TKO Records

TKO Records
TKO Records 2013 logo
Founded 1997
Founder Mark Rainey
Genre hardcore punk
street punk
Country of origin US
Official website http://www.tkorecords.com

TKO Records is an independent punk rock record label based in Huntington Beach, California. The label is primarily known for its pivotal role in the late 1990s American street punk scene and has continued its notability as a source of new releases, reissues, and archival recordings.[1] The OC Weekly newspaper recognized the label as "best record label" in Orange County in 2011[2] and its record store of the same name as "best punk-rock record store" in Orange County, 2008.[3]

History

TKO Records was founded by Mark Rainey in 1997 in San Francisco, California. Early on the label rose to prominence with releases from the Dropkick Murphys, Lower Class Brats, Anti-Heros, Swingin' Utters, The Templars, Pressure Point, Workin' Stiffs, U.S. Bombs, and The Forgotten.[2] The label helped to establish a sound and aesthetic for the street punk scene in the United States that was then rising in popularity. As TKO's prominence within the punk rock scene increased, the label also began releasing records from veteran punk bands such as Cocksparrer, Angelic Upstarts, the Partisans, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Bruisers, Chelsea, The Business, The Real Kids, and Antiseen.[4]

Eventually the label relocated to Orange County, California and from 2000 to 2005 continued building a name with notable releases from "Beach Punk" bands such as the Smut Peddlers, the Stitches, Smogtown, the Crowd and Broken Bottles while continuing to release street punk and Oi! records.[5]

In 2007 TKO Records opened a record store in Fountain Valley, California as part of the label's ten year anniversary. The label continues to release reissues and archival recordings from seminal punk bands, such as Poison Idea, the Templars (band), T.S.O.L., The Meatmen, Antiseen, No For An Answer, Channel 3, and Iron Cross, as well as new recordings from Giuda, The label's store front relocated to Huntington Beach, California in 2013 and has hosted readings from punk rock related writers, such as Tesco Vee, Jack Grisham, Alice Bag, Chris D. and Legs McNeil, as well live performances from artists including Deniz Tek, Chuck Dukowski, Scott Weinrich, Joe Keithley and Channel 3. The store specializes in rare, out of print records, as well as new releases from punk, hardcore, garage, reggae, ska, rock, and metal bands.[2][3]

Mark Rainey has also co-run the imprint record label Flat Records, along with Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys. Flat's releases have included records from Agnostic Front and Blood For Blood.[6]

Current TKO Records Artists

-ANTiSEEN

-the Beltones

-Giuda

-Poison Idea

-The Templars (band)

-YDi

Former TKO Records Artists[4]

46 Short

Adolf and the Piss Artists

GG Allin & ANTiSEEN

Angelic Upstarts

Anti-Heros

Bad Luck Charms (side project with members of U.S. Bombs)

Blood Stained Kings (featuring Yoji Harada)

The Bodies

The Boils

Bottles & Skulls (featuring members of Triclops!)

Broken Bottles

The Bruisers

The Business (band)

Channel 3 (band)

Chelsea (band)

Class Assassins

Cocknoose

Cocksparrer

Complete Control

The Crowd

The Crumbs

Deadbolt (band)

Dead End Cruisers

Demented Are Go

The Distraction (featuring members of Le Shok)

Dropkick Murphys

Electric Frankenstein

The Escaped

Filthy Thievin' Bastards

The Flesh Eaters (band)

The Forgotten (band)

Glass Heroes (produced by Rat Scabies)

The Generators

Hammerlock

Hank III

Hard Skin (featuring Sean Forbes of Wat Tyler (band))

Hatepinks

Hollywood Hate (featuring Scotty Wilkins)

Iron Cross (band)

Kill Your Idols

The Krays (band)

Krum Bums

Last Target (featuring members of Thug Murder)

Limecell

the Loose Lips

Lower Class Brats

Meatmen

Nazi Dogs

New York Rel-X (featuring members of The Krays (band))

Niblick Henbane

No For An Answer

The Obsessed

Old Firm Casuals (featuring Lars Frederiksen)

One Man Army (band)

The Partisans (band)

Peter and the Test Tube Babies

Pressure Point

The Radicts

the Randumbs

Real Kids

Reducers SF

the Rhythm Doctors (featuring members of The Aggrolites)

The Riffs

Slaughter and the Dogs

Shock Nagasaki

Smogtown

Smut Peddlers

The Stitches

Straitjacket

Strychnine

Swingin' Utters

Terminus City

Those Unknown

Tommy and the Terrors

The Truents

T.S.O.L.

The Upsets

U.S. Bombs

VICIOUS CIRCLE (pre-T.S.O.L.)

Workin' Stiffs

Wretched Ones

Flat Records Artists

30 Seconds Over Tokyo

All Systems Stop

Agnostic Front

BeerZone

Big Bad Bollocks

Blood For Blood

the Bruisers

the Cuffs

Dropkick Murphys

The Drunks

Ducky Boys

Hudson Falcons

Main Street Saints

Oxymoron (band)

Pressure Point

the Randumbs

Runnin' Riot

The Shods

Terminus City

Thug Murder

the Trouble

The Vigilantes

Notes

  1. Travis, Tiffini A (April 13, 2012). Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture (First ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 37. ISBN 0313359539.
  2. 1 2 3 "Best Record Label Orange County 2011". OC Weekly. October 13, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Best Punk-Rock Record Store Orange County 2008 - TKO Records". OC Weekly. October 9, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 Discogs, Discogs. "TKO Discogs Page". Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  5. Alim, Nadeem (December 20, 2010). "Making and Selling Music, for the Record". Fountain Valley Patch. Fountain Valley Patch. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  6. Discogs, Page. "Flat Records Discogs Page". Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
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