Welcome to Jib Machine Records

Established in 2004 Jib Machine Records is an independent record label and music marketing company based in Cleveland, OH. Primarily grounded in rock music, the label has issued over 100 releases to date and distributes many third party labels as well.

Our Latest News

Goatfur! The new GWAZI album is out!

The brand new Gwazi album Goatfur is available now via Colossal Force Records. Goatfur marks the band's entry into the death metal  with fresh music, lyrics, and visuals. The album features eleven...

Lost Kee Man Hawk tracks available now!

Jib Machine Records have just released two previously “lost” tracks from Swedish rockers, Kee Man Hawk, featuring Hawkan Englund. “Mad Dog” and “Welcome to the Day” are now available on all digital...

The Blindside Blues Band XVI Is Out Now On Jib Machine Records

Eight years and miles of grime and grit that goes along with being a troubadour has led to this – the Blindside Blues Band’s XVI, an 11-track barnburner produced by Mike Onesko and co-produced by...

The Blindside Blues Band head to Poland in September

The Blindside Blues Band has a four-city tour of Poland, which kicks off on September 14. September 14  - Nowy Sącz, Atelier Jazz ClubSeptember 15 - Głogów Małopolski. MGDKSeptember 16 - Tarnobrzeg,...

40 years in the making: The F Models – In Loving Memory

Jib Machine Records are proud to announce the release of In Loving Memory a 2 CD set of previously unreleased material by the long-defunct, cult Kent, Ohio post-punk/pop band The F Models on March...

New Cleo Alexandra single “Taken By Desire” now available worldwide!

Check out the video for Cleo Alexandra's new single Taken By Desire. Available now on all major streaming platforms.

Cleo Alexandra Unveils “Dream Fever”

Today is a big day for Jib Machine Records. Music Video Premiere: Cleo Alexandra unveils “Dream Fever”

New David Curtis Band video “Down the Drain”

The new David Curtis Band track Down the Drain is now live! Check out the killer video.

J TEMP 13’s Acoustic Punk EP is available now!

J TEMP 13's new Acoustic Punk EP is now available worldwide. You can order the CD from Merchbucket and stream on Spotify Track Listing Melvin's Desk (Acoustic) Sometimes I Like Satan (Acoustic)...

J TEMP 13’s new video “Religion Class Song” now live

The new video Religion Class Song by J Temp 13 is now live! The track is taken from the forthcoming EP, Acoustic Punk, out 8/26/22. Available on CD from Merchbucket and streaming on Spotify

The Jib Machine roster

Jib Machine’s active roster is currently home to over 20 artists including Mike Onesko, Slammin’ Gladys, Nihilistics, Hostile Omish, Eli Fletcher, J TEMP 13, Hawkan Englund, Darkening Skies, Gwazi, Messenger and more. Click on a profile for more info.

Alcoholik Spok

Alcoholik Spok

Originally formed in 2010, Alcoholik Spok is the brainchild of John Templeman (Hot Ham & Cheese, J TEMP 13, Gwazi) and Paul Resnik (Screwtractor, Nucleon.) After a ten-year hiatus, the Cleveland Doom Metal artists return with their third album appropriately...

Cleo Alexandra

Cleo Alexandra

Australia has a decent track record for producing some great pop & rock artists, and with the emergence of Cleo Alexandra whose style has been aptly described as a ‘grungy rock version of Rihanna', (Gigradar UK), it looks as if Aussie pop/rock singer-songwriter...

Darkening Skies

Darkening Skies

Darkening Skies signed with Jib Machine in late 2020. Forged out of the desire to create kickass metal music and break through encroaching, pessimistic oppositions at work, the group relentlessly stockpiles its high octane sound in their debut EP, “Jump Off The...

David Curtis Band

David Curtis Band

David Curtis, leader of the DCB, is an established singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio. After releasing three full-length albums independently, Curtis signed with Jib Machine in 2019. Since then, the label has released three singles (Ohio, Walk Through Fire and...

