Death, Love & Broken Records. Indianapolis, Indiana. Small batch records for the analog class. | Artists: Brazil, Jonathon Newby, JC Autobody, The Peculiar Order of Harmonic Convergence, Chr...

DLBR-005Raw and virtually unedited, this live album bootleg was released on July 25, 2026, at the HI-FI Annext at Post Festival in Indianapolis. From the band: In this current hellscape of algo-slop ...

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This is the week we(Brazil)'ve all been preparing for. ✅ New shows. ✅ New merch. ✅ New bootleg. It's almost like the good old days of 2006. Except none of us are telling our fry-cook supervisor this i...

Brazil and DL;BR are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of "Live at HI-FI," the band's official board bootleg, recorded at the band's 2019 reunion concert in Indianapolis.Raw and virtually uned...

Catalog: DLBR-LP-004 "All of This Will Be Forgotten" is a selection of 2024 essays from Jonathon Newby's DL;BR Monday blog, taking readers on a journey from the Rust Belt to decaying Hollywood mansion...

I am stoked to announce the first official DL;BR book release (well, technically the 2nd, if you count "The Novemberist Almanac" chapbook). ALL OF THIS WILL BE FORGOTTEN is the first volume of selecte...

In the beginning, there was formlessness and void.Silent earthworks and megalith stones of the Younger Dryas.From the glacial black swamps, a People emerged from the water and formed a village - aacim...

Summer is closing in fast, and the boys from Brazil are prepping to come back out of hibernation for the first time in 8 years for two shows in July. July 23rd, Louisville's Portal will be hosting a t...

March 10, 2002 @ Tazzma's Rock o Rama (Lafayette, IN)

Or something like that. I can't remember exactly where I'm at, but I've been hitting it awhile. Polishing up and reposting the old tour blog while trying to hit a weekly pace of 4-5 posts at a stretch...

Just to follow up, piggyback, and circle 'round on what I said before - the official Brazil Live Bootleg project is currently wrapping up and getting prepped for a release at Post Festival this summer...

"There's something in the water here in Petroleum."So says Lew Hurl, Jr., the founder and editor-in-chief of the mid-North's most influential rock rag - Drag Magazine. You won't find it on the shelf, ...

(or Finding Astral Weeks on the Way to the Rainbow Bridge)I sometimes worry that, at my age, music no longer imprints on me. At least not the way it did back when, when albums could creep up and attac...

Working on two post-Backerkit projects at the moment (not including preparations for Post. Festival).First up, a Rarities album - if you made a pledge to the POV Backerkit, you probably received a dow...

Ordered, received, and read a new book this week. But first, a dream I had: Someone I'd severely wronged a long time ago reappeared and shot me. As I bled out, my last words were "that's fair...."No i...

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Alright I admit that I skipped a week on the blog, things got hectic with getting the Brazil vinyl out the door, plus the constant buzz of "unprecedented" news coming in a slow adrenaline drip seeming...

Feeling lucky?I made some updates to the site last week, including a subtle little addition to the top menu called Tip Roulette. It works like a typical digital tip jar you see on a lot of sites, exce...

Of all the years throughout history, 2025 was definitely one of them. Beyond the 50-odd rambling blog posts over Sunday morning coffee every week, there was the Canadian winter cabin retreat through t...

My car dashboard has been endowed with a lifetime of secrets. The poor thing. There's something freeing about being and feeling far away from the ears and influence of another human being. I like my o...

Before me sits a pile of fifteen cassettes, each one 30-35 years old. (Or more.)Yellowed labels, stuck on as early as the late 1980s, are being removed with mineral spirits and Q-tips. They document t...

DL;BR is a digital press, art gallery, and pair of music labels for the creative work of Jonathon Newby.

Hats off to an incredible campaign to raise funds for the Brazil vinyl!To be honest, this is something we've been wanting to do for years, and we are thrilled that people showed up and helped us make ...

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Brazil's crowdfunding campaign for "The Philosophy of Velocity" vinyl reissue wraps up this Thursday on Backerkit.This is a final and more fitting close to an album that has somehow always existed as ...

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If you haven't heard, Brazil's campaign to release "The Philosophy of Velocity" on vinyl has crossed the line into fully funded territory. 👏👏👏👏👏We could not have done this without all of your support,...

Skipped a week, but who's counting?In my defense, the campaign for Brazil's "The Philosophy of Velocity" vinyl reissue is off to the races and you all are keeping us busy! These things are a ton of wo...

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"The Philosophy of Velocity" was Brazil's 2006 dystopian-victorian rock opera, an album that mysteriously disappeared for 18 years, now reclaimed by the band themselves. Join us in re-releasing this l...

The official vinyl campaign for Brazil's 2006 album reissue of "The Philosophy of Velocity" opens this Wednesday. Day after tomorrow, if you're keeping track. We don't know how this will go. It's been...

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White veils and thule-wrapped trees.Old theaters in Rust Belt towns.A life about to be lived.A son about to be born.Now...Things that don't slot easily inside words. Heavy hearts for a world that no l...

We are the United States.Drenched in a cursed noise. Harder, better, faster, stronger.Tiger's blood and winning.A place to Make a Name for Yourself since the first transatlantic ships. I drink your mi...

The President is dead. Or maybe he isn't. Your friends are AI. Or maybe they all just move that way. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Past is prologue. She said, "Rappelez-vous...

I am exactly where I need to be right now. All of this will be forgotten. You don't have to bend the whole world.Hit them with something new every 10 seconds. Make the intro shorter.Maybe half as long...

I am sometimes jealous of songwriters who do one thing and do it well. The Kristoffersons, the Cohens, the Lucinda Williamses. I am sometimes jealous of the rich veins of honesty worn proudly on dirty...

Thinking about the massive tradeoffs we've made in making everything available everywhere all the time.Perhaps mystery is what we've sacrificed on the altar of our own distraction. Back in my younger ...