31G Records, or Three One G, is a

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-based

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, started by musician Justin Pearson in 1994 and focusing on

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and

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music. The label has released a number of albums and compilations in what has been described as "freak punk" and "spaz-rock." Musicians on the label frequently collaborate, creating supergroups such as Holy Molar, Some Girls, and

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. Three One G's roster has featured many

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bands.

History

31G Records was founded by Justin Pearson in

in 1994. The name comes from the chorus of a

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song "Warsaw", a song covered by Pearson's then-band,

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. The reference for '3-1-G' in the original song was to

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's prisoner number. The first album released on the new label was the 1994 single "And / Fall On Proverb" by

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band

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. The second release was a reissue of the new debut album from

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and

band

, a band consisting of both the Unbroken guitarist Eric Allen and Pearson on vocals. The following few releases also involved the same community of musicians, with a split between Swing Kids and Spanakorzo coming out in 1995, and the second released recording by Pearson's new band

The Locust The Locust was an American hardcore punk band from San Diego, California, known for their mix of grindcore aggression and new wave experimentation. The band has been noted for their use of insect costumes when performing live. History Prio ...

coming out as a split EP with Jenny Piccolo in 1996. In 1998 Allysia Edwards joined with Pearson as a partner at the label, and their annual output began to increase. By January 2011, the label had put out approximately 60 releases total. Staff as of 2025 include Pearson, Marcus D’Camp, Brandon McMinn, Becky DiGiglio, Displaced/Replaced, and Lou Marron-Page. According to Pearson, the label's best selling releases have been ''Discography'' by Swing Kids, as well as '' March on Electric Children'' by The Blood Brothers. Three One G has released a compilation of

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covers by their artists called ''Dynamite With a Laserbeam: Queen as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G'', as well as a similar tribute to The Birthday Party titled ''Release The Bats''. There has also been a DVD documentary, ''This is Circumstantial Evidence'', made about Three One G. In 2020 the label released a tribute album to

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called ''Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G'' and featured artists such as

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, and

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Collaborations

Reviewers have described the Three One G community of musicians under the umbrella term "freak punk" or "spaz-rock," saying "the intense, the slightly frightening, and the brutal all find a place for themselves and their music in Three One G Records." Most of the label's bands have shared members or interact within the same musical community, and according to Pearson, According to ''SSG Music'', "It seems that members of San Diego label Three One G decide to form new supergroups at least once a year." Three One G bands Holy Molar, Ground Unicorn Horn, and

were all formed with earlier musicians on the label. The label's supergroup Retox included

Gabe Serbian Gabriel Serbian (May 1, 1977 – April 30, 2022) was an American drummer and guitarist, most famous for his work in The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, Holy Molar and Zu. He was also a member of Head Wound City, a hardcore/punk rock supergrou ...

and Pearson of

, and many of the bands such as The Crimson Curse and

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are connected to The Locust as well.

Roster

* Adam Gnade * ADULT. * All Leather * Angel Hair *

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Arab on Radar Arab on Radar was a Providence, Rhode Island–based noise rock band founded in 1994. They went on hiatus in 2002. Members of the band went on to form or join the bands including The Chinese Stars, Athletic Automaton, Made in Mexico, Doomsday St ...

* Asterisk* * Bastard Noise * Black Cat #13 *

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* The Blood Brothers *

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* The Chinese Stars * The Crimson Curse * Das Oath * Dead Cross * Deaf Club * Death Eyes * Doomsday Student * Downcast * End Of The Line * Ex Models *

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* Festival Of Dead Deer * F_ck Money *

* Geromino * Get Hustle * Ground Unicorn Horn * Haunted Horses *

* HELP * Holy Molar * Hot Nerds * Ill Saint M * Into Violence * INUS * Invisibl Skratch Piklz * Jaks * Jenny Piccolo * Kill the Capulets *

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* Leg Lifters * Love Life * Luke Henshaw *

* Microwaves * More Pain *

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* Narrows * Netherlands *Nonexistent Night *

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* Panicker * Paper Mice * Planet B * Qui * Quintron * Rats Eyes * Retox * Run For Your F_cking Life * Satanic Planet * Secret Fun Club * Silent * Some Girls * Sonido de la Frontera * Spanakorzo * Squid Pisser *

