dr. Yann Tomita’s Audio Science Laboratory. It’s Doopee Time! Here’s an essential listen that’s been posted about quite a bit online, but […]
The 5+ hour, 79-track mix moves from Coil to the Scientist to Eno, YMO, Model 500, 808 State, and beyond. Got plans this weekend? Autechre’s got the dance-all-night […]
An Afrofuturist film featuring George Clinton, Juan Atkins, Goldie, DJ Spooky, and A Guy Called Gerald. Directed by British artist, writer, theorist John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History is […]
Richard D. James has never released a sanctioned DJ mix. Fans have stepped in to meet the demand. More than three decades into his career, Richard D. James […]
The Leak Stereo 230 offers hi-res streaming support, MQA, DSD, and a MM phono stage. The vintage audio theme remained very popular with both consumers and manufacturers in 2022; Klipsch, […]
Improvisational Turntablism, Meta-Concert, Hypermobility, and more key performances from artist Christian Marclay. The visual and sound artist Christian Marclay is best known for The Clock, his 24-hour film […]
Music by Kevin “Mr. Groove” McCord “for all who like M-M-M (Mellow Mood Music).” Heralded by Dâm-Funk as one of his favorite producers, Kevin “Mr. Groove” McCord might […]
Looking back on 2022… As we at In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi prepare for a thrill-filled 2023, our final 2022 round-up focuses on a few things: Posts that you […]
A list about lists featuring (you guessed it) more music! Listening to and collecting music isn’t a competition, which is one reason why we try to avoid using […]
Learn the basics of setting up a dub session from lovers rock / reggae legend Dennis Bovell. Originally published in the December, 1977 issue of London-based Sounds magazine, […]
A primer on the birth and evolution of recorded sound and the rise of high-fidelity stereo systems… Cheesy 1990s graphics? Check. Dated approach to documentary TV? Obviously. Woefully […]
A guide to great music released in 2022, organized by moods… Where are we now (cont.)? From our experience, falling in love with a new record is sometimes […]
If you notice some of your older music-head friends seeming a little out of sorts over the holidays, know that it’s because we lost Terry Hall, the co-founder […]
Old is new… More favorites! Where are we now (cont.)? Well, in the reissue and compilation world things are looking busier than ever. New imprints pop up on […]
Record totes, weights, portable turntable, books for your beloved vinyl and hi-fi friends. Here’s a challenge for you: The holiday season is in full effect. Those who celebrate […]
Brooklyn-based Ohm Acoustics have been manufacturing loudspeakers for almost 48 years. A deep dive by the Budget Audiophiler. There is a wonderful scene in Bosch when after a long day […]
“When I found out E2-E4 was played in clubs, I couldn’t imagine people dancing to it…” When the great German musician and thinker Manuel Göttsching passed on Monday […]
More music is always better… So here are more favorites from 2022. Where are we now? 2022 was another big year of change for us at In Sheep’s […]
Private press folk compiled by Perfect Lives’ Bruno Halper and Samuel Strang for the great NTS Radio. It’s no secret that the holidays can be hard. All these […]
Makers across the country have expanded their shelving options. Another tactic? Buy your woodworking friend a bottle of Scotch. Let’s not belabor the point: Ikea’s KALLAX shelving unit, […]
Heels & Souls are pressing Pilgrims of the Minds’ West Coast classic What’s Your Shrine? for the first time ever on vinyl. Turn the dial back to 1996. […]
Deep cut anime and video game soundtrack selections from Motion Ward’s Ura. Los Angeles-based experimental electronic label Motion Ward continues to be on a roll, albeit at a […]
Don’t miss Ulla performing live this Thursday at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. The term glitch was coined sometime in the 1990s to describe an emergent movement of artists […]
This is a film about listening. Documentary filmmaker Sam Green invites us into experimental composer Annea Lockwood’s world of listening. Highly recommended for anyone interested in “deep listening” […]
Featuring hurdy-gurdy, harp, voice, and Bruno Menny’s arrangements. In 1977, when much of Western music culture was being upended by both the distorted aggression of the global punk […]
The spacious North Park listening bar / lounge features four Klipschorns and two reel-to-reel tape machines. A few months ago, we took the Pacific Surfliner down the coast […]
As the remarkable series approaches its 10th anniversary, a look at the musician-producer’s online project. In 2013, the musician and producer Jim O’Rourke started releasing a series of […]
Send a friend or loved one a specially curated vinyl package for the holidays! A few months ago, we asked members of the In Sheep’s Clothing Record Club […]
Ecoustics’ Robert Silva dives into the basics of subwoofers and what you need to know. In order to experience great sound in a speaker setup, you need speaker […]
Absolutely essential Detroit ambient from the legend Neil Olivierra a.k.a. the Detroit Escalator Co. By the mid-1990s, synthesizers had fully integrated with computing software, resulting in a kind […]
Neapolitan duo Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina aka Nu Genea join us to discuss their latest album Bar Mediterraneo. In 1975, Napoli Centrale, a group founded by […]
Essential new music from the great Jeff Parker… Starting in 2018, LA-based guitarist Jeff Parker set up camp at the Enfield Tennis Academy in Highland Park for an […]
Deep and dubby electronic selections from Crates LA… Those of you who have been following along should be well aware of music blog / record seller / DJ […]
A new reissue of Horace Andy’s Wackie’s classic ‘Dance Hall Style’ has arrived and is available now in the shop. In 1982, Horace Andy carried his sweet, sweet […]
Audio-Technica celebrates 60 years with a limited run of their cult classic Sound Burger. We’re a little late on this, but figured it makes sense to share anyway […]
Though many of us have spent hours (days? weeks?) on end consumed in Can live performances over the years – really, is there any better reason for YouTube? […]
Recent favorites from Los Angeles, Detroit, New Zealand, Melbourne, and North West England. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
“I don’t think we’ve ever feared how people would react to our music,” Mimi Parker told the Quietus last year. The musically fearless Parker, who with husband-collaborator Alan […]
Cosmic Americana recorded in a two room cottage in Los Osos, California. I can clearly remember the first time I heard Jon Iverson’s music. It was a quiet […]
A deep dive into Albert Ayler’s classic free jazz composition “Ghosts.” Three years before the great free jazz tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was found dead in the East […]
Don’t buy a vintage turntable until you read this. Here’s what you need to know. Do vintage turntables really offer a better listening experience than modern tables below $2,000? There […]
Forty-five years ago, the respected home audio magazine Hi-Fi Stereo Review published an overview of new-model cassette decks. Written by a hi-fi critic named Craig Stark, the 1988 […]
Don’t mingle with vampaya… The spookiest weekend of the year is upon us and what better way to celebrate than with a selection of haunted dub and reggae? […]
Sun Ra improvising on a Prophet VS synthesizer in 1986? Pump it straight into our veins. In the summer of that year while in Boston with his band, […]
Looking to build a great sounding system for under $5k? The Wharfedale Linton Heritage Speakers are a great place to start. Wharfedale’s founder, Gilbert Briggs built his first […]
And then read Dave Tompkins’ book about the “machine that tears speech to pieces,” How to Wreck a Nice Beach. Before you watch the below 10-minute documentary on […]
The lives and recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti. Earlier this month Cosey Fanni Tutti, cofounder of Throbbing Gristle and one half of Chris […]
An affordable handmade 2.3 watt tube amplifier that hits much harder than its power rating would suggest. Over the past 23 years, I have had the opportunity to […]
