These are the current artists on the No Karma, Loose Thread, Brilliante and Redder labels. We love them, and we hope you do too! Click a name or photo to view their merchandise.

 

San Juan, Puerto Rico trio play hollowed-out melodies and haunting rhythms, with quiet, childlike vocals.

Balún

The Buddyrevelles

Instrumentals rich with moody depth and nuanced textures. Currently based in Chicago.

The Cricket Rumor Mill

Smart-alecks from Milwaukee, constructing edgy pop songs that speed across the airwaves.

The Five Mod Four

Pramod Tummala (Melochrome) and an array of friends and studio guests bring a film score sweep to their breezy pop songs.

Morning Recordings

This Detroit combo jigsaws sock hop swagger and pop deconstruction.

New Grenada

Signing Choir

Detroit popsters delightfully detune guitars, hop on fuzz pedals, and let their melodies soar.

Ten Words for Snow

Originally a solo project for pop tunesmith Hutch Harris, Urban Legends became Hutch and Kathy, which begat the Thermals.

Urban Legends

 
These artists are also associated with the No Karma Music Group! Click a name or photo to view their merchandise.

 

Autumnal minimalism from multi-instrumentalists Axel Kabboord and Minco Eggersman, from the Netherlands.

At The Close Of Every Day

Bling Kong

Milwaukee/Madison quartet write smart pop songs with sharp hooks that cut through the feedback and the falling-over-oneself.

The Box Social

Four young men from across the US find each other in Chicago, mixing their various loves for dirty folk-rock, minimalist funk, geeky pop, and jazz-inspired noise.

Branches

Dream-pop quartet from Milwaukee. Members went on to play in the Promise Ring, Decibully and New Sense.

Camden

The solo vehicle of Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes).

The City on Film

Michael Lyons and friends create melodies for a forgotten era of pop radio - timeless, but still frantic and fresh. From Chicago, Illinois.

Clyde Federal

Chicago (via Michigan) combo explodes with abrasion and angles, fluctuating from calm assurance to manic energy within a span of seconds..

Crush Kill Destroy

Sonically ambitious and lyrically delicious, Def Harmonic

Def Harmonic

El Oso weave together simple, stark melodies with a tinkling, underlying gurgle of experimentation. From Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

El Oso

Athens combo features a dense mix of influences ranging from The Kinks and T Rex to more obscure early 70

The Eskimos

Chicago music-scene heavyweights from bands such as Pigface, Revolting Cocks, Joan of Arc, The Owls, Town & Country, and Central Falls.

Everyoned

Detroit trio walks the delicate line between post-rock and dance-pop.

Hairshirt

Marc Bianchi is Her Space Holiday; he started releasing home recordings under the moniker in 1996 and has gradually added more production and more dance-influenced flourishes.

Her Space Holiday

Shredding noise, disco flamboyance and almost subliminal melodies collide like some sort of no-wave marching band. Currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

IfIHadAHiFi

Kalpana

Kind of Like Spitting

Call and response boy-girl vocals underscore the magical innocence and hidden darkness of this New York trio.

La Pieta

Charming, tender folk augmented by a literate playfulness and a sonic otherworldliness. From Chicago.

The Lesser Birds of Paradise

The solo project of Bobby Burg, man about Chicago, writing quirky tales of nostalgia and heartache.

The Love of Everything

Founding member of Like Moving Insects and Fan of Friends, Joshua

Joshua Marcus

Lush pop full of layered textures and warm arrangements. Members of Melochrome now play in Morning Recordings.

Melochrome

Powerful, ultra-danceable anthems that are just dripping with the pop and kick of The Kinks and the smooth sex swagger of Mark Bolan and T-Rex. From Chicago.

The M's

Indie rock veterans who

New Radiant Storm King

Bright dance-pop from current and former members of Milwaukee heroes Decibully, the Promise Ring, Citizen King, and Paris Texas.

New Sense

A mix of improv Jazz, post-rock, and prog that always keeps melody in the forefront. Olo released 4 records between 1997 and 2002.

Olo

Rockets and Bluelights

Saturday Looks Good to Me

Sault Ste. Marie began in 1998 as a solo project for guitarist Michael Wojtasiak. After several incarnations, SSM begat a new band, the Five Mod Four.

Sault Ste. Marie

Former guitarists of Joan Of Arc, Friend/Enemy and the Bimbobs channel warm delight followed by introspective wonderment.

Sharks and Seals

Dark, dynamic atmospheric pop; imagine the chilling textures of the Cure mixed with the crushing intimacy of the Afghan Whigs. From Portland, Oregon.

Slackjaw

Menacing, prog-influenced instrumental rock. From Menasha, Wisconsin.

Sounds Like Braille

Summer at Shatter Creek

Sunday Flood formed in 1995, and have weathered band members moving across the country, various lineups, and botched record deals in the time since then. Vocalist/guitarists Eric Krueger and Mike Allen have remained constants in the band the whole time.

Sunday Flood

San Juan, Peurto Rico combo mixes experimental pop with traditional Latin rhythms and rich electronic textures.

Superaquello

Art/noise/emo/pop with jazzy guitars, fuzzed drums and hushed vocals.

Tekulvi

Midnight lullabies and daydream fantasies, literate tales that spin their maxims in tapestries of velvet chords, minor accordion keys, rousing R&B arrangements, and rollicking guitars.

The Thin Man

Tiny Amps

Thick, progressive post-punk. Traindodge formed in Oklahoma in the mid-90s.

Traindodge

Chicago/Brooklyn combo feeds on the motion and drive of dance music while still paying homage to the traditions of the pop/rock song structure.

Venue

Michael Lyons (Chicago

Violins

A bangin

Walter Meego

Zelienople

Western Automatic

New Jersey

The Wrens

Drawing upon the drone-based music legacy of 60s American minimalism, 70s ambient rock, 80s space rock, and 90s techno.

Zelienople

 
 

 

 

 

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