►  Listen via SoundCloud  or Wondering Sound “The Sun Glitters Remix of Shocking Pinks’ “St Louis” is marvelously aqueous—filmy, bubbling sound, swallowing Gemma Symes’ distant voice. The result is stunning: the song feels eerie and woozy, pulsing ominously, changing shape, and slowly reconfiguring over and over and over.”  — Wondering Sound  ►  Shocking Pinks Premiere: “St Louis (Sun Glitters Remix)” via Wondering […]

Since releasing the Shocking Pinks trilogy earlier this year, we’ve signed three new bands—one of them an incredible, young, electronic hip-hop group from the UK called Ruane Maurice. Despite having less than 200 Facebook fans and not a single song streaming online (prior to today), they’ve already built a substantial buzz in the UK club […]

We already been hinting at this, but it’s time to officially welcome UK’s Ruane Maurice to our Stars & Letters Records family! The BBC recently described their music as “awesome experimental hip hop”. They’ve already been supporting the likes of Mount Kimbie, kidkanevil, and Todd Edwards, and next week their first single ‘Nomenclature’ premieres via […]

As you may have seen, a lot was published about how bleak Shocking Pinks’ Guilt Mirrors is, and how sprawling and unwieldy it is—how it is an edifice built from broken bones, broken spirits, and the aftermath of earthquakes. Nick Harte, however, is also a true romantic, and his new video for “A Million Times”—the […]

Huge thanks to Brooklyn Vegan, Under The Radar, IMPOSE, Gold Flake Paint, Cheese On Toast, Rip It Up, Skope Magazine, Fragile or Possibly Extinct, Floorshime Zipper Boots, Wonky Sensitive, Human Pleasure Radio, and Earnest Sewn for picking up the new We Are Temporary & Misfit Mod single “Machine Love”! “Machine Love is stunning; a weighty […]

Brooklyn Vegan just premiered the brand new single “Machine Love” by We Are Temporary—a collaboration with label mate Misfit Mod. We Are Temporary plans to release his debut album, Gemini, on Stars & Letters Records later this year. Meanwhile you can get a taste of that album by streaming the new single, “Machine Love (feat. […]

We’re beyond excited today to announce that UK’s Empathy Test have just signed to Stars & Letters Records and that we will be releasing their new EP “Throwing Stones” this year!  Earlier this year they self-released their debut EP “Losing Touch” and word about their music has been spreading like wildfire online. Check out their […]

We’re stoked to announce the Black City Lights are about to head off on a UK & EU tour, including stops at The Great Escape Festival and multiple support shows for The Naked And Famous: Black City Lights UK & EU tour dates: May 3 – London, The Good Ship May 6 – Bristol, Start […]

“When Australian visual artist Gemma Syme sings I wonder what they’ll put on my grave/ at the end of all my days about halfway through “St. Louis,” my heart breaks a little. There’s something so existentially sad about trying to picture the world spinning after you’re gone, particularly when that bleak thinking is paired with […]

In IT, “bad blocks” are digital corruptions that render information unreadable and unwritable. For Hamish Lang (26, production) and Daniel Neeve (26, vocals, guitars, production), Bad Blocks push, file, and rewrite accessible electronic music with the study of an anthropologist and the soul of TS Eliot. Today, Stars & Letters are proud to announce that […]

In IT, “bad blocks” are digital corruptions that render information unreadable and unwritable. For Hamish Lang and Daniel Neeve, Bad Blocks push, file, and rewrite accessible electronic music with the study of an anthropologist and the soul of TS Eliot. We couldn’t be happier to have them join our S&L family! Check out their incredible […]

Exclaim! just posted an excellent interview with Nick Harte from the Shocking Pinks. One question which we thought particularly apropos: There’s been a lot of mention of the earthquakes affecting the album but despite that being an easy journalistic hook. Is there much truth to that? “I find that a bit offensive, honestly. I lived […]