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{{Short description|American record company}}
{{for|the similarly named Australian record company|Liberation Music}}
'''Liberation Records''' is an American [[record company]] based in the [[Los Angeles]] area known for [[do it yourself]] ethos and pioneering [[guerrilla marketing]] strategies. It was formed by then 16-year-old underground rock music [[fanzine]] publisher [[David Taba]] in [[1994 in music|1994]] out of his residence, simply as a hobby.

The label notably discovered and released the debut album of [[Home Grown]] but was best known for releasing [[compilation album]]s credited with advancing the careers of several young artists. The most memorable of the compilations, [[Punk Sucks]] and [[Ska Sucks]], included tracks from then little known [[Punk rock|punk]], [[pop-punk]], and [[ska]] artists who would soon rise to fame internationally, including [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]], [[Blink 182]], [[Dance Hall Crashers]], [[Less Than Jake]], [[Hepcat (band)|Hepcat]], [[Millencolin]], [[The Pietasters]], [[Good Riddance (band)|Good Riddance]], [[88 Fingers Louie]], [[The Bouncing Souls]] and [[Pennywise (band)|Pennywise]].  The label has also released the cult classic "When Pregnasaurs Ruled the Earth" by [[Donuts N' Glory]] and reissued albums from [[Less Than Jake]], [[The Queers]], [[Screeching Weasel]], [[The Vindictives]], and [[Frenzal Rhomb]], among others.

In the late 1990s, the label also spun off the [[indie rock]] and [[post-hardcore]] [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] [[New American Dream]], which released music by [[the Icarus Line]], [[Discount (band)|Discount]], [[Kind of Like Spitting]], and [[Ink & Dagger]].

==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050829040951/http://www.liberationrecords.com/ Official site]

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[[Category:American record labels]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1994]]
[[Category:Punk record labels]]


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