Hi-n-Dry
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Hi-n-Dry is a Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-based independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 and recording studio. Founded by the late Morphine
Morphine (band)
Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack....

 singer and bassist Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...

, the studio and label are currently managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley
Dana Colley
Dana Colley is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.-with Three Colors :...

 and Billy Conway along with Laurie Sargent and Andrew Mazzone. Once located in Sandman's former loft apartment, the studio moved to the Somerville Armory Arts Center in Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...

 in December 2007.

Notable artists

  • Mark Sandman
  • Twinemen
    Twinemen
    Twinemen is an alternative rock band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA created by former members of the bands Morphine and Face to Face. The group includes Dana Colley , Billy Conway , and Laurie Sargent...

  • Asa Brebner
  • Dennis Brennan
  • Rick Berlin
    Rick Berlin
    Rick Berlin is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, and The Shelley Winters Project....

  • Caged Heat
    Caged Heat
    Caged Heat is an exploitation film from 1974 of the "women-in-prison" film genre. Caged Heat was written and directed by Jonathan Demme for the New World Pictures company, headed by Roger Corman...

  • The Coots
  • The Downbeat 5
    The Downbeat 5
    The Downbeat 5 is a Boston-based rock band started in 1999 by former DMZ guitarist J. J. Rassler and his then-wife, Jen,...

  • Family Jewels
    Family Jewels
    Family Jewels is a two disc compilation DVD by the hard rock band AC/DC, featuring the group's music videos, live clips and promotional videos from 1975 to 1991. It was released by Sony Entertainment on 28 March 2005. The first disc contains videos from the Bon Scott era , such as the band's first...

  • Heygoods
  • Peter C. Johnson
  • Jimmy Ryan
    Jimmy Ryan (musician)
    Jimmy Ryan is a mandolin player associated with Hi-n-Dry records and the band Morphine. He was one of the founding members of the band Blood Oranges.-External links:*...

  • Maybe Baby
    Maybe Baby
    Maybe Baby is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton based upon his novel Inconceivable, starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.-Plot summary:...

  • Orchestra Morphine
  • Scissormen
    Scissormen
    In the DC comic book Doom Patrol, the Scissormen are a fictional race of beings that come from the metafictional city of Orqwith.The authors of the book of Orqwith based the Scissormen on The Tailor from The Tale of Little Suck-a-Thumb in the children's picture book Struwwelpeter...

  • Session Americana
    Session Americana
    Session Americana is a Boston-based band consistently referred to in articles by variants of “a folk-rock [or roots] supergroup,” a “who’s who” or “all-star” band featuring members Sean Staples , Billy Beard , Jon Bistline , Ry Cavanaugh , Jim Fitting and Dinty Child...

  • Three Day Threshold
    Three Day Threshold
    Three Day Threshold is a New England based country band. Three Day Threshold has won the Boston Music Awards in 2003 and 2004 and the FNX/Phoenix Music Poll Awards in 2003, 2004 and 2006...

  • Jon Palmer & The New Complainers

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