Bar/None Records

Bar/None Records
Founded	1986
Founder	Tom Prendergast Glenn Morrow
Distributor(s)	ADA
Genre	Alternative rock Indie rock Eclectic Folk
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	Hoboken, New Jersey
Official website	www.bar-none.com

Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Weehawken, New Jersey.^[1]

Early history

Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982.

The first release on Bar/None was by Rage to Live, whose leader, Glenn Morrow, soon became a partner in the label. Morrow had already built a network of contacts in the alternative music community having toured nationally with his previous band, The Individuals, and had also worked in the A&R department of Warner Bros. and as the managing editor of New York Rocker magazine. In 2000, Prendergast left New Jersey and moved back to Ireland, sold his shares to Morrow.^[2]

The Bar/None debut album of They Might Be Giants sold more than 100,000 copies and their follow-up, Lincoln, more than doubled those sales.

Other artists that started on Bar/None and went on to the major record labels include Luka Bloom, Yo La Tengo (Atlantic/Matador), Freedy Johnston (Elektra) and Tindersticks (London/PolyGram).

Artists (past and present)

10,000 Maniacs American Song-Poem Anthology Architecture in Helsinki Eszter Balint Otis Ball Richard Barone Luka Bloom Adrian Borland Birdie Busch Burnside Project Vinicius Cantuária Alex Chilton Chocolate USA Edwyn Collins The songs of Elvis Costello Diego Cortez Evan Dando Brian Dewan The Divine Comedy Disco Inferno DJ Spooky Drink Me Bill Drummond El Ten Eleven The Embarrassment Emperor X Eros and the Eschaton Esquivel Ezra Furman The Feelies The Front Bottoms The Glands Glass Eye Greenhouse 27 Greg Camp

Petra Haden Happyness Harvest Ministers Juliana Hatfield Richard Hawley Health & Happiness Show Michael Hearst Hem Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey Hotel Lights Hot Lava The Individuals Jenifer Jackson Kate Jacobs Mason Jennings The Moms Freedy Johnston Joy Zipper The Langley Schools Music Project Arto Lindsay Lonesome Val Lotus Lounge Lullaby for the Working Class Mad Happy Hannah Marcus Chris Mars Mary Lee's Corvette Mayday Shannon McArdle Kathy McCarty

The Mendoza Line Mensclub Miracle Room Mono Puff Country Dick Montana Mosquitos Of Montreal Oppenheimer The Ordinaires Outrageous Cherry Poi Dog Pondering Professor & Maryann Puffy AmiYumi The Scene Is Now The Sharp Things Shirk Circus Shrimp Boat Epic Soundtracks Standard Fare Starling Electric The Slip The Spinto Band The Swales They Might Be Giants Tindersticks Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players Trembling Blue Stars Wallmen Yo La Tengo

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site

References

1. Darren Paltrowitz (8 November 2015). "Still rockin' - Bar/None Records owner talks about 30 years of music business survival". The Hudson Reporter. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
2. Jim Testa (22 September 2015). "Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help to debut Sunday at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2016.