The F Models

The F Models

The F Models By Marky Ray 40 years ago, Northeast Ohio lost one of its true shining lights. Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist Robert “Ig Nition” Morningstar had put together a tight, Pop Punk band (with three other local musicians) that played some of the most fun,...

Eli “Guitarman” Fletcher

Eli “Guitarman” Fletcher

Living legend and street performer icon, Eli “GuitarMan” Fletcher has been a member of the Jib Machine family since 2012. His unique blend of rock and folk diversified the label from its original punk and metal roots. And when he’s not recording or performing as...

Gwazi

Gwazi

Gwazi is a hard rock/metal duo from Cleveland, OH consisting of long-time collaborators and friends Brandon Youngs and John Templeman. The group recorded their first album, 2015’s The Rise and Fall of the Indigo Inn, for fun for the RPM Challenge that year, and...

Hawkan Englund

Hawkan Englund

Hawk started playing the guitar at age 11, but it wasn’t until a friend played him old John Lee Hooker 45s when he discovered the blues. He began writing songs shortly thereafter but then stopped playing the guitar until his early 20s. He was heavily influenced by Ry...

Hostile Omish

Hostile Omish

As the sun was setting on the MTV driven 80's, something strange was happening in a dimly lit, damp cellar located on the outskirts of Cleveland. The discovery of a single cassette tape (a crude homemade compilation of songs by Suicidal Tendencies, Depeche Mode, U2,...

Hot Ham & Cheese

Hot Ham & Cheese

Hot Ham & Cheese formed in February 2005 when Robby Mitchell (Drums) and Charlie (Vox/Guitar) jammed together for the first time after knowing each other for nearly 10 years. Bassist Louie Styx completed the line-up in July 2005. Shortly after signing with Jib...

J Temp 13

J Temp 13

J TEMP 13 is the solo moniker of John Templeman, President and Founder of Jib Machine Records. Thanks to the influence of his parents who met while in a rock band together, Templeman began his musical journey very early. He was performing live by age six and penning...

Messenger

Messenger

Messenger is an original Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Band with a strong message. Frank Clifton Herring started as a solo act producing two studio efforts; an EP called ‘Let My People Go’ with two musician friends and then a self-titled album, ‘Messenger’, on which he...

Mike Onesko

Mike Onesko

Mike Onesko (Blindside Blues Band, Mike Onesko Band, BLU-K, The Kwik, Mike Onesko’s Guitar Army) A bluesman, renegade rocker and leader of the Blindside Blues Band, Ohio-born Mike Onesko’s rock and roll journey is riddled with road stories and the grime and grit that...

Nihilistics

Nihilistics

One of punk music’s most notorious bands, the Nihilistics signed with Jib Machine Records in 2021. The four-piece hardcore band, comprised of Ron Rancid, Ajax Lepinski, Doug Graves and Troy, first took on the New York scene in 1979. Among the band’s more notorious...

Runt

Runt

Established in 1998, RUNT was originally a project born from the Mushroomhead camp and has been melting faces in Cleveland ever since. The group has been on hiatus for the past few years but now returns with a new label (Jib Machine/Colossal Force) and a new EP...

Slammin’ Gladys

Slammin’ Gladys

Nothing upended the hierarchy of rock music quite as dramatically as the emergence of grunge. Seemingly overnight, all of the bands we knew and loved from the ‘80s and early ‘90s were out, and new faces were in. But in retrospect, it’s easy to see that not much...

W70

W70

W70 is… John Salimbene (Johnni) – Guitar and vocalsJames Fasolo (Jimmi) – Bass and vocalsDominick McCoy (Dommi) – Drums W70 is a three-piece hardcore punk/crossover thrash band from Toms River, NJ. Focusing onthe heavier side of hardcore punk/thrash sounds, John and...

SERVICES

Jib Machine offers a full range of services for bands and independent musicians including –

  • Physical & Digital Distribution
  • Music Marketing
  • Artist Consultation
  • Music Production
  • Music Placement
  • Product Duplication/Replication
  • Merchandise Creation & Sales

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