Steve Roach will perform an all night set on October 26th at the Lloyd Wright constructed Institute of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree. A bonafide living legend, the desert-based […]
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Listen to the bassist’s new album for International Anthem while reading a brilliant Tiffany Ng essay on curation. “As we grow accustomed to the convenience of shuffling a […]
The Way Out of Easy is out November 22 on International Anthem. Join us for a special listening event on October 28th at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. The […]
Swedish singer, jazz musician, producer and songwriter Stina Nordenstam’s singular voice isn’t something you can easily shake, even 20 years after she stopped making records. With a distinctive, […]
Last weekend, our friends at dublab celebrated their monumental 25-year anniversary with a massive community-focused event at Zebulon featuring 25+ DJ’s and live performances. If you missed it, […]
By the time she was a teenager, Izumi “Mimi” Kobayashi was already a skilled jazz and bossa nova pianist with a love of the Hammond organ, Astrud Gilberto […]
Wild Life Archive traces the history of UK rave sound systems through text and ephemera. Foundation The history of PA systems is a loud one, dating as far back […]
Last week Achim Szepanski, German techno force of nature who founded Force Inc. Music Works and cofounded early 1980s German experimental group P16.D4, passed away after a lifetime […]
Fresh off her fourth album and a new collaboration with Baba Stiltz, Okay Kaya shares five favorites with us. Kaya Wilkins aka Okay Kaya is a Norwegian-American singer-songwriter […]
There are songs and videos that rewire your brain, shock you with wonder, overwhelm you with spirit and the whoosh of time flying by in remarkable increments. Songs […]
For those of us living in a city, the notion of a dedicated listening room is laughably impractical. Space is at a premium, so carving out an entire […]
’90s era trip-hop blues and Japanese exotica from guitarist Shunji Mori. The seemingly endless well of ’90s CD-era Japanese downtempo bands continues to reveal new secrets… Our latest […]
Slowcore before there was such a term. Hints of shoegaze and shimmering ambient music. Early post-rock. Released by Brian Eno’s label. Born New York City in the 1980s. […]
Ecoustics’ Eric Pye shares record storage tips inspired by his recent trip to Japan. After 4 years of being Japan-less during the pandemic, I finally made it back for […]
Recent mailbox arrivals from Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald, Sandy Bull, Vanishing Twin, and Ø. Although the basic machinations that occur behind the scenes of the In […]
Join us this Friday, September 13th for Yu Su’s debut live Ambientale performance at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. Born in Kaifeng, a city in central China’s Henan province, […]
For the past decade, Manchester, England-based reissue label Be With Records has been resurrecting classic 1970s smoothness in all its forms, inspired by what owner Rob Butler describes […]
Piers Harrison shares five heady cuts in anticipation of his set at this Friday’s DISCOSXXX warehouse function. A lifelong music obsessive, London based DJ-writer-artist Piers Harrison has dedicated […]
Writer Teo Blake Beauchamp sits down with the musician in Idyllwild to discuss his work, his practice and his history. Every word we speak is an affirmation. Laraaji […]
For more than two decades, the US magazine Musician covered a broader range of music and genres than any other publication of the time. While Rolling Stone was […]
Our friend Alejandro Cohen shares fives favorites in celebration of his new album Chamber of Tears. Followers of this site will most likely know Alejandro Cohen as the […]
When in doubt, put on something by Eiko Ishibashi. It’s a mantra that will serve you well when looking for new and old sounds. The Japanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, […]
NAD’S C 3050 blends retro industrial design with a HybridDigital UcD output stage along with modular options to keep this unit relevant for years to come. In 2022, […]
Hear Daedelus discuss extra terrestrial communication, intellectual property and sampling, the views and expectations of the new generation of musicians, and more. Across more than 130 episodes, the […]
Tana Yonas live in conversation with Jazz is Dead’s Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. In 2011, Grammy Award winning trumpet player Nicholas Payne wrote, “Jazz died in […]
In 1986, the ambient composer Harold Budd was introduced to the Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie with the goal of teaming for a TV project. Or maybe it was […]
‘Everything Squared’ will be released on August 30th via Warp Records. Too Pure darlings Seefeel are back 13-years after their 2011 self-titled album! Based in London, the core […]
Words don’t need to introduce a lovely piece of recorded music. Sometimes, as below, the best curtain-raiser is the thing itself. That’s American choreographer, dancer, actress and educator […]
Daniel Aged’s fretless bass improvisations live at LIKE SOUND in Minato City, Tokyo. Earlier this year, we released bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Daniel Aged’s 2020 EP Bass Improvisations […]
If you’ve been shopping for vintage gear, you’ve seen your share of Pioneer components. Founded in 1938 in Tokyo by Nozomu Matsumoto, Pioneer initially focused on speaker production. […]
