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DGC Records was a subsidiary label of 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....
. Launched in 1990
1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990....
, DGC (acronym for “David Geffen Company”) was created as a response to the success Geffen Records had had with the harder rock acts on its roster. Though it initially focused on more progressive rock, as the decade progressed it would also embrace the emergence of (and become a seminal label of) alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 - with influential acts like Nirvana
Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
, Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
, and Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
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DGC Records was a subsidiary label of 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....
. Launched in 1990
1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990....
, DGC (acronym for “David Geffen Company”) was created as a response to the success Geffen Records had had with the harder rock acts on its roster. Though it initially focused on more progressive rock, as the decade progressed it would also embrace the emergence of (and become a seminal label of) alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 - with influential acts like Nirvana
Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
, Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
, and Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
. The label also released early titles by hip hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 band The Roots
The Roots

The Roots is a Grammy award-winning United States hip hop music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals....
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In 1999
1999 in music

See also:* 1999 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 1999...
, during the consolidation of Geffen’s 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....
 parent and PolyGram
PolyGram

PolyGram was the name from 1972 in music of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945....
, the DGC label ceased operations. The retained acts would go on to record for the main Geffen label. Today, occasionally, the DGC title and logo appears on reissues of its past catalog items. In 2008, the self-titled album
Weezer (2008 album)

Weezer, also known as "The Red Album", is the sixth studio album by United States Rock music band Weezer, released on June 3, 2008. Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee both helped to produce the album....
 by Weezer
Weezer

Weezer is a Grammy-winning United States Rock music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper ....
 was released with the DGC Records logo on the sleeve, as have new studio albums from Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, Counting Crows
Counting Crows

Counting Crows is a rock band originating from Berkeley, California. The group gained popularity in 1994 following the release of its debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr._Jones_"....
 and Rise Against
Rise Against

Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. Their current line-up consists of four members: Tim McIlrath , Joe Principe , Brandon Barnes , and Zach Blair ....
. As of late, DGC Records, in partnership with MySpace Records
MySpace Records

MySpace Records is a independent record label started in 2005 to sign artists who appear on the social networking site MySpace. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MySpace and parent News Corporation, operating as a joint-venture between MySpace and Interscope Records....
 and indie Lucky Ear Music, signed up-and-coming L.A. artist Meiko
Meiko

Meiko is an United States Singer-songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia and currently residing in Los Angeles, California. She independently released a self-titled album on September 1, 2007 -- without the help of a record label, her album reached #35 on the iTunes Top 100 Albums chart....
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To date, the best selling album in the DGC catalog is Nevermind
Nevermind

Nevermind is the second studio album by the American Rock music band Nirvana , released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on Geffen Records....
, the 1991 album by Nirvana
Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
, reaching international sales of twenty-five million albums worldwide, with ten million sold in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, and is one of the first albums to be certified Diamond.

List of DGC Records artists

The following artists have all had recordings on DGC Records:
  • The All-American Rejects
    The All-American Rejects

    The All-American Rejects are a pop rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, formed in 2001. The band comprises lead vocalist and bass guitarist Tyson Ritter, guitarists and vocalists Nick Wheeler and Mike Kennerty, with drummer Chris Gaylor....
  • Beck
    Beck

    Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
  • Bivouac
    Bivouac (band)

    Bivouac were a British alternative rock band from Derby who were active in the 1990s. They released two albums on the independent label Elemental, before being signed by Geffen Records for the 1995 album Full Size Boy....
  • Boss Hog
    Boss Hog

    Boss Hog is an American punk blues band including the husband and wife duo of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez along with Jens Jurgensen , Hollis Queens and Mark Boyce ....
  • Cell
    Cell (band)

    Cell were a New York-based Grunge band, formed in 1990 and split c.1995. They were signed to Geffen Records....
  • Counting Crows
    Counting Crows

    Counting Crows is a rock band originating from Berkeley, California. The group gained popularity in 1994 following the release of its debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr._Jones_"....
  • Elastica
    Elastica

