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Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2024

Words: Loren • January 4, 2025

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2024
Photo by Jack Sharp

Shahab Zargari (GC Records)

What are your top five albums that were released in 2024? (In order 1-5)

  1. Red Scare Industries: 20 Years Of Dreaming And Scheming
  2. Vicious Dreams -Turn Off My Brain
  3. HOTS - Songs of Freedom fundraiser LP 
  4. Con Shoal EP
  5. Bjork & Rosalia - Oral fundraiser remix

What band did you discover in 2024 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? How so?

Home Front!

How will you remember 2024 (in terms of music)?

Events are back in full swing now that COVID lockdown is far behind us, which is nice. Now we just need to get more people to come out to shows! 

What can we look forward to from you in 2025?

More music, more videos, more crazy!

What records are you looking forward to most in 2025?

Really excited about a fresh new band out of Vegas called Brake Check and their new album, which drops soon:

How do you try to get your news to fans as media platforms and algorithms change?

The biggest way is our email newsletter and website news feed where Meta and Google and X algorithms don't hide our posts. 

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Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2024
Photo by Jack Sharp

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  2. Frank Turner
  3. Jon Snodgrass
  4. Fink (Angel Face)
  5. Seth Gile (Arms Aloft)
  6. Curran Reynolds (Body Stuff)
  7. Erinc Guzel (Caz Plak)
  8. Charles Kieny (CKRAFT)
  9. Scott Pasch aka Mr. P (DCxPC Live (The x is silent))
  10. Brian Amalfitano (Deaf Club)
  11. Justin Pearson (Deaf Club / Planet B / Satanic Planet / Three One G Records)
  12. Lo'Spider (Destination Lonely / Magnetix² / Swampland studio)
  13. Shahab Zargari (GC Records)
  14. Adam Carroll (Good Friend)
  15. Colin Dawson (Haunted Horses / Snakey Dublay / Daisyheroin)
  16. Heaty Beat
  17. Rainer Fronz (Learning Curve Records / Caterwaul)
  18. Terence Hannum (Locrian / The Holy Circle / Axebreaker)
  19. Heavy Halo (McKeever)
  20. Shauners (Middle-Aged Queers)
  21. Jiffy Marx (Night Court / Autogramm)
  22. Eli Hansen (Real Numbers)
  23. Tobias Jeg (Red Scare Industries)
  24. Andy Pohl (Sell The Heart Records / Tsunami Bomb)
  25. Shell and Shag (Shellshag / Starcleaner Records)
  26. Chuck Coffey (aka Charlie Continental) (Snappy Little Numbers / SPELLS / Chap)
  27. Robby Vena (Spanaway)
  28. Dr. Daryl (The Bollweevils)
  29. Will Butler (To Live A Lie Records)
  30. Matt & Jake Derting (Venus Twins)

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