Going deep with cult Detroit electro-techno outfit Drexciya. Sometimes submergence is the only way to explore and understand the mission of a particular artist: dive in, ignore everything […]
The experimental guitarist’s latest album Shebang! has arrived on Chicago-based independent label Drag City. To discover Oren Ambarchi’s discography is like coming upon a shimmering labyrinth in the […]
How a tiny turntable restoration company turned a new generation of vinyl listeners into the cult of Thorens. Have you taken a look at turntable prices lately? Inflation […]
On June 1, 1973, a drunken Robert Wyatt fell out of a fourth-floor window and broke his spine. A founding member of British band Soft Machine, in a […]
German rave classics and modern dance grooves from Kompakt Records’ Perel. Annegret Fiedler aka Perel has come a long way since her early years singing and playing in punk […]
John Oswald’s deconstructionist ‘Plunderphonics’ collage approach meets the Grateful Dead. In the early 1990s, the Canadian sound artist John Oswald was granted full access to the Grateful Dead’s […]
Essential pre-iPhone era archival footage from dub soundsystem parties. If you’re like us and have yet to experience the legendary dub sound systems of Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti-I, […]
Haunting performances from Julee Cruise, Peter Ivers, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Scott, and more. Listen in on any conversation about David Lynch’s music and the name Angelo Badalamenti will […]
Hallucinogenic journeys with the soon-to-be-disbanding Japanese psychedelic rock band. Earlier this year the great Japanese psych-prog-folk-jam-band Kikagaku Moyo released what they say will be their swan song. Called […]
We’ve opened up a few more spots in the Record Club! Learn more about the club from a few of its members. Last year, we launched a project […]
An underrated vintage receiver designed by one of the most respected sound engineers of our time. Outside of audio circles, it is not well known that Advent manufactured […]
A collection of interviews with the late great “Astral Traveler,” Pharoah Sanders. This weekend the world lost a giant. Pharoah Sanders, whose singular approach to composition and performance […]
Explore some of Impulse! Records’ latest releases ahead of our in-store listening party 5-7pm tonight. Some logos hold a special kind of power. Even design elements – color […]
A look into one of our favorite new labels from Dublin, Ireland. In the last few years, a new wave of left-field artists has emerged from the lush […]
Recent favorites from Brazil, Japan, Toronto, Australia, London, and more. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
The Quad 303 and 33 are two of the best British vintage audio components from before you were born. How do they sound decades later? As much as […]
tl;dr: It’s not fun. Do it very carefully. It’s going to be expensive. Your back will ache and your legs will throb – even if you use a […]
The Melbourne duo has released a live video and album recorded at Syndey Opera House. If you were lucky enough to catch Melbourne-based duo HTRK on their international […]
Considered one of the great albums of the 1970s, it’s a mystic Rastafarian ode to Jah. The refrain arrives as if the singing narrators are announcing a new […]
Immerse yourself in an intimate Brooklyn listening space. Anyone who has spent time in New York knows that it’s a loud city. The streets are constantly bustling with […]
A portable listening party with George the Poet and producer Benbrick. In the genre-bending BBC podcast “Have You Heard George’s Podcast,” George the Poet and producer Benbrick combine […]
Ambient translations in dub, Japan in the ’80s, and future music with visionary bass player / producer Bill Laswell. A few months ago, news arrived that iconic bass […]
Garage house, balearic grooves, boogie, and more from local DJ Xica Soul. One of our favorite selectors in town, Daniela Zepeda aka Xica Soul knows how to make […]
A potent alchemy of texture and rhythm akin to ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’ or early Material albums. During the spring of 1984 in a semi-rural […]
What you need to know about understanding frequency response curves of loudspeakers. Here’s an essential archival article from Paul Diacomo, a brilliant writer and longtime Polk Audio executive […]
Extreme Animals is a long-running project by artist Jacob Ciocci. A crucial member of the ’00s Providence, RI music and art scene that helped birth Lightning Bolt, he […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye shares his best record cleaning solutions to maintain your records. When I went to Japan as an ESL teacher in my mid-20s, it marked not […]
Fly or Die. Rest in peace jaimie branch. Like the rest of the world, Tuesday afternoon turned dark for us as news broke that trumpeter, bandleader, and composer […]
Remembering an iconic ’90s track that bridged Northwest indie-pop and sample-based electronic music. In mid-1990s America, the independent underground music world was frustratingly balkanized. Detroit was producing sturdy […]
Derek Piotr speaks to Death is Not the End label boss Luke Owen. For the fourth edition of our Heroes Series, I sat down with my current partner-in-crime […]
ISC’s John Jones speaks to the “bubblin’ up” production trio from Chicago. At In Sheep’s Clothing, we’ve quickly become fans of the Chicago three-piece outfit Purelink. Their first […]
Mid-80’s digital new age meets the voices of Lyra Pramuk, Holly Herndon, and Mindar the Buddhist Robot on the Seahawks’ latest album. Let’s talk about headphone music – […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye shares his adventures with the Klipsch KLF-30 speakers. On March 15th I had the opportunity to hear my second ever pair of Klipsch loudspeakers. In […]
“This film is the ultimate reference about reggae. A pure gem.” One great thing about a crucial music documentary is its ability to crack open a portal to […]
A tribute to singular musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane in celebration of her 85th birthday. Here’s another very special happening coming up at Grand Performances in downtown […]
Sights, sounds, and mathematics from Japan’s leading audiovisual artist Ryoji Ikeda. Since his arrival on the international stage in the mid-1990s via his early releases for Touch, +/-, sonic […]
Synth-pop, indie, and dubwise downtempo from NYC based DJ Yibing! About a month ago, I got a chance to catch New York based DJ Yibing play a poolside […]
All hail the Sims 2: Nightlife soundtrack. In the late 1990s a trio of 10-inch records by a little known London beat-based duo called Lemon Jelly hit the […]
In the late 1980s, rap labels Jive and Profile issued a series of killer house and techno comps featuring remixes by Marshall Jefferson, Kevin Saunderson and dozens more. […]
Derek Piotr continues his ‘Heroes’ interview series with Finnish audio sculptress Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF. I am delighted to introduce Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka poemproducer, aka AGF. Antye and […]
Efficient Space returns with another narrative driven comp, this time focusing on the regional backwaters of North America. If you were a regular at the ISC listening bar, […]
McIntosh, Technics, GLI, Acoustic Research, and more legendary gear and memorabilia from the godfather of rap, DJ Kool Herc. Later this month the esteemed auction house Christie’s will […]
Recently one of the great mix CDs of the so-called electronica age, Kruder & Dorfmeister’s The K&D Sessions from 1998, finally landed on streaming services a quarter-century after […]
It’s been almost two decades since Sun Ra, the enigmatic artist who reported Saturn as his birthplace, left our planet and yet – the cosmic jazz pioneer’s Afrofuturist […]
One of the best and easiest ways to support independent artists and physical media… It will surprise some to learn that the venerable Maxell tape is still in […]
Phonographs, shellac discs, dusty 45’s, and archival videos curated and presented by Lance and April Ledbetter. For the past 20-plus years, the Georgia-based archival imprint Dust-to-Digital has been […]
With 2022 more than halfway gone, we figured it was time to wrangle some of our favorite records into a loose collection. What follows is a selection of […]
