It’s too bad that Kranky Records, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013, doesn’t come to mind more often, because it certainly belongs in that company—it’s proved just as reliable ...

To Celebrate Kranky’s 25th Anniversary, Here Are the Experimental Label’s 10 Most Essential Releases Robert Ham GROUPER Fri 11/16 First Congregational United Church of Christ Tanja Engelberts ...

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the site of this week’s Ambient Church concert celebrating 25 years of the Kranky label Credit: Matt Frankel Update on Thursday, December 6, at 5:30 PM: Windy & Carl ...

That fertile sonic playground birthed outstanding record labels such as Drag City, Thrill Jockey, Bloodshot, and kranky, all of which are going strong today. Bruce Adams co-owned the latter with ...

Prazision is the debut of droning Virginian post-rockers Labradford, the first record issued by Chicago-based experimental imprint Kranky, which Joel Leoschke co-founded with the since-departed ...

Chicago independent Kranky, one of the Quietus’ favourite labels, is twenty years in the running this year. After putting out Labradford’s Prazision LP in 1993, they’ve gone on to release records by ...

Esteemed Chicago indie label Kranky Records is a year away from legal drinking age, and its founders are celebrating with a slew of hometown shows. The Kranky Twenty anniversary gigs will take ...

Kranky has announced that it will release a new album from ambient producer Earthen Sea in June. Titled Grass And Trees, the album is preceded by lead track ‘Existing Closer Or Deeper In Space’, which ...

There’s no way to guess how a fresh Deerhunter track will sound. Will it borrow a bassline from a 1950s prom ballad or will it skim fuzz from some shoegaze staple? Will it more resemble the ...

In this in-depth account, Adams tells the origin story of kranky, a formative indie record label he cofounded in Chicago in the early 1990s. Though enamored with the sounds emanating from cities ...

Since then, they have remained largely dormant aside from some hard-to-find EPs, but they will be back in full form after signing with the admirable Kranky roster and completing their next album ...