Asperilla Mint: Linwood Cassette-Era Rock Recovered by U-Rock® Records

Asperilla Mint LP cover, courtesy of U-Rock® Records

Asperilla Mint is an underground rock project. Guitarist Kevin Timothy and vocalist Mark Blacknell founded it in the summer of 1996 in the Philadelphia and Marcus Hook/Linwood area of Pennsylvania.

The tapes

U-Rock®'s band record says the music comes from cassette-era sessions made in Linwood during 1996 and 1997. It describes the sound as atmospheric, introspective and experimental, mixing classic rock and roll, blues and lo-fi textures. The archive includes The Inward Mint and the ten-track Studio Sessions, with songs such as "I'm So Small," "San Francisco Part 1" and "Glenn Jam."

The catalog

U-Rock® Records lists The Inward Mint (URR-26-ASP-001-LP) as "experimental rock as specimen" and The Studio Sessions (URR-26-ASP-002-LP) as "raw, unpolished, and intentional." The catalog also includes Loss Of Another (URR-26-ASP-003-LP), "an Asperilla Mint EP on grief and erosion," as well as The Best We Were Able To Do and a special edition, Asperilla Mint (SE).

Why it matters on U-Rock®

Recordings that were kept privately for nearly 30 years now get regular airplay on the label's own station.

U-Rock® play data: 5,683 plays logged across the BROADCAST and CORE histories (2026-07-02 to 2026-10-12), combining the Asperilla Mint and Asperilla Mint-The Inward Mint entries.

Sources 1. U-Rock® dashboard, bands record (Asperilla Mint) 2. U-Rock® dashboard, artist_profiles record (Asperilla Mint) 3. U-Rock® Records catalog notes (releases table) 4. U-Rock® Records, Asperilla Mint — https://urockrecords.com/artists/asperilla-mint 5. U-Rock® BROADCAST (AzuraCast) and CORE (airplay_spins) play logs