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* Stress Positions * Struggle *

* T-Cells * The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower *

* Under Attack * Venamoris * Venus Twins * WARSAWWASRAW * Wet Lungs * Zealot RIP * Zeus! * Zs

Discography

Physical Releases

*Three One G #1:

"And/ Fall On Proverb" 7" EP *Three One G #2:

S/T 7" EP *Three One G #3:

/ Spanakorzo 10" EP *Three One G #4:

/ Jenny Piccolo 5" EP *Three One G #5: Jenny Piccolo "Information Battle to Denounce the Genocide" LP *Three One G #6:

"Discography" CD *Three One G #7: The Crimson Curse/ The Festival of Dead Deer 7" EP *Three One G #8: Jenny Piccolo "Lowest Common Denominator" 7" EP *Three One G #9: Festival Of Dead Deer "The Many Faces Of Mental Illness" LP/CD *Three One G #10: The Crimson Curse "Greatest Hits" CD *Three One G #11:

"We Talked Midi" b/w "Writing Kodak" 7" single *Three One G #12: The Crimson Curse "Both Feet In The Grave" LP *Three One G #13: Black Cat #13 "I Blast Off" 7" EP *Three One G #14:

"Homovore" LP/CD *Three One G #15: Asterisk "Dogma 1" LP *Three One G #16: Holy Molar "Live at the San Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center" 7" EP *Three One G #17:

"Ball" b/w "Peace In The Valley" 7" single/ book *Three One G #18: Jenny Piccolo/ Asterisk 10" EP *Three One G #19:

"To Paint The Kettle Black" 7" single *Three One G #20: V/A "Dynamite With A Laser Beam" LP/CD *Three One G #21: The Blood Brothers "March On Electric Children" LP/CD *Three One G #22:

"Human Jerky" CD *Three One G #23: Love Life "Hex It Out" b/w "Be Kind To Me" single *Three One G #24: Holy Molar 10" EP *Three One G #25: Holy Molar "The Whole Tooth And Nothing But The Tooth" CDx2 *Three One G #26:

"2nd 18/04" LP/CD *Three One G #27: Get Hustle "Dream Eagle" 12" EP *Three One G #28:

12" EP *Three One G #29:

"Stolen Singles" CD *Three One G #30:

"Circa 77 7" Single *Three One G #31: Asterisk "Dogma" CD *Three One G #32: Quintron "Are You Ready For An Organ Solo?" LP/CD *Three One G #33:

"Gems Of Masochism" LP/CD *Three One G #34: V/A "Release The Bats" LP/CD *Three One G #35: Holy Molar/ Ex Models split 7" EP *Three One G #36:

"Queen Hygiene II/ Rough Day At The Orifice" CD *Three One G #37: V/A "This Is Circumstantial Evidence" DVD *Three One G #38:

"Dangerous Dreams" LP *Three One G #39:

"Follow The flock, Step In Shit" CDEP *Three One G #40: Some Girls "All My Friends Are Going Death" LP *Three One G #41: The Chinese Stars "A Rare Sensation" LP/CD *Three One G #42:

/ T Cells split LP/CDx2 *Three One G #43: Jaks "Here Lies The Body Of Jaks" CD *Three One G #44: The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower "Love in the Fascist Brothel" LP *Three One G #45: Some Girls "The DNA Will Have It's Say" 7"/CDEP *Three One G #46: Some Girls "Heaven's Pregnant Teens" LP *Three One G #47:

S/T 10"/CDEP *Three One G #48: Get Hustle "Rollin' In The Ruins" LP/CD *Three One G #49: Holy Molar "Cavity Search" 7"/CDEP *Three One G #50: Holy Molar "Dentist The Menace" DVD *Three One G #51: Jenny Piccolo "Discography" CD *Three One G #52: Das Oath S/T CD *Three One G #53: Ground Unicorn Horn "Damn I wish I was Fat" b/w "Someone..." 7"/CDEP *Three One G #54: The Chinese Stars "Listen To Your Left Brain" CD *Three One G #55: Geronimo S/T CD *Three One G #56:

