About ‘Independent Label Distribution’ and the labels it distributes:
Independent Label Distribution is a record distributor owned and operated by two veteran independent label owners. Independent Label Distribution was started from the ground up in September 2011 and sometimes the obvious strategy is also a foolproof one: quality counts. Independent Label Distribution is not a typical physical/digital distributor with an iffy shelf-life — it’s very foundation is offering the best of indie labels with competitively-priced new releases and best-selling catalog, great fill and rapid service, no matter what the size of the account is.
We Distribute:
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Artisan Era
The Artisan Era is a label created in 2014 based out of Nashville, TN. We specialize in a diverse range of extreme metal music that showcases extraordinary musicianship and focuses on sonic artistry.
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Beer City Skateboards and Records
Beer City started in the summer of 1992. Our goal was to make high quality products that could hold up to hardcore skating and were affordable. Plus offer a wide variety of deck and wheel sizes.
Beer City wasn’t going to just be a skateboard company. It also was going to be a record label. The goal was to put out hardcore,punk and thrash/metal plus anything that was (or was once) under the punk umbrella. We started by putting out 7″s and in no time were doing full lengths to!
Nowadays Beer City is known all over the world for our high quality skateboards and our record label.We work with legendary bands like D.R.I. , Broken Bones,Cancerous Growth,Die Kreuzen, The Faction,Inferno,Loud Ones , Raw Power,Suburban Mutilation,Toxic Reasons,Verbal Abuse and many more.
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Blank Recording Company
Blank Recording Company brings you rescued, reissued, rediscovered and revived sounds the globe over.
Many releases will be one time, small run, limited edition pressings.
No stone is being left unturned.
Mastering from analogue master tapes, long out of print albums, lost classics, previously unreleased, unseen photos. All or some of these will be selling points for releases on the Blank Recording Company imprint.
Sounds will be running anything and everything from 1960’s garage, 1970’s folk, 1970’s punk rock, Soul, jazz, prog rock and pretty much anything in between.
The Blank Recording Company – yesterday’s sound today.
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Chunksaah Records
Chunksaah Records is the brainchild of The Bouncing Souls, who rather than give up on their dream decided on the “d.i.y.” approach to the record industry. It quickly became a family affair; symbolically named in 1992 after its benefactor Timmy Chunks (notorious for his Queens-aah accentahh). They knew the name was one that would leave a lasting impression, as well as represent the ties that started and have kept the label together.
This d.i.y. approach to the record industry has been everything but glamorous. It involved learning and growing as a family in a familiar and ever changing scene. Chunksaah Records has grown as a family remaining true to the original idea; a label free of industry jargon, lawyer-speak and pigeon-holing, but full of people who are willing to risk it all, work hard, and at the same time be treated equally, like family.
Chunksaah Records: simple folk trying to bring good music to good people in a tumultuous world.
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Deep Six
Deep Six Records specializes in grind, power violence, sludge, thrash, and hardcore. Recent artists include Bastard Noise, Hirax, Landmine Marathon, Destroyed in Seconds, Low Threat Profile, Extortion, Extreme Noise Terror, Reproach, Lack of Interest, Phobia, Weekend Nachos, Cyborg, and Cripple Bastards.
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Dionysus Records / Bacchus Archives
The Dionysus Records Empire, comprised of Dionysus Records and Bacchus Archives is an independent record label specializing in everything garage, surf, exotica, rockabilly, psychedelic, ’70s “KBD” punk, mischievous musical mayhem, power and sunshine pop, retro-electronica and much more. Since its first 7″ record in 1983, Dionysus has been responsible for the release of almost 500 albums and singles and was at the forefront of the garage, surf and lounge revivals of the ’80s and ’90s – proudly outliving many of its’ contemporaries.
