NEWSFLASH! SubPop no longer coolest! Matador is distributing the best there is: Crypt! Among other good stuff, we get Chrome Cranks, New Bomb Turks, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Country Teasers, Revelators, Thee Headcoatees and Nine Pound Hammer! How much better can it get?
One of the great companies right now (and for a fucking few years back!) is SubPop Check out the latest info on the great Supersuckers, coming soon to a theatre near ya!
Amphetamine Reptile is the dope, of course. You've got bands such as Chokebore, Guzzard, Love 666, Cows and dat ole Chromester Helios Creed. My holmes Buck's fave cap is an AmRep one. Tells it all. Now AmRep have a way cooler site HERE!
And where would we be without Estrus, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Get Hip! & Man's Ruin? The Makers, by god! Hai Karate! Satan's Pilgrims! Billy Childish! Madame X! Coyote Men!
Bad Vugum is a great Finnish rawk/weirdness label. Go there! Buy that shit! Shake that rump!
Bad Afro - the Moshable Label. Great limited edition colored vinyls by The Nomads, The Hellacopters and Larry and the Lefthanded. Unfortunately, the great Moshable magazine is going ta fold. Pity. Suffer the children. But there's another great Danish fanzine in town - DEADBEAT. Go dig it. All the kids diggit.
You also gotta dig Swedish record company MNW, with groups such as the incredible Fleshquartet, Teddybears STHLM and Misery Loves, Co. Sometimes great!
Likewise, Burning Heart records in Sweden is pushing good shit such as Liberator, Satanic Surfers and Puffball. Groovy, man!
Freibank, publishing house for Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Coil, Caspar Brötzmann, Diamanda Galas, Coil, KMFDM, Tindersticks and more.
Tzadik is the amazing John Zorn's hyperproductive label. This guy sure doesn't fuck around. Last time I looked, he had more than 200 full length releases on his conscience. Tzadik is dedicated to releasing the best in avantgarde and experimental music, presenting a worldwide community of contemporary musician-composers who find it difficult or impossible to release their music through more conventional channels.
Warp - Polygon Window/Aphex Twin/Autechre/Black Dog
Digital Hardcore Recordings releases good shit such as DJ Bleed, Atari Teenage Riot, EC8OR and Alec Empire.
More? I love the heavy urban dub from Wordsound, bad Crookyn mystic shit. Suburban Bass, sometime home for Zinc, Pascal, Swift & other junglists is also nice. True Playaz is also rolling in the same genre, home of the wicked wicked Ganja Kru. The mad bad congo natty label is too god for a link;)