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radio/ON is an independent record store based in bristol UK. we love q***r / feminist / DIY / experimental / post-punk / lo-fi / pop / x

radio/ON is an independent online & pop-up record store and distro based in Bristol UK, specialising in DIY, lo-fi, indie, punk, pop, avantgarde, shambolism, the-sound-of-jazz-to-come, and other interesting music - underground and overground - from around the world, with an emphasis on feminist, q***r and experimental releases. As well as stocking the most exciting new releases each week, we'll be

bringing you the best from DIY labels around the world, and as much of the back catalogue of our favourite labels and bands as we can. We ship world-wide, and offer low-cost domestic and international postage options, including free UK delivery on all orders over £25. We love to discover and hear things that sound like nothing we've ever heard before, and we hope we can help you do some of that too. In return, if you have recommendations for us, or if your label/band/project have put out something (old or new) that you think we should be stocking - get in touch!

06/04/2023

If you've ever enjoyed the radio/ON in-store posters, or groovy vouchers, or shop signage, and thought that you would like to learn how to design your own... you're in luck!

Michal, who makes all these things (plus creates record sleeves and book covers and film posters etc etc) will be teaching two six-week Introduction to Graphic Design courses at Bristol Folk House beginning on 19th April, and again on 7th June (Wednesday evenings 7:30-9:30pm).

Places are limited to 10 per course. For more information and to enrol, go to the Bristol Folk House website (see link in comments below) - or you can message Michal here if you have any questions. 😀

23/11/2022

Movietone's amazing 1995 self-titled debut album is being re-issued by the lovely World of Echo in February as a double album with bonus tracks and never-before released demos.

Pre-order now - link in comments - free postage in the UK - and, and, and......

We are lucky enough to be getting some copies with a special limited-edition risograph print insert featuring a contemporaneous interview with Kate Wright by one of our favourite zinesters, Stephen Drennan - the first 25 pre-orders will get a copy with the insert, so don't delay.

16/06/2022

Hey Bristol, you should go see Snails, Ay Carmela, and Desperate at tonight

08/04/2022

Even more pre-releases just added to our website, including reissues from Seikatsu Kōjyō Iinkai (Aguirre Records), Tortoise (Thrill Jockey Records), Sonic Youth (Goofin Records), Masayuki Takayanagi (Aguirre Records), Grouper (Kranky), Low (Kranky), Mars (Improved Sequence), Hiroshi Yoshimura (Empire Of Signs), Albert Ayler (Elemental Music), Daniel Johnston (Eternal Yip Eye Music), Karen Dalton (Light In The Attic Records), Cecil Taylor, Faust, Man, Charles Mingus, and lots more… follow the link in comments to discover more!

07/04/2022

Coming soon! Just some of the pre-releases we’ve added to radio-on.co.uk this week include new music from Matthew Bourne (The Leaf Label, Mabe Fratti & Concepción Huerta (SA Recordings), Joan Shelley (No Quarter), Nina Nastasia (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Linqua Franqa (Ernest Jenning Record Co.), kelz (Bayonet Records), Haress (Wrong Speed Records), Alvin Lucier & Jordan Dykstra (Important Records), Jeanines (Slumberland Records), and Yuko Fujiyama, Graham Haynes & Ikue Mori . Follow link in the comments to discover more…..

18/03/2022

Tangerine is a collection of songs by Reiko and Tori Kudo recorded at Village Hototoguiss in Japan in 2011 and 2012 (plus one song recorded at Café OTO in London in 2009), and originally released on CD by Hyotan Records in 2013. It is now available on vinyl for the first time thanks to A Colourful Storm.

These beautiful, warm and intimate recordings are a touchstone of contemporary Japanese avant-folk minimalism and, significantly, it is also the last recorded appearance by the duo, who have performed together of over thirty years.

Tori and Reiko are longtime staples of Tokyo's DIY and experimental music community, and are possibly best know outside of Japan for leading the ensemble Maher Shalal Hash Baz (K Records, Geographic).

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15/03/2022

Pre-releases added to our website this week include new music from Horsegirl (Matador Records), The Garbage & the Flowers (Fire Records), Wet Leg (Domino Recording Company), Caution (Born Yesterday Records), Bezbog (Favela Discos) and Neutrals (Static Shock), plus reissues and new collections from Pavement (Matador Records), LOS DESTELLOS (Vampisoul), Tony Oxley (Discus Music), The Ultimates (Brewerytown), I Start Counting (Mute Records), Teenage Guitar (Fire Records) and lots more…

Tap on the tags or follow link in the comments to read more, listen to tracks, and pre-order on the radio/ON website...

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14/03/2022

Star Party’s debut album, Meadow Flower, is out now on Tough Love Records, and it’s a sugar-burn frantic-racket of lo-fi noise-pop from Seattle (with members of Gen Pop and Vexx).

(RIYL: Tiger Trap, Vaselines, My Bloody Valentine, Shop Assistants etc.)

Tap on the tag or follow the link in the comments to read more, listen and buy..!

12/03/2022

You didn’t know how much you needed avant-recorder music in your life until now…

Laura Cannell’s beautiful new album of improvised minimalist compositions, ‘Antiphony of the Trees,’ recorded in her kitchen on various recorders, is steeped in the nature of her surroundings as she takes inspiration from bird songs coming through the open windows.

