Gearhead Records
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| Gearhead Records | |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founders | Michelle Haunold and Mike Lavella |
| Distributor | Red Eye |
| Genre(s) | Punk, Rock |
| Country | US |
| Web address | http://www.gearheadrecords.com/ |
Gearhead Records is an independent record label that started in San Francisco, California. It was later co-run out of Davis, California and is now totally run out of Woodland, California . The label was formed in April 2000 by Michelle Haunold and Mike LaVella. In 2006, the company was split in two, the magazine and label going separate ways. The label is now fully run by Michelle Haunold in Woodland. In 2007, the label opened a retail location called Gearhead Records and Stuff.
Gearhead is most notably known for releasing records by The Hives from Sweden; a band that took off in 2002 and was later signed to Interscope. Also Mike Davis of The MC5 just joined The Lords Of Altamont who are on Gearhead Records as of August 2007
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- Black Furies (SF, CA)
- Black Tie Revue (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Bob Burns and the Breakups (Stevens Point, WI)
- Bottles and Skulls (SF, CA)
- Demonics (SF)
- Demons (Sweden)
- Dukes of Hamburg (SF)
- Dragons (San Diego, CA)
- Electric Eel Shock (UK)
- Gito Gito Hustler (Japan)
- Hard Feelings (Austin, TX)
- Hellacopters (Sweden)
- Hellbound Glory (Reno, NV)
- Hives (Sweden)
- Hypnomen (Helsinki, Finland)
- I Walk the Line (Finland)
- Lazy Cowgirls (Van Nuys, CA)
- Lords of Altamont (Los Angeles, CA)
- Maggots
- Mansfields (Denver, CO)
- Mensen (Oslo, Norway)
- Million Dollar Marxists (Ottawa, Canada)
- Nads
- New Bomb Turks (Columbus, OH)
- NRA (Amsterdam, Holland)
- Pink Swords (Austin)
- Pinkz (CA)
- Puffball (Västerås, Sweden)
- Red Planet (SF, CA)
- The Riverboat Gamblers (Denton, TX)
- Rock n Roll Soldiers (Eugene, OR)
- Spunks (New York, NY)
- Turbo A.C.'s (New York, NY)
- White Barons (San Francisco, CA)
- Wildhearts (UK)
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