Vfib is a record label based in Woodstock NY.
Our mission is to bring the world some sweet jams.
Our artists include Justin Tracy, J.B. Mills, Two Dark Birds, Iris Clementine, Todd Adelman, Bicentennial Drug Lord, Marc Delgado, and Airline.
Read an article about the label in in HV1 Magazine here.
BICENTENNIAL DRUG LORD
You Are Never Alone
First single out May 9. Album release June 20.
Recorded with Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Merce Lemon) at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC, the new album from BDL is a gorgeous crystallization of a long winter in the upper Midwest with music that could thaw even the iciest heart. Based in Milwaukee, WI, the three songwriters and longtime friends in Bicentennial Drug Lord, John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse), have forged an inventive blend of indie rock, modern Americana, and Ocean Rain era Echo & the Bunnymen. Following up the band’s 2021 EP BDL, the songs burst with lush guitars, catchy choruses, heartbreaking, introspective, funny and literary lyricism, and fabulously epic outros. The album both acknowledges and breaks with tradition and is ultimately a hopeful take on the spirit of community that is created by a disparate group of people in similar circumstances unwittingly building a life together.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Even if sometimes your only companions are the ghosts from your past and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
TWO DARK BIRDS
Dreamers of the Golden Dream
Singles out now. Album due out 2025.
The first single from Two Dark Bird’s sixth release, which shares its name with the forthcoming album, immerses listeners in a sonic journey defined by its propulsive motorik beat and rich lyrical tapestry. "Dreamers of the Golden Dream" weaves together influences from giants such as Didion, Simon, and Yeats, capturing the discord of our current era with both introspection and intensity. Two Dark Birds will be unveiling a series of six singles over the next several months, each offering a glimpse into the evolving soundscape of their latest album.
JUSTIN TRACY
Five Fathoms
LP OUT NOW
British Folk Singer Justin Tracy’s new record Five Fathoms, is an introspective journey inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Employing folklore & ancient symbolism, Tracy weaves a tale & sonic tapestry reminiscent of legendary folk luminaries like Nick Drake & John Martyn & Bert Jansch. Steeped in tradition & craft, Tracy navigates the murky waters of family & fatherhood, life & death on the way to self-discovery.
Vinyl will be available February 2024. Pre-order now.
IRIS CLEMENTINE
Outsider
Outsider is the debut EP from Iris Clementine, a 17 year old singer-songwriter from Woodstock, NY. Her rich voice centers these 6 explorations of the ups and downs of romance, family, friends, and finding your spot. Rich, melancholic, beautiful , hopeful , with a bit of dark undertow. For fans of Mazzy Star, Phoebe Bridgers, Fleetwood Mac. Recorded & mixed by Todd Adelman, Kevin Salem and Alan Weatherhead.
MARC DELGADO
Wildwood Road
Marc Delgado is a singer/songwriter, poet & storyteller from Woodstock, NY. His recent studio album: Wildwood Road is filled with cinematic, psychedelic snapshots of his days of addiction & violence, living out of motels up & down California’s San Joaquin Valley. Woven into these scenes are songs of loss & survival, redemption, recovery & love. When not performing with his band Delgado plays constantly as a one-man show. Part folkie, poet, raconteur & stand-up comic, Delgado tells stories & shares his experience from dark to light & all the shadows in between.
J.B. MILLS PRESENTS
The Beetroot Instrumentals
The Beetroot Instrumentals is the second collection of music to be released by Brooklyn-based drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jason B Mills under his producer alias “J.B. Mills”. For this EP, Mills pulled some previously unfinished instrumentals from the vault. These are all songs that were originally written for his Independent Music Awards-nominated band “Beetroot”, who were a fixture on the NYC club scene in the early 2000s, but were never graced by (Beetroot vocalist) Fiona’s voice. Deciding that they were too good to remain “unfinished”, he dusted them off, rearranged, and remixed them in the summer of 2020 at his “Little House Music Studio” in Brooklyn, NY. Think King Tubby meets The Meters at a DC Go-go club…. The lineup includes: Derek Nievergelt-Bass; Dave Guy-trumpet; James Hurt-keys; Wynne Bennett-keys; Marivaldo Dos Santos-percussion, programming; Jason Mills-drums, percussion, guitar, additional bass, additional keys, samples & production.
TWO DARK BIRDS + J.B. MILLS
Porous
Porous is the fifth release from Two Dark Birds, the critically acclaimed band from the Catskills. This four song EP, a collaboration between singer-songwriter Steve Koester and producer / dummer J.B. Mills, is a distinct departure from the band’s previous more folk- leaning forays. Sonically speaking, Porous delves into the minimalist sounds of today’s pop and yesterday’s wave. It’s more J. Dilla than J.J. Cale, more New Order than New Riders, more Billie Eilish than Billy Bragg, more Drake than Nick. Or something like that. Lyrically speaking, the songs center around the usual subjects - love, family, nature, space-travel, roof-sitting, interdependent co-arising, bar hookups.
FEATURED from our ARCHIVES
KOESTER
Losers, Weepers
The third and final album from Koester the Rock Band, “Losers, Weepers” is a sonic exploration of NYC in the early 21st Century. Big hooks, weird sounds, AOR airs, Moog magic. Slightly fried. Recorded in 2005, the album was produced by Alan Weatherhead at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond Va.
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