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Touch and Go Records

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Touch and Go Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. [1]

109 relations: !!!, Alternative Distribution Alliance, Alternative rock, Arcwelder, Arsenal (American band), Bazillion Points, Bedhead (band), Big Black, Blight (band), Blonde Redhead, Brainiac (band), Butthole Surfers, Calexico (band), Cash Audio, Chicago, Chicago record labels, Chrome (band), CocoRosie, Copyright, Copyright Act of 1976, Crystal Antlers, Die Kreuzen, Dirty Three, Dischord Records, Don Caballero, Duane Denison, East Lansing, Michigan, Electric Fetus, Enon (band), Experimental rock, Factory Records, Fanzine, Flour (band), Girls Against Boys, Greg Kot, Hardcore punk, Independent record label, Indie rock, Jade Tree (record label), Jeff Pinkus, Kill Rock Stars, Killdozer (band), L-Seven, Laughing Hyenas, List of record labels, Love Da Records, Man or Astro-man?, Merge Records, Michigan, Millennium, ..., Naked Raygun, Necros, Negative Approach, New Wet Kojak, Nina Nastasia, Nirvana (band), No Trend, Noise rock, Oral contract, P.W. Long, Phono-Comb, PIAS Group, Pinback, Polvo, Punk rock, Quarterstick Records, Quasi, Rachel's, Rapeman, Red Stars Theory, Rollins Band, Sally Timms, Scratch Acid, Seam (band), Shellac (band), Silkworm (band), Silverfish (band), Slint, SST Records, Storm & Stress, Supersystem (band), Tar (band), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Terry Tolkin, Tesco Vee, The Black Heart Procession, The Delta 72, The Didjits, The Effigies, The Ex (band), The Fix (band), The For Carnation, The Jesus Lizard, The Meatmen, The New Year (band), The Standard (band), Three Mile Pilot, Todd Trainer, Touch and Go (book), TV on the Radio, Twin/Tone Records, Underground music, Urge Overkill, Uzeda, Violent Apathy, Virgin Prunes, Washington, D.C., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 1979 in music. Expand index (59 more) »

!!!

!!! is an American dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, United States, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer.

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Alternative Distribution Alliance

Alternative Distribution Alliance is a music distribution company owned by Warner Music Group, which represents the rights to various independent record labels.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Arcwelder

Arcwelder is an American punk band which formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1988.

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Arsenal (American band)

Arsenal was an American band, formed by the former Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango, after Big Black broke up.

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Bazillion Points

Bazillion Points is a book publishing company owned and operated by author Ian Christe.

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Bedhead (band)

Bedhead was an American, Texas-based indie rock band, active from 1991 to 1998.

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Big Black

Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987.

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Blight (band)

Blight was an American hardcore punk supergroup from Lansing, Michigan, which formed in early 1982 and existed for four months, releasing one posthumous EP.

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Blonde Redhead

Blonde Redhead is an alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino (vocals, keys, guitar/rhythm guitar) and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace (drums and lead guitar/keys/vocals, respectively) that formed in New York City in 1993.

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Brainiac (band)

Brainiac (sometimes stylized as 3RA1N1AC) was an American Indie rock band formed in 1992, and disbanded after the sudden death of lead singer Tim Taylor in 1997.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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Calexico (band)

Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock band.

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Cash Audio

Cash Audio was an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago record labels

This is a list of notable record labels based in Chicago.

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Chrome (band)

Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco, California in 1975.

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CocoRosie

CocoRosie is an American musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Copyright Act of 1976

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions.

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Crystal Antlers

Crystal Antlers is an American band from Long Beach, California.

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Die Kreuzen

Die Kreuzen (pronounced Dee-Kroytzen) is an American rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin formed in 1981.

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Dirty Three

Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis (violin and bass guitar), Mick Turner (electric and bass guitars) and Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992.

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Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock.

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Don Caballero

Don Caballero was an American instrumental rock group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Duane Denison

Duane Denison (born January 21, 1959) is an American guitarist best known for work with the avant-garde, influential rock band The Jesus Lizard.

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East Lansing, Michigan

East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan directly east of Lansing, the state capital.

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Electric Fetus

The Electric Fetus is a record store with locations in Minneapolis and Duluth.

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Enon (band)

Enon was an indie rock band founded by John Schmersal, Rick Lee, and Steve Calhoon that was active from 1999 to 2011; however, for most of its history, Enon was a three-piece outfit composed of Schmersal, Toko Yasuda, and Matt Schulz.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Factory Records

Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside, and (briefly) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and James.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Flour (band)

Flour is an American band.

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Girls Against Boys

Girls Against Boys is an American indie rock/post-hardcore band, formed in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and currently based in New York City.

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Greg Kot

Greg Kot (born March 3, 1957) is an American writer, author and journalist.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Jade Tree (record label)

Jade Tree International, Inc. is an independent record label formed by Darren Walters and Tim Owen in 1990 in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Jeff Pinkus

Jeff Pinkus is an American bassist best known for his work with American punk band Butthole Surfers from 1986 to 1994 and the 2009 reunion.

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Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

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Killdozer (band)

Killdozer was an American rock band, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald.

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L-Seven

L-Seven was a post-punk band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Laughing Hyenas

Laughing Hyenas was an American garage rock band that existed from 1985 to 1995.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Love Da Records

Love Da Records is an international record label founded in 1998.

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Man or Astro-man?

Man or Astro-man? is an American surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama, in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade.

