Editing Touch and Go Records (section)

{{short description|American independent record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Touch and Go Records
| image       = Touch_and_go_records_logo.svg
| founded     = {{start date|1981}}
| founder     = {{flatlist|
*[[Tesco Vee]]
*Dave Stimson
*[[Corey Rusk]]
}}
| distributor = {{flatlist|
*[[Alternative Distribution Alliance|ADA]]
*Carrot Top
*[[Electric Fetus]]
*Revolver USA
*FAB, 
*De Konkurrent
*[[Alliance Entertainment|AEC]]
*[[PIAS Entertainment Group|PIAS]]
*[[Love Da Records]]
*Inertia
}}
| genre       = {{hlist|[[Punk rock]]|[[hardcore punk]]|[[indie rock]]|[[noise rock]]|[[alternative rock]]|[[experimental music|experimental]]|[[math rock]]}}
| country     = United States
| location    = [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| website     = {{URL|touchandgorecords.com}}
}}

'''Touch and Go Records''' is an American [[independent record label]] based in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]. After its genesis as a handmade [[fanzine]] in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s [[underground music|underground]] and [[alternative rock]] scenes. Touch & Go carved out a reputation for releasing adventurous [[noise rock]] by the likes of [[Big Black]], the [[Butthole Surfers]], and [[The Jesus Lizard]]. Touch & Go helped to spearhead the nationwide network of underground bands that formed the pre-[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] indie rock scene,<ref name = "Spin 2005">{{Citation | last = Dolan | first = Jon | title = The Revival of Indie Rock | newspaper = Spin | page = 53 | date = January 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fyLttHWpa9EC&q=minnesota&pg=PA53 | access-date = 19 April 2015 }}</ref> and helped preside over the shift from the [[hardcore punk]] that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock emerging at the time.<ref name = "Reynolds 2006">{{cite book | last = Reynolds | first = Simon | title = Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 | url = https://archive.org/details/ripitupstartagai00reyno | url-access = registration | publisher = Penguin Books | date = 2006 | isbn = 978-1-1012-0105-3}}</ref>