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Chuck Prophet and Kim Richey doing a duet together at the outdoor stage also was amazing. I loved it when the Stray Birds jumped up to do “Wild Fire” with Mandolin Orange during the outdoor day festival which blew everyone away. Also Jimmie Dale Gilmore surprising everyone by coming out to do the last tune with Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin in which he sang “Get Together” by the Youngbloods. I really enjoyed some of the surprise type moments like having Alejandro Escovedo play an amazing set with a bunch of great local musicians including Chris Stamey and Mitch Easter, just to name a couple. NT: Congrats on Yep Roc celebrating its 20th year this year, which is certainly no small feat for an indie label! What have been some of your most memorable moments regarding the YR20 events this year?ĭicker: Wow, there were so many killer moments. Yep Roc started about one year after Redeye kicked off. So I moved down to join up and got onboard and came to work every day in Tor’s basement. The next move was Redeye! In time, I saw what Tor was doing as being a great thing and I felt the pull of true independence calling.

Tor eventually moved to Chapel Hill, NC to work for another retailer and when the parent company decided to consolidate their business to Ann Arbor, MI, he decided it was time for a change. The label was called Upstart and this is where I originally connected with Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets. The label was ultimately financed by Rounder as we partnered up with the owners on the venture. I started a record label with a couple other guys at Rounder and started putting out records.

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Eventually Tor went to work for a retailer and did marketing, opening up stores and coming up with cool ideas of how to connect music with people. So we learned a great deal from the artist side of things and the label and distribution side of things in just a few years time. Tor gravitated towards sales, myself towards the product end being a buyer and then eventually working for their record label.Īs all of this was going on, we had a band that we booked our own gigs, toured around the country and put out some of our own records, as no one else was interested. We both started working in the warehouse and moved our way up into any new job opening that became available. We had to get day jobs and found that Rounder Distribution was the right fit.

After going to separate colleges, we found ourselves in Boston, again with the primary goal of playing music in a place we thought would fit our vibe. Eventually, when we got into high school we began writing songs and doing more timely cover songs by mod, punk, and new wave groups.

As we grew up, we discovered a mutual interest in music and started to play music together in bands in junior high school doing mostly classic rock stuff by the Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Glenn Dicker: Tor and I both grew up in the same Pennsylvania neighborhood and have known each other since we were about five years old. NoiseTrade: To kick things off, give us a little bit of your backstory regarding the decision to pursue music as career, your early work at Rounder, and then your eventual founding of Yep Roc with Tor Hansen. During our enlightening and entertaining discussion, Dicker gives us a little of Yep Roc’s origin story, talks about celebrating 20 years as a label, speaks to the genre diversity of their upstarts-and-icons roster, recommends some quintessential Yep Roc releases, and much more! It’s always an incredibly fun opportunity to chat with the industry professionals that help get the music that we love into our hands and our newest NoiseTrade One-on-One with Yep Roc Records co-founder Glenn Dicker is no exception.

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