An exciting day today... Mercury is no longer in retrograde AND we have the privilege of announcing our first new release of 2021, which is: brand new music by Damon Locks and his Black Monument Ensemble. A followup to their iconic 2019 debut Where Future Unfolds, it's an album for these times appropriately titled NOW.

We are very honored to share today... A very special offering from two friends, immensely talented craftspeople, inspirational artists who've genuinely been guiding lights through the homebound struggles of the last eight months...

Late last night... clarinetist, composer, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid unleashed a plume of cleansing fire energy into the blue moonlit midnight air of All Souls' weekend... in the form of this powerful LIVE document.

Telepathic Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes are longtime friends, collaborators, and tireless hustlers on the creative music scenes of New York City. We came to know these brilliant players via their work in the mighty free jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements; and after several years of growing steadily fonder of the sounds they make, we are pleased to share that their new duo album, Heritage of the Invisible II, is out TODAY!

Rob Mazurek releases two new singles today: “Galaxy 1000” and “The Careening Prism Within (Parable 43),” from his forthcoming Exploding Star Orchestra album Dimensional Stardust (which comes out November 20th via our partnership with Nonesuch Records). They follow the album’s lead single “A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles Reeling.”

We are very happy to christen the first day of Autumn 2020 with news of a major new work by ROB MAZUREK and his EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA. Mazurek – the artist who inaugurated our record label (hear: IARC0001, Alternate Moon Cycles) and perhaps what many 21st century modern music heads would consider "The Chicago Sound" (hear: Chicago Underground, Isotope 217) – presents the monumental Dimensional Stardust as a co-release of International Anthem and Nonesuch Records.

A very exciting retail date is nigh... Our three most recently released albums – Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's Chicago Waves, Anteloper's Tour Beats Vol. 1, and Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings E&F Sides – will all be available in physical formats, for the first time, via your favorite record stores, on Friday September 25th.

Telepathic Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes are longtime friends, collaborators, and tireless hustlers on the creative music scenes of New York City. We came to know these brilliant players via their work in the mighty free jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements; and after several years of growing steadily fonder of the sounds they make, today we are pleased to share news of their new duo album Heritage of the Invisible II, out October 23rd.

Prominently sampled on Bon Iver’s recent track “PDLIF,” “Visit Croatia” is the title track from a new mini EP featuring two brand new tracks by Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Angus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume.

We are very happy to announce & share today.. A monumental beat suite by jaimie branch & Jason Nazary's ANTELOPER.. What was previously only available on a rare run of analogue cassette tapes... Formerly and now forever known as...

~ TOUR BEATS VOL. 1 ~

In late November of 2018, long-time collaborators (& life-long Los Angelenos) Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings. Just 11 months prior, Carlos & Miguel were part of recording the ‘Los Angeles Side’ of Universal Beings at Jeff Parker’s house in Altadena, California, and this performance in Chicago would be the first time that all of the musicians reunited to re-learn and perform the music they’d collectively composed during those sessions.

We are very happy to announce & release on all digital platforms today - Angel Bat Dawid's Transition East - featuring two new pieces of music Angel created in response to Emma Warren's book Make Some Space - i.e. the critically-lauded 2019 chronicle of London DIY institution Total Refreshment Centre.

It is our pleasure to announce: the next entry into the International Anthem catalogue, our first full length release by a British artist; our first 3-way co-release with Total Refreshment Centre and Lost Map; an album that has been a great source of peace to our internal ears over the last few months, and is sure to be for the world now as well: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 by Alabaster DePlume.

Feliz año nuevo! It's our pleasure to kick off this momentous year with details of the new full length album by composer, producer, guitarist & sage of the International Anthem family, Jeff Parker! Suite for Max Brown is available for pre-order TODAY, and will be available in stores on January 24th 2020.

We are pleased to share today… the first new music from Philly/NY/DC free jazz collective IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS since their 2017 debut. “Homeless/Global” is an epic, 23-minute standalone “single” and unabridged take from the first moments of the Philadelphia recording session for their forthcoming LP, “Homeless/Global” stretches out inside a vacuum of time, running over 23 minutes in a blink of an eye.

Following a highly successful European blitz in November, Jaimie Branch & her flyin (not dyin) quartet (with Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian, and Lester St. Louis) return triumphantly to the US for a three-city victory lap that starts in Los Angeles this Wednesday night.

We are very happy to share today.. New music by composer/producer/guitarist Jeff Parker..
~ "Max Brown" ~ The first single from his forthcoming full-length LP.. Available NOW on 7" vinyl & digital!!!

"Max Brown" is a soulful, swinging cypher of lyrical soloing by guitarist Parker with saxophonist Josh Johnson (Chicago-raised MD for Leon Bridges, sideman for Kiefer, Carlos Niño, more) and trumpeter Nate Walcott (of Bright Eyes, M. Ward renown), held down by the rhythm section of Jamire Williams (drummer for Moses Sumney, contributor to Solange's latest) and bassist Paul Bryan (who co-produced "Max Brown" alongside Parker).

It's here! Junius Paul's debut album Ism is available in record stores and online via all digital music outlets today! If you've already ordered, the album will be with you very soon.