ZUM is a record label and curated mail order based in Los Angeles.ZUM has been a continual resource for music fans throughout the past two decades. Focusing on our record label since 1998, we've produced over 40 releases from artists around the world.Genres: sad, instrumental, heavy, noisy, proggy, dreamy, sullen, spiky
Started by siblings George Chen (Los Angeles) and Yvonne Chen (Portland) first as a Bay Area-based fanzine.
Zum on Discogs
DISTRIBUTION BY
Revolver USA/Midheaven
The Business
Stickfigure
STOCKISTS
Amoeba - Hollywood/Berkeley/SF, CAEstuario - Los Angeles, CAThird Eye Records - Long Beach, CAGoing Underground - Los Angeles, CASick City Records - Los Angeles, CASibylline Records - Pasadena, CA
The Pop-Hop - Highland Park, CA
Econo Jam Records - Oakland, CA
1-2-3-4 Go! - Oakland, CAMegalith/Beacon Sound - Portland, ORSecret Room - Portland, OR Redscroll - Wallingfrod, CTBarnacle Records - Kamloops, B.C. Canada
Bis Aufs Messers - Berlin, Germany
Disk Union - Japan
Vinyl Decision - Taipei, Taiwan
HHV - Germany
PRESS
George interviewed by Marc Masters for Pitchfork, 2010
Label profile by Sam Lefebvre for SF Weekly, 2012
George profiled by Hiya Swanhuyser for SF Weekly, 2015
Voyage LA Q + A, 2020
Interviewed by Emily Savage for Fortune April 2020
Interviewed by Dakin Hardwick for Spinning Platters Feb 2022
Wholesale prices; email us - george at zumonline dot com
Mailorder SHIPPING NOTE:
shipping from Los Angeles. Domestic shipments go USPS Media Mail (except for shirts and posters). International shipments go USPS first class unless otherwise indicated.
FAQs
why the name
We like onomatopoeia
It was from a song
Thought it was dumb at some point also but like that words are containers you can put anything into
It's been so long, why change now
It doesn't really work in Germany
how do you pronounce it
rhymes with "dumb" but really up to you.
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