A suite of raga-inspired compositions and improvisations centered around just tuning, deep listening, and resonant spaces. To better appreciate the sublime forthcoming collaboration by Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison […]
A ‘straight ahead’ mix from Naffi’s Brenda Ray including an unreleased track titled “As Time Passes By.” There are many pathways into the world of Brenda Kenny a.k.a. […]
30-minutes of pure cosmic joy and wonder from Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra. By 1972, Sun Ra had firmly established his Arkestra as a formidable presence on […]
The great Miles Davis delivers a heartbreaking performance of Cyndi Lauper’s pop classic. In 1985, the “king of cool” Miles Davis released You’re Under Arrest, a collection of […]
Though criminally underrated as a player, jazz pianist Marian McPartland served a crucial role in facilitating conversations with geniuses. As the host of Piano Jazz, an hour-long interview […]
One of the most iconic Japanese audio brands, vintage Sansui amplifiers have become super hot on the used market and we know why. In my last year of […]
Listen to highlights from the selections. A master at comprehensive musical overviews and the thoughtful unpacking of brilliant sounds, writer Sasha Frere-Jones recently focused his attention on German […]
No one interpreted classics like her. Here are five great ones. When it comes to adapting other writers’ songs, there’s Nina Simone, and everyone else. Raised as a […]
Have prices for vintage Marantz components made them a stretch for a lot of vintage audio fans? Fear not. We have other options. Vintage Marantz components have seen […]
This illuminating hour-long 1993 documentary will rewire your brain. Sometimes you come across a documentary, article, essay or DJ mix that explodes your world. Something you didn’t realize […]
Watch the first part of a two-part doc portrait of the unorthodox Jazz piano great, featuring live performances at the Village Vanguard and intimate BTS footage of 1967 […]
The genius keyboardist’s jazz-funk band was on fire – and a pro film crew captured the moment. In 1973, a restless Herbie Hancock, fresh from his cosmically free […]
“Nobody was willing to market the sound of Hindi New Wave.” The much-anticipated followup to Naya Beat’s critically lauded debut compilation South Asian Dance and Electronic Music 1983-1992 […]
There is no equality without access to comprehensive reproduction health care. Another dark day in America last Friday as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade eliminating the […]
Two legends of German music deliver nearly two hours of improvised bliss. In 1999, two towering figures of electronic music, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius, stood onstage in […]
Recent favorites from Italy, Brazil, Leipzig, Memphis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music […]
Watch an ’80s tourist promo for the legendary open-air Ibiza nightclub that rivaled Studio 54. Summer has officially arrived, and in light of all this heat and sunshine […]
Tana Yonas speaks to the great Hailu Mergia before his June 24th performance at The Regent, Los Angeles. Haliu Mergia’s story started in an unassuming small village just […]
A selection of the best integrated amplifiers currently available from Rega, Yamaha, Cambridge Audio, Audiolab, NAD, and Iota. For this installment of “Best Right Now,” eCoustics Ian White […]
The founder of the famed loudspeaker company guides visitors through his lab and headquarters. For a while the Klipsch Speaker company in Hope, Arkansas not only built and […]
American-made floorstanding loudspeakers offer a taste high-end audio for under $2,000. I know I’ve been harping on “affordability” a lot recently on eCoustics. Boring. Yawn. I get it. […]
Watch the Throbbing Gristle cofounder’s innovative visual work of the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Evolution requires mutation,” wrote the late British musician, visual artist and “pandrogyny” advocate Genesis Breyer […]
Dive into seven essential tracks from Melbourne’s CS + Kreme ahead of their LA debut at ISC HQ on June 25th. The weird tunes world is more accessible […]
A short retrospective on the Twin Peaks crooner, along with some of our favorite recordings from the late dream-pop icon. Eerie, otherworldly, the epitome of ethereal, Julee Cruise […]
Watch a documentary on a pair of landmark product releases and the ways they upended global culture. In the relative scheme of things, it wasn’t too long ago […]
Part 2 on how the French singer “borrowed” from the Nigerian drum master. (Editor’s note: this is Part 2 of this Feature, read Part 1 here: https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/serge-gainsbourg-babatunde-olatunji/) Hailing from […]
Nikole Guzman in conversation with visual artist, singer-songwriter, and Prince collaborator Ingrid Chavez. Ingrid Chavez has always been undefinable. Among many other things, she’s a poet, songwriter, singer, […]
A living legend and one of the all-time great sonic explorers, Bill Laswell, needs our help. It is no exaggeration to say that we are huge fans of […]
The journey of a beat from Nigeria to New York to Paris to ‘New York – U.S.A.’ Long before he established a reputation as a clever songwriter who […]
A short documentary filmed in 1974 captures the Scottish folk guitarist in the studio. In the spring of 1974, Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch commenced recording sessions at label […]
Starting in 1963, the guitarist-oudist recorded three versions of his extended work. They will calm you down (and blow you away). Sometimes we all need to call a […]
Baltimore-based musician PJ Dorsey aka Tarotplane shares his five favorite Kosmische records. After giving up music for almost 10 years in the late 90s to mid 2000s, Baltimore-based […]
Ubiquitous on vintage audio marketplaces, the company’s flagship speaker outperforms fancier brands. Once upon a time at an estate sale in the middle of Missouri, two lucky gear […]
An ambient music exhibit featuring spatial audio works by Morton Subotnick, Patrick Gleeson, Craig Leon, Suzanne Ciani, and others. Dublab’s long-running Tonalism series is making it’s way to […]
Watch the 2011 film documenting the genesis of lover’s rock featuring interviews and footage of Dennis Bovell, Jean Adebambo, Janet Kay, and more. The Story of Lover’s Rock […]
Recent favorites from the Bay Area, Indonesia, London via Shanghai, Berlin, and Hungary. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of their founding, an ode to Sade’s fifth album. Some artists transcend taste, are so naturally skilled at conveying universal emotion that their creations […]
Watch the seven-part surreal and transcendental TV opera by the American avant-garde giant. The complete seven acts of Robert Ashley’s celebrated visual work Perfect Lives have been uploaded […]
Before he died at 44 in 1998, the brilliant experimental player was a central figure in ‘80s and ‘90s New York avant-jazz scene. Next year will mark the […]
Step into the world of chillout pioneer Morris Gould aka Mixmaster Morris aka Irresistible Force. “The sampler changed my life,” the British DJ and producer Mixmaster Morris told […]
Though only a 7-inch single, the 1991 record offers a primal primer on the New Zealand experimental scene. Nearly 35 years ago, experimental guitarist Bruce Russell founded a […]
Derek Piotr interviews Nathan Salsburg, musician and curator for the Alan Lomax Archive. I was overjoyed to invite Nathan Salsburg to participate in this series; Nathan and I […]
Three modern sounding loudspeakers with an old-school aesthetic from Klipsch, JBL, and Wharfedale. Consumers and manufacturers love to wax poetically about “vintage” when it comes to loudspeakers and […]
Pachyman comes through with 5 selects prior to his appearance at This Ain’t No Picnic festival. Los Angeles-based musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and all around dub champion Pachy García […]
How a 4-hour drive between Midwestern cities transformed electronic beat music. It’s no coincidence that two of electronic beat music’s most important subgenres, house and techno, were born […]
