Tompkins Square Label

70+ artists & labels donating Bandcamp Day profits to anti-police brutality causes

Sacred Bones, Thrill Jockey, Sad13, Wicca Phase, RVNG, Father/Daughter, Get Better, Brutal Panda, Cascine & more are donating to bail funds, legal defense funds, and other similar causes.

stream Brigid Mae Power's s/t LP

Ireland’s Brigid Mae Power (fka Brigid Power Ryce) released her first album under her current name and first for the esteemed Tompkins Square Label last month. Brigid’s a new-ish artist, but her music recalls the type of forgotten-then-rediscovered ’60s/’70s folk artists that Tompkins Square often reissues music by, like Bob Brown and Michael Chapman…

Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square label released memoir, going on book tour; guitarist Harry Taussig playing NYC event

The Brooklyn stop on the tour also features Kid Millions’ Wax Lions and Michael Daves.

'60s/'70s cult folk singer Bob Brown reissuing LPs, playing 1st NYC show since the '80s w/ Ryley Walker, Michael Chapman

Brown, 64, hasn’t released any music since his second album, , in 1971. He hasn’t played a concert since the early 1980s, and he largely abandoned the music industry after his career petered out nearly 30 years ago in Los Angeles…

Ryley Walker releases new 13-min track, playing the Tompkins Square Label anniversary show (and other dates)

The prolific psychedelic folk singer Ryley Walker released his newest album Primrose Green (his first for Dead Oceans) earlier this year, and he’s already back with a new standalone sin…

all-star Karen Dalton tribute out now; Michael Chapman, Peter Walker & more playing Tompkins Square anniversary

Every artist has a piece of work that niggles them–something that they wish they could redo, given the chance. It’s why Paul McCartney once reproduced Let It Be and why Kate Bush re-recorded Wuthering Heights for her best-of album…

The Damned touring this fall with TSOL, playing NYC on Halloween ++ Asbury Park and other dates

Goth-tinged punk greats The Damned — whose current lineup features OG members Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible — will be doing a short “Hallows East” tour this fall, including a Halloween show (10/31) at NYC’s Irving Plaza and then the next night (11/1) at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ…