Bomp! Records

Bomp! Records
Founded	1974
Founder	Greg Shaw (with partner Suzy Shaw)
Genre	Garage rock Punk rock Protopunk Glam rock Power pop New wave Indie
Country of origin	United States
Location	Los Angeles, California
Official Website	www.bomp.com

Bomp! Records is an Los Angeles-based indie label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw.

History

Mick Farren with Patrick Boissel at the signing of the BOMP! book at Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks, California

The label has featured punk, pop, powerpop, garage rock, new wave, old school rock, neo-psychedelia among other genres, and its roster has included artists such as The Modern Lovers, Iggy & The Stooges, Stiv Bators & The Dead Boys, 20/20, Shoes, Devo, The Weirdos, The Romantics, Spacemen 3, The Germs, Jeff Dahl, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Black Lips.

Shaw died from heart failure at the age of 55 on October 19, 2004. Bomp! Records is currently headed by his ex-wife and life-long partner, Suzy Shaw.

Along with Mick Farren, Suzy Shaw co-authored Bomp: Saving The World One Record At A Time, published by Ammo Books in 2007. In 2009 Bomp! and Ugly Things published a follow-up, Bomp2 – Born In The Garage, edited by Suzy Shaw and Mike Stax.

Notable artists

Listed alphabetically

• 20/20
• Stiv Bators
• The Barracudas
• Beachwood Sparks
• The Beat
• Black Lips
• Blow-Up
• The Breakaways
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• Coffin Lids
• Paul Collins
• Jeff Dahl
• Dead Boys
• Dead Meadow
• Devo
• DMZ
• Dreadful Yawns
• Floorian
• Gravedigger Five
• Germs
• Hollowbody
• The Hollywood Squares
• The Konks
• Laughing Soup Dish
• The Last
• Les Hell On Heels
• Lord John
• The Miracle Workers
• Modern Lovers
• The Morlocks
• The Nerves
• Nikki & The Corvettes
• The Pandoras
• Plan 9
• The Romantics
• Shoes
• Spacemen 3
• The Stooges
• Mark Sultan
• The Telescopes
• The Things
• The Warlocks
• Weirdos
• The Zeros

The Eyes of Mind

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Bomp! Records Official site
• Bomp: Saving The World One Record At A Time (by Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren) (Defunct prior to 8/11)
• The Bomp! History lesson (Defunct prior to 8/11)