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American Recordings is a Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
-based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 headed by record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin

Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an United States record producer and is currently the co-head of Columbia Records. He is given credit for merging hip hop music and heavy metal music as well as producing the "Johnny Cash discography#American Recordings" albums with Johnny Cash....
. The label's most successful artists include Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
, The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
, Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
 and System of a Down
System of a Down

System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....
.

label was founded as Def American Recordings after Rick Rubin left Def Jam Recordings
Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is a United States based hip hop music record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group....
 in 1988. Among the first acts to be signed were Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
 (which followed Rubin from Def Jam), Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
, Masters of Reality
Masters of Reality

Masters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock" bands....
, and Wolfsbane
Wolfsbane (band)

Wolfsbane are a hard rock/Heavy metal music band formed in Tamworth, England featuring singer Blaze Bayley, who went on to join Iron Maiden in 1994....
, as well as indie rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
 and controversial stand up comedian Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay

Andrew "Dice" Clay is an United States actor and comedian. Dice performed his first HBO Special in Philadelphia called, The Diceman Cometh, in 1989, and had his first starring role in a feature film entitled, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, in 1990....
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American Recordings is a Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
-based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 headed by record producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin

Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an United States record producer and is currently the co-head of Columbia Records. He is given credit for merging hip hop music and heavy metal music as well as producing the "Johnny Cash discography#American Recordings" albums with Johnny Cash....
. The label's most successful artists include Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
, The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
, Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
 and System of a Down
System of a Down

System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....
.

Company History

The label was founded as Def American Recordings after Rick Rubin left Def Jam Recordings
Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is a United States based hip hop music record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group....
 in 1988. Among the first acts to be signed were Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
 (which followed Rubin from Def Jam), Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
, Masters of Reality
Masters of Reality

Masters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock" bands....
, and Wolfsbane
Wolfsbane (band)

Wolfsbane are a hard rock/Heavy metal music band formed in Tamworth, England featuring singer Blaze Bayley, who went on to join Iron Maiden in 1994....
, as well as indie rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
 and controversial stand up comedian Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay

Andrew "Dice" Clay is an United States actor and comedian. Dice performed his first HBO Special in Philadelphia called, The Diceman Cometh, in 1989, and had his first starring role in a feature film entitled, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, in 1990....
. Rubin continued his association with hip-hop music by signing artists such as the Geto Boys
Geto Boys

Geto Boys is a rap Musical ensemble from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface , Willie D and Bushwick Bill. The original Ghetto Boys consisted of the following members: Prince Jonny C, Sire Jukebox; DJ Reddy Red; and Little Billy, the dancer who later came to be known as Bushwick Bill....
 and Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot

Anthony Ray , better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot is a rapping and record producer from Seattle, Washington, Washington. He is best known for his song "Baby Got Back."...
. American had its first major success with The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
' 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. The album eventually went quintuple Platinum. The group’s 1992 follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the second album by the American blues-rock group The Black Crowes. It was released on May 12, 1992....
 gave American Recordings its first No.1 album. Emcee Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot

Anthony Ray , better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot is a rapping and record producer from Seattle, Washington, Washington. He is best known for his song "Baby Got Back."...
 managed a number-one hit with the song "Baby Got Back
Baby Got Back

"Baby Got Back" is a 1992 in music hip hop song by Sir Mix-a-Lot from his album Mack Daddy. The song famously starts with a discussion between two thin, white valley girls , with one girl remarking to the other "Oh my God, Becky! Look at her butt! It is so big....
" as well as a platinum-selling album titled Mack Daddy
Mack Daddy

Mack Daddy is the third album by Sir Mix-a-Lot. It was released on February 4, 1992 on American Recordings....
. Heavy metal acts Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
 and Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
 also enjoyed notable commercial success, with Slayer in particular, managing several Gold-certified albums. Rubin produces many of the recordings on the label, as well as directing other music-related ventures.

