Red Scare Industries

Red Scare Industries (sometimes referred to as Red Scare Records^[1][2]) is a punk rock record label. The label was started in San Francisco (though now based in Chicago) by former Fat Wreck Chords employee Toby Jeg.^[3][4]

Jeg started the label in 2004 when his friend Brendan Kelly of The Lawrence Arms wanted a new label to release the EP for his new band The Falcon, it has since released material for bands such as The Lillingtons, Cobra Skulls, The Copyrights, Sundowner, Teenage Bottlerocket, and more. For 2010 and 2011, Red Scare albums by The Menzingers and The Sidekicks have been named album of the year by punknews.org.^[5][6]

The label has also worked with non Red Scare artists on additional projects, including "Red Oktoberfest", an annual weekend music festival in Chicago which has featured bands such as The Lawrence Arms, American Steel, and Off With Their Heads, and the Swingin' Utters tribute album, Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to the Swingin' Utters, which most notably featured the Dropkick Murphys.^[7][8]

Artists

Current artists

• Arms Aloft
• The Bombpops
• Brendan Kelly
• The Brokedowns
• Bullets To Broadway
• The Copyrights
• Direct Hit
• Druglords Of The Avenues
• Elway
• The Falcon
• The Heat Tape
• The Holy Mess
• The Isotopes
• Joe McMahon
• Nothington
• Reaganomics
• Sam Russo
• The Sidekicks
• Vultures United

Former artists

• Cobra Skulls (active with Fat Wreck Chords)
• Enemy You (disbanded)
• La Plebe (active with Koolarrow Records)
• The Lillingtons (disbanded)
• Masked Intruder (active with Fat Wreck Chords)
• The Methadones (disbanded)
• The Menzingers (active with Epitaph Records)
• The Riptides^[9] (America only) (active with Asian Man Records)
• Sicko (disbanded)
• Sundowner (active with Asian Man Records)
• Teenage Bottlerocket (active with Rise Records)

References