Skene! Records was an American DIY punk rock record label founded in Connecticut in 1988 by Jeff Spiegel,[1] then later based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2][3][4] An early album release was Better Yet Connecticut Hardcore, featuring bands such as Bug Gulp, Fallback, Freedom of Choice, Forced Reality and Scooter X.

Spiegel also promoted local punk shows in central Connecticut. The most infamous of which being "the greatest show that never happened", showcased at the New Britain VFW hall and featuring bands such as Big Gulp, Freedom of Choice, and Fallback. Shortly after the show began, during Fallback's set, a fight broke out and the show was forcibly shut down by the New Britain Police department; some of the footage was caught on a video tape that seems to have been lost.[citation needed]

The label later released records from such bands as Green Day,[note 1] Trenchmouth, Shades Apart, AWAKE!, The People's Court, Slap of Reality, Candy Machine, Bob Evans,[5] Lifter Puller,[6] Actionslacks, Everready, Fuel (not to be confused with the popular rock band), Angry Son, Go!, Phleg Camp, Jawbreaker, Crimpshrine, Dog Tired, The Deviators, Gneissmaker, Walt Mink, and others, and was considered a contemporary of No Idea Records, Very Small Records, and Lookout! Records.

The label existed at least until 1996, and is mentioned by Matt Diehl in My So-Called Punk (St Martin's Press, 2007)[7] in terms of the relation between punk with a DIY ethic and contemporary "neo-punk" involved in the Warped Tour and large punk labels such as Epitaph Records.

Notes

  1. ^ Specifically, Sweet Children.

References

  1. ^ "Macweekly" (PDF). Fastnbulbous.com. April 6, 1990. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  2. ^ Cindy Laufenberg (1 September 1994). 1995 Songwriter's Market: Where & How to Market Your Songs. Writer's Digest Books. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-0-89879-676-6.
  3. ^ Kjersti Egerdahl (2010). Green Day: A Musical Biography. ABC-CLIO. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-0-313-36597-3.
  4. ^ Dan Kimpel (2006). How They Made It: True Stories of How Music's Biggest Stars Went from Start to Stardom!. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-634-07642-8.
  5. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (25 March 1995). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 16–. ISSN 0006-2510. ((cite book)): |author= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ Angela M. Pilchak (October 2005). Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music. Cengage Gale. ISBN 978-0-7876-8069-5.
  7. ^ Matt Diehl (24 September 2013). My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion---How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream. St. Martin's Press. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5306-5.


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