DRT Entertainment was a New York City based

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founded in 2003 by Derek Shulman, Ron Urban, and Theodore "Ted" Green. The label is defunct. The label advertised itself as an "artist friendly hard rock music company for bands with a touring fan base." The company was distributed by

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. DRT was also distributed by

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and a variety of companies in the rest of the world including Soulfood in Germany,

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in Australia and JVC Records in Japan. DRT had one subsidiary label, Brass Tacks Records. It was a

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founded by the Street Dogs. In 2005, it released Alucard Music's "35th Anniversary" editions of many CDs by

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, Shulman's former band. (Thirty-five years after the debut album.) The label closed in 2009.

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