I made a few more nice pick ups from Music Trader this week including Dag Nasty - Wig Out At Denko’s, and the English Dogs - Invasion Of The Porky Men. The English Dogs album was re-released on Captain Oi! Records, which is the same label The Cockney Rejects, and Major Accident. I haven’t yet researched which other bands have been on Captain Oi!, but I am now on the look out for more releases from this label.
That is one of my favourite ways to find great bands. I get a label with a lot of good bands and then I take chances on other bands from that label. This only works with independent labels, as the major ones are so all over the place in terms of what they will sign that it is difficult to tell what they are going to sound like, even if they have a history of being really good.
Some of the labels that I think are great for finding new bands, in no particular, are Asian Man, Lookout, Fat Wreck Chords, and Nitro. A few that I am weary of are Epitaph, which used to be good, but they have gone quite emo. Victory records went the same way. Those were two other labels that I could go to anytime, and for mid-nineties stuff I still do. For old rap Def Jam, and Death Row records are two of the more dependable outfits.
Oh yeah, and somehow an entire Adam Sandler CD was still one my iTunes so I got rid of that noise post haste.
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