"Sunshine For Shady People" DVD *Three One G #57: Zs "Hard" EP 12" EP/CDEP *Three One G #58: Justin Pearson "From The Graveyard Of The Arousal Industry" book *Three One G #59:

"Situations On Mars" 7" single *Three One G #60: Rats Eyes "II" 7" EP *Three One G #61: Retox S/T 7" EP *Three One G #62: Retox "Ugly Animals" LP/CD *Three One G #63: Secret Fun Club "Skull With Antlers" LP *Three One G #64: Warsawwasraw "Jahiliya" 7" single *Three One G #65 Justin Pearson "How To Lose Friends And Irritate People" Book/Flexi set *Three One G #66 Retox "YPLL" LP/CD *Three One G #67 Zeus! "Opera" LP/CD *Three One G #68 Paper Mice "The Funny Papers" CD *Three One G #69 Ill Saint M/ Justin Pearson "Pigs Orphan" 12" EP *Three One G #70 Bastard Noise/ Geronimo "Inertia" split 12" *Three One G #71 Leg Lifters "Radical Humiliation" 7" single *Three One G #72 Kill The Capulets "The Stranger" LP *Three One G #73 Doomsday Student "A Walk Through Hysteria Park" LP *Three One G #74 Warsawwasraw "Sensitizer" LP/ CD *Three One G #75 All Leather "Insufficient Apology" 7" single *Three One G #76 Qui/ Secret Fun Club 7" single *Three One G #77 Narrows/ Retox 7" EP *Three One G #78 Hot Nerds "Strategically Placed Bananas" LP *Three One G #79 Retox "Beneath California" LP *Three One G #80 Justin Pearson /

"Incompresa" 7" single *Three One G #81 Zeus! "Motomonotono" LP/CD *Three One G #82

"Eraser" 7" single *Three One G #83 Hot Nerds "Generic Plans For a New Blunder" 7" *Three One G #84 Into Violence S/T cassette EP *Three One G #85 Planet B "Wrong Utopia" 7" single *Three One G #86 Silent "A Century of Abuse" LP *Three One G #87 Adam Gnade "Locust House" book *Three One G #88 Doomsday Student "A Self-Help Tragedy" LP *Three One G #89 Invisibl Skratch Piklz/ Planet B 7" single *Three One G #90 Adam Gnade "Voicemails From the Great Satan" EP *Three One G #91 Panicker LP *Three One G #92 Death Eyes "Si La Revancha Fuera Una Opcion" 7" EP *Three One G #93 Dead Cross '' Dead Cross'' LP/CD *Three One G #94 Qui "Snuh" LP/ CD *Three One G #95 The Chinese Stars "Heaven On Speed Dial" LP *Three One G #96 Justin Pearson "Race to Zero" book *Three One G #97 Microwaves "Via Weightlessness" LP *Three One G #98 Planet B LP/CD *Three One G #99

EP *Three One G #100 V/A "Really Bad Music For Really Bad People" LP *Three One G #101 Secret Fun Club LP *Three One G #102 More Pain EP *Three One G #103 Geronimo "Obsolete" LP *Three One G #104 INUS "Western Spaghettification" LP *Three One G #105 Zealot - R.I.P. 12" EP *Three One G #106 Adam Gnade "This Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You" book *Three One G #107 Deaf Club "Contemporary Sickness" 7" EP *Three One G #108 Downcast "Tell Me I'm Alive" LP *Three One G #109

"Anthology" LP *Three One G #110 Adam Gnade "Float Me Away, Floodwaters" book *Three One G #111 Paper Mice "1-800 Mondays" LP *Three One G #112 Silent "Modern Hate" LP *Three One G #113 Zealot R.I.P. "The Extinction of You" LP *Three One G #114

"Acid" b/w "Slow Decay" 7" *Three One G #115 Run For Your Fucking Life LP *Three One G #116 Satanic Planet S/T LP *Three One G #117 Deaf Club "Productive Disruption" LP *Three One G #118 Under Attack "Preservations Crash" 7"EP *Three One G #119 Sonido De La Frontera "Sonidero Guerrillero" LP *Three One G #120 Run For Your Fucking Life S/T 7" *Three One G #121 Adam Gnade "After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different" book *Three One G #122 Netherlands "Kali Corvette" LP *Three One G #123 Deaf Club "Bad Songs Forever" 7" EP *Three One G #124 End of the Line "Self-titled" LP *Three One G #125