Crates LA is back for another record pop-up this Saturday 1-7pm at In Sheep’s Clothing Records. In anticipation of the record sale this Saturday, Crates LA has sent […]
Derek Piotr interviews storm chaser / musician Hank Schyma aka Pecos Hank. For anyone with even a casual interest in extreme weather, Pecos Hank should be a household […]
A 1986 story by Barry Walters shined a spotlight on a new dance-floor sound. In 1986, the great music writer Barry Walters, who made his name covering underground […]
Baba Stiltz “In L.A.” is available now exclusively at In Sheep’s Clothing Records and Public Possession. Stockholm-based musician, singer, and producer Baba Stiltz is bringing it “home,” in […]
The extended composition’s best known version is 75 minutes long and features harmonizing by Tom Waits. In the early 1970s, the British minimalist composer Gavin Bryars had begun […]
Exploring the wild world of YouTube channel Are Sounds Electrik? It’s been about 50 years since the synthesizer began easing its way into the mainstream, and man were […]
The Mermaid’s Purse captures a brilliant group of uncategorizable musical explorers. Core member Wall Matthews recalls their work. To best introduce the work of the Entourage Music and […]
Ecoustics’ Jeremy Sikora shares his journey acquiring and restoring the rare Fisher 400 Tube Receiver. The Budget Audiophiler is going to begin this week with a little rant. […]
A look into the great Zulu Warrior, legendary dub soundsystem operator and producer Jah Shaka. “It’s something like seeing the Wizard of Oz for the first time; all […]
Hear a pair of revelatory versions featuring Brian Eno on “splintered” Minimoog. Last week two David Bowie tracks recorded during the Low sessions in 1976 showed up on […]
Six essential new releases to get you through the week. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Buying tip: Aldo Ciccolini’s essential recordings are easily found, exquisitely pressed and helped define a musical movement. In 1956 at the dawn of the hi-fi age, the Italian […]
A new collection by U.K. label Matsuli Music explores the jazz-funk sounds of Club Pelican, a renegade spot in South Africa during the height of Apartheid. The liner […]
Peak Oil’s Brian Foote and Brion Brionson chat ’90s raves, indie rock, and faceless techno bollocks. In the early ‘90s, rave culture exploded across the United States. Generator […]
A book that “travels from the rainforests of the Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.” Earlier this week we […]
The best book on the rise of electronic dance music turns 25 next year. The introduction to Simon Reynolds’ essential book Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno […]
Pino, Blake, and Sam’s ‘Live at Sound City’ is out today via ISC Hi-Fi Selects. Generations apart, Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, and Sam Gendel are in many ways […]
Check out a video explainer on an instrument used by Eno, Bowie, Mark Mothersbaugh and more. The ad copy says it all: “Sound like a pro—make music instantly, […]
Looking for a pair of entry-level bookshelf speakers? Check this honest review from ecoustics on the Klipsch RP-600M. A lot of ink has been spilt about the Klipsch […]
Step into a world of North Carolina mountain singing with music archivist Derek Piotr. A series of recordings collected by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress in […]
An overview of one of the greatest drummers you’ve (likely) never heard. Let’s talk about Susie Ibarra, perhaps the greatest percussionist you’ve never heard. Across three-plus decades, the […]
Listen to highlights from an unsung legend’s early career. To get a sense of the ways in which Timmy Thomas’ music has seeped into contemporary culture, take a […]
Saigon rock & soul, Bollywood steel guitar, Khmer Folk and beyond… For the past 19 years the Seattle label Sublime Frequencies has been traveling the globe in search […]
In light of her recent passing, here is a short musical introduction to the funk pioneer, fashion icon, and bonafide Nasty Gal. Wholly unique, a force to be […]
Recent favorites from New York, Detroit, Akron, and Ukraine. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who read […]
Brilliant footage of the Miles Davis Quintet at peak power. Between Feb. 1969 and Feb. 1970, Miles Davis released eight albums. Near the tail end of that amazing […]
In Sheep’s Clothing announces the first edition of our ISC Hi-FI Selects series. Back in 2018, Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, and Sam Gendel played one of the first […]
The prolific head of Tzadik’s sublime work mixes jazz, Hebrew melodies and genre-bending beauty. In 1995, the New York composer, saxophonist and visionary John Zorn embarked on a […]
A selection of restrained, melodic IDM from 1997. Twenty-five years ago, a barrage of wild, speedy albums came onto the market that propelled the subgenres drum ‘n bass […]
Five mesmerizing tracks by the Austrian experimental electronic producer and instrumentalist. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hotel Paral.lel, the first solo album by Austrian experimental guitarist […]
Get the best sound from your turntable by upgrading its phono cartridge. Vinyl finds itself at an unexpected crossroads in 2022; a new generation of listeners has turned […]
A tipsheet on the trailblazing British duo, who formed after Throbbing Gristle’s early ‘80s breakup. Let’s talk about industrial music. Wait – come back! Not the relentless aggro […]
The producer born James Yancey changed the way hip hop could sound. Last week something wonderfully weird happened: A definitive biography of the great beat producer J Dilla […]
John Jones chats with Lifted’s Andrew Field-Pickering (Max D) and Matt Papich. Lifted is an ever-shifting music ensemble anchored by their two founding members, Andrew Field-Pickering (Max D) […]
Today we take a look at the mighty eighty-plus pound broadcast turntable – Elektromesstechnik’s 927 and its compact kid brother, the EMT 930. Massive, industrial, monochromatic, and most […]
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, here are One Hundred Love Songs, a dive into Lesley Duncan’s seminal 1969 ballad and the endless covers that followed. If you’ve been […]
Post-Can selections from one of our favorite drummers – Jaki Liebezeit. There’s no mistaking the sound of Can drummer Jaki Liebewitz’s pound. Both sparse and complex, the late […]
It’s a composition that “scared the bejabbers” out of David Bowie the first time he heard it. Sometime this week when you’re feeling particularly sane, stable and able […]
The brilliant Brazilian singer, songwriter and political activist Caetano Veloso will turn 80 in August, and given his stature, influence and shimmering output over the past 60-plus years, […]
Recent favorites from Los Angeles, Melbourne, Munich, Dublin, and Algeria. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Limited on space and budget? Check these great sounding bookshelf speakers from $318 and up. Most people love the idea of a pair of floor standing loudspeakers in […]
Instrumental magic from the Chicago underground. Though it’s always been a crucial music center, in the past half-decade a bunch of Chicago avant-jazz players have been commanding the […]
In celebration of his 82nd birthday today, here is a retrospective on Eberhard Weber, the eminent bass innovator, ECM mainstay, and ISC favorite. It’s hard to define the […]
Looking for a classic vintage power amplifier? The Dynaco ST-70 needs to be on your radar if you crave that classic EL34 tube sound. Not all vintage buys […]
Matt Marble’s podcast is a fascinating dive into the esoteric history of musical spiritualism. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you don’t need to be convinced […]
Key moments and tracks from On-U Sound’s premier dub group. You could spend the rest of the winter researching producer, musician and On-U Sound founder Adrian Sherwood – […]
Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du […]
Cosmic soul, breezy soft rock, and latin funk from Crates LA. Crates LA is a blog and music channel dedicated to uncovering obscure and unknown songs across a […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye (Audio Love NYC) shares his journey with two premium vintage turntables from the 70’s. In the early ‘90s I took the digital plunge, and I […]
