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Epitaph Records was founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, with the aim of starting an artist-friendly label from a musicians point of view. Perhaps most well known for being the little indie from L.A. that spawned the 90’s punk explosion, Epitaph stayed independent even while breaking gold and multi-platinum punk acts such as The Offspring, Rancid, NOFX, Bad Religion and Pennywise.

Though the sudden explosive success of the 90’s undoubtedly brought growing pains, they were met by the Epitaph team with perseverance and commitment to ideals. Today Epitaph is a company that has transcended it’s humble roots, braved some tough challenges and grown up to become a full service label with a very diverse and creative roster of some of the best bands that today’s music scene has to offer. Along the way Epitaph has launched two very successful sister labels: Hellcat Records, specializing in street punk, psychobilly & ska, and ANTI-, representing such distinguished artists as Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Elliott Smith, Neko Case and Jolie Holland.

A long time ago, when Anti- president Andy Kaulkin was still head of marketing for Epitaph, and the company had a whopping six employees, he asked Brett what his goals for the company were. The answer he got back then is still probably the closest thing to an Epitaph mission statement. “I’m not good at planning very far ahead,” said Brett “and it’s so hard to guess what the future might hold.
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  • Skvoznoe

    PARK WAY DRIVE <3

    November 2011

  • szabOW

    http://www.last.fm/music/Dangerous! update the pics yo!

    August 2011

  • Wolkkkk

    Epitaph selling punk attitude since 1980

    April 2011

  • Zombie_Nerdz

    get rid of all the emo shit you've got! this was such an awesome record label back in the 90s

    February 2011

  • goldspot7

    parkway drive!

    January 2011

  • DinoDyl

    Dying Is Your Latest Fashion <33

    January 2011

  • nogoodson

    ...I forgot to mention the most obvious band out of all of their roster and that is Bad Religion, legends!!

    December 2010

  • nogoodson

    Awesome label. Rancid, Offspring, Pulley, Total Chaos, L7, RKL, New Bomb Turks, The Humpers, NoFX and Pennywise were the soundtrack to my youth and I still love all their records now and the hip hop stuff is awesome too.

    December 2010

  • davo421

    Ixnay on the Hombre was not on Epitaph

    November 2010

  • ShotgunGold

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s3wkh - 4 days left to listen, well recommended.

    April 2010

  • Wuselwaldfreund

    Our Last Night <3

    April 2010

  • NofxerPete

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOve eptaph!! Yo from South Africa!!

    March 2010

  • Inustein

    los antiguos temas de escape the fate, que muestran ahí son realmente buenos... el nuevo disco es mierda

    March 2010

  • Walkmate

    Down By Law rulezzz, but Epitaph…

    February 2010

  • gadzber

    8====D (_!_)

    February 2010

  • les_vaches

    kick @ss label, thank you for all of it!

    January 2010

  • jlaki

    shitty, but rancid and pennywise are great

    January 2010

  • Albert_Transom

    shitty label

    December 2009

  • pashelast

    Rancid, NOFX, Beatsteaks <3

    September 2009

  • betrazivis

    People who think in styles don`t understand the real mind in music. Go home, watch MTV and shut up. You have no idea of music.

    August 2009
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