Trend Is Dead! Records (stylized tREND iS dEAD! records) is an
independent record label
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in
Normal, Illinois
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. The label was founded in 1995 and released titles on cassette and vinyl before switching to compact discs.
Trend Is Dead! is recognized for its
punk
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releases, although some have delved into experimental, rock, garage, industrial, and hardcore. The label has released material by
Frantics,
Dee Dee Ramone
Douglas Glenn Colvin (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002), better known by his stage name Dee Dee Ramone, was an American musician. He was the bassist and a founding member of the punk rock band Ramones. Throughout the band's existence, he w ...
,
Dade County Resistance,
Black Left Pinky,
Santa's Dead,
Youth Gone Mad, and
Sonny Vincent and the Bad Reactions.
Compilation albums
After some success pressing small runs of tapes of local artists, Trend Is Dead! Records began issuing ten band compilation cassettes involving bands from the Blo/No scene, alongside other groups from across the United States. The first CD released by Trend Is Dead! Records was the ''
Trendy Compilation'' in 1998.
* ''
tREND iS dEAD! Volume One'' (1996)
* ''
tREND iS dEAD! Volume Two'' (1997)
* ''
tREND iS dEAD! Volume Three'' (1998)
* ''
Trendy Compilation'' (1998)
* ''
Worse Than Alternative It's Another PUNK COMP'' (1999)
* ''
Ramones Maniacs'' (tribute, 2001)
* ''
¿dEAD iS tREND?'' Sampler (2005)
Artists
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Black Left Pinky
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Brothers Boch
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Cletus
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Courtney Ono
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Dade County Resistance
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Dee Dee Ramone
Douglas Glenn Colvin (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002), better known by his stage name Dee Dee Ramone, was an American musician. He was the bassist and a founding member of the punk rock band Ramones. Throughout the band's existence, he w ...
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End Me
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Frantics
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Love Camp 7
''Love Camp 7'' is a 1969 American women-in-prison Nazisploitation B-movie directed by Lee Frost (credited as R.L. Frost) and written by Wes Bishop and Bob Cresse, the latter of whom also portrays a sadistic camp commandant.
Plot
Two American ...
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OPIUM
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
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Pee Pee Touchers
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The Pull-Outs
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Sonny Vincent
Sonny Vincent (born July 7, 1952, New York City, United States) is an American Rock musician. He has been active in music since the 60s and in particular the mid-1970s, when he was part of the New York City punk rock scene with his original band, T ...
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t.r. (Totally Ridiculous)
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Youth Gone Mad
See also
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List of record labels
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External links
Official site
Record labels established in 1995
American independent record labels
Punk record labels
Companies based in Bloomington–Normal
American companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Illinois
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