Tooth & Nail Records

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Tooth & Nail Records
Image:Tooth and Nail Records logo.png
Parent company	EMI CMG
Founded	1993
Founder	Brandon Ebel
Genre	Christian rock Alternative rock Punk rock Indie Rock Post Hardcore
Country of origin	USA
Official website	toothandnail.com

Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today. Its first album distributed was Wish For Eden's Pet the Fish, which was executive produced by Michael Knott and originally slated to be released by Blonde Vinyl. Although the label has distribution mostly in the Christian music market, it has released albums by bands who prefer not to be labeled as Christian artists.

Contents 1 Sublabels 2 Structure 3 Tooth & Nail artist list 3.1 Current 3.2 Alumni 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Sublabels

• BEC Recordings
• Solid State Records
• Plastiq Musiq

[edit] Structure

Tooth & Nail contains multiple sublabels, each catering to a different genre of music:

• BEC Recordings mostly includes artists in the mainstream sect of Christian rock such as Kutless and Jeremy Camp, with some exceptions (such as hip hop artists KJ-52 and Manafest.
• Solid State Records distributes metal and hardcore albums by artists such as Demon Hunter and Underoath.
• Uprok Records was a Christian hip hop label that included many of the genre's early successes, such as ILL Harmonics and KJ-52. It appears to be dissolved, though hip hop albums distributed by BEC Recordings still bear its logo (most recently Glory by Manafest).
• Plastiq Musiq (founded by Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric) primarily signs electronic music artists, with some exceptions such as Pilots vs. Aeroplanes. Plastiq Musiq has departed from the Tooth & Nail empire and is no longer owned or operated by Martin.

The label acquired Takehold Records, an independent record label, in 2002. Tooth & Nail is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group.

[edit] Tooth & Nail artist list

The following artists either are performing or have performed under the Tooth & Nail label.

[edit] Current

afterEIGHT The Almost As Cities Burn The Becoming Children 18:3 The Classic Crime Corey Crowder Dead Poetic A Dream Too Late Emery Far-Less Fair FM Static The Fold Hawk Nelson Ivoryline Jonezetta Joy Electric

The Brothers Martin mewithoutYou MxPx Neon Horse Number One Gun Project 86 Run Kid Run Ruth Search the City Secret and Whisper The Send Showbread Spoken Aaron Sprinkle Starflyer 59 Surrogate Thousand Foot Krutch Underoath

[edit] Alumni

Ace Troubleshooter (Disbanded, members now in Relient K and My Red Hot Nightmare) All Wound Up Anberlin (now on Universal Republic Records) AP2 (Disbanded) The Blamed (Disbanded; members now in The Satire, Big Mess, and The Wiitala Brothers) Bleach (Disbanded; members now in Royal Empire Music, Wild, Wonderful, and Comrade) Blenderhead (On hiatus) Blindside (Active; currently have no label) Bloodshed (Disbanded) Bon Voyage (Disbanded; former side project for members of Starflyer 59) Brave Saint Saturn (Active) Calibretto 13 (Disbanded; members now in Harley Poe, Everything, Now, Divebomber, and Darling) CHATTERbOX (Disbanded; members went on to form Stavesacre) The Cootees (Disbanded; former side project for members of MXPX, Ninety Pound Wuss, and Slick Shoes) Craig's Brother (Active; currently on Takeover Records) Crash Rickshaw (Active; side project for members of Project 86) The Crucified (Disbanded; members went on to play in Stavesacre) Crux Damien Jurado (Active; currently on Secretly Canadian) Danielson Famile (Active; currently on Secretly Canadian) The Deadlines (Disbanded; members now in The Bullies, The Escape, Haunted Bayou, and Kisses Lose Their Charm) Delta Haymax (Disbanded) The Deluxtone Rockets (Disbanded) The Dingees (Active) Discover America (Active) Dogwood (Active; ex-member now in Reeve Oliver) Don't Know (Disbanded) Driver Eight (Disbanded) Element 101 (Disbanded; members went on to form Action Reaction) Everdown (Disbanded) Fanmail (Disbanded; member in Radio Saints) Fighting Jacks (Active) Fine China (Disbanded; members now in The Foxglove Hunt) Focal Point (Disbanded, one member went on to form Training for Utopia and is now in Demon Hunter) Focused (Disbanded) For Love Not Lisa (Disbanded; members went on to form Puller) Frodus (Disbanded; members went on to form The Black Sea, Decahedron, Frantic Mantis, and The Cassettes; and Shelby Cinca now records as a solo artist) Furthermore (Disbanded) Further Seems Forever (Disbanded; one member is now in Action Reaction) Ghoti Hook (Disbanded) Goodnight Star (Active; currently on Miniature Records) Halo Friendlies (On hiatus; one member is now in The Smashing Pumpkins) Hangnail (Disbanded) Havalina (Disbanded; members now in Matt Death and the New Intellectuals) Holland (changed name to The Lonely Hearts) House of Wires (Disbanded) The Huntingtons (Disbanded; members now in Main Line Riders) Joe Christmas (Disbanded; members in Summer Hymns)

