It always hurts when an indie label comes crashing down.
Kindercore, erstwhile and present home to bands like Dressy Bessy, Palomar, Maserati, Of Montreal, Masters of the Hemisphere, The Essex Green, Call and Response, I Am The World Trade Center and Japancakes, is calling it a day. Along with its sibling label The Telegraph Company, Kindercore will be closing its New York offices with just about immediate effect. The Telegraph distribution operation will continue “unabated,” as Kindercore representatives tell us, but all Kindercore and Telegraph releases slated for 2004 have been shelved, with both labels on immediate and indefinite hiatus. (full story)