Rubin changed the name of the company to American Recordings in 1993 after seeing the word “def” in a dictionary. The company was renamed because he believed that finding the word in a notable source was against the anti-establishment image that he was trying to project for the company. A mock funeral presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton put the word to rest.

American had several sub-labels over the years, including Onion Records, Ill Labels, Wild West, Whte Lbls [sic], and Infinite Zero, the latter of which was a partnership with Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, spoken word, stand-up comedian, author, actor, activist and publisher.After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C....
 that specialized in reissues of obscure albums. None of these labels made the distribution transition after American Recordings left Warner Bros. Records in 1997, and its recordings are out-of-print.

Distribution

The first-ever Def American release was Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood

Reign in Blood is the third studio album and record label debut by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on October 7, 1986, the album was the band's first collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound evolve....
 by Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
, which, ironically, had a Def Jam
Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is a United States based hip hop music record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group....
 logo on its first pressing. (Danzig's 1988 debut album
Danzig (album)

Danzig is the 1988 debut album of the American heavy metal music band Danzig , led by Glenn Danzig who was formerly the songwriter and vocalist of Misfits and Samhain ....
 was the first release to actually bare the Def American logo). However, because Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons , is an United States entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering Hip hop music label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm....
 felt that Slayer's music was not in line with Def Jam, and because Def Jam’s then-distributor, Columbia/CBS Records, refused to release it, it was released through Geffen Records
Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
, and Rubin took the rights of the release to the new label with him after the split. Initially, it was distributed by Geffen Records through Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
, but when Geffen refused to distribute the self-titled album by the Geto Boys
The Geto Boys (album)

The Geto Boys is the self-titled album of the Geto Boys, which was released in 1990. The album contained 10 revamped tracks from its previous albums Grip It! On That Other Level and Making Trouble and three new songs....
 and the controversy it caused, Rubin switched distribution to Warner Bros. proper, which released all subsequent Def American titles.

American's distribution has been handled through several labels over the years. American's first incarnation was distributed by Geffen Records through Warner Bros. Records from 1988 to 1990. After a falling out with Geffen over the content of the Geto Boys' only Def American release, Warner Bros. itself took over distribution duties from 1990 to 1997. However, sub-label Ill Labels was distributed by hip-hop specialist and former Warner Bros. subsidiary Tommy boy Records as part of its deal. For a brief time during the 1990s, the label also distributed Too Pure Records in the USA.

Rubin signed a distribution deal with Columbia
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
/SME Records
Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, being one of the World music market. According to Variety, on October 2, 2008, Sony had completed the acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, and Sony BMG was renamed Sony Music Entertainment....
 in 1997, which distributed the label's titles until 2001. That year, Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
 (ironically, the owners of Geffen Records at that point), through its Island Def Jam Music Group division, took over distribution. In 2005, with the exception of the recordings of Johnny Cash, the label returned to the aegis of Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
. Non-US distribution was handled by BMG until the deal with Columbia Records.

In 2007, Warner Bros. Records, which was American's home from 1992 to 1997, acquired the rights to the extensive American Recordings catalog, which included Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
, The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
, The Jayhawks, Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
, and Danzig
Danzig (band)

Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
. However, American's current roster was transferred to Sony BMG in mid-2007 after a legal battle between Warner and Rubin over the details of their former arrangement in which American Recordings would sign and provide creative services for artists, while Warner Bros. was only to handle promotion, sales, marketing, and distribution because Rubin was prompted to move his label with his appointment to co-chairman of Columbia Records in the Spring of 2007.

