Tune in on Thursday, April 10th at 1:30pm when Sex 14’s hosts Tompkins Square founder, Josh Rosenthal, to discuss the label’s upcoming release, Treasures Untold : A Modern 78 RPM Reader, for Record Store Day on April 12th.
Treasures Untold : A Modern 78 RPM Reader is a 10 x 10″ 155 page hardback book with CD, ltd ed of 1000, numbered foil stamp. Released exclusively on Record Store Day US & UK/EU – April 12, 2025.
The CD contains ten covers of 78-era songs by artists such as Luther Dickinson, R.Crumb, William Tyler, Muireann Bradley, Gwenifer Raymond, Michael Hurley, Billy Childish and more. Eight of the ten songs were recorded specifically for the project.
The writing is by collectors, ethnomusicologists, dealers, archivists and producers, including an interview with Ian Nagoski and Dick Spottswood, 14 year old collector and DJ Jay Burnett, Eli Smith (Brooklyn Folk Festival), John Heneghan, Nathan Salsburg and more. Book designed by Grammy-nominated Barbara Bersche (Lomax Haiti box set, Harry Smith B-sides box set).
Tompkins Square, an 8x Grammy-nominated label based in San Francisco, celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year. Purveyors of reissues (Robbie Basho, Michael Chapman, Mal Waldron, Bola Sete …) as well as early/first recordings by Muireann Bradley, William Tyler, Ryley Walker, Gwenifer Raymond, James Blackshaw and many others.
