Paper + Plastick
Paper + Plastick (independent record label) | |
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Founded | May 30, 2008 |
Founder | Vinnie Fiorello |
Genre | Punk rock, pop punk, alternative rock, hardcore punk |
Country of origin | United States |
Location | Gainesville, Florida |
Official website | paperandplastick.com |
Paper + Plastick is an American independent record label and comic book publisher, founded in 2008 and based in Gainesville, Florida.
History
Announced on March 21, 2008, the label launched on May 30, 2008.[1]
It was founded by Vinnie Fiorello, an American drummer, lyricist and founding member of the ska-punk band Less Than Jake. Fiorello also co-founded the label Fueled by Ramen, an American record label which operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is distributed by Atlantic Records.
As explained by Fiorello, the idea behind the label is to rejoin the music and the visual art that once came inseparably with it. In an article by punk-news website Punknews.org, Fiorello was quoted:
- "Paper and plastic are the source materials of my releases, if you think about it, prints and books are the paper side, while vinyl records and toys are the plastic side. It's a simple and to-the-point concept. First and foremost, the world has enough labels signing pop bands, Paper and Plastick doesn't need to since it will focus on the visual side of music – collector vinyl, vinyl toys, limited edition art prints, books, and most importantly, bands I love and respect. When a label is small, it can focus on projects and not have to mobilize a dozen or so people. There are so many bands that I run into nowadays that seem to be in this vacuum of modern music, far away from Teen Pop and Nu Metal, not wanting to sign to a major and tired of self-releasing. It's those bands, from old friends and new friends, whose music I want to release."
On May 6, 2011, the label announced it would begin releasing free digital comic books (to be collected and printed in trade paperbacks at a later date). The following day, the first issue of 50 States (illustrated tour stories from various punk bands, including Less Than Jake) was released in conjunction with Free Comic Book Day. The other two launch titles include the sci-fiction/action/dark comedy series Kill The Wonderhawks and fantasy series Exit Interview.
In Spring 2014 Paper+Plastick opened up a UK/EU store, managed by Guerrilla Monsoon singer/songwriter Mark Vincent Bussey.[2]
Artists
Paper
Visual artists
- Derek Deal
- Vinnie Fiorello
- Horsebites
- Dave Quiggle
- Sharkguts
- Adam Wentworth
Publications
- 50 States
- Exit Interview
- Kill the Wonderhawks
Plastick
Current musicians
- The A.K.A.s
- And We Danced[3]
- Andrew Dost
- The Arteries
- Assassinate the Scientist
- Aspiga
- The Ataris
- The Bennies
- Blacklist Royals
- Break Anchor
- Carpenter
- Coffee Project
- Dan Padilla
- Destry
- Ex Friends
- Failures' Union
- Farewell Continental
- Foreign Tongues
- Foundation
- From Hell
- The Gamits
- Gameday Regulars
- Gatorface
- Greenland Is Melting
- Guerrilla Monsoon
- Helltons
- Hellmouth
- Jordan-Morgan Lansdowne
- Jr. Juggernaut
- Junior Battles
- Landmines
- Let Me Run
- The Moms[4]
- My Heart to Joy
- No More
- Pentimento
- Protagonist
- Rehasher
- Reverse the Curse
- The Riot Before
- Russ Rankin
- Rust Belt Lights
- The Shell Corporation
- The Sky We Scrape
- Spanish Gamble
- Stephen Egerton
- The Snips
- This Is My Suitcase
- Vicious Cycle
- We Are the Union
Former musicians
- A Wilhelm Scream (active with No Idea Records)
- A Loss for Words (active with Velocity Records)
- After The Fall (active with Bridge 9 Records)
- Anti-Flag (active with Spinefarm Records)
- Automatic Loveletter (disbanded)
- Bomb the Music Industry! (disbanded])
- Cheap Girls (active with Rise Records)
- Comadre (disbanded)
- Dave Hause (active with Rise Records)
- The Dopamines (active with It's Alive Records)
- The Explosion (disbanded)
