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Few places changed as much as New York between the years of 1978, when the roaring tenure of mayor Ed Koch began, and 1990, the start of the considerably less-inspiring Rudy Giu...

Most music is already lost. From the unrecorded harps of Mesopotamia to the Myspace.com data migration wipe of 2019, the overwhelming bulk of what has been played will never be ...

Never walk behind the pulpit in a Black Church. It’s an old tradition rooted in reverence and a...

California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burc...

Four years in the making, this box set seeks not to finalize the Syl Johnson story but simply to set its foundations in stone. After three years drifting rudderless through phon...

1. If you were a young punk living in the Bay Area in the early ’90s, broke to the point of destitution, and still eager to use what few dollars you had to your name on a new s...

Run out of a former aerobics studio, Tim Jackson and Carolyn Schmitt’s Adult Crash clothing and record boutique was the first shop I ever visited when I washed up in Manhattan i...

At the crest of 2018 I moved to Los Angeles. It was a long-gestating idea, dating back to before I founded Numero with my partner Rob Sevier in 2003. Our company was nearly 15 y...

At the end of the Future of What tour, in May 1995, each member of Unwound went home with a $1,500 profit share. The deal Unwound signed with BMG a mere three months later, by c...

During the Brandt years, Vern had typically been a silent partner. “My job back then was the van,” he said. “Making sure we could get from point A to point B.” Booking tours, de...

One night I was sitting with a friend in an alley outside a show. He told me that he had quit his band that day. My friend Brandt had been the drummer for what was probably my f...

For Unwound, the process was this: meet other freaks at school and become friends; practice relentlessly; perform with energy and volume; tour and make records. But I think Unwo...

As long-time advocates for Jordan De La Sierra's work with sound, we at the Numero Group herein share with our listeners and our readers our collective commentary and review of ...

The second issue of our semi-annual publication Periodical Numerical continues the mission of diving deeper into the vast Numero Group universes. Edited by Numero’s west coast A...

Illustrator Benjamin Marra entered our orbit a few years back when we began working on Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares. Our original pitch describes the scene we intended t...

Anyone can throw a new coat of paint on a house, so we decided to knock down the building and start from scratch. The Numero Group announced itself to the world on March 1, 20...