    Elastica were a United Kingdom alternative rock band, who played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica which produced single that charted in the United States and the United Kingdom....
  • Hole
    Hole (band)

    Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson when he responded to an ad she placed in the punk zine Flipside ....
  • Jawbreaker
    Jawbreaker (band)

    Jawbreaker was a San Francisco, California punk rock band. The band also had roots in Los Angeles, California, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler attended Crossroads School together, and New York City, where Schwarzenbach and Pfahler met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988....
  • Manhattan's Cell
  • Meiko
    Meiko

    Meiko is an United States Singer-songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia and currently residing in Los Angeles, California. She independently released a self-titled album on September 1, 2007 -- without the help of a record label, her album reached #35 on the iTunes Top 100 Albums chart....
  • Nelson
    Nelson (band)

    Nelson is a glam metal band founded by Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson They had a Hot 100 number-one hits of 1990 in the United States with " Love and Affection" during the week of September 29 1990....
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)

    Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
  • The Nymphs
    The Nymphs

    The Nymphs were an alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s with lead singer Inger Lorre. The band was signed to Geffen Records, and released their only album in 1991 in music....
  • Papa Roach
    Papa Roach

    Papa Roach is a four-piece alternative rock band from Vacaville, California. They broke into the mainstream with their three times platinum major-label debut album Infest ....
  • Pell Mell
    Pell Mell

    Pell Mell was an instrumental rock combo formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon.The original members were Arni May, guitar, and Jon-Lars Sorenson, bass, from the Portland avant-garde group UHF, and from local Reed College Bill Owen on guitar, and Bob Beerman on drums....
  • Pere Ubu
    Pere Ubu (band)

    Pere Ubu are an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant....
  • The Posies
    The Posies

    The Posies are an United States alternative rock group. The band was formed in 1987 in Bellingham, Washington by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow....
  • Rise Against
    Rise Against

    Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. Their current line-up consists of four members: Tim McIlrath , Joe Principe , Brandon Barnes , and Zach Blair ....
  • The Roots
    The Roots

    The Roots is a Grammy award-winning United States hip hop music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals....
  • Sammy
    Sammy

    Sammy may refer to:...
  • The 60 FT. Dolls
  • Sloan
    Sloan (band)

    Sloan is an indie pop quartet from Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
  • Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth

    Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  • St. Johnny
  • The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses

    The Stone Roses were an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1984. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  • The Sundays
    The Sundays

    The Sundays were an England alternative rock group. The band, formed in the mid-1980s, released three albums of material in the late 1980s and 1990s....
  • Teenage Fanclub
    Teenage Fanclub

    Teenage Fanclub is an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally between Blake, McGinley and Love....
  • that dog.
    That dog.

    that dog. was a Los Angeles, California-based rock music musical band that formed in 1991 and dissolved in 1997. The band consisted of Anna Waronker on lead Singing and guitar, Rachel Haden on bass guitar, her sister Petra Haden on violin, and Tony Maxwell on Drum kit....
  • The Throbs
    The Throbs

    The Throbs were a sleaze rock band from New York City formed in 1988. They featured singer Ronnie Sweetheart, guitarist Roger Ericson, bassist Danny Nordahl, and drummer Ronnie Magri....
  • Veruca Salt
    Veruca Salt (band)

    For the Willy Wonka character, see Veruca Salt.Veruca Salt is an United States alternative rock band founded in 1993 in music, which gained popularity in the '90s with hit singles "Seether ", and "Volcano Girls."...
  • Warrior Soul
    Warrior Soul

    Warrior Soul is an American hard rock / punk band formed in 1988 by lead singer Kory Clarke, guitarist John Ricco, bassist Pete McLanahan, and drummer Paul Ferguson ....
  • Weezer
    Weezer

    Weezer is a Grammy-winning United States Rock music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper ....
  • Wild Colonials
    Wild Colonials

    Wild Colonials are an United States alternative rock musical ensemble formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1992 by Angela McCluskey , Shark , Paul Cantelon , Scott Roewe and Ian Bernard ....


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:...