RIP Kindercore.

Kindercore and Telegraph's parent company, IDEA, was under pressure from Central National Bank (its primary creditor) to cut overhead and consolidate operations...

Isn't it kind of weird that Kindercore had a "parent company" with a real, live bank as a creditor? I thought it was just another flailing, maxed-out-credit-cards indie label.

I don't really have that much Kindercore stuff, but I did buy this album yesterday on Telegraph.

Speaking of Sasha Bell, I don't know if all of these fantastic Brooklyn artists are linked to what-was-formerly the Elephant 6 collective. I think a fair argument can be made, however, that the Ladybug Transistor/Essex Green/Sixth Great Lake/Sasha Bell Brooklyn scene (is it a collective yet?) has put out consistently great work. Better, I think, than the largely overrated E6 stuff.