The Bacchus Archives imprint has been responsible for reissuing the music of 70s and 80s punk legends such as The Dils, The Dogs, Geza X, The Gears and The Controllers and 50s exotica legends Les Baxter and Robert Drasnin. Dionysus and Bacchus keeps key back catalog items in print and stays in the “now” by continuing to release new records with a “retro” slant from label stables such as Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, The Satelltiers, Ruby Dee and The Snakehanders, (Robert Plant’s favorite band) The Creepy Creeps and many others, as well as previously unknown gems from decades past.
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Divebomb / Tribunal
Tribunal Records, now in its 12th year of operation, has proven itself to have been a great starting point for so many new bands in the early stages of their careers. Having introduced the music community to artists such as Atreyu, From Autumn To Ashes, He Is Legend, Scarlet, Daylight Dies, Animosity and Killwhitneydead has only helped to solidify Tribunal Records’ reputation for releasing some of the best music in the scene today. Unlike its formative years, Tribunal Records’ roster has matured and includes the multiple facets of all that rock, metal and hardcore have to offer and now includes its specialty reissue division, Divebomb Records. Tribunal Records’ motto is simple…”Believe in the brand.”
Divebomb Records was formed by Tribunal Records’ owner Matt Rudzinski with a simple mission to reissue heavy metal and hard rock albums of the ’80s and ’90s that he still deems to be vital. Rudzinski recognized a shared love for going to record shows or used music stores, hoping to score that rarity which has alluded fans for much too long and will always remain the one that got away. Divebomb Records hopes to end this cycle with reissues that will help music fans find those much sought after albums they have been seeking and hunting for years, but to no avail. Divebomb Records’ releases are available as limited edition collector releases. The label does this in hopes of keeping the heart and soul alive within this sometimes ugly industry and ultimately for the fans… since Rudzinski is definitely one himself.
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First Blood Family
FIRST BLOOD FAMILY RECORDS, founded from a drawing by BRAD BLOOD during Highschool, the Wisconsin Skull & Cross Bones logo that became extremely popular over the years. The label began as an offshoot of Blood’s RHETORIC RECORDS (aka, BONGZILLA, BRUTAL TRUTH, PACHINKO and many more….) at the end of the Century, 1999.
2022, First Blood Family is revived again with cohort, DAVE HESHER, packed with multiple releases, from Thrash, Grind, Splatter Rock to Stoner Metal and many more to come ! ! !
Our motto is: We area ALWAYS taking DEMOS! If it’s METAL and we like it! We will put it out! Be it glam , grunge, death metal to poweviolence and EVERYthing in between! If it’s good, we will put it on FIRST BLOOD FAMILY! Send us your demos ! ! !
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Frontier Records
Frontier Records was founded in 1980 in Sun Valley, CA and was one of the first independent labels to document the nascent hard-core punk rock scene of OC and LA (Circle Jerks, Adolescents, TSOL, Suicidal Tendencies) before branching out into other scenes and sounds such as the so-called “Paisley Underground” (Three O’Clock, Long Ryders), alt.guitar bands (Thin White Rope, AMC, Young Fresh Fellows) before lording over the vintage punk (Weirdos, Dangerhouse label, Middle Class) compilation market. The importance of the Frontier catalogue cannot be overstated in terms of musical worth or sure-fire catalogue sales as its 30-year history has proven so admirably. Soon to be re-releasing the YES LA silkscreen album and more long out of print punk classics.
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PATAC
PATAC is purveyors of Metal, Punk and Hardcore Scum. Just check out some of the things we put out and you will know what we mean.
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Six Weeks Records
Athena Kautsch and Jeff Robinson started Six Weeks in 1992 after a six-week tour of the states by their bands, Capitalist Casualties and The Dread. Inspired by the dedication of individuals met on this tour, they returned home to write a tour zine entitled Six Weeks, full of interviews with bands met along the way and recounts of the adventure of being a punk band on the road.
With good results, a second issue was released, with more interviews and recounts of following tours done by both bands. This second issue also came with a 90-minute compilation tape. Athena had always put out The Dread’s records on her own and with her experience they funded the first release on Six Weeks Records in 1993, the Capitalist Casualties/The Dread split EP.
