New Underground Records
{{Short description|Former American record label}}
{{Infobox record label
| name = New Underground Records
| image =
| founded = {{start date|1980}}{{cite web|last=Dean|first=Danny|title=About New Underground Records/Nu Underground Records|url=https://dannydean.com/new-underground-records|website=DannyDean.com|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}
| founder = Danny Phillips
Gary Kail
| genre = Punk rock
| country = United States
| location = San Pedro, Los Angeles
| website =
}}
New Underground Records was an American independent record label founded by Danny Phillips (a.k.a. Danny Dean) and Gary Kail.{{cite book|last=Ibarra|first=Craig|author-link=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=206–207|isbn=978-0-9860971-0-2}} Phillips and Kail were influenced by D. Boon and Mike Watt's New Alliance Records label and decided to create their own to promote bands they knew. Alongside New Alliance, New Underground was one of the first DIY labels in the South Bay punk scene of the 1980s.
Albums
Their compilitation album, Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself, featured songs by Red Cross ("Rich Brat" from Red Cross),{{cite book|last=Blush|first=Steve|author-link=Steven Blush|title=American Hardcore: A Tribal History|publisher=Feral House|page=396|year=2010|isbn=9781932595987|edition=second}} Descendents ("I Wanna Be a Bear" from Milo Goes to College), Minutemen ("Shit You Hear At Parties" from The Politics of Time), Saccharine Trust (Disillusion Fool), Mood of Defiance ("Empty Me" from Now),{{cite magazine|title=Thurston Moore: The Six-Pack Q&A |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/thurston-moore-the-six-pack-qa-73476/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=August 6, 2007|accessdate=October 21, 2019}} and Ill Will ("Paranoid Midnight Deposit".){{cite web|title=From the Vaults: Made in South Bay|url=http://maximumrocknroll.com/made-in-south-bay/|work=Maximumrocknroll|date=May 25, 2009|accessdate=October 23, 2019}} Kail came up with the title for the compilation.
Other compilations were entitled Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Food? and Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record?, with the latter featuring artwork by Raymond Pettibon. Phillips named these albums. A fourth was planned but never completed.
=Discography=
;Anti
- I Don't Want To Die In Your War (1982){{cite web|title=Anti discography|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/830383-Anti-6|website=Discogs|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}
- Defy The System (1983)
- God Can't Bounce (1984)
;Zurich 1916
;Compilations
- Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Food? (1981){{cite book|last=Blush|first=Steve|author-link=Steven Blush|title=American Hardcore: A Tribal History|publisher=Feral House|page=395|year=2010|isbn=9781932595987|edition=second}}
- Life Is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself (1982)
- Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record? (1983){{cite book|last=Blush|first=Steve|author-link=Steven Blush|title=American Hardcore: A Tribal History|publisher=Feral House|page=398|year=2010|isbn=9781932595987|edition=second}}
Legacy
References
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External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/label/142159-New-Underground-Records New Underground Records] at Discogs
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Category:American independent record labels
Category:Record labels established in 1980