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Ghostly International’s Sam Valenti on His Herb Sundays Project

The record label founder invites fellow music nerds to reveal their vulnerable side

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It’s not altogether surprising that Sam Valenti IV—founder of the independent record label, Ghostly International—spent the pandemic lockdown listening to a lot of music. However, his housebound hobby went beyond professional research or entertainment value. To help ease anxiety at the NYC home he shares with his wife, a doctor, Valenti began “connecting and reconnecting with a lot of music, both current and past, and …

Warby Parker + Ghosty “Curtis” Sunglasses

A special edition eyewear collaboration inspired by Joy Division's enigmatic frontman

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Stage lights can be blinding, so it’s no wonder that musicians and sunglasses have always gone together like front-row seats and ringing ears. Socially conscious eyewear brand Warby Parker teamed up with one of our favorite art and record labels, Ghostly International—marking the small label’s second collaboration in as many months—to release a special edition pair of sunglasses, out today. The Curtis, with its smooth …