Current artists

  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • The Avett Brothers
    The Avett Brothers

    The Avett Brothers are a folk-rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Seth Avett and Scott Avett, who play the guitar and banjo, respectively, and Bob Crawford who plays the stand-up bass....
  • Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • Howlin Rain
  • The (International) Noise Conspiracy
    The (International) Noise Conspiracy

    The Noise Conspiracy is a rock band formed in Sweden in the late months of 1998. The line-up consists of Dennis Lyxz?n , Inge Johansson , Lars Str?mberg , and Ludwig Dahlberg ....
  • Luna Halo
    Luna Halo

    Luna Halo is a rock music band formed in 1999 by Nathan Barlowe and Jonny MacIntosh, as a replacement for their former band, Reality Check, which was well-known for its hip-hop and rock blend, its dancers, and its trumpet player....
  • Ours
    Ours

    The band OURS is a rock band led by singer Jimmy Gnecco....
  • Tom Petty
    Tom Petty

    Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
  • Slayer
    Slayer

    Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
  • Dan Wilson
    Dan Wilson (musician)

    Dan Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning Minnesota-based guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is both a solo artist, signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings, and the lead singer of the occasionally-active band Semisonic, in which he wrote hits like "Secret Smile", "Closing Time", and "Chemistry"....
  • ZZ Top
    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....

Former artists

  • Jazz Lee Alston (Rhyme Cartel/American Recordings)
  • American Head Charge
    American Head Charge

    American Head Charge is a hard rock/industrial metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, earning nominations at the Kerrang! Awards on two occasions....
     (Active, signed to Nitrus Records)
  • Dan Baird
    Dan Baird

    Dan Baird is an United States musician.Born and raised in San Diego, Baird moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia in his early teens. He is best known for his work with the band The Georgia Satellites....
     (Active)
  • Barkmarket
    Barkmarket

    Barkmarket was a rock music group formed in New York City in 1987. Personnel were singer/guitarist and main songwriter Dave Sardy, bass guitarist John Nowlin and drummer Rock Savage....
     (Disbanded)
  • Frank Black
    Frank Black

    Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, where he performed under the stage name Black Francis....
     (Active)
  • The Black Crowes
    The Black Crowes

    The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
     (Active, with Silver Arrow Records)
  • Blackeyed Susans
  • Chino XL
    Chino XL

    Derek Keith Barbosa , known as Chino XL, is an American hip hop music lyricist, battle rap, and actor. He was born to a Puerto Rican people father and a African mother....
     (Active, with Machete Music
    Machete Music

    Machete Music is an urban contemporary music label owned by Universal Music Group. The record label had been largely associated with reggaeton music, but in recent years, it has been also been signing non-urban artists such as Malverde , Mala Rodriguez and Chino XL....
    )
  • Andrew "Dice" Clay (Inactive)
  • Julian Cope
    Julian Cope

    Julian Cope is a British Rock music musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes....
     (Active, performing unsigned)
  • Crown Heights
  • Danzig
    Danzig (band)

    Danzig is an American rock band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, NJ, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands Misfits and Samhain ....
     (Active, latest album released on Megaforce Records
    Megaforce Records

    Megaforce Records has been the record label for bands in the heavy metal music genres and also rock genres, including Metallica, Anthrax , Testament , Stormtroopers of Death, King's X, Warren Haynes, The Disco Biscuits, and have signed with Ministry , Bad Brains, Rose Hill Drive, Less Than Jake, Mushroomhead, and The Black Crowes....
    )
  • Deconstruction
    Deconstruction (band)

    Deconstruction was a band formed by former Jane's Addiction members, guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Eric Avery. Originally their former Jane's Addiction bandmate drummer Stephen Perkins was slated to be Deconstruction's drummer but instead joined Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's new band Porno for Pyros....
     (Disbanded)
  • DJ Kool
    DJ Kool

    John W. Bowman, Jr., better known by his stage name DJ Kool is a Rapping who, in the late 1990s, produced several popular rap singles. Born in Washington, DC, his influence from his years of working the go-go and rap circuits became apparent in his music....
     (Inactive)
  • Donovan
    Donovan

    Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
     (Active)
  • Pete Droge
    Pete Droge

    Pete Droge is an American alternative/folk rock musician.His debut album Necktie Second, released by American records in 1994, featured the tongue-in-cheek , , as well as the songs "Sunspot Stopwatch" and "So I am Over You."...
     (Active)
  • Electric Company (Onion/American Recordings)
  • Fireside
    Fireside (band)