LA favorite Bianca Lexis picks 5 personal favorites from In Sheep Clothing’s online record collection. Longtime friend of In Sheep’s Clothing, Bianca Lexis is easily one of our […]
About 18 months before sitting down at a famously subpar Steinway in Cologne, Germany for his lauded solo album The Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett embarked on his second […]
Ryuichi Sakamoto meets Caetano Veloso, Iggy Pop, Jon Hassell, Dennis Bovell, Holger Czukay, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and more! Last week, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s posthumous album Opus was released alongside […]
We don’t have much to offer about the following trio of videos, other than anyone interested in pristine sound might find them riveting. Represented are twelve components in […]
How Dou Wei brought the sound of Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, and Bark Psychosis to Chinese rock. In the late-80s, a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, […]
A collection of “husband & wife duos, pub legends, one-man-bands, preachers’ sons, and country-lounge entertainers.” About two years ago, the Santa Cruz-based archival projects company Smiling C issued […]
JBL’s new modern and affordable approach to hi-fi and home theater pairs Stage 2 loudspeakers with new MA series A/V Receivers in matching white or black finishes. With […]
Essential footage of early electronic music pioneers Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire. In the 1960s, weird new sounds were infiltrating mass media. Cosmic tones generated through electricity, first […]
A cozy record store and bar in Shimokitazawa with Rare Groove records from around the world. While a relatively new phenomenon in America & Europe, record cafes/bars have […]
The pitch behind Beat Connection, writer Michaelangelo Matos’ newsletter, is basic. Described, simply, as “DJ mixes and the DJs that play them,” the Substack-published column goes deep on […]
Build your first complete audiophile system for under $1,500 with the best entry-level equipment from JBL, Klipsch, ELAC, Magnepan, Onkyo, and more! Steve Guttenberg aka The Audiophiliac is […]
Last fall, the Australian label Altered States Tapes released the debut album by Keanu Nelson, an indigenous musician with a strikingly soothing vocal tone and equally beguiling way […]
“Dubwise but not exactly dub, rich in ambience but not exactly ambient music.” With three of the classic Sade albums (Promise, Diamond Life, Stronger Than Pride) recently repressed […]
Griot families such as that which the great kora player Toumani Diabate, who passed earlier this week, was born into play a crucial part in West African culture. […]
Rachel Opert speaks to Travis Klein, owner of beloved Bushwick record store Human Head. Human Head has been a staple for many for the past ten years. Tucked […]
The summer is halfway over and you’ve been scrolling for like, what, six weeks straight now? Step away from your phone (after reading this, of course). An analog […]
Gelareh Khoie shares the story of thirtyninehotel, a legendary nightclub, art gallery, and performance space powered by Klipschorns from David Mancuso’s Prince Street loft parties. Love (Art & […]
Let’s allow the great dance music writer Barry Walters set the scene, which takes place not long after Larry Levan’s friend Frankie Knuckles started DJing in Chicago. There, […]
A new documentary about the Sun Ra Omniverse is currently in production. Support the Kickstarter today! In partnership with the SUN RA Estate and veteran bandleader, Marshall Allen, […]
Let’s talk about Roberto Musci, the Milanese experimental composer whose work both alone and with kindred spirit Giovanni Venosta starting in the 1980s has been gaining attention and […]
Transparent clarity, deep bass, and “Invisible Sound” from German audio company ADS. Background: One of the lesser known hi-fi brands of the ’70s, ADS (Analog and Digital Systems) […]
Join crucial selectors for curated delights on a killer system at our Sound & Vision shop in DTLA. No single statement better encapsulates In Sheep’s Clothing’s mission and […]
Good Smooth Jazz from Pat Metheny, 101 North (George Duke), Craig T. Cooper, Ben Tankard, and more! One of the most hated and controversial genres around, Smooth Jazz […]
Watch John Peel’s Channel 4 TV series ‘Sounds of the Suburbs’ series featuring Aphex Twin, Robert Wyatt, Luke Vibert, and more! “This is how I shall die, incidentally: […]
The forecast is ominous: Sometime on Wednesday, the massive Hurricane Beryl, currently a category 4 storm, will likely hit Kingston, Jamaica with sustained winds of more than 145 […]
In conversation with Small Medium Large, a new quintet from the burgeoning new West Coast jazz & improvised music scene. In 2018, LA-based jazz and post-rock guitarist Jeff […]
Few records get a party started better than The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru, a 2007 collection that gathers tracks from the utterly beguiling 1960s and […]
After a short break, we return with an expanded set of Now Sound favorites. New music continues to be a major focus for us here at In Sheep’s […]
In 1994, the late Japanese electronic producer Susumu Yokota was just getting started but only a few years away from releasing a string of brilliant, inventive ambient electronic […]
Music for after after hours from cult favorite Japanese dream pop duo Sugar Plant, sometimes referred to as “Psychedelic Sade.” With the POiSON GiRL FRiEND hype reaching a […]
Celebrating the New York duo’s sample-heavy work from 2002 through 2010. Twenty-five years ago, two struggling musicians living in the same New York apartment building, Nick Zammuto and […]
