Bar/None Records
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Bar/None Records | |
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Founded | 1986 |
Founder | Tom Prendergast Glenn Morrow |
Distributor(s) | ADA, Secretly Distribution |
Genre | Alternative rock Indie rock Folk |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Location | Hoboken, New Jersey |
Official website | www |
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey.[1]
Early history[]
Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982.
The first release on Bar/None was by Rage to Live, whose leader, Glenn Morrow, soon became a partner in the label. Morrow had already built a network of contacts in the alternative music community having toured nationally with his previous band, The Individuals, and had also worked in the A&R department of Warner Bros. and as the managing editor of New York Rocker magazine. In 2000, Prendergast left New Jersey and moved back to Ireland, sold his shares to Morrow.[2]
The Bar/None debut album of They Might Be Giants sold more than 100,000 copies and their follow-up, Lincoln, more than doubled those sales.[citation needed]
Other artists that started on Bar/None and went on to the major record labels include Luka Bloom, Yo La Tengo (Atlantic/Matador), Freedy Johnston (Elektra) and Tindersticks (London/PolyGram).
Artists (past and present)[]
- 10,000 Maniacs
- Overlake
- Architecture in Helsinki
- Eszter Balint
- Richard Barone
- Luka Bloom
- Adrian Borland
- Burnside Project
- Greg Camp
- Vinicius Cantuária
- Alex Chilton
- Chocolate USA
- Edwyn Collins
- The songs of Elvis Costello
- Diego Cortez
- Evan Dando
- Brian Dewan
- The Divine Comedy
- Disco Inferno
- DJ Spooky
- Bill Drummond
- El Ten Eleven
- The Embarrassment
- Emperor X
- Eros and the Eschaton
- Esquivel
- Ezra Furman
- The Feelies
- The Front Bottoms
- The Glands
- Glass Eye
- Petra Haden
- Happyness
- Juliana Hatfield
- Richard Hawley
- Michael Hearst
- Hem
- Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
- Hotel Lights
- Hot Lava
- The Individuals
- Kate Jacobs
- Mason Jennings
- Darren Jessee
- Freedy Johnston
- Joy Zipper
- The Langley Schools Music Project
- Arto Lindsay
- Lotus Lounge
- Lullaby for the Working Class
- Chris Mars
- Mary Lee's Corvette
- Mayday
- Kathy McCarty
- The Mendoza Line
- The Moms
- Mono Puff
- Country Dick Montana
- R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner
- Mosquitos
- Of Montreal
- Oppenheimer
- The Ordinaires
- Outrageous Cherry
- Overlake
- The Paranoid Style
- Poi Dog Pondering
- Puffy AmiYumi
- The Scene Is Now
- The Sharp Things
- Shrimp Boat
- Epic Soundtracks
- Standard Fare
- The Slip
- The Spinto Band
- They Might Be Giants
- Tindersticks
- Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
- Trembling Blue Stars
- Yo La Tengo
See also[]
- List of record labels
References[]
- ^ Darren Paltrowitz (8 November 2015). "Still rockin' - Bar/None Records owner talks about 30 years of music business survival". The Hudson Reporter. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ Jim Testa (22 September 2015). "Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help to debut Sunday at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
External links[]
- Bar/None Records
- Record labels established in 1986
- American independent record labels
- Indie rock record labels
- Alternative rock record labels
- Hoboken, New Jersey
- 1986 establishments in New Jersey
- Mass media in Hudson County, New Jersey