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Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Millennium

A millennium (plural millennia or, rarely, millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears.

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Naked Raygun

Naked Raygun is an American punk rock/post-punk band formed in Chicago in 1980.

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Necros

Necros was an early American hardcore punk band from Maumee, Ohio, although they are usually identified with the Detroit music scene.

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Negative Approach

Negative Approach is an American hardcore punk band, formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1981.

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New Wet Kojak

New Wet Kojak was an American indie rock band from New York City.

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Nina Nastasia

Nina Nastasia (born May 13, 1966) is an American folk singer-songwriter.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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No Trend

No Trend was an American noise rock and hardcore punk group from Ashton, Maryland, formed in 1982.

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Noise rock

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.

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Oral contract

An oral contract is a contract, the terms of which have been agreed by spoken communication.

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P.W. Long

Preston Wright Long III (aka Preston Cleveland) is an American musician, journalist and documentary filmmaker.

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Phono-Comb

Phono-Comb was a Canadian instrumental/modern surf rock group that formed in 1993 in Toronto.

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PIAS Group

PIAS is an international recording, licensing, distribution, sales and marketing company for independent music.

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Pinback

Pinback is an indie rock band from San Diego, California.

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Polvo

Polvo is an American indie noise rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Quarterstick Records

Quarterstick Records is a sublabel of Touch and Go Records.

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Quasi

Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums).

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Rachel's

Rachel's were an American chamber music group that formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1991.

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Rapeman

Rapeman was an American noise rock band founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989.

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Red Stars Theory

Red Stars Theory is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington.

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Rollins Band

Rollins Band was an American rock band led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.

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Sally Timms

Sally Timms (born 29 November 1959) is an English singer and lyricist.

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Scratch Acid

Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982.

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Seam (band)

Seam was an American indie rock band from Chicago (formerly from Chapel Hill, North Carolina).

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Shellac (band)

Shellac is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, composed of Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar and vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums and vocals) and formed in 1992.

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Silkworm (band)

Silkworm was an American indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005 whose core members were Tim Midyett, Andy Cohen, and Michael Dahlquist.

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Silverfish (band)

Silverfish were a UK-based indie rock band, which formed in the late 1980s, and first performed in Camden in 1988.

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Slint

Slint is an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums and vocals), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland), and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez).

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SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn.

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Storm & Stress

Storm & Stress (alternately styled as Storm&Stress or Stormandstress) were an American experimental rock band formed in Pittsburgh and later based in Chicago.

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Supersystem (band)

Supersystem was a band from Washington, D.C. described as a mix of rock, punk, pop and dance music.

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Tar (band)

Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (sometimes written Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, or TL/Rx) are an American rock band formed in 1999 in Washington, D.C. They have released six full-length studio albums and have toured internationally.

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Terry Tolkin

Terry Tolkin was the Vice President of A&R at Elektra Records from 1992 to 1996.

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Tesco Vee

Tesco Vee (born Robert Vermeulen; 1955) is a Michigan-based punk rock musician and co-founder of Touch and Go Records zine.

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The Black Heart Procession

The Black Heart Procession (occasionally spelled The Blackheart Procession) is an American indie rock band from San Diego, California.

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The Delta 72

The Delta 72 were an American alternative music band formed in Washington, DC in the summer of 1994, later relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Didjits

The Didjits were an American punk rock band formed in Mattoon, Illinois in 1983, composed of Rick Sims (a.k.a. Rick Didjit) on guitar/vocals, Doug Evans on bass, and Rick's brother Brad Sims, on drums.

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The Effigies

The Effigies were an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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The Ex (band)

The Ex are an underground band from the Netherlands that formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion.

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The Fix (band)

The Fix was an early 1980s hardcore punk band from Lansing, Michigan, and one of the first bands to be signed to Touch and Go Records.

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The For Carnation

The For Carnation are a slowcore/post-rock band from Louisville, Kentucky who formed in 1994.

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The Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas and based in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Meatmen

The Meatmen are an American punk band headed by Tesco Vee, originally existing from 1981 to 1997.

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The New Year (band)

The New Year is an American indie rock band that formed in 1999.

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The Standard (band)

The Standard are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

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Three Mile Pilot

Three Mile Pilot (often shortened to 3MP) is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed by Armistead Burwell Smith IV (a.k.a. Zach Smith) from Pinback, Systems Officer, Neighborhood Watch (Chula Vista)) on bass and vocals, Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession, Dark Sarcasm, Mr.

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Todd Trainer

Todd Trainer is the drummer for the band Shellac.

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Touch and Go (book)

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79–'83 is a 576-page trade paperback book containing all 22 issues of the Touch and Go punk zine, a punk rock magazine that chronicled the early hardcore punk and post-punk scenes.

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TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2001.

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Twin/Tone Records

Twin/Tone Records was a independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which operated from 1977 until 1994.

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Urge Overkill

Urge Overkill is an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States, consisting of Nathan Kaatrud, who took the stage name Nash Kato (vocals/guitar), and Eddie "King" Roeser (vocals/guitar/bass guitar).

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Uzeda

Uzeda is a Sicilian underground rock group founded in 1987 by lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri.

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Violent Apathy

Violent Apathy is a U.S. hardcore band that formed in March 1981 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and sparked the Kalamazoo hardcore scene.

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Virgin Prunes

Virgin Prunes were an Irish post-punk band formed in 1977 in Dublin, Ireland.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs is an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000.

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1979 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_and_Go_Records

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