The great Jeff Parker shares five diverse selections from psychedelic jazz to visionary hip-hop. Jeff Parker is a musician that deals in many worlds. Equally adept at soloing […]
Art Don’t Sleep’s jazz series is back at The Lodge Room on March 13 with The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. If you’re a jazz fan in Los Angeles, […]
A fully comprehensive guide to buying vintage audio from ecoustics’ Budget Audiophiler. After reading the first two installments of my column, I’m sure it’s become obvious that I have a […]
Coffee, books, sandwiches, and dub! The year is finally coming to a close and boy, has it been one: Lockdowns, social distancing, vaccines, variants, worlds opening and closing […]
Join us New Year’s Eve for a special In Sheep’s Clothing set supporting DIIV. Shoegaze and dream pop have been making their way back into our collective consciousness. […]
Moog synthesizers, Roots Radics, vocoders, Arthur Lyman and other lesser-known Christmas sounds. There are Christmas songs they have not told you about. Songs that celebrate the season not […]
You love reissues. We love reissues. Here are some more favorites from 2021. From rare midwestern soul, cosmic jazz, Angolan funk and Swiss library music to Armenian disco, […]
Five crucial selections from Tokyo’s Toshihito “Dubby” Maeyama. Toshihito “Dubby” Maeyama is one of the most revered record collectors in Tokyo. Having worked at legendary record store Cisco […]
Another strange year in the books. In 2021, we finally begin to crawl out of this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. It hasn’t been a smooth transition by any means, but […]
For our next Art & Design: In Focus feature, we look into the psychedelic worlds of MC Escher. Ever feel stuck in your music discovery routine? After extended […]
Another installment of deep cuts, this time we take a look at an ISC patron saint, the enigmatic and genre-defying ~ John Martyn. Before what some consider […]
KLF, The Orb, Plastikman and more ambient classics from the 1990’s. At the beginning of the year, the essential Music from Memory label issued Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations […]
Klipsch, Altec Lansing, JBL, Advent, Acoustic Research, and more classics that won’t bust your budget. A great stereo system, the saying goes, is only as good as its […]
Part 3 of our series highlighting hidden gems from your local record store’s bargain bin. In the record collecting community, there’s an idea that to build a great […]
Synthesized Satie for home listening, the dance floor, and beyond. You’ve heard groundbreaking French composer Erik Satie’s slow, existential sounding pieces in numerous films, shows, animations, and documentaries. […]
A few selections from our favorite online archive of art, music, film, and all things esoteric. Though you’ve likely stumbled across a post or two from UbuWeb during […]
Nearing the holidays with more great new music from the UK, France, Switzerland, and Bay Area. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues […]
Seven vintage but affordable amplifiers to upgrade your listening setup. Here’s a scenario that virtually anyone who has entered the home listening game by investing in a vintage […]
“A fusion of sounds.” More selections from the Armenian Diaspora (1971-1982). Darone Sassounian is an Armenian-American DJ, selector, and producer in Los Angeles who spent three years tracking […]
Austin Brown shares his journey into sound system culture and deep listening with 5 recent favorites. Several years ago Parquet Courts cofounder Austin Brown started going to the […]
McIntosh announces an updated version of their classic power amp. More than 50 years ago, the hi-fi magazine Stereo Review opened its assessment of the then-new McIntosh MC-3500 […]
An eclectic selection of new favorites from Séance Centre, Warp Records, Club Romantico, Nothing But Net, and Into The Light Records. Each week the global listening community gets […]
The innovative vocalist and composer will premiere a new piece at Mills College in Oakland. Vocalist, composer, choreographer, artist, and ECM favorite Meredith Monk has a new piece […]
Essential tracks, collaborations, and productions from The Velvet Underground’s electric viola player, John Cale. A few weeks ago, “The Velvet Underground,” director Todd Haynes’ documentary on the influential […]
Join us as we continue to grow and build new listening experiences. In 2017, we set out to create a space where analog culture, including records and hi-fidelity […]
Downtempo and abstract electronica selections from one of the principal architects of modern Japanese pop music. It’s virtually impossible to find an individual as prolific and influential as […]
Fresh sounds from Zurich, Brooklyn, Russia, and British Columbia selected by your your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new […]
For our next Art & Design: In Focus feature, we take a look at iconic New York free jazz label, Impulse! When Creed Taylor launched Impulse! Records in […]
The British shoegaze movement wouldn’t have existed without Alan McGee’s aesthetic in the years before the ‘90s explosion. Before bands including My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver and […]
A look into some of our favorite audiophile bars around the globe, old and new, from Hong Kong to Miami. In recent years, hi-fi and listening bars have […]
Legendary Klipsch, McIntosh, Altec, Sansui equipment from the Grateful Dead go up for auction this Thursday. On Thursday, Sotheby’s will open bidding on a breathtakingly deep auction of […]
Suzanne Kraft joins us for an intimate live show at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ this Friday with friends. Earlier this summer, Los Angeles native Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne […]
From Yoshio Suzuki, Seigen Ono, to Ichiko Hashimoto, here are our essential releases from the cult minimalist imprint. Inspired by Erik Satie’s belief that music, just as beautiful […]
Our friends at Numero Group deliver a definitive tribute to gospel legend Pastor T.L. Barrett. In late 1960s Chicago, not long after bands like the Rolling Stones and […]
Younge hosted the last night of the ISC residency at Neuehouse, and this ARTFORM video shows a glimpse of his world and way of thinking. The In Sheep’s […]
Recent reissues and new releases shared by your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
Dive into a singular artist whose beautifully chaotic energy inspired us during the pandemic. Last year as the pandemic forced us all inside to isolate, the fantastic speaker […]
Rest in power Richard H. Kirk. We revisit 5 tracks from the electronic music pioneer’s multitude of projects. Richard H. Kirk, sadly, has passed at 65. Besides founding […]
Five new releases we’re extremely excited about. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who read these missives […]
Exploring contemporary projects and shifts in a futurist utopia with releases from Arushi Jain, Brian Eno, Laurie Spiegel, and Kuniyuki Takahashi. Since its origin, ambient music has been […]
Revisiting a lost Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder collaboration recorded at George Martin’s AIR studio. Mention a Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder collaboration and most people will likely […]
New Tara Clerkin Trio, spiritual free jazz, Chinese dreamscapes, and more of that “Now Sound” selected by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening […]
Katsumasa Kusunose, founder of the great Jazz Kissa publication, shares his fifteen favorite jazz kissas in Tokyo. Currently, about 100 jazz kissa and jazz bars are open in […]
Highly recommended vintage hi-fi reading from audiophile writer Hans Fantel. Though his name is nearly lost to time, starting in the 1950s the writer Hans Fantel was a […]
New releases selected by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Amaro Freitas’ spiritual quest into the forgotten stories, philosophies and figures of Black Brazil. The Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas drew the title of his exquisite new jazz trio […]
Building a system from the ground up? Start with the speakers. Some sage advice from a 1975 essay in High Fidelity magazine. The whole thing can be overwhelming, […]