Out now on Brawl Records. Tap the tag, or follow link in the comments to read more, listen, and buy...

08/03/2022

Some of the new pre-releases just added to our website…

• The Real Distractions’ debut 7”EP on Krecs /Perennial Records is lo-fi rocknroll-punk diy fun-pop from Olympia, made by KT B, Ricky Meyer, Tobi Vail, and Peter David Connelly (out 15/APR)

• The Lo Yo Yo’s brilliant 1985 post-punk new-wave album from members of Family Fodder, ‘Extra Weapons,’ and their 1984 cassette, ‘Double Dog Dare’ are released together on CD by Klanggalerie (out 15/APR)

• ‘Surrender’ is an exciting new collection of New York’s proto-punk/post-punk electro-minimalist pioneers Su***de on Mute Records that features some of the best of Alan Vega and Marty Rev’s influential music from 1977-2002 including two unreleased songs (2LP/CD out 24/MAR)

• SOUL GLO’s new album ‘Diaspora Problems’ on Secret Voice/Epitaph Records is super-fast super-relevant post-hardcore noisenik-punk brilliance from Philadelphia (CD out 25/MAR & LP out 16/DEC)

• San Francisco’s Sad Eyed Beatniks’ new album, and first on vinyl thanks to Madrid’s Meritorio Records (on cassette in US on Paisley Shirt Records), is lo-fi jangle-pop from K Linn and the scene that’s given us April Magazine, Flowertown, Cindy, etc (LP out 18/MAR)

• Hydroplane’s experimental lo-fi bittersweet dream-core noise-pop 1997 album is released on vinyl for the very first time, with updated artwork, thanks to EFFICIENT SPACE. The Melbourne band’s amazing self-titled masterpiece has been out-of-press and impossible to find for decades, so don’t miss out! (LP out 6/MAY)

• The new album from New York’s Homeboy Sandman, ‘There In Spirit,’ is a collaboration with brilliant Detroit beatmaker ILLingsworth on Mello Music Group (CD out 25/MAR & LP out 5/AUG)

• Malaria!’s essential collection of their early-80s Berlin post-punk releases gets a repress by Moabit Musik (out 25/MAR)

• 50FOOTWAVE’s ‘Black Pearl’ is the new album by the Los Angeles noise-rock trio, made up of Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh and Bernard Georges with drummer Rob Ahlers, on Fire Records (LP/CD out 15/APR)

• Papercuts’ new album ‘Past Life Regression’ is Cali-psych-pop-jangle from San Francisco’s Jason Quever and friends on LABELMAN (Slumberland Records in US) (LP out 1/APR)

Thanks for reading! Tap on the tags, or click on the link in the comments to read more, listen to tracks and explore all the pre-releases on the radio/ON website...

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05/03/2022

Some essential recent reissues and collections that we love…

The 30th anniversary edition of The Lemonheads’ perfect 1992 album, ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ includes an extra disc of bonus tracks, and is available in full-size bookback editions with new liner notes and unseen photos, as well as standard gatefold versions on double-LP and double-CD.

Matrimony’s 1989 album ‘Kitty Finger’ is finally available once again on vinyl thanks to Kill Rock Stars. The Sydney, Australia band’s only album was a big influence on the emerging riot grrrl scene in Olympia, WA when it came out, and was reissued on CD in 1996 at the insistence of Kathleen Hanna. This special reissue has a holographic silver foil stamped sleeve and includes an 11”x22” poster.

Newton’s self-released 1977 solo-debut, ‘Flute Music,’ is an eclectic mix of free-jazz and blissful woodwind minimalism (as well as a little bossnova) and has been reissued for the very first time by Morning Trip/ Telephone Explosion in its original sleeve artwork.

Come’s Peel Sessions from 1992 and 1993 are released for the first time by Fire Records, and includes the excellent ‘City of Fun’ and ’Mercury Falls’ which were not on any of their albums.

Ros Bandt’s 1983 album ‘Soft and Fragile’ is just that - a series of structured improvisations using custom-built bells and gongs and slowed-down tape loops. It’s been reissued by EFFICIENT SPACE with a redesigned sleeve and the original extensive liner notes.

Avant-garde trombonist Phil Ranelin’s 1974 debut ‘The Time is Now’ is a sprawling free-jazz/spiritual-jazz masterpiece that was originally released on Tribe Records (the artist-run label/collective founded by Ranelin and Wendell Harrison in Detroit in 1972), and is part of Now Again Records series of reissues highlighting the label. It comes in sleeve reproducing the original artwork, complete with Ranelin’s liner notes, plus a full-size booklet with extensive essay and unseen archival photos.

Tap on the tags, or follow the link in the comments, to explore more on the radio/ON website.

04/03/2022

Our pick of some of the best new music that’s just been released include records by Behavior & Mayako XO (Post Present Medium), 박지하 Park Jiha (Tak:Til/Glitterbeat Records), The Web Of Lies (Wrong Speed Records), Witch Camp (Six Degrees Records, Okkyung Lee (OTOROKU), Yaeji & OHHYUK (XL Recordings), and a compilation of the songs of Yoko Ono by Yo La Tengo, David Byrne, Deerhoof, Thao, and many others…. Listen and read more on the radio/ON website (tap the tags or follow link in the comments)

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