Chair Kickers Music
Tidal Playlist: Chair Kickers Music
A new playlist on the music streaming service Tidal features tracks from Duluth’s Chair Kickers Music label. It was assembled by Nathan Amundsen, whose music project Rivulets released two albums on the label. Listening to the tracks on the playlist in their entirety requires creating a Tidal account; otherwise it plays 30-second snippets.
Chair Kickers Music — sometimes rendered as “Chairkickers’ Music” or “Chairkicker’s Union Music” — was founded by Duluth’s Alan Sparhawk in 1999 and since then has put out 22 releases.
Duluth record labels boosted the scene, but are going extinct
Compact discs and cassettes of releases from Duluth record labels fill a plastic bin at the Perfect Duluth Day headquarters. (Photo by Paul Lundgren)
Mark Lindquist, the chief purveyor of local albums at the turn of the millennium, thinks he can succinctly describe the difference between the best-known Duluth record labels.
“Chair Kickers’ put out the most gorgeous records,” he said. “Spinout had the most professional. Chaperone had the coolest. And Shaky Ray had … the most.” (more…)