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Labels

Many of these labels distro our releases!

  • 213 Records - (France) (Shall Not Kill, Apollo Program, Short Supply, Gantz)

  • 86'd Records and Fanzine - (NY) ( new label by the folks who brought us Traffic Violation Records and Eugenics Record Label. Bands=Rations, Iron Chic, etc)

  • Abstract Records - (France) (Bravo Fucking Bravo, Dead For a Minute, Submerge,etc)

  • Adagio 830 - (Germany) (Burial Year, L'Antietam, City of Caterpillar, Zann, La Quiete )

  • Ape Must Not Kill Ape - (Switzerland) (Raein,Cease Upon the Capital, Dominic, Amalthea)

  • Bridgetown Records - (California) (Excellent bedroom music label. release from Kevin Greenspon, Cloud Nothings, Vehicle Blues, Whirl, Trudgers, School Knights, Weed Diamond, more)

  • Crucial Blast - (MD) (The Mass, Genghis Tron, Jimbo's Killcrane, etc. Amazing experimental music label & distro)

  • Dead Broke Records - (Long Island) (One of the best and most consistent DIY punk/indie labels of the last several years. Tons of great, great releases

  • Denovali Records - (Germany)(Kidcrash, Celeste, Logs, Coffin Dancer, Meet Me in St Louis. a great label that has put out some great releases in a short period of time, Greta people too. support this label.)

  • Forever Escaping Boredom - (FL) (Asthma Attaq, Kit, Dirty South Apocalypse, more)

  • Friend of Mine Records - (Japan) (Great Japanese indie rock/post rock/math rock label/mailorder.)

  • Handstand Records - (NY) (Crestfallen, In Arcadia, Excitebike and a huge distro)

  • Hi Shadow Records - (California) (Great bedroom pop/shoegaze/indie tape label. Releases from Trudgers, Ancient Crux, Kevin Greenspon, Vehicle Blues, Stars Are Insane, etc)

  • Hyper Enough Records - Excellent distro in Japan.A wide range of genres, titles, and formats!

  • I've Come for Your Children - (TN) (Cease Upon the Capitol,Gauge Means Nothing, Dip Leg, etc. Specializing in Japanese hardcore.)

  • IFB Records - (FLA) (Jiyuana, Merkit, etc.DIY label with great packaging and distro)

  • Impure Muzik - (France) (Gantz, The Third Memory, Cease Upon the Capital, B Abuse)

  • Iron Pier - (NY) (Thieves & Assasins, Capital, and United States)

  • Jigsaw Records - Long running indie rock/pop record label now turned store and mail order!

  • Keep It Together Records - (WI)(Sleep Bellum Sonno, Empire Empire, Shat Shorts, Football Etc, many more. Great label)

  • Level Plane - (VA) (Hot Cross, Transistor Transistor, Holy Shroud, Books Lie, Saetia, etc)

  • Life On an Island - (Long Island) (For Serious This Time, Screen House Music, Giant Peach, Neato Fleets,Palmkite, etc)

  • Lillerne Tapes - (Chicago) (Great tape label with releases from Vehicle Birth, Katrina Stonehart, Jen Paul/No Lakes, Trudgers, Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, Gelatin Kids and more)

  • Lost Sound Tapes - (Seattle) Awesome lo fi/indie pop tape label. Blanket Truth, iJi, Watercolor Paintings, etc

  • Mystery Trails - (Long Island) (awesome label with an awesome aesthetic. Abandoned Houses, Cartoon Giant, CMR, Glasses, JJEMMEIII, etc.)

  • Oto Records - (Japan) (Raein,Kilie, Daitro, Kaospilot, Isacariote, etc.)

  • Paramnesia Records - (PA)(Pyramids, One AM Radio, Windup Bird)

  • Pug Records - (Brazil) (Releasing outstanding indie rock, lo fi and fuzz pop releases. Excellent stuff by Coloração Desbotada, Top Surprise and More)

  • Pure Pain Sugar - (France) (Daitro, Mihai Edrisch, Celeste, Raein, Reds, Ampere, Envy, Yage. Personally one of my favorite labels. And Seb is one of the nicest people I have ever met.)

  • React With Protest - (GERMANY)(Cease Upon the Capitol, Danse Macabre, Trainwreck, June Paik, and many great, great bands.)

  • Release the Bats - (Sweden)(The Woods, Honeyhander, Neil on Impression, Dove Yellow Swans)

  • Self Satisfied - (MI) (cool as fuck DIY cd-r label. A modern day Shrimper)

  • Shock Value Records - (NY) (Divider, Back When, They & The Children, The Exelar)

  • Shove Records - (Italy) (Angstzustand, Tristan Tzara, Violent Breakfast, Chambers, One Fine Day, Poostew, Gerda, etc)

  • Slave Union - (NY)(Pyramids, L'Antietam, End of A Year,Dear Tonight, Phoenix Bodies)

  • Sons of Vesta - (Italy) (June Paik, Khere, Violent Breakfast, Laghetto)

  • SP-Records - (Japan) (Japanese pop punk/indie rock label & distro)

  • Square of Opposition - (PA) (Hypatia, Get to the Chopper, Robot Attack,etc. )

  • Stumparumper Records - (PA) (Awesome indie rock label. Releases by Brick Mower, Banned Books, Fuck Montreal, Rebecca's Room, Railcars)

  • Super Fi Records - (UK) (Melt Banana, Orthrelm, Trencher, Biblical Proof of UFOS, etc. Amazing label, distro and DIY link archive)

  • The Perpetual Motion Machine - (VA) (Wow Owls!, Snacktruck, New Electric, Life at These Speeds, Stop It!, more)

  • Transfusao Noise Records - (Brazil) Incredible lo fi, and fuzz pop label. Home to the AMAZING band Babe Florida amongst other greats.

  • Viking On Campus - (New Jersey)(Brick Mower, Granny Frost)

  • Waterslide Records - (Japan) Excellent label and mail order for pop punk, indie rock, shoegaze, etc.

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Miscellaneous


  • Book Your Own Fucking Life - (invaluable networking tool)

  • Comic Book Resources - (comic fans unite!)

  • Here On This Island - (My blog where I upload music and fliers from Long Island's days of yore)

  • I Hear Strange Music - A great and in some ways the only archive on the internet for 90s lo fi tape labels. For fans of stuff on labels like Shrimper, Catsup Plate, Jupa, Fuck It and more.

  • Indie Pages - A comprehensive resource site on the web for all things indie! Plus the Demo of the week section, reviews and message board are great!

  • LI Freewheel Collective - (Amazing bike collective based here on Long Island that not only endorses alternative means of transportation but does community outreach and workshops.)

  • LIGALY - (the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth organization. Kudos to everyone involved in this organization.)

  • Planned Parenthood - (If you don't what Planned Parenthood is about then you need to click here. Educate yourself about sex because no one else will as effectively as they can.)

  • Rok Lok on Bandcamp - Stream Rok Lok releases as well as buy digital albums!

  • Rok Lok on Last FM -

  • Rok Lok on MySpace - (shameless. yes)

  • Under the Volcano - (LI punk/hardcore publishing empire!)

  • Valve Media - (handling all your design needs, plus this website)

  • Vinyl Junkie Distro - online distro

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