Since 2024, Starter Car have been moving fast: from their formation via “Bandmades Wanted”-Posters on to live shows on to studio recordings: today, it all comes together in “Afterlight”, the group's debut album. 

Starter Car have established themselves as darlings of the South London music scene with their unique brand of country-influenced indie. Afterlight is a hooky collection reflecting on life’s beauty and struggles. 

Recorded and produced by Joe Futák (lilo, Piglet, Baggio), the album’s sound grew organically through the core band plus collaboration with fellow scenesters, including vocals from Christie Gardner (lilo), fiddle from Sophia Bartlett (Tugboat Captain) and banjo from Michael Rhea (Symbol Soup). 

The first 25 LP orders in our webshop are gifted a zine!

To mark 50 years of punk, our friends at Ventil Verlag are publishing a song comic that illustrates outstanding tracks from the early German punk scene. Tapete Records is accompanying this release with a compilation of early German-language punk, focusing on the years between 1979 and 1986 – the years when the world, as you might say, was still coming to an end. With a total of 14 tracks, the compilation showcases just how exciting and diverse early German punk sounded.

The accompanying comic book is available here, the LP/CD version here. 

Following her album Lucky Now  (January 2026) and a summer packed with live shows, English jangle-pop musician Lande Hekt returns: Threadbare, a four-song EP, will be released in September and covers an extraordinary thematic and musical range in just 12 minutes. 

The EP comes with a proper DIY (sticker) artwork, is limited to 300 copies and will be available in our shop, on Lande's Bandcamp and on tour. 

Lande Hekt will be touring Germany and France this September, dates below!

Bärchen und die Milchbubis sind wieder da! Auf dem neuen Album “Lach doch mal” wechseln sich wütende, nachdenkliche und lustige Songs ab. Wie gewohnt bewegt sich die Musik irgendwo zwischen Punk und Pop. Die erste Single, "Ich glaub an dich", ist schon draußen.



“Lach doch mal” erscheint am 16. Oktober und ist als LP, limitierte magentafarbene LP oder CD verfügbar. 

Die ersten 50 Bestellungen in unserem Webshop erhalten besondere Goodies, u.a. eine von Annette “Bärchen” Simons selbst gebastelte Gurke. 

Altered states of consciousness have long influenced The Telescopes as they've shifted over the decades from noise rock, psychedelia and shoe gaze… and so it continues on this their 19th studio album (Classic Rock)

The Telescopes' new album, “Static Charge”, meanders along intoxicating guitar riffs and percussive loops, tracing the expansive repertoire of psychedelia, space rock and dream pop that the sometimes one-man, sometimes twenty-people constellation is associated with. We're hypnotised by it and happy to see  it out there. 

Londoners are lucky to catch the band on July 11th at Rough Trade Denmark Street for a live gig. 

The first singles that were later categorized as punk appeared in 1976. This makes for a fitting 50-year anniversary, which Tapete Records celebrates with a compilation of German punk from 1979-2024.

Does punk still have anything to say to our present? And German-language punk in particular—Deutschpunk, the so-called German special path? However one may answer these questions personally, punk in Germany has simply kept going for five decades despite all the “old farts” rhetoric. 

This compilation cares little about neat definitions of Deutschpunk. Instead, it opens itself up to different styles and voices of punk with German lyrics. What unites the songs is that, on the one hand, they are rooted in punk, and on the other, in the German language— yet they create something of their own.

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After releasing their first studio album last year, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return with their second record and a UK Tour starting this week. Badges, featuring ten tracks, captures what defined The Loft then and what continues to define them today. As Creation Records` legends and pioneers of an entire genre, they have nothing to prove – neither to themselves nor to anyone else – and that ease and quiet confidence resonates through every song on the album.

There is also a limited Deluxe Vinyl containing a Flexi 7", so be quick!

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James Hoare's second solo album as Penny Arcade is out this week – and we're already anticipating live dates in France and Germany upcoming June! See all dates below.

“The album has no weak moments, from “Regrets,” which kicks things off, to “Riverside Drive,” which closes it. Even the short interludes are moments of pure grace. While Double Exposure is largely influenced by the ’60s (at least in spirit), particularly ’60s psychedelia, it’s a completely timeless, out-of-time record. Every track is successful and engaging, and they all convey something precious that leaves the listener feeling happy.” (Sound of Violence, FR)

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After The Loft's single "Campvervan", we're continuing our motorist-centric string of spring singles: Everyone, please meet Starter Car! Their single "Throwing Down" is out now and there's a music video as well – follow singer Oisean through the Classic Car Boot Sale at London's Coal Drops Yard.. 

Photo credit: Robyn Black