Sympathy for the Record Industry
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| Sympathy for the Record Industry | |||
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| Parent company | none | ||
| Founded | 1988 | ||
| Founder | Long Gone John | ||
| Distributing label | Lumberjack Mordam | ||
| Genre(s) | Punk, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Noise Rock | ||
| Country | US | ||
| Web address | http://www.sympathyrecords.com | ||
Formed in 1988 by Record Industry Anti-Mogul, Long Gone John, Sympathy for the Record Industry (also known as: Sympathy Records or Sympathy 4 The R.I.) is mainly a Garage Rock and Indie Rock label. Sympathy has a catalog of more than 750 releases, and is based out of Long Beach, California.
Sympathy has been the launch pad for several well known, controversial and talented artists in the past 17 years. Notable artists which started on Sympathy and went on to gain greater fame include The White Stripes, The Electrocutes (the first Donnas incarnation), and Hole.
Long Gone John is the owner, CEO, and seemingly the only employee of Sympathy. He is an avid record collector, with more than 10,000 records in his collection.
Other Sympathy acts worthy of notice have been, Miss Derringer, The Muffs, Buck, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Von Bondies, Rocket From the Crypt, Billy Childish, Turbonegro, April March, The Dwarves, Suicide, The Gun Club, Scarling., Inger Lorre and Motel Shootout, Man or Astro-man? and Redd Kross.
The name references The Rolling Stones' song Sympathy for the Devil.
[edit] Artists who have worked with Sympathy for the Record Industry
The following artists have either been signed to Sympathy or had material released through Long Gone John:
- The A-lines
- Acid King
- Bad Religion
- Banana Erectors
- Buck
- Candypants
- Billy Childish
- The Come Ons
- The Chubbies
- The Deadly Snakes
- The Detroit Cobras
- The Dwarves
- The Electrocutes
- El Vez
- Roky Erickson
- The Eyeliners
- Garage Monsters (J.G. Thirlwell & The P!zz)
- Gas Huffer
- Geraldine Fibbers
- The Gizmos
- Holly Golightly
- The Grown-Ups
- The Gun Club
- Hole
- Hot Snakes
- Inger Lorre and Motel Shootout
- The Lazy Cowgirls
- Helen Love
- Jack Off Jill
- Lubricated Goat
- Man or Astro-man?
- April March
- Matson Jones
- Miss Derringer
- Mr. Airplane Man
- The Muffs
- Mumps
- New Bomb Turks
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy
- Oblivians
- The Pooh Sticks
- The Peeps
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce
- Red Aunts
- Redd Kross
- Reigning Sound
- Rocket From The Crypt
- Scarling.
- The Scientists
- Soledad Brothers
- Sonic Boom
- Southern Culture on the Skids
- Spacemen 3
- Suicide
- The Tearjerkers
- Turbonegro
- The Upholsterers (Jack White's side project)
- Veruca Salt
- The Von Bondies
- Whirlwind Heat
- The White Stripes
- The Willowz
