Doghouse Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Doghouse Records

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| parent = Warner Music Group

| founded = {{start date|1987}}

| founder = Dirk Hemsath

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| defunct =

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| distributor = {{flatlist|

• INgrooves
• Mordam-Lumberjack
• WEA}}

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Alternative rock
• emotional hardcore
• indie rock
• melodic hardcore
• pop punk
• punk rock}}

| country = U.S.

| location = New York City

| website = {{URL|doghouserecords.com}}

}}

Doghouse Records is an American record label currently based in New York City.{{Cite web |last= |title=About Doghouse Records |url=https://www.punknews.org/labels/doghouse |access-date=May 16, 2022 |website=Punk News |language=en}}Alan O'Connor, Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy. Lexington Books, 2008, p. 41. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cf14AAAAQBAJ&dq=%22doghouse+records%22&pg=PA41 Google Books] The company was founded by Dirk Hemsath in late 1987 while living in Toledo, Ohio, in order to release the recordings of his hardcore band, Majority of One.{{Cite book |last=Stoll |first=Tom |url=http://archive.org/details/mrr_78 |title=Maximum Rocknroll 078 |date=November 1989 |publisher=Maximum Rocknroll |chapter=Majority of One Interview}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/mrr_058 |title=Maximum Rocknroll 058 |date=March 1988 |publisher=Maximum Rocknroll |chapter=Doghouse Records Ad}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/mrr_59 |title=Maximum Rocknroll 059 |date=April 1988 |publisher=Maximum Rocknroll}} The label originally specialized in midwest emo and melodic hardcore, though it eventually incorporated punk rock, pop punk, indie rock and alternative rock artists.

Doghouse Records was originally distributed through Lumberjack Distribution (also owned by Hemsath), then through the conglomerate Lumberjack Mordam Music Group (once Hemsath bought out Mordam), the latter of which signed a distribution deal with WEA in November 2004, which became effective on January 1, 2005.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22doghouse+records%22+++%22warner%22&pg=PA44 |title=Billboard |date=2005-02-12 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Aubin |first=Paul |date=March 18, 2005 |title=Lumberjack purchases Mordam, forms LMMG |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/11961/lumberjack-purchases-mordam-forms-lmmg |access-date=May 16, 2022 |website=Punk News |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/razorcake_53_print |title=Razorcake 053 (2009 Dec - 2010 Jan) [pdf]}} As part of the WAE deal, Hemsath negotiated an "upstream" clause to promote and develop select Doghouse Records bands to major record label Warner Music Group; as such, and through a financial agreement between the two parties, Doghouse Records became an affiliate of Warner Music Group.{{Cite book |last=Martens |first=Todd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBYEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22doghouse+records%22+move+to+new+york&pg=PA16 |title=Billboard |date=2006-03-25 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}} Later in 2005, Doghouse Records relocated to New York City.

In 2005, the label released a Bob Dylan tribute album, featuring bands on its roster as well as artists such as P.O.S and Sparta vocalist Jim Ward.[https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/62190/drive-thru-doghouse-prep-dylan-tributes Drive Thru, Doghouse Prep Dylan Tributes]. Billboard, July 5, 2005.