The label was formed with the intention of releasing records by unknown and unappreciated punk bands worldwide, by releasing and distributing international hardcore/punk and grind, and becoming one of the few US labels to release bands from Japan, Europe and South America at the time (as well as their friends’ bands back home).
To this day, Six Weeks is still dedicated to the ideals of hardcore/punk in all of its many genres and varieties, still diligently distributes international punk records at shows and through mail-order, and still continues to release the best non-commercial hardcore/punk/grind from around the globe and has also taken over publication of Short, Fast & Loud fanzine, a magazine dedicated to exposing the most extreme noise the underground music scene has to offer.
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Sounds Rad
Founded as an experiment in connecting digital releases with physical merchandise (apparel, pins, books), Sounds Rad! releases new and reissued albums from American punk, pop-punk, and power pop bands. Its first experiment—a mixed media release by author Frank Portman, author of the critically acclaimed young adult book series entitled, King Dork (Random House)—introduced the concept of the ‘balbum’ (book/album) with the release of King Dork Approximately by Portman’s seminal pop-punk band, the Mr. T Experience. Branching out, Sounds Rad! is now releasing albums using traditional media–proving that no matter how many times music industry honchos say that physical releases are dead, people still want goddamn records.
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Sympathy for the Record Industry
“We Almost Really Care”, “Audio Salvation for Off-centered Souls”, “27 Years of Performance Anxiety, Instability and Poor Judgment”, “West Coast Perpetrators of the Finest in Musical Mayhem”, “A Name You Can Pronounce Since 1988″, “Is a Force This Powerful Going to be Overlooked by an Industry That Needs All the Sympathy It Can Get ??”, “You’ve Tried the Rest, Now Go Fuck Yourself”… Sympathy is big on mottos…Mottos flash incessantly in my sleep like neon lights… “Fractured Folk, Hard-core Jazz, Hybrid Blues, Gratuitous Pop, Punk Rock and Uneasy Listening”.
It’s true and Sympathy has never been pigeon-hole-able…Too diverse maybe for it’s own good, but I never could be as narrow-minded as I feel many labels are…Sympathy has always been a one-man operation and I make all the decisions so blame me if I often get it wrong… The Sympathy catalogue consists of over 750 releases by more than 550 artists…
Known for a multitude of things including releasing early efforts by Hole, The White Stripes, Turbonegro, Rocket from the Crypt and The 5,6,7,8′s as well as resurrecting the classic music of immortals such as Roky Erickson, New York Dolls, Suicide, The Gun Club, Spacemen 3, The Scientists and Wanda Jackson and lets not forget the serious concentration on a plethora (like that word??) of bands in hot beds such as Memphis, Detroit and Montreal and also being among the first to look towards the Far East to unleash the demented and curious off-kilter sounds of those crazed ornamentals (Asians to you of a p.c. mindset)…
Sympathy is also responsible for releasing records by untold bands of differing degrees of talent with really questionable names like The Pleasure Fuckers, Banana Erectors, Anal Babes, Candypants, Teenage Larvae, Tri-State Kill Spree, Iowa Beef Experience, The Child Molesters, Penetration Moon, Smegma, Ethyl Meatplow, The Spaceshits and Destroy All Monsters… So what?? Big deal you say, well, Sympathy has also worked with underrated and seemingly unsung heroes like Billy Childish, The Oblivians, Holly Golightly la la la etc and are hailed for recognizing and employing important visual artists to create wondrous covers featuring such heavyweights as Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, Yoshitoma Nara, Liz Mcgrath, Coop, The Pizz, Dan Clowes blah blah blah la la la etc ad infinitum…
Sympathy has been quiet for the last couple years after the move to Olympia, Washington, but that is all about to change…Sympathy will soon begin repressing loads of important vinyl as well as unleashing new music lacking any introspection or melody by disenfranchised half-assed rock n’ rollers…STAY TUNED… Like that, Long Gone John xx
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To Live A Lie
To Live A Lie Records is a Raleigh based DIY grindcore, fastcore, and powerviolence label.