25th anniversary at the Mmuseumm : First evening!

Thanks to everyone that joined us last night as we celebrated 25 years with a special performance by Janka Nabay and Sleep Doug Shaw at Mmuseumm. Here are some lovely photos from the night, shot by Adel Souto. If you are hungry for more peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches (yesss!), please join us tonight as Delicate …Read Everything…

The Story About the Swedish Machines in William Onyeabor’s Backyard

My name is Eric Welles Nyström and I work for Luaka Bop. Originally, I come from Sweden. William Onyeabor comes from Nigeria and you might wonder what any of those things might have to do with each other. That’s what I’m going to tell you now. …Read Everything…

So here we are

Luaka Bop has been around 25 years, which in record label time feels weird. Like we have had many lives, and many era’s though, fact of the matter, for much of this time, Luaka Bop has been pretty much the same small thing clinging tenaciously to it’s parallel existence. …Read Everything…

Bluebird

Inigo Garayo is a Basque film maker who has been making a series of portraits of Luaka Bop artists, both current and past, as part of our 25th Anniversary. He went to visit Jim White in Jim’s home town of Athens, Georgia and made a whole slew of pieces of Jim’s world. This is one …Read Everything…