Burnt Toast Vinyl is an

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small and medium-sized enterprise, small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels ...

based in

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

, Pennsylvania.

History

Burnt Toast Vinyl was founded by Scott Hatch, a

Drexel University Drexel University is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony Joseph Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, a financier ...

student who had initially been involved with concert promotion at the school. The label has released full albums from several prominent Philadelphia indie musicians, as well as releasing or re-releasing material on vinyl from artists, including those on the Tooth & Nail roster. Among its reissues are the debut album from

Scaterd Few Scaterd Few was a Christian punk band originating from Burbank, California. ''CCM'' magazine described their music as "pure punk for dread people," stating that it was a cross between Jane's Addiction and Charlie Mingus. History ''Sin Disease' ...

, re-released by Burnt Toast in 2015. Several of Burnt Toast's

post rock Post-rock is a subgenre of experimental rock that emphasizes texture, atmosphere, and non-traditional song structures over conventional rock techniques. Post-rock artists often combine rock instrumentation and rock stylings with electronics a ...

and

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groups attracted notice from magazines such as ''Dusted'' and ''Prefix''. Among the label's best-known releases are those by

Denison Witmer Denison Witmer is an American singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. His first release, in 1995, was a cassette titled ''My Luck, My Love''. He has since released six studio LPs; two live albums, a cover album (''Recover ...

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, and

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Roster

Source: * All American Radio *

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Bosque Brown Bosque Brown is an American indie band from the music town of Denton, Texas. While attending college there, singer-songwriter Mara Lee Miller chose "Bosque Brown" for her music, named after a river that runs through Stephenville, Texas, her ...

* Circle of Birds *

Early Day Miners Early Day Miners are a band from southern Indiana, United States who released records on the Bloomington, Indiana based label, Secretly Canadian. The band has released seven full-length records. Their first CD '' Placer Found'' was released Ap ...

Efterklang Efterklang () is a Denmark, Danish art pop, indie rock band from Copenhagen, formed in December 2000. Efterklang emerged in the front half of the 2000s with a blend of pop and orchestral rock elements. The band found an audience, especially in ...

Emperor X Chad Randall Matheny, known professionally as Emperor X, is an American singer and songwriter. Early life and career Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979, Matheny got his start in music when he was given a Casio SK-1 by his grandparents at age ...

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* Explosions in the Sky * Farquar Muckenfuss *

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* In a Lonely Placehttps://www.burnttoastvinyl.com/blog/?page_id=2039 * Isolation Years * Jetenderpaul * June Panic *

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* The Magic Lantern *

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Mount Eerie Mount Eerie is the musical project of American songwriter and producer Phil Elverum. Elverum (also of the Microphones) is the principal member of the band, but has collaborated with many other musicians on his records and in live performances. ...

* Movies With Heroes * Octane Blue * The Operation (formerly Sans Culottes) *

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(of

The Innocence Mission The Innocence Mission (sometimes stylized as the innocence mission) is an American alternative rock and indie folk band that was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1986. The group's current members are Karen Peris (née McCullough), her husba ...

) *

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* Questions in Dialect * Ran Away to Sea * Reels of White Softly Flow *

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* Soporus *

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Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomina ...

* The Trouble with Sweeney *

* Woven Hand * Yndi Halda *

Yume Bitsu Yume Bitsu (meaning "dream beats" in Japanese) was an American post-rock band from Portland, Oregon, active from 1995 and 2002. History Their debut ''Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels from the Sky'' was self-released in 1998 ...

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