The Juliana Theory (Disbanded, one member in Vesta) Klank (Active) Living Sacrifice (Disbanded) The Lonely Hearts (Active) Lucerin Blue (On hiatus) Luxury (Active, currently on Northern Records) Mae (Active, currently on Capitol Records) Mike Knott (Active) Morella's Forest (Disbanded) Mortal (On hiatus) Ninety Pound Wuss (Disbanded, members went on to form Raft of Dead Monkeys and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves) Norway (Disbanded) Off the Record (Disbanded) Outer Circle (Disbanded, former side project for members of Stavesacre) Overcome (Disbanded) The O.C. Supertones (Disbanded, members now in My Red Hot Nightmare, and Demon Hunter) Pedro the Lion (Disbanded, David Bazan now in Headphones and performing solo) Pep Squad (Disbanded) Plankeye (Disbanded; Ex-members went on to form Fielding and Fanmail) P.O.D. (Active, currently on Columbia Records) Poor Old Lu (Disbanded, members went on to form Fair, Rose Blossom Punch, and perform solo) Puller (Disbanded) The River Bends (On hiatus) Roadside Monument (Disbanded, members went on to form Unwed Sailor, Raft of Dead Monkeys, and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves) Rob Walker (On hiatus) Royal (Disbanded) Sal Paradise (Disbanded) Shorthanded (Disbanded) Side Walk Slam (Disbanded, members now in Run Kid Run) Slick Shoes (On indefinite hiatus, members now in Sigmund) Slow Coming Day (Disbanded) Sometime Sunday (Disbanded, members went on to form Tragedy Ann) Squad Five-O (Disbanded, members now in Gasoline Heart, Adam and Dave's Bloodline) Stavesacre (has announced plans to disband, members rumored to be in Neon Horse) Strongarm (Disbanded, members went on to form Further Seems Forever) Sullivan (Disbanded) Terminal (Disbanded, members now in Alive in Wild Paint, Oh, Sleeper) Too Bad Eugene (Disbanded) Training for Utopia (Disbanded, members went on to form Demon Hunter) Twothirtyeight (Disbanded, members went on to form Discover America) Unashamed (Disbanded) The Undecided (Disbanded) Upside Down Room (Disbanded) Value Pac (Disbanded, members in Radio Saints) Velour 100 (Disbanded) Waking Ashland (Disbanded, Jonathan Jones went solo Immortal Records Jones also formed We Shot The Moon with members of Sherwood) Watashi Wa (Disbanded, members now in Lakes, and Briertone) The Wednesdays (Active, currently with Thorp Records) Wish For Eden (Disbanded) Zao (Active)

[edit] See also

• Tooth & Nail Records Discography
• List of record labels

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• A list of past Tooth & Nail artistsde:Tooth & Nail Records

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