Loosegroove Records is a

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based

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formed by

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guitarist

Stone Gossard Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the rhythm guitarist for the rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of the ...

and

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drummer

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in 1994. Initially a subsidiary of Sony before going

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in 1996, Loosegroove signed many up and coming artists from various musical genres, especially rock and hip hop. Significantly, Gossard signed

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to Loosegroove, releasing the band's debut album in 1998. Others who worked with Loosegroove include

Critters Buggin Critters Buggin is a Seattle, Washington-based instrumental group which performs in a jazz, rock and African-influenced, eclectic style. The band is composed of Matt Chamberlain (drums, percussion, piano, programming, synths, loops, samples and ...

, Weapon of Choice,

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, Devilhead, Prose and Concepts, Ponga, Hi Fi Killers,

Nash Kato Urge Overkill is an American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago in 1986, consisting of Nathan Kaatrud, who took the stage name Nash Kato (vocals/guitar), and Eddie "King" Roeser (vocals/guitar/bass). They are widely known for their song " ...

and Eureka Farm. Loosegroove also released the Seattle Hip Hop Compilation ''14 Fathoms Deep'' in January 1997, and the soundtrack to the movie ''

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'' in 1998. Loosegroove Records closed in 2000. In 2000 the Loosegroove catalog was acquired by WILL Records, who now operates as

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. Loosegrove executive Matt Shay later became vice-president of marketing/A&R at

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, and helped Pearl Jam join said label and release the 2006 album ''

''. In 2020 a resurrected Loosegroove Records, again overseen by Gossard and Hagar, released the debut of Gossard's side project Painted Shield In 2021 the label released the album ''1982'' by the band The Living, which includes

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(guitar),

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(drums), John Conte (vocals), and Todd Fleischman (bass). The Living was their teenage punk band in the early 1980s.

's final record ''In The Moment That You’re Born'' was released on Loosegroove in 2023.

References

External links

Seattle Times
A New Label For New Bands: Gossard Helps Make It Happen

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