Idol Records is a Dallas, Texas-based record label and publishing company founded in 1993 by Erv Karwelis, who serves as president of the label. Its roster consists of bands such as The O's, Dead Flowers, The Crash That Took Me, Here Holy Spain, Sponge, Watershed, and Flickerstick. In January 2009, Idol launched an art-pop sub label Exploding Plastic Records. The first band signed to the label was Little Black Dress.
Idol Records received the Dallas Observer Music Award for "Best Record Label" 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007.
Idol Records is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).
Artists
ADMIRALS The American Fuse Aztec Milk Temple Billyclub Black Tie Dynasty Boys Named Sue Calhoun Centro-matic Charming Gardeners Chomsky Clumsy Cold Cash Machine The Crash That Took Me [DARYL] Darstar Dead Flowers The Deathray Davies Descender Dove Hunter The Fags The Falcon Project Feisty Cadavers Flickerstick Funland GBH Gaston Light Gunfighter Hagfish Here Holy Spain Hoarse Chris Holt Jetta in the Ghost Tree Trey Johnson Will Johnson Little Black Dress Lorelei K Macavity The Mag Seven Matthew Roberts Mazinga Phaser Mitra MOTORCADE Moxy Roxx Name the Moon New Rising Son The O's Old 97's The Paper Chase Pervis Vanessa Peters Pikahsso Todd Pipes Protest PPT Puke A Rama Red Like Heat Glen Reynolds Secrecies Shibboleth Skeemin' NoGoods The Slack Sponge Tahiti These Machines Are Winning VEHICLES The Warden Watershed The Wee-Beasties
See also List of record labels
References
General references Black White Read Idol Records Feature Dallas Observer Indie label feature
External links Official site