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| TKO RecordsOfficial Website: http://www.tkorecords.com/ About:
San Francisco based TKO Records is well known for it's solid tastes in working class punk rock, old school punk and Oi. Their extensive catalog includes releases from Antiseen, Sixer and The Business
Artists with releases on this label:
The Forgotten, Filthy Thieving Bastards, Sixer, Thug Murder, Niblick Henbane, AntiSeen, The Partisans, Beltones, Bodies, The Generators, Kung Fu Killers, The Business, The Riffs, The Stitches, The New York Rel-X, The Escaped, Straitjacket, The Templars, FM Bats, Electric Frankenstein, The Boils, The Hatepinks, Tommy and the Terrors, 46 Short, GG Allin and Antiseen, Lower Class Brats, Chelsea, Krum Bums, Shock Nagasaki Recent ReviewsRecent NewsThe Germs / Krum Bums The Germs and Krum Bums are headed out for a US tour beginning in…Lower Class Brats / Vice Squad Lower Class Brats and Vice Squad will be touring the US together beginning in mid-June. Following that run, Lower Class Brats will head to Europe in August for three weeks of dates.…Shooting at Lower Class Brats show in San Antonio, TX Lower Class Brats posted a comment about a shooting which took place at one of their shows: We would like to send out their most sincere regards to the victim and the family of this terrible act of mindless violence. We don't need this in our scene. According to a local news report, the shooting happened after the show about 1:30 a.m. outside the Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar. The shooting was motivated by a "man upset that his girlfriend was roughed…Hatepinks (USA) Marseilles, France's The Hatepinks have announced US tour dates up and down the west coast. The band last released Tete Malade / Sick in the Head in 2007 through TKO…Thrasher Magazine announces Dirty Devil Race to Hell tour Long-running skateboard magazine Thrasher has announced the Dirty Devil Race to Hell tour. The bill will feature Throw Rag, Lower Class Brats, Roger Miret and The Disasters, Static Thought and Viva Hate. The Tour will feature a 14 band, all day festival show in LA on September 20th, adding Mike V’s…GBH / Krum Bums GBH and Krum Bums will be hitting the road together. Along the way, Krum Bums will also be headlining some dates on their own. The Krum Bums recently graced the cover of the Austin Chronicle and were notably named "Best Punk Band of 2008" at the Austin Music Awards. They will be releasing S.O.S. on TKO…New TKO documentary "Punk Off!" debuts online A new, six-part documentary about Huntington Beach, CA based TKO Records has made it's first appearance online through the video website Vimby. The series will be updated weekly. You can find the first episode here, or…Poison Idea, Lower Class Brats, Forgotten, Stitches at TKO 10th Weekender TKO Records has announced the full details for their 10th Anniversary Weekender. A trio of Californian shows from July 20th through the 22nd will celebrate the label's first decade. The event will bring together bands like the Forgotten, Antiseen, Glass Heroes, Lower Class Brats, Smut Peddlers, the Stitches, Krum Bums, 46 Short, Broken Bottles, Poison Idea, Smogtown, Those Unknown and the Crowd among others. Click below…TKO to reissue the Crowd's "Letter Bomb" TKO Records will be reissuing the full length Letter Bomb from "original beach punks" The Crowd. The record, originally released in 1996 by Flipside, will be repackaged with bonus tracks and other unspecified extras. No release date has been announced yet, but the band indicates that 2001's Punk Off is next in line. The band's first CD in 6 years is said to be "taking shape" as well and will include recent live staples "Radio," "Headless," and "Stitch Me Up." The Crowd formed in 1978, lasting into around late…Rat Scabies back in the studio with Glass Heroes Rat Scabies of the Damned has returned to the US to put the finishing touches on the upcoming Glass Heroes full length Liars, Cheats & Thieves!. Scabies commented "Due to conflicting times and both parties being busy... the cd has taken a bit longer than we thought... But rest assured..it's gonna be tough sounding." As previously announced the album will contain a cover of the Ruts' "Backbiter" with Ruts bassist Segs Jennings contributing.… |