"Safety Second, Body Last" 12" EP *Three One G #126 Haunted Horses "The Worst Has Finally Happened" LP *Three One G #127 Microwaves "Discomfiture Atlas" LP *Three One G #128 Dead Cross "II" LP/ CD *Three One G #129 Adam Gnade feat. Planet B "Life is the Meatgrinder that Sucks in All Things" cassette *Three One G #130

"New Erections" LP *Three One G #131 Venamoris "Drown In Emotion" LP *Three One G #132 ADULT. / Planet B "Release Me" single *Three One G #133 Adam Gnade "The Internet Newspaper" book *Three One G #134 Fuck Money "Selt titled" cassette EP *Three One G #135 Squid Pisser "My Tadpole Legion" LP *Three One G #136 Stress Positions "Harsh Reality" LP *Three One G #137 Angel Hair "Insect Immorality" LP *Three One G #138 Nonexistent Night “In The Middle Of A Boiling Sea” LP *Three One G #139 Adam Gnade "I Wish To Say Lovely Things" book *Three One G #140 Planet B "Fiction Prediction" LP *Three One G #141 N8NOFACE/ Planet B con .MS.BOAN 7" EP *Three One G #142 Deaf Club feat. HIRS Collective / Fuck Money 7" EP *Three One G #143 Help "Courage" LP *Three One G #144 Adam Gnade "Your Friends Will Carry You Home" book *Three One G #145 Haunted Horses "Dweller" LP *Three One G #146 Justin Pearson "GG Alien and the Mystery Meat" book *Three One G #147 Guck LP *Three One G #148 Venus Twins "/\/\/\/\/" EP *Three One G #149

"Peel Sessions" LP *Three One G #150 Stress Positions "Human Zoo" LP

Digital Releases

*Three One G #Digit1 Leg Lifters "Elle Poupe Dans La Rue" single *Three One G #Digit2 Leg Lifters "Eat Cake, Lose Weight" single *Three One G #Digit3 Hot Nerds S/T EP *Three One G #Digit4 Struggle "One Settler, One Bullet" LP *Three One G #Digit5 Wet Lungs "Vile Hobbies" EP *Three One G #Digit6 Adam Gnade featuring Planet B "Locust House excerpt" single *Three One G #Digit7

featuring Justin Pearson "Warsaw" single *Three One G #Digit8 Doomsday Student "A Jumper's Handbook" LP *Three One G #Digit9 Doomsday Student "Angry Christmas" single *Three One G #Digit10 Adam Gnade "Americans" EP *Three One G #Digit11 Adam Gnade "Greater Mythology Blues" EP *Three One G #Digit12 Adam Gnade feat. Planet B "Life is the Meatgrinder that Sucks in All Things" single *Three One G #Digit13 The Chinese Stars "Heaven On Speed Dial" LP *Three One G #Digit14 Panicker "Blasphony" EP *Three One G #Digit15 Silent "Prayers For Rain" single *Three One G #Digit16 Luke Henshaw/

"Variations in the Key of the Afterlife" *Three One G #Digit17

"Bent" LP *Three One G #Digit18 Planet B "Bad Girls" single *Three One G #Digit19 Deaf Club "Contemporary Sickness" remix EP *Three One G #Digit20 Death Eyes "State of Fear" EP *Three One G #Digit21 Deaf Club "The Wait" single *Three One G #Digit22 Satanic Planet "Steve-O Takes a Trip to Satanic Planet" single *Three One G #Digit23 Sonido De La Frontera "Cumbia Mundial" LP *Three One G #Digit24 Venamoris "The Gift" single *Three One G #Digit25

"A New Wave of Violence" LP *Three One G #Digit26 Venus Twins "/\/\/\/\/" EP *Three One G #Digit27 Paper Mice "Neurotic City" EP *Three One G #Digit28 Deaf Club "El Camino Car Crash" single

Radio Surgery

*Radio Surgery #1

"Safety Second, Body Last" 12" single *Radio Surgery #2

"New Erections" LP *Radio Surgery #3

"Peel Sessions" LP

References

External links

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