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Label Profile – Silber Records

Posted on October 17, 2009 by admin

Drone Love Honesty Sound – Label’s Motto Official Site Silber Records is a North Carolina-based label, which is run by Brian John Mitchell. The roots of the label go back to 1994 and QRD magazine (which since then transformed into a webzine). In 1996, the label produced its first release – Allevation – various artists [...]

Label Profile – Sub Pop

Posted on September 4, 2009 by admin

Perhaps most closely associated with alternative/grunge boom of the 90s, early SP roster featured the likes of Green River (which would later transform into Pearl Jam), Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Tad and many others. Throughout years (especially after the popularity of grunge went down), the label released countless singles by bands that had little to do [...]

Label Profile – SST Records

Posted on July 30, 2009 by admin

Along with the likes of Touch & Go and Sub Pop, SST were perhaps one of the best 80s labels specializing in all forms of punk, hardcore and noise. By the late 80s, however, the label decided to change direction and concentrate on jazzy/ arty/instrumental projects, which forced many to question the motives behind all [...]

Label Profile – Chrome Peeler Records

Posted on May 1, 2009 by admin

MySpace Page Chrome Peeler is a relatively new label based in Butler, New Jersey. So far they produced two volumes an ongoing series of compilations called “You’ve Got Your Orders” , one album by Boston band Thee Electric Bastards and a number of splits and DVDs.

Label Profile – RRRecords

Posted on December 22, 2008 by admin

Legendary House Of Audio Misanthropy (from bio of Thomas Dimuzio, RRRecords artist) Based in Lowell, Massachussetts, RRRecords is both a label and a record store run by Ron Lessard (who also records under the name Emil Beaulieau). Genre-wise, the label release anything from punk/political records to works by Japanese noise artists, such as Masonna, Merzbow [...]

Label Profile – Twisted Village

Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin

Twisted Village is both a record label and record store, which is located in Cambridge, MA. Twisted Village (the store) is run by Wayne Rogers and his wife Kate Biggar, both of whom were in numerous bands (Crystalized Movements, Heathen Shame, Magic Hour, Major Stars, Vermonster) and have appreciation for noise/psychedelia and all kinds of [...]

Label Profile – PCP Entertainment

Posted on December 6, 2008 by admin

Now-defunct New York label PCP Entertainment was once a home to a whole number of garage/punk/noise/experimental bands, including Unsane, Motherhead Bug, Chrome Cranks, Fuse, ’68 Comeback, Slug, Lubricated Goat, Speedball Baby and many others. Some of their most curious releases include split between Australian musician Foetus and New York band Chrome Cranks (whose member Bob [...]

Label Profile – Man's Ruin Records

Posted on November 23, 2008 by admin

Empty Pleasures and Desperate Measures since 1994. Now-defunct Californian label Man’s Ruin Records was founded by graphic artist Frank Kozik in 1994. Its first release was “Delta 6″ by Experimental Audio Research, post-Spacemen 3 project of Sonic Boom/Peter Kember. Kozikdesigned all the sleeve art for label releases and he was signing artists in all kinds [...]

Label Profile – Ipecac Recordings

Posted on November 13, 2008 by admin

“Making People Sick Since 1999″ – Label slogan “Lawyers or businesspeople call us morons for only doing one-record deals. They say, ‘You’re not really anything, then.’ Well, we like our catalogue. We like the records we put out. Our bands aren’t rushing away. Our job isn’t to own any artist. We’re here to put out [...]

Label Profile – Load Records

Posted on October 29, 2008 by admin

“Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world’s most challenging record roster” – Mark Hensch, Thrash Pit Provide, Rhode Island based Load Records was started by Ben McOsker in 1993 in order to put out records by his own band Boss Fuel. Eventually, Load Records started to resemble labels like Sub Pop (only [...]