Joe Carducci

Joe Carducci is an American writer, record producer, and former A&R executive,{{cite web|last= Mccaighy|first=Kevin|title=The End Of Punk: Joe Carducci Interviewed |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/12184-joe-carducci-interview|work=The Quietus|date=May 7, 2013|accessdate=October 22, 2019}} formerly most closely associated with the influential record label SST Records.{{cite web|title=Joe Carducci|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/joe-carducci/|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}

Carducci lived for a time in Chicago{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|title=Rock Music Is Here to Stay|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/carducci-91.php|website=robertchristgau.com|accessdate=October 22, 2019}} before moving to Hollywood in 1976.{{cite web|last=Cohan |first=Brad|title=From Running SST Records to 'Stone Male': The Journey of Joe Carducci|url=https://observer.com/2016/05/from-running-sst-records-to-stone-male-the-journey-of-joe-carducci/|work=Observer|date=May 18, 2016|accessdate=October 22, 2019}} From 1981 to 1986 he was an A&R man, record producer, and co-owner of SST Records, working with, among other bands, Minutemen, Saint Vitus, Meat Puppets, Black Flag and Saccharine Trust. He also ran his own record label, Thermidor Records,{{cite book|last=Ibarra|first=Craig|authorlink=Craig Ibarra|title=A Wailing Of A Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk And More 1977-1985|publisher=END FWY|year=2015|pages=108–109|isbn=978-0-9860971-0-2}} which released albums by The Birthday Party, Minutemen, Oil Tasters, Flipper, Nig Heist, SPK and Al Jourgensen's pre-Ministry band Special Affect.{{cite web|last=Kretsch|first=Ron|title=Ministry's Al Jourgensen guests on the new single by ONO: A DM premiere |url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/ministrys_al_jourgensen_guests_on_the_new_single_by_ono_a_dm_premiere|work=Dangerous Minds|date=July 28, 2015|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}

He wrote lyrics for the song "Jesus & Tequila" by Minutemen (Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984){{cite book|last=Fournier|first=Michael T.|title=Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3) |publisher=Continuum|year=2007|page=89|isbn=978-0826427878}} and "Chinese Firedrill" from Mike Watt's 1995 solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?.{{cite web|title= Mike Watt: Ball-Hog or Tugboat? |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ball-hog-or-tugboat-mw0000125685|website=Allmusic|accessdate=October 22, 2019}} He now resides in Centennial, Wyoming, where he runs Redoubt Press and O&O Recordings.

Carducci wrote the screenplays for the 1998 films Rock and Roll Punk and Bullet On A Wire with Jim Sikora.

In 2007, Carducci published Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That..., which contained his reflections on his time at SST Records and the life and death of former SST photographer Naomi Petersen.