Bar/None Records
{{short description|American independent record label}}
{{Redirect|Bar/None|other uses|Bar None (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox record label
| name = Bar/None Records
| image =
| founded = {{start date|1986}}
| founder = Tom Prendergast
Glenn Morrow
| distributor = Alternative Distribution Alliance,
Secretly Distribution
| genre = Alternative rock
Indie rock
Folk
| country = U.S.
| location = Hoboken, New Jersey
| url = {{official URL}}
}}
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey.{{cite web | url=http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/26947989/article-Still-rockin---Bar-None-Records-owner-talks-about-30-years-of-music-business-survival- | title=Still rockin' - Bar/None Records owner talks about 30 years of music business survival | publisher=The Hudson Reporter | date=8 November 2015 | access-date=22 April 2016 | author=Darren Paltrowitz | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504221630/http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/26947989/article-Still-rockin---Bar-None-Records-owner-talks-about-30-years-of-music-business-survival- | archive-date=4 May 2016 | url-status=dead }}
Early history
Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio, booking and promoting 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/09/glenn_morrows_cry_for_help_to_debut_sunday_at_the.html | title=Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help to debut Sunday at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival | publisher=The Jersey Journal | date=22 September 2015 | access-date=22 April 2016 | author=Jim Testa}}
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|date=April 2019}}
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, They Might Be Giants (Elektra), and Tindersticks (London/PolyGram).
Artists (past and present)
{{Main|List of Bar/None Records artists}}
As of 2019, there have been over one-hundred and twenty artists signed to Bar/None Records.{{sfn|Bar/None Records Staff|2019}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
Sources
- {{citation|author=Bar/None Records Staff|date=2019|title=Full Catalog|work=Bar/None Records|url=http://www.bar-none.com/full-catalog|accessdate=7 April 2019}}
External links
- {{official website|1=https://www.bar-none.com/}}
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Category:Record labels established in 1986
Category:American independent record labels
Category:Indie rock record labels
Category:Alternative rock record labels
Category:1986 establishments in New Jersey