Volcom Entertainment, officially founded in 1995, in
Big Bear, California, and currently based in
Costa Mesa, CA is the brainchild of
Volcom founder Richard Woolcott and theLINE's singer/guitarist Ryan Immegart. Ryan being Volcom's first sponsored snowboarder and having a love for music provided the necessary components to launch the label through Volcom. Being a brand recognized worldwide for its youth lifestyle clothing allowed Volcom the perfect chance to introduce theLINE's "self-titled" debut CD within the surf/skate/snow community.
In the next several years the label continued to grow through traditional and nontraditional record retail, launching bands such as CKY, Vaux, and Pepper. A 100% owned subsidiary of Volcom, some of their best-known artists today include Pepper, Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers, Year Long Disaster and Guttermouth. Volcom Ent. produced the "Volcom Stage" on the Vans Warped Tour for 10 years and in 2007 began their own annual international tour, simply called "The Volcom Tour". In 2008 they launched a subscription based vinyl record club coined "VEVC (Volcom Ent Vinyl Club)" which delivers subscribers collectable vinyl singles all over the world bi-monthly. They have also created an annual music competition for unsigned rock bands called the "Band Joust".
Bands
Current bands
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Birds of Avalon
*Con$umer$
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Die Hunns
*Kandi Coded
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Riverboat Gamblers
Riverboat Gamblers is an American punk rock band originally from Denton, Texas, formed in 1997, now residing in Austin, Texas. The band's current line-up comprises vocalist Mike Wiebe, guitarist/voc Fadi El-Assad, guitarist/voc Ian MacDougall, ...
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Goons of Doom
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The Lovely Bad Things
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theLINE
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Totimoshi
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Torche
*Tweak Bird
*Sexty Sexers
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Valient Thorr
Valient Thorr is an American southern rock/ heavy metal band from Greenville, North Carolina. The name of the band is based on the urban legend of Valiant Thor, an Alien which came from Venus to Earth. Valient explained, "That'll be the backg ...
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Pepper
*Spoonfed
Former bands
*A Faith Called Chaos
*Another Damn Disappointment (A.D.D.)
*Arkham
*Arraya
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ASG
*Bueno
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cKy
*Generic
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Guttermouth
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Vaux
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Year Long Disaster
Year Long Disaster was an American rock band from Los Angeles. Formed in 2004, the band was composed of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Davies, bassist Rich Mullins and drummer Brad Hargreaves. Hargreaves was later replaced by Rob Oswald, and gu ...
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List of record labels
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American record labels
Companies based in Newport Beach, California