Buddyhead Records

Infobox record label
name = Buddyhead Records


founded = 1997
founder = Travis Keller
Aaron North
status = Independent
distributor =
genre = Rock
country = USA
location = Hollywood, California
url = http://www.buddyhead.com

Buddyhead Records is an independent record label from Hollywood, California that was started in 2000 and sprouted from the popular irreverent website of the same name, Buddyhead, which was launched in 1998. It is the project of Travis Keller and Aaron North and has released records by various bands such as: Modwheelmood, Wires On Fire, Shat, The Cassettes, Ink & Dagger, The Icarus Line, Burning Brides, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Your Enemies Friends, The Mean Reds, 400 Blows, Text, At the Drive-In, Murder City Devils and Radio Vago. Buddyhead Records is also known for the release of the "Gimmie Skelter" compilation which featured bands such as: Primal Scream, Mudhoney, Iggy Pop, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, Weezer, Dead Meadow, Le Tigre and others among controversial prank-calls to music-industry luminaries thus extending their "no holds barred" approach to Lester Bangs-style music journalism/activism that the initial Buddyhead website is known for. In addition to CDs, Buddyhead Records released a DVD compilation entitled "Buddyhead Presents: Punk Is Dead" through Image Entertainment which featured music videos from TV on the Radio, The Jesus Lizard, Singapore Sling, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Turbonegro, The Locust, British Sea Power, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Fiery Furnaces & others.

Buddyhead Records have also curated a number of Compact Disc and DVD compilations containing rare and unreleased material from bands such as Mudhoney, Primal Scream, TV On The Radio. The Jesus & Mary Chain, Iggy Pop, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, SHAT, and Weezer.

In August 2007, Buddyhead announced they'd signed Denver band, Moccasin.

"Buddyhead" is a music "webzine" and independent record label formed by Travis Keller and Aaron North in the summer of 1998 in Hollywood, California. They are notorious for their Lester Bangs-style of outspoken criticism of popular culture and the music-industry. Their infamous gossip column has resulted in them being sued over a dozen times by numerous celebrities and record labels ranging from Korn, Courtney Love (who after three "cease and desists figured "if you can't beat em, join em", and cut them monthly several thousand dollar checks for a while), Fred Durst, Moby, Drive-Thru Records and most recently Axl Rose [http://www.buddyhead.com/2008/06/28/new-records-from-oasis-and-the-verve-coming-dead-comedians-aa-bondy-and-more/ Axl Rose sues Buddyhead for Rap video] .

Buddyhead have been part of a number of infamous antics including vandalizing The Stokes' tour bus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=iHtcSFR78jc BUDDYHEAD spray paint The Strokes tour bus] , and an incident where Travis Keller broke into Fred Durst’s office at Interscope Records, stole three of his red baseball caps, took photos in front of his Limp Bizkit gold records, and then auctioned the hats off on Ebay (the hats sold for $1700 each), [ [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/2442304827_c774a3e64a_o.jpgKerrang interview Travis Keller of Buddyhead page1] ] [ [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2442302779_d68e75afeb_o.jpgKerrang interview Travis Keller of Buddyhead page2] ] donating the money to a rape victim charity (a stab at Fred for the allegations of rape and violence to happening in the moshpot during their set at Woodstock 99') [http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-22-99/arts/arts4.html The Michigan Daily - Sexual assaults, aggression slam modern mosh pit scene] ] .

Buddyhead have also released 25 records on their label.

References

Bands on Buddyhead Records

*Jubilee (band)
*Moccasin
*The Cassettes
*The PoPo
*Modwheelmood
*Gayrilla Biscuits
*Wires On Fire
*Shat
*Ink & Dagger
*Mean Reds
*400 Blows
*Burning Brides
*Murder City Devils
*The Dillinger Escape Plan
*TEXT
*The Icarus Line
*At the Drive-In
*Radio Vago
*Your Enemies Friends

ee also

*List of record labels

External links

Official sites

* [http://www.buddyhead.com buddyhead.com] Official Buddyhead website
* [http://www.buddyhead.com/recordings buddyhead.com/recordings] Official Buddyhead Records website
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/traviskeller/ Travis Keller's photography]
* [http://www.myspace.com/buddyhead Buddyhead on Myspace]
* [http://www.youtube.com/buddyhead Buddyhead on Youtube]
* [http://www.virb.com/buddyhead Buddyhead on Virb]
* [http://www.buddyhead.com/radio/ Buddyhead radio show]
* [http://www.buddyhead.com/mp3blog/ Buddyhead mp3 blog]

Interviews

* [http://eighteenplus.blogspot.com/2007/02/feature-travis-keller-interview.html 18+ interviews Travis Keller]
* [http://www.getbomb.com/TKinterrogation.html Getbomb interviews Travis]
* [http://www.bettawreckonize.com/interviews/buddyhead.htm Bettawreckonize interviews Buddyhead]
* [http://www.separatethesounds.com/press/articles/dec15th01.html Kerrang interviews Buddyhead]
* [http://www.dot-alt.com/buddyheadINT.html Dot Alt interviews Buddyhead]
* [http://www.absolutepunk.net/archive/index.php?t-36903.html Absolutepunk interviews Buddyhead]
* [http://theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=129 Matzah interviews Aaron North]
* [http://matzahsaidwhat.blogspot.com/2005/07/omg-fuck-yeah-part-2.html Matzah interviews Travis Keller]
* [http://www.wet-online.com/21q/traviskeller.htm Wet Online Interviews Travis Keller]
* [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/2442304827_c774a3e64a_o.jpgKerrang interview - Travis Keller of Buddyhead page1]
* [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2442302779_d68e75afeb_o.jpgKerrang interview - Travis Keller of Buddyhead page2]

Other

* [http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/39/ Nothing Nice To Say Buddyhead Comic Strip]
* [http://www.read24seven.com/buddyhead.html LA Weekly's The Curse Of Buddyhead Article]
* [http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/235 Dusted Magazine's Buddyhead feature]
* [http://calvin.punknews.org/labels/Buddyhead Buddyhead news on Punknews.org]
* [http://www.image-entertainment.com/detail.cfm?productID=33682 Image Entertainment's "Punk Is Dead" page]
* [http://www.north-side.net/ Aaron North fan page]