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Innerstate Records

{{short description|Record label}}

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{{Infobox company

| name =Innerstate Records

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| type = Private

| genre = folk rock, country rock, alternative rock, Americana (music)

||foundation = {{Start date|1998}}

| founder = Russ Tolman, Pat Thomas

| location = San Francisco, California
Berkeley, California
Oakland, California, ,
Palm Springs, California, USA

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = Russ Tolman, Pat Thomas

| industry = Music

| parent =

| divisions = innerSPACE, WEED

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Innerstate Records (also known as Innerstate) is a San Francisco Bay Area based rock and alternative American record label founded by Russ Tolman and Pat Thomas in 1998.{{Cite web | url=http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/6/1176.html | title=Innerstate Records | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029141626/http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/6/1176.html | archive-date=2012-10-29}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/label/Innerstate/a/Innerstate|title = Innerstate Records}}{{Cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/label/innerstate_records/|title=Innerstate Records - Music label - RYM/Sonemic}}

History

Formed in 1998 by singer/songwriters and producers Russ Tolman and Pat Thomas,{{Cite web | url=http://roomonetwofour.com/labels.htm | title=Pat Thomas - A&R labels | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417000909/http://roomonetwofour.com/labels.htm | archive-date=2017-04-17}} Innerstate Records continues today distributing its catalog as a digital label via distributor The Orchard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shaunbelcher.com/archive/fsr/two/innerstate.htm|title = Innerstate records}} It spawned two offshoot labels innerSPACE,{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/49528-InnerSPACE-Records|title = InnerSPACE Records|website = Discogs}} which specialized in space rock, prog and krautrock and WEED,{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/50857-Weed-Records|title = Weed Records|website = Discogs}} which was a catch-all for eclectic releases. The labels releases both new recordings and reissues, but is not actively soliciting to sign new acts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/innerstate-records-mn0000270236/credits|title = Innerstate Records | Credits|website = AllMusic}}

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Category:Record labels based in California

Category:Rock record labels

Category:Alternative rock record labels