We’ve set up an Audio Note system in Hollywood and recently interviewed company founder Peter Qvortrup. Here’s Peter Qvortrup, founder of the respected British gear manufacturer Audio Note, […]
Step into Chee Shimizu’s Physical Store in Shimoigusa, Tokyo. Followers of this site should be quite familiar with Organic Music founder Chee Shimizu (check his ECM favorites for […]
10 Selects from Todd Rundgren pulled from a 1997 Japanese music research book on Todd Rundgren. I recently picked up a Japanese music book titled Todd Rundgren – […]
“Space and silence are the most important tools you can use in music.” In 1986, high school mates Graham Sutton and John Ling, both then 14 and attending […]
The Lijadu Sisters share crucial life lessons on the music industry, race, gender, and life. If you enjoyed the album Horizon Unlimited in our record collection, here is […]
In 1999, a budding UK imprint aligned with Soul Jazz Records introduced its first curated collection. Called Club Africa, it launched a discography that introduced so many disparate […]
Looking for your first high-end audiophile turntable but don’t want to spend more than $2,000 for something that will be your deck for many years to come? Are […]
The Oklahoma City-born, Los Angeles-raised horn player Don Cherry has been consuming a lot of research and turntable time over the past few months, at least in this […]
New music discoveries can be particularly potent while traveling. Case in point: I recently picked up a small stack of obscurities from Chee Shimizu’s revered Physical Store that […]
A few days ago on his Blissblog, the LA-based writer and scholar Simon Reynolds highlighted a recently released 8-hour, brilliantly crafted ambient and post-rave experimental electronic mix and […]
Temporarily shuttered to improve accessibility, Pioneer Works has more than enough footage to tide you over. If you’ve got a few minutes to experience something deep and grounding, […]
15 ECM selections from the man behind the Obscure Sound disc guide. We have a very special edition of “Home Listening” today… Our friend Chee Shimizu has shared […]
For more than a decade, Optimo was one of the hottest clubs in the world. Few club nights have made more of a dent in the international psyche […]
“The city of Yokohama is an indispensable part of the story of Japanese jazz.” Featured in Philip Arneill’s Tokyo Jazz Joints book, DownBeat is one of the classic […]
This hour-long videotape, issued by CTI, is a mesmerizing time capsule Although you should obviously pay attention to the visuals on Elemental 7, the 1983 video album by […]
Listen to a new album from New York free jazz legend Alan Braufman. Two years prior to releasing Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 psychedelic spiritual jazz masterpiece Pharoah (aka Harvest […]
Her new record, Lost – For Annie, comes out Friday via DC label Outside Time. Here’s a perfect introduction to the work of Ireland-based musician Natalia Beylis, conveyed […]
Experience the accurate sounds of Tannoy’s Super Gold Monitor (SGM) loudspeakers series originally used by mastering engineers in the 80s. In conjunction with their announcement of the Stirling III […]
“Let’s say that this was already inside us, but we were busy doing pop,” Portuguese musician Carlos Maria Trindade said of making Mr. Wollogallu, his brilliant 1991 collaborative […]
CDMX-based Colombian artist Daniel Rincón aka NAP takes us through the history of sound system culture in Mexico. In recent years, contemporary Latin club music has made its […]
File under: the collaboration when never knew we needed. Although all music is connected in a universal way, our favorite artists create singular worlds of sound so immediately […]
Robert Wyatt performs in a knitted mask on French television. One of the more underrated progressive rock groups from the ’70s Canterbury Scene, Matching Mole was a short-lived […]
“The party is an incredibly complex institution,” the yacht-living, Lamborghini-driving Serbian disco-funk producer Boban Petrović said in reissue liner notes for his 1981 album Žur. He was discussing […]
Birmingham-based keyboard wizard, producer, and DJ Byron the Aquarius first came up our radar back in 2016 through his High Life EP released on Theo Parrish’s venerable Sound […]
The 1990s were a transformative decade for ambient music, a genre whose name had been coined a mere 15-odd years earlier by Brian Eno with the release of […]
Explore one of the most fascinating collections of dance music ephemera on view now at SF MOMA until August 18th. As vinyl collectors, we’re all well aware of […]
Those of us who think a lot about songwriting but aren’t songwriters still understand the basics of making one. Take a melody or string of words that pops […]
Bei Ru is an LA-based producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist who’s collected vinyl records for years. His collection mirrors elements of his releases, characterized by a fusion of […]
Jessica Pratt’s ‘Here In The Pitch’ is out today! Listen to our pick for album of the year… The Los Angeles musician Jessica Pratt spent three years composing […]
Step into one of the oldest standing jazz kissas in Japan. Founded in 1933 by a 20-year old jazz lover named Mamoru Yoshida, Jazz Cafe Chigusa in Yokohama […]
Despite being more than a half-century old, the information delivered in Introduction to Hi-Fi, a 1960 book on the basics of sound reproduction and high fidelity listening at […]
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. […]
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 […]