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”.

Hi friends, Recordings from the Åland Islands is back in print and at the warehouse ready to ship. We're happy to have it back in stock just in time to celebrate it's (almost) 1 Year Anniversary.

Revving up again for 2023... we are elated today to share details of this year's first edition, Lightning Dreamers, a new work written by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra, releasing March 31st.

An addendum to the Autumn Equinox LP/Digital release of Photay and Carlos Niño's An Offering, featuring remixes, expansions, and new fruits from their ever-blossoming collaboration.

On September 19th, 2022, just days ahead of the release of In These Times, Makaya McCraven assembled a special chamber ensemble to do pared down versions of tunes from his new album, for the third installment of our quarterly residency at Public Records.

Anyone who knows Dezron Douglas knows how much of a coffee aficionado he is... the highest standards, only the good shit! They also know how high his standards are for melodically massive, limber low end lumber thrums... That is: Bass Lines. Today's new single from Dezron and his quartet – "More Coffee Please" – is a perfect showcases for both those affinities.

Now available on Wax Poetics: the third episode of Charles Stepney: Out of the Shadows – a four part web series directed by Chicago documentarian Brian Ashby (known for his work on Scrappers, The Area, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, and a forthcoming film about Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble).

In the tradition of toddler crayon scribbles on perfectly painted bedroom walls, multi-freshness composer Ben LaMar Gay expands on the teachings of Alabama star spirits and presents a collection of work involving sound, fabric, movement, rivers, shadows, Lagosian memories, light and listening.