It’s crazy how time flies, like some slow-moving bird with a wounded wing, skittering across the sky, and then, all of a sudden, it’s a year later… In our first year of existence, Nova Labs put out 36 releases. Some of them were singles, but there were a couple of […]
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Shagstock, Maximum Ames Music Festival, and more
Last Friday night’s release party at DG’s was another success. We’re super proud of the newest additions to our catalog: Loretta, Holly And The Night Owls, and Mighty Shady. And thanks to everyone who made the show possible – if people don’t come out, we don’t get to keep making […]
Anniversary. Part One.
This July, we’ll have been a label for a year. Hard to believe, isn’t it? To celebrate, we’ve planned two epic shows, July 25th and 26th, the first at our birthspawning grounds, DG’s Taphouse, the second at the most rockingest local band supporting venue in Des Moines, Vaudeville Mews. Check […]
News From the Lab: June and Beyond
The April release show at DG’s was another rousing success, with the sellout of the Moonrabbit album, and the total consumption of all the sandwiches (shoutout again to West Street Deli, who worked with us there, and especially to Ryan, who sacrificed part of his thumb while slicing tomatoes for […]
April Sandwiches and Releases
Our January release party at DG’s Taphouse was a rousing success, our biggest party yet! A huge thank you to DG’s, and to everyone who came out to support it. We sold out of all three of our CD releases, and had to hit the Labs to make more to […]
Jordan Mayland & The Thermal Detonators Video, January Preorders
-Congratulations to Jordan Mayland & The Thermal Detonators – the single “I Can Control You” from the album “I Wrote It All Down” has had a video produced for it by the fine folks at DEFT, and the video debuted today on Huffington Post! You can watch the video here. […]
Winter Releases and Shows
We’re super excited to announce some more epic releases, and some new additions to the Nova Labs family. This New Year’s Eve we’re proud to release the all-new Jordan Mayland & The Thermal Detonators full length disc, “I Wrote It All Down.” Jordan worked hard on this eclectic album, recorded […]
Flavor Basket Anthology, Des Moines Showcase, Tapes, Next Wave
-On November 14th we’ll be releasing our first triple-disc set, the complete recordings of Flavor Basket, in a beautiful digipak jam-packed full of glorious songs encompassing the entire recorded career of this Ames artist. Preorders are available in the store right now, and will be at the release show at […]
Wave Two Launch Party, New Store Items, More to Come!
On Saturday, Oct. 5th, we had our second release party, putting out albums by Obsidian’s Dream, Neon Lushell, Matthew As More, and a remaster of the classic Yet On A Budget album, as well as the Jordan Mayland And The Thermal Detonators EP and single. It was a night to […]
Observer reviewed, Bree screams, Paradox sells, Neon Lushell advance tracks, Jordan Mayland and the Thermal Detonators announcement
Phew. We have been busy here at Nova Labs, and we have a metric ton of music and goodness coming up for you, and many, many things in the works. First up, though, check out our friend Josh’s review of The Observer EP: http://joshuajread.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/the-observer-observation-1/ You can also buy Bree Cobb’s […]