BYO Records
Better Youth Organization Records (BYO) is a Los Angeles, California based independent punk rock record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam Stern who plays bass but does not run BYO). BYO sold major interest to Trust Records in 2019.
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BYO Records
- Name
- Better Youth Organization Records
- Founded
- 1982
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles
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Better Youth Organization Records (BYO) is a Los Angeles, California based independent punk rock record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam Stern who plays bass but does not run BYO). BYO sold major interest to Trust Records in 2019.
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• Name — Better Youth Organization Records • Founded — 1981 • Founder — Shawn Stern, Mark Stern • Genre — Punk rock, hardcore punk • Country — U.S. • Location — Los Angeles, California
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BYO aims to promote punk and other alternative youth cultures in a positive light. BYO released records by 7 Seconds, Agression, and SNFU in the 1980s, as well as Leatherface, Kosher, The Unseen, Throw Rag, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, Automatic 7 and The Briefs. It also started the BYO Split Series of full-length records shared by bands from other labels, such as Leatherface/Hot Water Music, Swingin' Utters/Youth Brigade, NOFX/Rancid, The Bouncing Souls/Anti-Flag and Alkaline Trio/One Man Army. Before BYO became a record label they started as a fanzine, in 1981, named after their namesake. The zine intended to tackle the issues of police brutality and the negative views towards punks and the punk scene. As of late-2013, the label is defunct.
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1982
BYO Records established.
1998
BYO RECORDS 1998 Summer-Fall Catalog (1998) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- 1.News: Trust Records Form Partnership With Better Youth Organization. New Noise Magazine. 27 janvier 2022.
- 2.Brian Broccoli. Before Indie Distributors, Before the Internet, Before Green Day BYO Records Celebrates 20 Years as a Punk Rock Label. Ink 19. février 2002.
- 3.Punk Zines and Ephemera. oac.cdlib.org.
- 4.Trust Records brings BYO Records discography to streaming platforms. punkrocktheory.com. 3 janvier 2022.
- 5.Trust Records and BYO team up for digital offerings. scenepointblank.com. 31 janvier 2022.
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