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 ...
Mackenzie Scott, the 28-year-old singer-songwriter who performs as Torres, released her third album Three Futures via 4AD in 2017. The esteemed British indie was her dream label: she’d submitted her ...
TORRES (aka MacKenzie Scott) released a new album, Three Futures, last September via 4AD. It was her first album for the iconic label. Now she has posted to Twitter that the label has dropped her. She ...
Stately indies don’t come any more revered than the quarter-century-old 4AD. Firstly, because they are and always have been a proper ‘indie’ – an independent record label who release a certain type of ...
Long-running and influential indie label 4AD have never been ones to care about the usual milestones, instead preferring to commemorate milestones like The 13-Year Itch in 1993. Last year was the ...
To mark the release of Martin Aston's book, Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD, DiS celebrates one of our favourite labels with a series of pieces exploring the label's history. Here, former 4AD A ...
4AD‘s 40th anniversary compilation Bills & Aches & Blues is out this week and features 18 of the label’s current artists covering songs from throughout their 40-year catalog. They’ve been sharing one ...
In the wake of the December 2019 death of Vaughan Oliver, head of the English indie label 4AD's in-house design company 23 Envelope, Seattle indie movie theater the Beacon is hosting "Song to the ...
It all started with a clever idea from KEXP's DJ El Toro: "4AD 4VR," a three-hour show featuring music from 4AD Records, a label that helped define a new genre of music. Back in the '80s and '90s, if ...