Multi-instrumentalist, drummer (CMON, Drugdealer), and NTS radio host Josh da Costa shares five gems. CMON (Confusing Mix Of Nations) is the studio project of Josh da Costa formerly […]
“Not exactly a sporting selection” from hero Chee Shimizu. For anyone looking for some musical inspiration today, here’s a perfect playlist from our friend Chee Shimizu. Selected for […]
Introducing Cell Alpha, the world’s first Triphonic speaker. I wasn’t quite sure what to think when I first saw Syng’s Cell Alpha speaker. The clear, almost droid-like design […]
Khruangbin’s new record ‘Mordechai Remixes’ is out now. Tana Yonas sits down with the band to talk about the history of remixing and how vinyl collecting shapes their […]
Smiling C shares an intimate documentary on Mexican experimental jazz artist Germán Bringas. For the past few years, the Santa Cruz-based archival project (and one of our absolute […]
A quick dive into Brian Long’s influential ‘Excursions in Ambience’ compilation CD series. In 1993, Brian Long, a New York-based music freak who’d recently left Los Angeles and […]
The industry of ready made commercial soundtracks of the ’70s and early ’80s thrived in Europe, but composers in Italy were in a world of their own. The […]
Softly psychedelic folk, soul, rare groove from the Hawaiian islands. Few labels are as committed to uncovering old and new sounds from their local scene than Honolulu-based Aloha […]
Five “fingertracks” from Andrew Hogge aka Lovefingers. It is without exaggeration to say that Andrew Hogge, aka Lovefingers, is one of our absolute favorite selectors. His pre-social media, […]
The newly formed Fresh Hold imprint teams up with fellow Melbourne-based label Efficient Space to present a long-lost jazz grail. Michael Kucyk’s always reliable Efficient Space has teamed […]
An introduction to aural therapy with two artists exploring the healing qualities of sound. Have you noticed that days without music tend to be the low-energy days? If […]
Obscure psychedelic folk, cosmic soul, and crooning AOR from the label behind Belong to the Wind. Los Angeles reissue upstart Forager Records got off to a strong start. […]
In conversation with Nishant Mittal, founder of archival Indian music page Digging in India. Better known by his Instagram handle “Digging in India,” Nishant Mittal’s unique perspective and […]
LA based music archivist and investigator Sonrisita shares iconic records from her life and collection. Melissa Dueñas aka Sonrisita joined us as a guest selector at our ongoing […]
A round up of 10 performances from the great Brazilian singer/guitarist. It was no accident that Brazilian singer and composer Gal Costa was born to enrapture audiences around […]
Abstract, experimental electronic music from one of our favorite local labels. Shimmering. Foggy. Warm. Hypnotic. These are all words that have been used to describe the abstract electronic […]
A new “electronic travelogue” full-length from Toronto-based C.R. Gillespie arrives today via Séance Centre. We’ve been closely following the introspective, highly conceptual sonic works of Colin Roy Gillespie […]
Charlotte Renaud’s incredible essay on the celebrated Swedish auteur’s devotion to classical music. ‘If I was forced to choose between losing my hearing or losing my sight, I […]
Maximalist experimental jazz from four heroes of the genre. For eight years starting in 1986, the searing free jazz quartet of Sonny Sharrock (electric guitar), Peter Brötzmann (sax), […]
Thousand-year-old Mongolian music traditions meet folk and jazz on Squama Recordings’ latest. An undeniable magic inhabits the melodies and sounds of our youth. Lullabies, folk songs, the music of […]
Music from the 12th Isle via Glasgow’s underground. Glasgow’s 12th Isle has been steadily releasing some of our favorite genre-bending electronic works since 2016. The label takes a […]
From June 23 – September 25, the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing will host a series of dedicated listening sessions four nights a week at Neuehouse. After more […]
A deep dive on our favorite dollar bin jazz man, aka the professor of cool, and a selection of essential songs from his decades-spanning career. When you’re in […]
A recent doc showcases unsung female electronic pioneers including Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Suzanne Cianni + a few of our favorites from these legends. In case […]
The jazz world mirrors the suppression of women in most areas of mid-century society. Val Wilmer made sure they would never be forgotten. When focusing on and appreciating […]
The ingenious novelty of playable vinyl stamps from the Bhutan postal agency. It’s no wonder that the so-called “happiest nation in the world” found a way to make […]
A timeless synth played by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alessandro Cortini, and Wendy Carlos. Introduced by Bay Area synthesizer innovator Don Buchla’s company in 1973, the Buchla Music Easel […]
Ten absurdly beautiful plinth designs. The physical experience of playing vinyl helps listeners rationalize elaborate customizations, from record shelves to speaker stands. One of the most gratifying, and […]
A list of kid-friendly holy grails, including two of the most sought-after LPs of all time: Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop and The Langley Schools Music […]
Footage of Durutti Column performing in Kaivopuisto Park in their early Factory Records days and a few other rare appearances. Vini Reilly of Durutti Column was the first […]
How “Scratch” inspired John Martyn’s 1977 classic proto trip-hop recording ‘One World.’ Truly a “worlds collide” pairing, in 1976 UK folk musician and ISC patron saint John Martyn […]
A few basic concepts to get the best sound out of your listening room. With all the time, money and effort spent buying and putting together the hi-fi […]
Tracing the impact of seminal kraut rock bands like Tangerine Dream, Harmonia, Ash Ra Temple, and more. As a generation of youths of came of age in 1960’s […]
Our recent favorites from NTS, dublab, Bar Part Time, and XLR8R. Music discovery has always been a central mission of In Sheep’s Clothing. Whether among staff, patrons, or […]
ISC sits down with Condesa Electronics founder Mehdi El-Aquil to talk mixers, how Condesa came to be, and the future of rotaries. Based in Adelaide, Australia, Condesa Electronics in […]
An ISC deep dive into the leftfield, intimate, and dreamy pop sounds of one of Belgium’s finest labels and our personal highlights from their diverse catalog. Translated as […]
Ambient selections from the deep discography of influential Japanese electronic producer Susumu Yokota. Where to start with Susumu Yokota. When asked about his mission in making music, the […]
Andy Beta interviews Brazilian singer/composer Priscilla Ermel. “Dear Mr. Eno, I would like you to know about our work, we work with tapes and sounds of Nature.” So […]
The musical world of psychedelia in Brazil is so profound and prolific it often drowns out contributions from the rest of the continent. We highlight some of those […]
“The asymmetric relationship between those who give orders & those who must obey is always demonstrated by who controls access to the soundscape.” Our friends at Radio Alhara […]
Part 2 of our series highlighting low budget music videos with that perfectly endearing DIY 80’s aesthetic. At the beginning of the 1980s, music began to pursue and […]
Paintings, installations, light works from ten musicians who ventured into the visual arts. Thanks to recording technology, music has now become the most consumed art form in the […]
An intro to the surreal and funky world of “library records,” the assembly-line-produced albums designed to soundtrack film and television. It’s hard to sum up the “library record.” […]
Classic advertisements and illustrations from the cassette age. When Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape, died in March, a host of stories celebrated the life of a […]
Shibuya-kei. Beck. Yellow Magic Orchestra. Three decades of Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius. One of Japan’s foremost musical ambassadors, Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius has played a leading role in […]
Whether pitched up, down or at the wrong rpm entirely, sometimes the wrong speed on a turntable can completely transform a song — for the better. You’re well […]