    Fireside is a Swedish band formed in the mid 1990's....
     (Active)
  • Flipper
    Flipper (band)

    Flipper is an influential punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1979, continuing in often erratic fashion until the mid-1990s, then reuniting in 2005....
     ((Active)
  • The Four Horsemen
    The Four Horsemen (band)

    The Four Horsemen were an American hard rock band that had brief popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their style was blues influenced heavy rock and their fame was both fleeting and full of tragedy....
     (Disbanded)
  • The Freewheelers
  • John Frusciante
    John Frusciante

    John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has recorded five studio albums....
     (Active, signed to Record Collection
    Record Collection

    Record Collection is an independently owned Venice, CA based record company started in 2002 by Mike Piscitelli and Jordan Tappis. Record Collection currently lists record producer David Sardy as one of its owners....
    )
  • Geto Boys
    Geto Boys

    Geto Boys is a rap Musical ensemble from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface , Willie D and Bushwick Bill. The original Ghetto Boys consisted of the following members: Prince Jonny C, Sire Jukebox; DJ Reddy Red; and Little Billy, the dancer who later came to be known as Bushwick Bill....
     (Active)
  • God Lives Underwater
    God Lives Underwater

    God Lives Underwater was an Industrial rock band from rural Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania , formed in 1993 by band members David Reilly and Jeff Turzo....
     (Disbanded)
  • The Jayhawks
    Jayhawks (band)

    The Jayhawks are an United States alternative country and rock music band. They released seven studio albums, including five on the American Recordings label....
     (On Hiatus)
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
    The Jesus and Mary Chain

    The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
     (Recently reunited, writing new album)
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , was a Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis . He featured in Time magazine's 2006 list of 'Asian Heroes'....
     (Deceased)
  • Kinfolk
  • Kwest tha Madd Ladd
  • Laika
    Laika (band)

    Laika is a UK-based indie/experimental band founded in 1993 by ex-Moonshake members Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett, and producer/engineer Guy Fixsen....
     (Inactive) (Too Pure/American Recordings)
  • Lindsey
  • Lords of Acid
    Lords of Acid

    Lords of Acid is a Belgium acid house band from the 1990s that started as a spinoff of Praga Khan with the controversial New Beat single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988....
     (Disbanded) (Whte Lbls/American Recordings)
  • Lordz of Brooklyn
    Lordz of Brooklyn

    Lordz Of Brooklyn now known as The Lordz are a United States crossover Hip hop/Rock group composed of brothers and childhood friends of mostly Irish American and Italian American descent from Brooklyn, New York....
     (Active, shortened name to The Lordz) (Ventrue/American Recordings)
  • Loudermilk (Changed name to Gosling, currently on hiatus)
  • Love and Rockets
    Love and Rockets (band)

    Love and Rockets are an alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist, Peter Murphy , had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983....
     (Active, unsigned)
  • Manmade God
    Manmade God

    Manmade God is a Rock music band, who have one album to date, Manmade God in 2003 through American Recordings, and the single Safe Passage reached # 36 on the Billboard magazine Mainstream Rock Tracks list....
     (Disbanded)
  • Masters of Reality
    Masters of Reality

    Masters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock" bands....
     (Active)
  • MC 900 Ft. Jesus
    MC 900 Ft. Jesus

    MC 900 Ft. Jesus is the stage name of Mark Griffin, a classically-trained musician turned rapping and experimental musician born in Dallas, Texas, Texas....
     (Inactive)
  • Medicine
    Medicine (band)

    Medicine is an alternative noise-pop/rock band from the San Fernando Valley, USA. They were formed in 1991 by guitarist Brad Laner and signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings label the following year....
     (Active, unsigned)
  • Messiah (Whte Lbls/American Recordings)
  • Milk
  • Mouse on Mars
    Mouse on Mars

