Now Again Records

Proposed additions to Egon’s Christmas playlist went live today on NPR. Check it out – from the Sounds of Little Rock at Christmas to the He 5, pictured above. We plan to throw up some extra He 5 songs as we count down the days…. ...

Monty Stark’s only child, son Monty Jr. (those of you who have seen Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop will remember him as one of the children featured in the show’s educational skits) emailed us after his father’s passing and included a photograph of his father. ...

2010’s first quarter is shaping up to be a busy one, what with the Whitefield Brothers’ Earthology, our Fela-inspired comp Black Man’s Cry, the reissue of the Equatics’ brooding ...

Catalog: AKR205 Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro, Savath & Savalas) offers up his contribution to the Library Catalog Music Series. Music for Memory is like one giant crossfade going from one idea to the next in long rhythmic patterns. ...

By the mid 1970s, the Southern African nation known as the Republic of Zambia had fallen on hard times. The new Federation found itself under party rule. Zambia’s then-president engaged what was then Southern ...

[...] The Whitefield Brothers just wrapped their fall European tour where they introduced their new album Earthology. Check photos from the tour courtesy Fabian Sturz by clicking here. [...]

In 2001, my friend Jared, then of New York record store The Sound Library, flew out to LA with his girlfriend. I’d been meaning to travel to Phoenix to interview Monty Stark for the Stark Reality ...

The last time I spoke with Monty, I knew something was wrong. It was the summer of 2008 and I called him to explain that the license I’d brokered for the reissue of the Stark Reality’s music had expired and I wanted to renew. ...

Now-Again, in conjunction with Uchenna Ikonne (the man behind the perennially-dope Comb & Razor blog) and New-Zealand based psych-zealot Heavyfuzz, is knee deep in assembling an anthology of the best Nigerian psych-fuzz-funk tracks from the country’s golden years of the early to mid 1970s. ...

Yes, it’s been up for a month at Stones Throw’s webstore, but there’s something about seeing a record in a store first-hand that makes a release date special. Forge Your Own Chains is out everywhere good music is sold today.

We think it’s a first for us here at Now-Again; it’s certainly a first for our cousins at World Psychedelic Funk Classics Records. A full page, glowing review of the Psych Funk 101 Comp in The Wire Magazine by Peter Shapiro.

The Whitefield Brothers are in the middle of their European tour. Check the dates here. We’ve just released the first 12″ – The Gift, featuring Edan and Mr. Lif – from their forthcoming album Earthology over at Stones Throw’s webstore. ...