Incredibly inspiring and awesome article about Phil Elverum, aka the Microphones and Mount Eerie, and his foray into running his own label and designing and printing his own record and book packaging. Reading this really made me want to explore some of this for myself. This quote especially got to me:

Last winter I renovated my back garage building and built it into my dream shop. It’s pretty nice in there now. I’ve been organizing the fonts, trimming and perfecting the collection. Still, it’s a totally weird and obsolete hobby, not meant for modern times. It makes no sense. I love it.

I hadn't heard of the blog, bangback, until this, but they have lots of other great stuff too. Also check out PW Elverum & Sun, Phil's label. Tons of great records and books on there — I just ordered this hefty package, Song Islands vol 2: