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Mom+Pop Mark Tenth Anniversary With Concert, Compilation Box Set
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Leading indie label Mom+Pop will celebrate their tenth anniversary with a special celebratory concert on Oct. 22 at Brooklyn Steel featuring label artists Courtney Barnett, Alice Mergon, Sleigh Bells, Sunflower Bean, Neon Indian and Tom Morello, among others.
Ticket pre-sale goes live today, with public on-sale this Friday, Sept. 14, here.
Following the concert, Mom+Pop and their friends at Future Classic will co-host an after-party, “Future Pop,” at Good Room in Brooklyn featuring a rare Flume DJ set.
In addition, the label will release a compilation box set, 10 Years of Mom+Pop, on Nov. 23rd as part of Record Store Day Black Friday. The three-LP box set includes a curated selection of greatest hits, as well as over 20 covers and rarities by artists such as Courtney Barnett, Metric, Sleigh Bells and many others. Also, “Holly,” a previously unreleased song by Sleigh Bells from the 2010 Treats sessions, premieres today with digital box set pre-order. Listen/share the song here. Pre-order digital copy here. Fans can pre-order physical copy of the set as part of the anniversary concert ticket bundle.
A series of picture disc reissues of catalog releases is forthcoming this fall.
Mom+Pop is run by founder and longtime music business executive Michael Goldstone and co-President Thaddeus Rudd. Says Goldstone: “Our ambition has been and always will be to build a collaborative label with transparency and sincere respect for our artist’s creative controls.”
Mom+Pop have signed the likes of Lucius, FIDLAR, Poliça, Neon Indian and Jagwar Ma. In 2014 they licensed Australian artists Flume and Courtney Barnett — Flume went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Electronic Album for Skin, and Courtney Barnett performed on the 2016 Saturday Night Live season finale and received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Mom+Pop’s current roster features Alina Baraz, Alice Merton, Tash Sultana, Sunflower Bean, Ashe, Hinds, Jai Wolf, Bayonne, Tom Morello, MNDR, Raffaella and Lady Lamb.