- The Flatliners (active with Fat Wreck Chords)
- Frank Turner (active with Xtra Mile Recordings)
- Have Nots (disbanded)
- John Moreland (active with Old Omens/Thirty Tigers)
- Light Years (active with Animal Style Records)
- Make Do and Mend (active with Rise Records)
- Mike Herrera's Tumbledown (active with End Sounds)
- Mikey Erg (active with Bloated Kat Records)
- Red City Radio ( active with Gunner Records)
- Restorations (active with Tiny Engines)
- Shook Ones (active with Run For Cover Records)
- Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. (digital re-releases only) (disbanded)
- The Swellers (disbanded)
- Westbound Train (active with Hellcat Records)
Discography
Artist | Title | Release date | Format |
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Landmines | Landmines | July 22, 2008 | 12" record |
Gatorface | Sick and Stupid | October 31, 2008 | 10" record |
Andrew Dost | Columbus | December 2, 2008 | 12" record |
Coffee Project | Easy Does It | January 21, 2009 | 10" record |
Foundation | Chimborazo | March 21, 2009 | 12" record |
Protagonist | The Chronicle | April 10, 2009 | digital release |
We Are the Union | The Gun Show Must Go On | April 24, 2009 | digital release |
Assassinate the Scientist | Send More Paramedics | May 22, 2009 | digital release |
Farewell Continental | Farewell Continental | May 25, 2009 | square, picture disc |
Coffee Project | Pickle | June 10, 2009 | digital release |
Shook Ones | The Unquoteable A.M.H. | June 15, 2009 | LP, CD |
The A.K.A.s | Animal Summer | June 25, 2009 | LP, CD |
Cheap Girls | Find Me a Drink Home (remastered) | July 6, 2009 | LP |
The Flatliners and Snips | Split | July 17, 2009 | 7" record |
Westbound Train | Come and Get It | August 7, 2009 | 7" single |
fun. | Aim and Ignite | August 25, 2009 | LP |
Rehasher | High Speed Access to My Brain | August 28, 2009 | LP |
Frank Turner | The First Three Years | September 18, 2009 | double LP |
The Swellers | Welcome Back Riders | September 21, 2009 | 7" single |
Landmines | Hell Is What You Make It | September 30, 2009 | EP |
The Riot Before | Fists... Out of Sockets | October 9, 2009 | digital release |
Cheap Girls | My Roaring 20's | October 9, 2009 | LP |
Failures' Union | In What Way | October 16, 2009 | LP |
This Is My Suitcase | The Keys to Cat Heaven | October 27, 2009 | digital release |
Foundation | Let it Roll | October 27, 2009 | digital EP |
Destry | It Goes On | October 30, 2009 | digital release |
A Wilhelm Scream | A Wilhelm Scream | November 20, 2009 | 12" EP |
Greenland Is Melting | Our Hearts Are Gold, Our Grass Is Blue | December 1, 2009 | CD, LP |
Spanish Gamble | It's All Coming Down | February 9, 2010 | CD, LP |
We Are the Union | Great Leaps Forward | March 30, 2010 | CD, LP |
The Riot Before | Rebellion | April 27, 2010 | LP |
Restorations | Strange Behavior | May 4, 2010 | digital release |
A Loss for Words | Motown Classics[5] | May 11, 2010 | CD, LP |
Stephen Egerton | The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton | May 18, 2010 | CD, LP |
Mike Herrera's Tumbledown | Tumbledown | May 24, 2010 | LP |
Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. | Static World View | May 24, 2010 | digital release |
Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. | Songs from Suburbia | May 24, 2010 | digital release |
Blacklist Royals | Semper Liberi | May 25, 2010 | CD, LP |
Anti-Flag | The Second Coming of Nothing | May 25, 2010 | 7" record |
Saint Alvia | Jonxer / Get Up and Go | June 1, 2010 | 7" record |
Coffee Project | Moved On | June 8, 2010 | CD, LP |
Comadre | A Wolf Ticket (second pressing) | June 2010 | 10" record |
Have Nots | Serf City USA | June 14, 2010 | LP |
Let Me Run | Broken Strings | June 15, 2010 | CD, LP |
The Dopamines | Expect the Worst[6] | June 28, 2010 | CD, LP |
The Gamits | Parts | September 9, 2010 | CD, LP |
Make Do and Mend | End Measured Mile | October 28, 2010 | CD, LP |