    Mouse on Mars is a duo from Germany who have been making electronic music since 1993 in music. Their music is a sometimes quirky blend of techno, trance music, disco, and Ambient music with a heavy dollop of analog synth sounds....
     (Too Pure/American Recordings)
  • Noise Ratchet
  • The Mother Hips
    The Mother Hips

    The Mother Hips are a rock band based in the San Francisco Bay Area....
     (Active, with Camera Records)
  • The Nonce
    The Nonce

    The Nonce was a hip-hop duo from Los Angeles, California, that was active in the 1990s . As part of the Project Blowed collective, working with Aceyalone, among others, the duo developed a reputation for smooth, jazzy, classy production, complimented by laid-back, smart rhymes ....
     (Disbanded) (Wild West/American Recordings)
  • Paloalto
    Paloalto

    Paloalto is a rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. Their band is not named after the city Palo Alto, California, but rather the lead singer James Grundler's preschool....
     (Inactive)
  • Jonny Polonsky
  • Pram
    Pram (band)

    Pram are an experimental rock band who formed in the Balsall Heath/Moseley area of Birmingham, England in 1990....
     (Active, with Warm Circuit Records)
  • Pretty Tone Capone (Ill Labels/American Recordings)
  • Psychotica
    Psychotica

    Psychotica, formed in 1994 by Paul Kostabi and NYC Club Owner Pat Briggs, were a seminal influence in Industrial Gothic rock, releasing 3 albums to mixed reviews and varied success....
     (Disbanded)
  • Raging Slab
    Raging Slab

    Raging Slab is an American hard rock musical ensemble....
     (On Hiatus)
  • Red Devils
  • The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow (Disbanded)
  • Ruth Ruth
    Ruth Ruth

    Ruth Ruth is a pop punk band formed in New York City in 1993. The group is composed of Chris Kennedy , Mike Lustig , and Christian Nakata .The song "Uninvited" from their in 1995 Laughing Gallery album gained Ruth Ruth some success, including alternative radio play and a few months of MTV rotation....
     (Inactive)
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot
    Sir Mix-a-Lot

    Anthony Ray , better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot is a rapping and record producer from Seattle, Washington, Washington. He is best known for his song "Baby Got Back."...
     (Currently CEO of Artist Direct Records, no longer recording) (Rhyme Cartel/American Recordings)
  • Skinny Puppy
    Skinny Puppy

    Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
     (Active, with Synthetic Symphony
    SPV GmbH

    SPV GmbH is an independent Germany record label founded in 1984 in music as a German distributor of Roadrunner Records. It has slowly grown to be one of the largest independent distributors and record labels worldwide....
    )
  • Stiffs Inc.
  • Supreme Love Gods
    Supreme Love Gods

    Supreme Love Gods were an alternative rock group from Fresno, California, active from 1990 to 1993.They signed to Columbia Records/Sony Music in 1991 and released an extended play in England entitled Righteous later that year....
     (Disbanded)
  • Survival Research Laboratories
    Survival Research Laboratories

    Survival Research Laboratories is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large scale machine performance. After about 30 years in San Francisco, California, SRL spent most of 2008 moving 160 tons of choice machines, tools, robots, and paraphernalia and is now headquartered in Petaluma, California....
  • Swell
    Swell (band)

    Swell is an indie rock band formed in San Francisco in 1989 when David Freel and Sean Kirkpatrick decided to record an album....
     (Active, with pSychosPecificMusic)
  • System of a Down
    System of a Down

    System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....
     (On Hiatus)
  • Thee Hypnotics
    Thee Hypnotics

    Thee Hypnotics were a 1990s UK garage rock/psychedelic rock/hard rock band. They were part of the early alternative rock scene, releasing 2 full-length albums and an EP from 1989-1990 before taking an enforced hiatus due to their drummer breaking his back in a car accident while they were on tour in the US....
     (Disbanded)
  • Th' Faith Healers
    Th' Faith Healers

