Idol Records

Idol Records
Parent company	Idol Records Group
Founded	1993 (1993)
Founder	Erv Karwelis
Genre	Rock, indie rock, punk rock, hip hop, instrumental, heavy metal, Americana
Country of origin	United States
Location	Dallas, Texas
Official website	idolrecords.com

Idol Records is a Dallas, Texas-based record label and publishing company founded in 1993 by Erv Karwelis, who serves as president of the label. Its roster consists of bands such as The O's, Dead Flowers, The Crash That Took Me, Here Holy Spain, Sponge, Watershed, and Flickerstick. In January 2009, Idol launched an art-pop sub label Exploding Plastic Records. The first band signed to the label was Little Black Dress.

Idol Records received the Dallas Observer Music Award for "Best Record Label" 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007.

Idol Records is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

Artists

• Admirals
• The American Fuse
• Aztec Milk Temple
• Billyclub
• Black Tie Dynasty
• Boys Named Sue
• Calhoun
• Centro-matic
• Charming Gardeners
• Chomsky
• Clumsy
• Cold Cash Machine
• The Crash That Took Me
• Daryl
• Darstar
• Dead Flowers
• The Deathray Davies
• Descender
• Dove Hunter
• The Fags
• The Falcon Project
• Feisty Cadavers
• Flickerstick
• Funland
• GBH
• Gaston Light
• Gunfighter
• Hagfish
• Here Holy Spain
• Hoarse
• Chris Holt
• Jetta in the Ghost Tree
• Lorelei K
• Trey Johnson
• Will Johnson
• Little Black Dress
• Macavity
• The Mag Seven
• Mazinga Phaser
• Mitra
• MOTORCADE
• Moxy Roxx
• Name the Moon
• The O's
• Old 97's
• The Paper Chase
• Pervis
• Vanessa Peters
• Pikahsso
• Todd Pipes
• Protest
• PPT
• Puke A Rama
• Red Like Heat
• Glen Reynolds
• Secrecies
• Shibboleth
• Skeemin' NoGoods
• The Slack
• Sponge
• Tahiti
• These Machines Are Winning
• Vehicles
• The Warden
• Watershed

See also

• List of record labels

General references

• Black White Read Idol Records Feature
• Dallas Observer Indie label feature

External links

• Official site
• Idol Records discography at Discogs