This Friday January 31st, Damon Locks – the Chicago-based visual artist, educator, musician, deejay, and vocalist who is known as the voice of Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, former frontman of legendary punk band Trenchmouth, and leader of latter day liberation music collective Black Monument Ensemble – releases his debut solo album, List of Demands.

Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes is the debut album from a new trio by LA based musicians Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, and Sam Wilkes.

Today, Alabaster DePlume — the acclaimed London-based saxophonist, singer, songwriter, activist, orator, and poet-philosopher — announces A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole, a daring new album out March 7th. In it, DePlume shares eleven songs of agency and survival and presence; of confronting life’s pains rather than trying to avoid them; of banishing escapism.

Over the course of 2025 we will be celebrating our eleventh year (under the IA11 chrysanthemum banner) by revisiting some of the most celebrated entries in our decade of releases.

Today Damon Locks – the Chicago-based visual artist, educator, musician, deejay, and vocalist who is known as the voice of Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, former frontman of legendary punk band Trenchmouth and The Eternals, and leader of latter day liberation music collective Black Monument Ensemble (BME) – releases a new single titled “Holding the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt. 2).”

Makaya McCraven is Artist-in-Residence for the upcoming 2025 NYC Winter Jazz Festival. Between January 9th and 14th, Makaya will do five shows at five venues in five unique combinations, including multiple performances commemorating the 10-year anniversary of his breakout IARC debut album In The Moment.

On a cold gray April day, Resavoir gathered at 'le sons du cosmos' studio in Little Village, Chicago, to record a few tunes including a beautiful rendition of the Alex North composition "Love Theme from Spartacus."

Today, guitarist Jeff Parker releases The Way Out of Easy, the new album with his long-running ETA IVtet featuring saxophonist Josh Johnson (SML, Meshell Ndegeocello, Leon Bridges), bassist Anna Butterss (SML, Jason Isbell, Phoebe Bridgers), and drummer Jay Bellerose (Robert Plant, Allen Toussaint, Joe Henry), on all digital streaming platforms via International Anthem/Nonesuch Records.

Today Damon Locks – the Chicago-based visual artist, educator, musician, deejay, and vocalist who is known as the voice of Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, former frontman of legendary punk band Trenchmouth, and leader of latter day liberation music collective Black Monument Ensemble – announces a new solo album titled List of Demands, out January 31st, 2025.

We’re rolling into Winter with a fresh look inspired by the MCI Console that lives at International Anthem Studios. Does the gear nerd in your life need a fresh hoodie, tee, or coffee mug? Are you that nerd in need? Do you just like how it looks? This could be the look for you.

Available on deluxe LP, CD, and digital download worldwide on December 6, 2024

Over the next year, we'll be rolling out a series of releases, reissues, miscellaneous media and events under the IA11 banner.

Available on deluxe 2xLP, CD, and digital download worldwide this Friday, November 22, 2024

skylla is the debut solo recording of Italian-born and London-based composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller.

“Tomin makes offerings that are achingly personal, mysteriously evocative, and unfailingly lovely.” - Bandcamp

Ensemble leader debut by Brooklyn born and based brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, composer & arranger Tomin !!!

Today, Australian-born bassist and composer Anna Butterss releases Mighty Vertebrate, their debut album for International Anthem, on all streaming platforms.

In March of 2022, International Anthem and Qobuz began a semi-regular series of co-presented shows in the hi-fi confines of Brooklyn's Public Records.

The ongoing series – now approaching the three year mark – has become somewhat of a Big Apple home base for the International Anthem family, as eight different artists to date have celebrated new or recent releases with IA@PR performances.

"Absolutely cosmic, somewhere between Sun Ra and ’70s Miles, with Damon Locks’ poetry and digital manipulations adding a 21st century dimension... This shit is head-spinning." – Phil Freeman, Stereogum

Today Alabaster DePlume – saxophonist, songwriter, poet, orator, activist, highly inspirational human who is doing very well indeed – shares Prologue To A Blade, a series of creative statements setting the stage for a larger project arriving next year.