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For the first time in nearly a decade, we have Temporary Residence t-shirts available for sale! This limited edition design pays homage to two of the record labels who inspired us to start our record label nearly 20 years ago. Artist-run labels who treated their artists and their endeavors with the utmost respect and admiration, while maintaining that delicate balance between art and commerce, Chicago's Touch and Go Records and Washington, DC's Dischord Records paved the way for hundreds of independent labels and artists throughout the 1980s, 90s, and 00s. We are thankful to travel the roads they paved, and are grateful and humbled to now consider them peers. They certainly did the lion's share of the heavy lifting to allow independent music to be where it is now. Limited quantities and sizes are available, so jump on these while supplies last! As you may or may not know, we don't make Temporary Residence t-shirts very often. We'll try to get better at that.

It's finally here! Nearly 20 years after departing the criminally obscure Louisville rock band Evergreen, Britt Walford (most famously known as the driving force behind Slint) is finally in a new band and making new music again. This is a glorious thing! As if that weren't enough, that band is Watter, a new Louisville, Kentucky trio that also features Zak Riles of Grails, and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire, Tyler Trotter. They also roped in a handful of friends and collaborators to join in the long-form kraut-psych intensity, including but not limited to Rachel Grimes (Rachel's), Todd Cook (The For Carnation, Crain), and the legendary Tony Levin of King Crimson. It's a mind-blowing record, and lives up to its expectations in just about every way. You can order now on CD and/or LP.

After three long years, the new Young Widows album is finally upon us...and holy shit it's a scorcher. It's the heaviest, scariest, most dynamic album of the band's career - and we're not the only ones who have noticed: "Kerosene Girl" was awarded Best New Track by Pitchfork, and Stereogum proclaimed it "the best 'heavy' song I've heard all year, even if it's not technically metal." Hear for yourself, and order the CD and/or LP at your leisure. And don't miss the band in their natural environment: a dark, doomy rock club. Check out the TOURS page for details.

It probably goes without saying...but we'll say it anyways: We are beyond excited to announce that two of our all-time favorite experimental rock musicians ((Britt Walford of SLINT, and Zak Riles of GRAILS) have joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Tyler Trotter to form a new genre-defying group called WATTER. For Riles and Trotter, it's a chance to dig deeper into the sandbox in which Grails have sculpted many mercurial masterpieces in recent years; for Walford, it's the opportunity to play a substantial role in a new active band for the first time in nearly twenty years, since his days in the criminally-underrated EVERGREEN.

Check out the first song from Watter's forthcoming debut album, This World, the 7-minute "Rustic Fog".

A few years ago we released the debut album by an ambitious, extremelty talented family band from Bloomington, Indiana called Dreamers of the Ghetto. They enjoyed the kind of blinding white praise from blogs with comments like "next big thing" and "too good to not get huge." In spite of – or because of (or a little of both) – those accolades, the band dissolved well before the world was able to discover their significant gifts. Now, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Luke Aaron Jones and fellow DOTG alum Marty Sprowles have pared down the widescreen stadium-sized rock of their former band to the more intimate, introspective Hunterchild. Jones' vocals are more arresting than ever, indebted as much to vintage Peter Gabriel, Prince, and Depeche Mode as the rich well of electronic R&B explorations from a similar orbit as James Blake and The Weeknd in their most powerful moments. Hunterchild are comfortable in their own skin in a way that's almost unheard of for debut artists. You can hear the first single, "Aching," from their forthcoming debut album here: https://soundcloud.com/temporary-residence-ltd-1/hunterchild-aching