Capturing the 70’s hi-fidelity craze in illustrations. If you were lucky enough to be a music freak who could also illustrate, in the 1960s and ‘70s you could […]
Was Rahsaan Roland Kirk the coolest person who ever lived? Rahsaan Roland Kirk unapologetically rode the edge of absurdity his entire life and regularly left audiences gobsmacked in […]
All hail the Thorens TD-160, an easily modified and uniquely designed classic turntable. History The famed Thorens TD-160 is pretty much unparalleled when it comes to classic vintage […]
Hidden gems, one trackers, and undervalued full listens from the world of bargain bin New Age. Considered one of the most “uncool” genres of the past few decades, […]
Beautiful Japanese designs from the golden age of record players. Portable technology has always been an essential part of humanity. Whether a stone tool or cellular phone, there’s an […]
Classic Marantz, Klipsch, JBL, and Garrard advertisements from the peak Hi-Fi era. Fifty years ago when magazines were the dominant source of information on listening and hi-fi culture, […]
Introducing Deep Listening Tips, a new series inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening guide. Shhh, listen. You hear that phrase a lot in life. Shut up, too. Be […]
Another installment of deep cuts, this time we take a look at the dearly beloved ~ Prince. His Royal Badness. The High Priest of Pop. The Artist Formerly […]
Celebrity sound systems featuring Garrard, Tannoy, McIntosh, Thorens, and custom hi-fi equipment. News alert: Celebrities are very much human like the rest of us, despite that popular culture […]
The next part in our intro to hi-fi series focuses on used marketplaces and how to find deals on vintage gear. Finding a killer vintage amp or turntable […]
Exploring the vast catalog of jazz records pressed in Japan with a selection of our favorite OBI’s. If you have records in your collection with an OBI, you […]
Sublime deep listening works from the founder of seminal electronic label Kompakt. In the early 1990s, Germany was a country undergoing a profound transition. The wall that separated […]
A brief history of compilation albums, the trajectory of this multi-artist concept, and of course, a list of some ISC favorites. The Compilation. Some purists may cringe at […]
New reissue label Naya Beat focuses on uncovering rarities and oddities from the subcontinent and South Asian diaspora. Co-founder Ragz shares five picks from his collection. Raghav Mani, […]
Celebrating the great Japanese vocalist, songwriter, arranger with a retrospective on her works across city pop, disco, latin jazz, and dub. With city pop mania at an all […]
Our favorite rarities from the queen of smooth soul jazz and one of the most iconic singers from the 1980s and 1990s, Sade. Born in Ibadan, Nigeria to […]
A new series highlighting low budget music videos with that perfectly endearing DIY 80’s aesthetic. At the start of the 1980s, music began to pursue a new form: […]
In conversation with Justin Gage, founder of the long-running, eclectic audio journal Aquarium Drunkard. For the past 15 years, Aquarium Drunkard has provided a home for music heads […]
Fish scales. Video Stores. Jazz. The multi-layered world of Munich-based label Squama Recordings. Martin Brugger is a producer and bass player for the modern jazz quintet Fazer. Max […]
Background When committing to hi-fi audio gear you’re going to have a lot of choices, and among the most crucial is whether you’ll be looking for a tube […]
More “CD Age” selections from two of Japan’s most respected diggers. If you haven’t yet listened to Music from Memory’s newest release Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field […]
Punk, disco, hip hop and experimental. A look into the seminal New York City ‘No Wave’ label. New York City in 1980 was at a musical crossroads: the […]
A brief primer on Ikutaro Kakehashi, the revolutionary engineer who built the world’s most widely used electronic equipment. At 28, a young engineer named Ikutaro Kakehashi began a […]
Cats don’t seem to care much for music, but musicians certainly care about cats. Cats. They’re not only beloved fixtures of domesticity, but also have a rich history […]
A look into the most prolific years from the genre-defining dream pop label. The great British label 4AD was co-founded by Peter Kent and Ivo Watts-Russell, the latter […]
After 21 years, Beats in Space will be “taking a break.” Though it may not be the end, here’s a tribute to one of our favorite radio shows. […]
Background When Jonathan Weiss first laid eyes on the old stone Oswalds Mill building in the wilds outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania in New Tripoli, he knew it was […]
An intro to the production duo who brought jazz and funk together with artists like Donald Byrd, Johnny Hammond, and Marvin Gaye. Before the Mizell brothers, the cultures […]
A look into the genius singer-songwriter who explored northern soul, “new folk sounds” and jazz, while always flying just below the radar. Terry Callier seemed destined to play […]
Continuing our intro to hi-fi series with a look at one of the most important components of the sound system – the phono cartridge. When considering the sound […]
For the next piece in our Art & Design series, we’ve decided to take a slightly different approach. Instead of focusing on a particular designer, artist or style, […]
While most architects and designers were busy developing the future of everyday things, a few made the foray into hi-fi and had stunning results. Aiming to add simplicity […]
A look into the producer/engineer behind classics like Joni Mitchell’s Blue and Judee Sill’s Heart Food. We’ve touched on Henry Lewy’s work in the past, but even then […]
A list of our favorite Paul McCartney rarities and a closer look at the broad scope of one of pop music’s best. There’s no real need for any […]
Celebrating 40 years of On-U Sound with selections from the label’s catalog of groundbreaking post-punk meets dub productions. Emerging during a time in the UK when racial tensions […]
A primer on Japanese experimental masters EYE, Yoshimi, Seiichi Yamamoto and the hypnotic mess they’ve made. The Boredoms aren’t an easy group to nail down. One of the strangest-ever […]
A look into the label behind the iconic ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING. If you’ve stepped into a reputable record store or stereo dealer in the past 30 years, you’ve […]
Tana Yonas explores the 7″ format with music writer Elizabeth Owuor and former Island Records exec Danny Holloway. Many record collectors who focus on albums or 12-inch singles […]
Fresh Bread is out now on Leaving Records. Sam Gendel walks us through five records in his current rotation. If you’re not yet familiar with Sam Gendel’s work […]
Surprisingly affordable, powerful integrated receivers with warm, clear sound. Background: Maybe it’s the nostalgia. Perhaps it’s the distinctive stainless steel look, with its warm golden glow emanating from […]
Folk, blues, minimalism and beyond. Selections from John Fahey’s seminal Americana label Takoma Records. It’s difficult not to think about Takoma Records without John Fahey’s name coming up. […]
Tana Yonas speaks to Blue Note’s Joe Harley on his history with jazz and the upcoming releases in their Tone Poet hi-fi series. Blue Note’s recent Tone Poet […]
A look into New York’s longest-running sound installation created by influential minimalist La Monte Young and multi-disciplinary artist Marian Zazeela. “The daddy of us all” is a direct […]
The Lounge Lizards, Fishing with John, Stranger Than Paradise, Painting with John: ISC celebrates a singular artist. To continue the celebration of John Lurie’s new introspective HBO series, […]
A new full length-album from G.S. Schray arrives March 5th on Last Resort. We’ve been closely following Akron musician G.S. Schray ever since his album Gabriel was released […]
For the first piece in our new gear series, we take a look at one of our all time favorite speakers, the Klipsch Heresy. Background: First introduced by […]
Jocelyn Romo shares five essential selections that go beyond the preconceptions of what prog can be. The very word makes any number of music fans recoil: Prog. The […]
Post-punk and dub selections from the originator of lovers rock. The British reggae and dub producer Dennis Bovell is best known for his work producing sweet, swinging post-roots-reggae […]
