Loosegroove Records is a

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based

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formed by Pearl Jam guitarist

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and

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drummer

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in 1994. Initially a subsidiary of Sony before going

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in 1996, Loosegroove signed many up and coming artists from various musical genres, especially rock and hip hop. Significantly, Gossard signed

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to Loosegroove, releasing the band's debut album in 1998. Others who worked with Loosegroove include

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, Weapon of Choice,

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, Prose and Concepts, Ponga, Hi Fi Killers,

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and Eureka Farm. Loosegroove also released the Seattle Hip Hop Compilation ''14 Fathoms Deep'' in January 1997, and the soundtrack to the movie Chicago Cab in 1998. Loosegroove Records closed in 2000. In 2000 the Loosegroove catalog was acquired by

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, who now operates as Lakeshore Records. Loosegrove executive Matt Shay later became vice-president of marketing/A&R at

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, and helped Pearl Jam join said label and release the 2006 album '' Pearl Jam''. In 2020 a resurrected Loosegroove Records, again overseen by Gossard and Hagar, released the long-awaited debut of Gossard's side project Painted Shield In 2021 the label released the album ''1982'' by the band The Living, which includes

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(guitar),

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(drums), John Conte (vocals), and Todd Fleischman (bass). The Living was their teenage punk band in the early 1980s.

References

External links

Seattle Times
A New Label For New Bands: Gossard Helps Make It Happen

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