Punk rock, world obscurities, and “deranged” mix CD’s from Keiji Yamabe’s Los Apson? record shop in Koenji, Tokyo. The best record shops in the world are much more […]
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Scott Gilmore’s ‘Volume 01’ will be released on vinyl for the first time on November 15th. Multi-instrumentalist Scott Gilmore has been quietly developing his own musical language for […]
Looking back at an unsung hero from Warp Records’ seminal Artificial Intelligence compilation series. Once mentioned alongside contemporaries Aphex Twin, Autechre, Luke Vibert, and Mike Paradinas, Yorkshire-based producer […]
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 […]
’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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
“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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 krautrock listening party this Friday at the JACCC private Japanese garden. Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt: The core members of visionary […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Harry “The Lion” Hosono and Tin Pan Alley play favorites from the “Crown Years.” If it wasn’t already obvious to regular readers, we at In Sheep’s Clothing are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Miles’ septet live in Stockholm featuring musicians that would later appear on his 1974 jazz-rock classic, Get Up With It. Miles needs no introduction here. The Prince of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
66-minutes of psychedelic, tribal dub from the On-U Sound collective featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry. Here’s another surprise gem from the archives found on SoundCloud. If you’re not already […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Rare recording released on 12″ for the first time on Séance Centre’s Mixed Signals sub-label. Here’s a new release out today on Séance Centre‘s excellent archival dance music […]
The final segment of The Broad’s three-part video series dedicated to the famed New York City artist is available now. Time Decorated: The Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat […]
Filmmaker Robert Mugge profiles Sun Ra, jazz musician, bandleader and self-styled poet and philosopher. “They say that history repeats itself. But history is only his story. You haven’t […]
Here’s a rare 2.5 hour recording of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band live at the Strata Concert Gallery in Detroit. The performance opens with an incredible rendition of “Hidden […]
ESP Institute will release Chee Shimizu + miku-mari’s ‘Reconstructions’ on January 29th, 2021. Just received some great and unexpected news from Andy Hogge aka Lovefingers. ESP Institute will […]
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 […]
Selections from revered Japanese record collectors Eiji Taniguchi (Revelation Time) and Norio Sato (Rare Groove). Music from Memory returns with another compilation of Japanese gems. Compiled by long-time […]
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, […]
Revisiting one of our favorite labels with Aquarium Drunkard’s excellent three part ‘Guide to ECM’ series. To celebrate the anniversary of our ECM Listening Party with Aquarium Drunkard, […]
100 minutes of healing music from Ryuichi Sakamoto and shamisen prodigy Hidejiro Honjoh. Released on Sakamoto’s own YouTube channel, Playing the Piano for the Isolated is an emotional […]
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 […]
Holiday season is upon us! We’re of course big fans of ‘Last Christmas’ by Wham! here at In Sheep’s Clothing, but surely everyone has heard that one enough […]
Here’s a wonderful early Christmas gift from our friends over at AD–the Holiday Edition of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show. If you haven’t seen it already, the Aquarium […]
The Music Center and dublab team up to bring ‘A Quiet Scene’, a new audio-visual installation from pioneering ambient composers Roger and Brian Eno, to Los Angeles. Here’s […]
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 […]
“The synthesizer the way I play it doesn’t need any manual skill. You don’t have to be clever to turn a knob. So what I’m saying is that […]
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 […]
Here’s a bit of light during these dark times… My Record Dealer is a new web platform and interview series launched a few months ago to support record […]
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 […]
Here’s a surprise nugget from the archives found on SoundCloud of all places… Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden is easily one of our all time favorites and we’d […]
Here’s a heartwarming video to accompany today’s featured classic album. ‘Ernest Explores’ is a short film produced by RVNG sub-label Freedom to Spend directed by Jodi Darby and […]
The Brooklyn-based experimental jazz & hip-hop group delivers “A SPECIAL SHAPE SHIFTING MESSAGE OF CONCERN” Another required viewing ICYMI from a few months ago… Gio Escobar’s Standing On […]