Love songs from our friend Dakota Johnson. Dear Love Songs, You are my sweet companion. You break my heart. You make me fall in love with love. You […]
Hidden gems in the Don Cherry catalog including collaborations with Sun Ra, Terry Riley, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. The “organic music” of free jazz trumpet player Don Cherry has […]
This cinematic movement centered around the black experience gave legends like Roy Ayers and Barry White their first shot at scoring films. The American civil rights movement in […]
Tana Yonas speaks to the Dark Entries label boss on Patrick Cowley and the importance of archiving. Music archivists and researchers often work in the shadows. For some, […]
Early electronics and computer music, new opera, experimental vocal albums: A guide to the influential Bay Area label dedicated to the American avant-garde. Since its founding in 1978, […]
Tana Yonas speaks to Discogs’ Aub Driver and Christopher Masagatani on the company’s history and how they are adapting amid a global pandemic. The vinyl community shifted with […]
A look into the influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer who arranged the electronic opening theme of Doctor Who. Delia Derbyshire’s fascination with electronic music started when she was […]
Interested in vintage audio gear? The team behind ISC HiFi takes you through the basics and shares a few of their favorites. It’s a hotly debated topic when […]
Five iconic tracks from the 80’s featuring Dave Smith’s legendary Prophet-5 synthesizer. American synthesizer company Sequential Circuits recently announced a brand new compact desktop version of their iconic […]
Celebrating 50 years of Mwandishi with a retrospective on the albums beyond the group’s legendary trilogy. Herbie Hancock’s electronics-heavy free jazz group Mwandishi has in recent years attained […]
ISC HiFi releases 20 new (( ROOM RECORDINGS )). Bryan Ling reflects on the inspiration behind these sessions. The room recordings on the ISC website are meant to […]
Although some of its artists also used electronics, the American label Windham Hill pioneered new acoustic music to such an extent that during its peak years the label […]
Archival scans of the rare sci-fi graphic novel included with Haruomi Hosono’s Making of Non-Standard Music. Included with the complete package of Haruomi Hosono’s Making of Non-Standard Music […]
Jazz’s evolution over the decades has begat a series of subgenres: be-bop, post-bop, free-jazz, spiritual jazz and fusion, to name a few. But by the end of the […]
The unbelievable story of the Incan princess who made timeless exotica with Les Baxter. Yma Sumac had a supernatural hold on her audiences. When she walked on stage, […]
Phil Cho speaks to the artist behind dublab’s new Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit (QUARK). Kamran V builds bridges between technology and artistry. He’s a producer, sound artist, […]
Next up in our Art & Design: In Focus series, Tana Yonas takes a look into the plants behind your favorite album covers. There is something endlessly fascinating […]
Essential productions from one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. To find an individual as prolific and influential as Haruomi Hosono is almost impossible in […]
Marty Sartini Garner reflects on the healing power of ambient and metal during darkened times. The first new album I fell in love with in 2020 was Leo […]
Essential lockdown viewing and the perfect gateway into “cool jazz” legend Chet Baker. Let’s Get Lost, Bruce Weber’s monochromatic masterpiece on “cool jazz” great Chet Baker, is a […]
Like many people around the world, we’ve been heavily listening to and remembering Daniel “MF DOOM” Dumile through his music over the last few days… One of the […]
Reissues. We love them. But can there be too many? Surely not, so here are 11 reissues and archival recordings that you might have missed during this tumultuous […]
The pandemic. George Floyd’s murder and the furious protests that followed. The election. The isolation and its physical and mental tolls. Brilliant creators like Harold Budd, Charley Pride, […]
One common language issue among serious listeners and the writers who pander to them has to do with the adjective heavy and the ways in which it is […]
Prolific Swedish electronic producer Tom Wolgers is a heavy favorite around ISC. The under-the-radar artist, who moonlighted as a fashion model, issued a series of records starting in […]
Here’s one of our absolute favorite documentaries. Alan Greenberg’s directorial debut Land of Look Behind is a beautifully honest and intimate look into the people and culture surrounding […]
Andy Beta reflects on the close and unknowable music of Ethiopian jazz pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Last week, I visited my local coffee shop. Most days, the soundtrack […]
It’s no secret that In Sheep’s Clothing focuses on active listening and the depths to be explored within the grooves of great records. We sell and recommend physical […]
In 1958, RCA Victor introduced to the world a new technology under the banner “Living Stereo.” Focused at first on standard repertoire classical music, the vinyl imprint went […]
ISC Staff Michael Friedman steps into Wes Katzir’s elegant, industrial Downtown Los Angeles showroom. It doesn’t get any more ‘state of the art’ than this, and one could […]
For many vinyl obsessives, not being able to dig for records in person due to pandemic restrictions can be tough… That feeling of finding a gem after hours […]
We had a discussion on which Aphex Twin album to feature first as a part of our collection at ISC HiFi, and went with Drukqs in part because […]
Collaborating with Brian Eno is like having your very own alchemist in the studio. Almost everything he touches turns to gold. In the interest of keeping the In […]
Tana Yonas dives into how one small country developed the brilliantly colorful sound of electrified “funana” music. The Cape Verdean Island of Santiago — where funana music was […]
Larger-than-life dub heroes. For our second Art & Design: In Focus feature, ISC staff Phil Cho traces the origins behind the iconic comic book style album cover in […]
If you hung out at In Sheep’s Clothing during daylight hours, before we lit the candles and weren’t primarily pouring whiskey, you may have noticed another collection. Yes, […]
Earlier in October the New York-based concern Oda unveiled a first-generation speaker and performance system that was years in the making. Though envisioned and prototyped long before the […]
Introducing a new series where we highlight the hidden gems, one trackers, and undervalued full listens found in your local record store’s dollar bin. In the record collecting […]
Jorge Ben didn’t need a hit in 1974. The Brazilian singer-songwriter’s Ben, released two years earlier, had capped a run that definitively established him as one of the […]
Pop quiz: name the famous jazz trumpeter that got his start in bop and yet continued on to greater success for decades after? Who was the trumpeter responsible […]
The decision to sell records at In Sheep’s Clothing came naturally. Music discovery has always been central to In Sheep’s Clothing’s DNA. A year after we opened the […]
Bryan Ling recounts his trip to Johannesburg record shop Afrosynth Records and revisits a few choice selections from store owner DJ Okapi. We only had a couple free […]
Music discovery has always been a central mission of In Sheep’s Clothing. Whether among staff, patrons or record fair-goers, our physical space was aimed at introducing people to […]
Here is a fun throwback to 1920 – a newspaper advertisement for the new Edison Phonograph and its proclamation of “Supreme Realism.” Like a magician showing the audience […]
Interested in setting up a hi-fi audio system in your home but not sure where to start? The team behind In Sheep’s Clothing hi-fi takes you through the […]
In Sheep’s Clothing was built out of necessity. Once there was a pizzeria that was looking for a home and found one in the Art’s District of Los […]
Notice anything in the recordings in our audio player? Maybe Alice Coltrane’s World Galaxy hums differently than on vinyl or streaming platforms? Perhaps it sounds a little more […]