CASSETTE STORE DAY 2018 RETURNS 13TH OCTOBER

The annual retro-fest event Cassette Store Day returns on October 13th and we spoke to CSD UK manager Brit Williams about what she has in store for the event’s sixth year. “Yes, we’re back and some say it couldn’t be done. Cassette Store Day 2017 was brilliant and we had an impressive amount of releases […]

Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 14th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The final list of UK releases is as follows: • Fear of Tigers – Tapeworkxs (Playmaker Media) • Various Artists – The Music Will Save Us Vol.1 (Sad Club Records) • Colleen – Colleen Et […]

CASSETTE STORE DAY UNVEILS FINAL LIST OF RELEASES AHEAD OF OCTOBER’S EVENT

CASSETTE STORE DAY REVEALS FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES

Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on Saturday 14th October 2017 with a day of global celebrations, and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: • Strange Collective – Surf Odyssey (Salvation) • Trojan Horse – Fukushima Surfer Boys (This City Is Ours) • AlgernonCornelius – Radio (This City Is Ours) […]

International Cassette Store Day (CSD), founded in London by a group of UK labels in 2013 returns for its fifth year on Saturday 14th October 2017, running events in the UK, USA, China, Japan, France, New Zealand, and Australia. Last year saw UK releases from big names Pixies, Courtney Barnett and Get Cape. Wear. Cape. Fly […]

CASSETTE STORE DAY RETURNS FOR ITS FIFTH YEAR ON SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017

ALBUM REVIEW: BLAK HAND RECORDS – HIDE AND PSYCH

It’s great that we live in an age where indie labels are running supreme. The majors will always be there, ready to entice the unsuspecting but to the core of it, underground music and the DIY aesthetic seems to be a fiercer proposition more than ever at the moment. Blak Hand Records are a cassette based […]

Blak Hand Records are participating in their third Cassette Store Day with a brand new sizzlin’ release called Hide and Psych. Limited to 50 fire engine red tapes and featuring 13 tracks, the album gives some of the brightest and newest Blak Hand bands a chance to shine with their own hand picked covers of […]

BLAK HAND RECORDS SHARE NEW TRACK + CASSETTE

CASSETTE STORE DAY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES

Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 8th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Kissability) Gonjasufi […]

Cassette Store Day comes but once a year, and for its third installment on 17 October 2015 Blak Hand Records are delighted to present Blak Rainbow, a collection of the North-West’s best garage rackets and psych kaleidoscopic gems. Side A kicks off with the lo-fi pop-playfulness of Antelopes’ Oh Caroline. Rumbling bass bounces with choppy jangles of guitar and […]