Don Giovanni Records

”Winterhawk was more than a band. It had a message. It was Nik’s plan to use the tool of music to bring this message to the youth through his lyrics combined with the type of music to grab their attention,” drummer Alfonso Kolb says in the liner notes.

Spitboy existed from 1990 to 1995 with releases on Lookout!, Ebullition, and Allied (including a split with Los Crudos), and they frequented the same Gilman St scene as Green Day, Operation Ivy, Neurosis, and more. Their music remains essential today...

”while i was a student at the university of north carolina chapel hill I and fellow students organized around the legacies of white supremacy and anti blackness that founded the institution, were glorified in building names and confederate monuments on campus and reproduced through administrational violations against Blackness. this video shows me reclaiming my power, my image and my sanctity of peace.”

Don Giovanni founder Joe Steinhardt is joining the Music Industry Program faculty at Drexel University, which also currently includes former/longtime Passion Pit bassist Jeff Apruzzese...

If you miss when Alanna McArdle sang in Joanna Gruesome, you're in luck. Her new band with former JG bandmate Owen Williams is cut from a very similar cloth.

The new song is called "Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago" and Donita Sparks says "the lyrical musicality of the word Mar-a-Lago just lent itself to an inspired song of these crazy assed times."

Jamie has been removed from the 'Citizen Radio' podcast, and Don Giovanni Records are distancing themselves from the comedian/musician as well...

The festival aims to be "held in direct opposition to the apolitical sludge that has come to pass as 'indie' and that has nothing to do with operating independently." They add, "There will be no sponsors, no backdoor advertising via branded content, or other base money-making schemes."

Cara Beth Satalino's (ex-Witches) current band Outer Spaces signed with Don Giovanni Records to release their full-length debut album A Shedding Snake, which'll be out on May 27. They also shared the first single "I Saw You" and announced a tour.

Don Giovanni Records aren't doing their annual showcases this year, but they're planning this festival instead: THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE. There is an alternative to music released and distributed by three major corporations...