Hellmouth | Gravestone Skyline | November 16, 2010 | LP |
The Ataris | All Souls Day | November 25, 2010 | 7" single |
Rust Belt Lights | These Are the Good Old Days | November 30, 2010 | CD, LP |
Farewell Continental | EP | December 14, 2010 | 12" record |
Dave Hause | Resolutions | January 24, 2011 | CD, LP |
John Moreland & The Black Gold Band | Things I Can't Control | January 31, 2011 | CD |
Slorder | Slorder | January 31, 2011 | CD |
Mikey Erg | Heart Shaped 12" | February 14, 2011 | 12" record |
Red City Radio | The Dangers of Standing Still | February 22, 2011 | CD, LP |
The Arteries | Dead Sea | April 11, 2011 | LP |
Have Nots | Proud | May 3, 2011 | CD, LP |
Farewell Continental | ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers! | May 10, 2011 | CD, LP |
Protagonist | States | May 10, 2011 | CD, 7" record |
Jon Snodgrass and Friends | Tri-State Record | June 14, 2011 | 7" record |
Greenland Is Melting and Jon Gault | Split | June 14, 2011 | 7" record |
Automatic Loveletter | The Kids Will Take Their Monsters On | June 28, 2011 | CD |
Junior Battles | Idle Ages | June 28, 2011 | CD |
Riverboat Gamblers | Smash/Grab | July 12, 2011 | CD |
Landmines | Commerce and Marx | July 12, 2011 | CD |
Reverse the Curse | Hither and Yon | July 12, 2011 | CD |
The Dopamines and Dear Landlord | Split | August 16, 2011 | 7" record |
Plow United | Sleepwalk: A Retrospective | September 22, 2011 | CD, double LP |
Greenland Is Melting | Where Were We | October 11, 2011 | CD, LP |
We Are the Union | Graveyard Grins | October 19, 2011 | digital EP |
various artists | Another Reybee Compilation | November 10, 2011 | digital release |
Make Do and Mend | Part and Parcel | November 20, 2011 | 12" EP |
Red City Radio and The Gamits | Split | December 10, 2011 | 7" record |
Break Anchor | Blackhearts & Blackouts | March 20, 2012 | 7" record |
What's Eating Gilbert | The Nashville Sessions | June 19, 2012 | 7" record |
Anthony Raneri | Cathedrals | June 19, 2012 | 12" EP |
Flatfoot 56 | Toil | July 24, 2012 | CD, LP |
Tin Horn Prayer and Rob Huddleston | Split | July 31, 2012 | 7" record |
Jon Snodgrass and Friends | More Buddies, More Fun | July 31, 2012 | 7" record |
Russ Rankin | Farewell Catalonia | August 7, 2012 | CD, LP |
Red City Radio | To the Sons and Daughters of Woody Guthrie | August 21, 2012 | LP |
Jr. Juggernaut | Wake | August 28, 2012 | LP |
Ex Friends | Ex Friends | September 18, 2012 | 7" record |
Obi Fernandez | Confessions, Waves and The Garden State | September 25, 2012 | CD |
various artists | Are You with the Band? | October 4, 2012 | LP |
We Are the Union | You Can't Hide the Sun | October 18, 2012 | CD, LP |
Junior Battles | Wow, That's Really Cool! | October 23, 2012 | cassette |
Coffee Project | Leftovers | October 23, 2012 | CD |
Nightmare of You and Nightmares for a Week | Split | October 31, 2012 | digital release |
Tin Horn Prayer | Grapple the Rails | November 6, 2012 | LP |
Aspiga | Every Last Piece | November 20, 2012 | LP |
Jordan-Morgan Lansdowne | The Whispertone Sessions | March 7, 2013 | digital release |
The Sky We Scrape | Divides | May 14, 2013 | LP |
See also
References
- ↑ Chris (March 21, 2008). "Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake) to Release Explosion, Landmines Records on New Label". Punknews.org. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ↑ "Paper+Plastick Offer Free Compilation & Open New UK Store". Punktastic.com. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ↑ http://paperplastick.limitedrun.com/products/529155
- ↑ http://paperandplastick.com/news.php#505
- ↑ Staff (February 26, 2010). "Welcome 'A Loss for Words' to the P+P Family!". Paper + Plastick. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ↑ Reed, J.N. (July 20, 2010). "The Dopamines – Expect the Worst (Album) – Paper and Plastick Records". altsounds.com. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
External links
- paperandplastick.com, the label's official website