In 1980, 4AD set out to supplant the nihilism of punk with an atmospheric, esoteric new sound. Label alchemist Ivo Watts-Russell wanted his roster to elicit a deeply emotive response and yield music ...

The Wolfgang Press, who were one of the quintessential 4AD bands of the label’s classic ’80s/’90s, have reformed for their first official studio album since 1995’s Funky Little Demons. It’s titled A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esteemed independent record label 4AD is belatedly celebrating its 40th anniversary with “Bills and Aches and Blues,” an 18-track ...

"It was a fantastic opportunity," reckons Ivo Watts-Russell of British record label 4AD. "For a while, we participated in something pure and unique. Those records will vibrate long after I've ceased ...

Long-running Michigan experimental, ethereal group His Name is Alive are getting a 6-LP box set featuring their three excellent early-’90s albums for 4AD. Titled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: ...

Throughout the 1980s, 4AD was both a record label and a mood. That number combined with those two letters signified music that was dark, dreamy, and decorous, its roomy reverb conjuring quiet drama of ...

When Claire Boucher moved to Montreal from Vancouver to attend McGill University in 2006, she was hoping to study electro-acoustics and the neuroscience of music. The subjects fascinated… By Jon ...

Album cover designer Vaughan Oliver, who developed a signature abstract style as the 4AD label’s in-house man on top of doing classic work for bands like the Pixies, has died at age 62. No cause of ...

The rusted implements of underground torture. The sleeping sirens floating in shallows. The aliens made purely of distended eyeballs. The loveless beds, gelatinous hearts, topless flamenco dancers and ...

Torres, the project of singer Mackenzie Scott, has been dropped from her label 4AD, according to a Twitter post on Monday (April 16). By Colin Stutz Torres, the project of singer Mackenzie Scott, has ...

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To those coming of age in the 1980s and ‘90s, album cover designer Vaughan Oliver created not only the look of the influential British record label 4AD, but conjured an imaginary realm that would ...