    Th' Faith Healers were a UK indie rock group who were active between 1990 and 1994 and part of the so-called Camden lurch scene. They recorded multiple EPs and singles along with two full LPs....
     (Disbanded) (Too Pure/American Recordings)
  • Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
  • Trouble
    Trouble (band)

    Trouble is an American doom metal band noted as one of the pioneers of their genre, alongside bands such as Candlemass and Saint Vitus . The band created a distinct style taking influences of the British heavy metal bands Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, and psychedelic rock of the 1970s....
     (Active, with Century Media)
  • Unida
    Unida

    Unida is an United States stoner rock band that was formed after the dissolution of Kyuss and Slo Burn. The band originally consisted of John Garcia , Arthur Seay , Dave Dinsmore and Mike Cancino ....
     (On Hiatus)
  • The Vacation
  • Vell Bakardy (Ventrue/American Recordings)
  • Vitro
  • V.3
  • Saul Williams
    Saul Williams

    Saul Stacey Williams is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam ....
     (Active, with The FADER records)
  • Wesley Willis
    Wesley Willis

    Wesley Shabazz Willis was a busker, musician and painting from Chicago. A diagnosed schizophrenia, he gained a sizable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of unique but simple music, with emphasis on his humorous, bizarre, and very obscene lyrics....
     (Deceased)
  • Wolfsbane
    Wolfsbane (band)

    Wolfsbane are a hard rock/Heavy metal music band formed in Tamworth, England featuring singer Blaze Bayley, who went on to join Iron Maiden in 1994....
     (Dropped, now disbanded)

Soundtracks

  • Big Daddy
    Big Daddy

    Big Daddy may refer to:...
  • Chef Aid: The South Park Album
    Chef Aid: The South Park Album

    Chef Aid: The South Park Album is an album based on the Chef Aid episode of South Park.The album was available with 2 collectible covers and in three different versions — "Clean", "Explicit", and "Extreme"....
  • The Doom Generation
    The Doom Generation

    The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. Released in 1995 in film, it stars Rose McGowan, James Duval and Johnathon Schaech as two teenagers and a 20-something Punk subculture drifter who get involved in a m?nage ? trois....
  • Jackass: The Movie
    Jackass: The Movie

    Jackass: The Movie, is an United States film directed by Jeff Tremaine and was released on October 25, 2002 with the tagline "Do not attempt this at home." It is a riskier and uncensored continuation of the stunts and pranks by the various characters of the MTV television series Jackass , which had completed its series run by this ti...
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Infinite Zero Reissue Artists

  • James Chance And The Contortions
    James Chance and the Contortions

    One of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance, aka James White. Their first recorded appearance, credited solely as the Contortions, was on the 1978 compilation, No New York....
  • Devo
    Devo

    Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
  • Flipper
    Flipper

    Flipper may refer to:In entertainment:*Film and television series featuring the intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:**Flipper , directed by James B....
  • Gang Of Four
    Gang of Four (band)

    Gang of Four are an England post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King , guitarist Andy Gill , bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham....
  • Louise Huebner
  • Iceberg Slim
    Iceberg Slim

    Iceberg Slim , also known as Robert Beck, was an African American author of transgressional fiction and urban fiction....
  • Mississippi Fred McDowell
  • The Monks
    The Monks

    The Monks are a garage rock band, primarily active in Germany in the mid to late sixties. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made....
  • Matthew Shipp
    Matthew Shipp

    Matthew Shipp is an United States pianist, composer and bandleader.Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old....
  • Trouble Funk
    Trouble Funk

    Trouble Funk was an influential and successful Rhythm and blues and funk band from Washington, D.C. They helped to popularize the Washington, D.C....
  • Alan Vega
    Alan Vega

    Alan Vega is the vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide .Bermowitz graduated with a degree in art from Brooklyn College and began his artistic career doing light sculptures....
  • Tom Verlaine
    Tom Verlaine

    Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York rock music band Television ....
  • Alan Watts
    Alan Watts

    Alan Wilson Watts was a United Kingdom philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western culture audience....
  • James White and the Blacks


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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