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Volcom Entertainment, officially founded in 1995, in Newport Beach, CA, and currently based in Costa Mesa, CA is the brainchild of Volcom founder Richard Woolcott and theLINE's singer/guitarist Ryan Immegart. Ryan being Volcom's first sponsored snowboarder and having a love for music provided the necessary components to launch the label through Volcom. Being a brand recognized world wide for its youth lifestyle clothing allowed Volcom the perfect chance to introduce theLINE's "self-titled" debut CD within the surf/skate/snow community.
In the next several years the label continued to grow through traditional and non-traditional record retail, launching bands such as CKY, Vaux, and Pepper. A 100% owned subsidiary of Volcom, some of their best-known artists today include Pepper, Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers, Year Long Disaster and Guttermouth. Volcom Ent. produced the "Volcom Stage" on the Vans Warped Tour for 10 years and in 2007 began their own annual international tour, simply called "The Volcom Tour". In 2008 they launched a subscription based vinyl record club coined "VEVC (Volcom Ent Vinyl Club)" which delivers subscribers collectable vinyl singles all over the world bi-monthly. They have also created an annual music competition for unsigned rock bands called the “Band Joust” which is just a couple examples of Volcom Entertainments' mission to provide a creative and artistic medium to connect music lovers. Artists with releases on this label:
Pepper, Places To Park, Vaux, Arkham, ASG, Guttermouth, Single Frame, Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers, Die Hunns, Birds of Avalon Recent ReviewsRecent NewsIan Mcdougall of Riverboat Gamblers injured in bike accident On the night of Saturday October 17th, Ian Mcdougall of Riverboat Gamblers was hit by a car when riding home. He sustained some pretty heavy injuries including a broken hip, a broken wrist and hemmoraging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes. He was rushed by ambulance to Brackenridge hospital in Austin and stayed in the ICU for 2 days before being moved into his own room where he is undergoing physical therapy while awaiting the results of various tests. His friends and bandmates…Pepper Pepper have announced a September and October touring run through the…Birds of Avalon Birds of Avalon have some shows scheduled for the next few…Riverboat Gamblers: "Victory Lap" Riverboat Gamblers have posted a new video for "Victory Lap", a track from their recently released LP Underneath the Owl. The band also has some tour dates lined up; the band will play two dates in their home state of Texas later this month before heading to Europe in August.…Birds of Avalon Birds of Avalon kick off two weeks of US tour dates tonight in Washington…Riverboat Gamblers, Mariachi El Bronx, Of Montreal on Prince tribute The Riverboat Gamblers, Mariachi El Bronx and Of Montreal are some of the artists confirmed for an upcoming Spin-curated tribute to Prince. Titled Purplish Rain, the record coincides with the 25th anniversary of Prince's Purple Rain and will be available as a free download to Spin subscribers.…Valient Thorr / Early Man Valient Thorr and Early Man will be touring together beginning in…Riverboat Gamblers / Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore Fake Problems, Riverboat Gamblers and William Elliott Whitmore will be touring together next…Riverboat Gamblers: "Victory Lap" Riverboat Gamblers have posted a new song from their forthcoming full-length. Underneath The Owl is set to be released on March 10, 2009 and will follow up 2006's To the Confusion of Our Enemies. Check out "Victory Lap" at the band's myspace…Riverboat Gamblers: "A Choppy Yet Sincere Apology" Riverboat Gamblers have made their new single, "A Choppy Yet Sincere Apology" available for download at Spin Magazine. The song will be appearing on their upcoming album, Underneath the Owl, which is set for a March 10 release. Riverboat Gamblers last released To the Confusion of Our Enemies in 2006. Update: The song is also available from the band's… |
