We're very happy to partner with Chicago's Lumpen Radio, a whole bunch of fellow record labels, and a growing list of independent record stores to deliver a collectivist action under the umbrella of: TOMORROW IS LISTENING.

There have been many emotions over the last 6 months as we finalized and made preparations for this moment... But now that we're here... the forefront is a deep and warmly resonant joy as we're able to share this first new music since we lost our beloved sister – trumpeter, composer, creative music titan, total artist and utterly unmatchable human in every sense – jaimie branch.

We've been hearing you for all these years... And today we're very happy to say that, at long last, we've got some soft goods on offer. Thanks in great part to the inspiration and design skills of our comrade Jeremiah Chiu, and logistical and common sense support from our comrade Itzi Marques... Two tee shirts, a tote bag, and a sticker pack to start.

Culminating several years of several releases by Carlos Niño (starting with 2020's Chicago Waves) & Friends (starting with 2021's More Energy Fields, Current) on IARC, we are thrilled today to share the first sounds from a deep new collection that the cosmic communicator himself considers his finest album yet.

On this very loaded date in the somehow recent past... the five members of Irreversible Entanglements (Camae Ayewa, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, Tcheser Holmes) gathered at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia. Their plan was to compose, create and record a new album in a single day of work.

Just in time for summer heat... we're thrilled to announce today a new album by Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – New Future City Radio – the first duo collaboration of these longtime creative partners.

We are excited today to share this load of live dates for the pertinacious poet/ performer/ singer/ songwriter/ saxist/ humanist/ Alabaster DePlume

In the latest episode of our podcast, host Ayana Contreras visits Makaya McCraven at his home in Rogers Park, Chicago, just a few months after the release of his critically-acclaimed 2022 album In These Times. Makaya reflects on the reception of In These Times while revisiting the concepts, intentions, growth, and changes the work encompassed along his 10-year journey of creating it.

Asher Gamedze’s Turbulence & Pulse 2xLP, CD, Digital album is out Friday May 5th, 2023

Please join us for a long overdue celebration of living legend Ben LaMar Gay's latest album Certain Reveries – his infra-sonic post-apocalyptic duo hit with drummer Tommaso Moretti that the Chicago Reader called "a pandemic dream worth remembering" after it was released in Fall 2022.

Today we're happy to share new music by composer, saxophonist, poet, and inspiration-to-many, Alabaster DePlume.

Now available on Wax Poetics: the fourth episode of Charles Stepney: Out of the Shadows – a four part web series directed by Chicago documentarian Brian Ashby.

We're only a month out from the release of Cape Town based drummer/composer Asher Gamedze's new album Turbulence and Pulse and the moment is marked with a MIGHTY new single – "Sometimes I Think To Myself" – which is available to stream on all digital music platforms today.

This Friday, March 31st: we're thrilled to share with the world the entirety of Lightning Dreamers, a new work by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek with his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra.

Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra made a return to Chicago after a five-year absence to perform at the Adler-Planetarium, which is home to a four-billion-year-old moon rock.

Today we are blessed to share this new music by drummer, composer, producer, bandleader, and our brother from London, Tom Skinner

Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse, out May 5th, 2023 and released in collaboration with Johannesburg-based label Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

Ben embarks on a tour of the European continent very soon, along with his classic quartet featuring Tommaso Moretti (drums), Matthew Davis (tuba), Will Faber (guitar), and himself on cornet, synth, and vocals.

Today, composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of a new work, Requiem For Jazz, out March 24th.

In celebration of Carlos completing another rotation around the sun, we proudly present “Thankingtheearth LIVE”.