Welcome to Jib Machine Records

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...

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 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, 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 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,...

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 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...

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...

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 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 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 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 (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...

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...

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...

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 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...