10 Year Anniversary: Foundlings Vol. 1 & 2

Tiny Room Records is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a very special release: Foundlings Vol. 1 & 2. Over the past decade, the label has championed lo-fi, indie, slowcore, and bedroom folk, releasing around 70 records and organizing countless shows. To mark this milestone, founder Stefan Breuer has curated a double album of ‘foundlings’—unreleased tracks from artists in and around the label. Some songs didn’t fit on previous records, others are brand-new, and some have been waiting for years to be heard. With contributions from artists like Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Karl Blau, I am Oak, Perry Owen Wright, Coaster, Ilsha, Combo Qazam, and many more, Foundlings Vol. 1 & 2 is a carefully crafted collection of rare and remarkable recordings.

For the first time ever, Tiny Room is launching a crowdfunding campaign to bring this release to life. The funds will cover mastering and pressing the album on two slices of 180-gram vinyl, complete with a beautifully designed gatefold sleeve featuring the stories behind the songs. If you love independent music and want to support the DIY underground scene, this is your chance to be part of something truly special. Join the celebration, and help give these lost songs the home they deserve. Thank you for your support!

LUIK – Outrar (out now)

Today marks the release of LUIK’s new album Outrar! If you’re into experimental, improv guitar music or into artists such as Loren Connors, Raphael Roginski, Bert Dockx, John Frusciante, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez or Johnny Greenwood, you should definitely give this a try. Have a good winter ❤️❄️

Todd Tobias – First Man on the Rock (new album)

Surprise! Today we release a new solo record by Todd Tobias, his first one since 2018’s Massabu Evening Entertainments. It’s called First Man on the Rock and it’s a collection of brief, brash rock semi-instrumentals.

This new album by Ohio-based producer/musician Tobias (known for his work with Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard and Circus Devils) celebrates the primitive and the post-civilized; here joining forces to stir the souls and bones of the modern listener.

Free download, and there are (limited) CDs too! Get it on our Bandcamp:

LUIK – Outrar (preorder)

Today you can add a preorder of LUIK’s album Outrar to your Bandcamp cart. If you’re into experimental, improv guitar music, you should definitely give this a try. This time of year we reflect and move inward. This could be the soundtrack to your winter, to make it a little bit less lonely.

Listen to four of the tracks now and preorder the vinyl on our Bandcamp page.

Winterwinkelen 2024

This Sunday, you can find me and my records on the annual winter market in the Vechtclub XL in Utrecht (Europalaan 2B). Shop local music at Tiny Room Records (to be found in the big concert hall of the building).

I’ll bring vinyl, CDs, zines, art and more. Perfect gifts for anyone in need of good music during the holiday season!

Between 11.00 and 17.00 on Sunday 24 November. Free entrance!

Kristóf Hajós – Goodbye Budapest (single)

Single Goodbye Budapest by Kristóf Hajós is out now! 🙌

Kristóf’s second single from his upcoming album, 6:00PM, is a true origin story in more senses. This dynamic indie-pop song pictures him leaving his city on a flight, which is (by some miracle) not late. Just on time. The bitterness and the sweetness of connections to the past both appear in the song.

The music for Goodbye Budapest, which is released in both English and Hungarian was written by a true Hungarian legend, László Pásztor, who founded and wrote most songs for the immensely popular disco – pop band of the iron curtain era, Neoton. He went on to sell more than six million records from Hungary to Japan, also winning the Grand Prix of the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in 1983. Pásztor, now aged 79, took his guitar out of its retirement of over 20 years for this song only.

Welcome LUIK!

We’re super siked to announce the addition of LUIK to the Tiny Room family! Indie luminary Lukas Dikker (Bonne Aparte, Kim Janssen, Herrek) has his humble comeback 12 years after the LUIK debut Owls (Snowstar Records), with a sequel on which he breaks completely new ground. Outrar is a collection of minimal guitar improvisations, and will be released mid-December on Tiny Room Records. Curious? This Friday we’ll release the first song/video off the album!

Pre-order Uit gewoonte en bijgeloof by Boeije now

Pre-orders for this beautiful folk album by Boeije are up now on our Bandcamp page:

Rotterdam-based songwriter R.J. Boeije, together with his band, gives a special insight into his youth, his thoughts and doubts about faith, and growing up on the borders of the Bible Belt in Zeeland.

Listen to three of the tracks now and if you like what you’re hearing, order one of those awesome gatefolded 180g vinyl records here!

Welcome Kristóf Hajós!

Photo by Len Leo Vincent

Yay! It’s finally time to announce this new signing! We are delighted to welcome Dutch-Hungarian queer singer/songwriter Kristóf Hajós to the Tiny Room family. Right now we’re putting the finishing touches to his new album, 6:00PM. This co-release, with Kristóf’s own label Bitterfly Music, will see the light of day (limited coral red vinyl!) in February 2025. 

We’re super excited for you all to hear these unique indie disco sad crooner songs about queer adulthood 🌈 First single Lazy Heart can already be found on all streaming platforms!