Tooth & Nail Records
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| Parent company | EMI |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder | Brandon Ebel |
| Distributing label | EMI Christian Music Group |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Official website | www.toothandnail.com |
Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today. It is presently home to many well-known rock acts, including Underoath, Emery, Hawk Nelson, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, Family Force 5, And Then There Were None, MxPx, The Almost, and Showbread.
Tooth & Nail's first album released was Wish For Eden's Pet the Fish,[1] which was produced by Michael Knott and originally slated to be released by Blonde Vinyl. Subsequent releases from The Juliana Theory, MxPx, and Starflyer 59 made Tooth & Nail a strong force in Christian music circles, as well as a niche underground subculture in itself. Prior to forming Tooth & Nail Ebel worked for the Christian label Frontline.[2] The label resists the identification as a Christian record label; Ebel states that his philosophy is to "allow artists who are Christians to create their art."[2] With art in mind, some artists are signed with the full knowledge that the label will lose money on the venture.[2]
Tooth & Nail has been in the mainstream spotlight many times, gracing the covers of magazines such as Alternative Press, and has seen airplay on TV giants such as MTV and Fuse. Many of the label's bands have headlined tours such as Rockstar Taste Of Chaos Tour and Vans Warped Tour.
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[edit] Sales
Six of Tooth & Nail affiliated albums have been RIAA-certified as Gold for sales of 500,000 or more copies. The label saw one of its greatest successes when Underoath's Define the Great Line debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 in 2006.[3]
[edit] Gold albums
| Artist | Album |
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| Jeremy Camp | Carried Me: The Worship Project |
| Stay | |
| Restored | |
| Underoath | Define the Great Line |
| Kutless | Strong Tower |
| MxPx | Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo |
[edit] Nominations & awards
| Year | Artist | Album / Song | Award | Result / Category | Other |
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| 2006 | Norma Jean | O God, the Aftermath | Grammy | Nominated - Best Recording Package | Solid State Records |
| mewithoutYou | – | mtvU Woodie | Won - Left Field | ||
| 2007 | Fair | The Best Worst-Case Scenario | Grammy | Nominated - Best Recording Package | |
| Underoath | "Writing on the Walls" | Grammy | Nominated - Best Short Form Music Video | ||
| 2008 | The Fold | Secrets Keep You Sick | Grammy | Nominated - Best Recording Package | |
| 2009 | Hawk Nelson | Hawk Nelson Is My Friend | Grammy | Nominated - Best Recording Package |
[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 commercial 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[2] by artists such as Demon Hunter, Haste the Day and Underoath.
- Uprok Records was a hip hop label that included many of the genre's early successes, such as ILL Harmonics and KJ-52. It is 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 signed electronic music artists,[2] with some exceptions such as Pilots vs. Aeroplanes. Tooth & Nail entered a partnership to distribute Plastiq Musiq albums in 1998 and 1999.
The label acquired Takehold Records, an independent record label, in 2002.
EMI Christian Music Group owns a 50% stake in Tooth & Nail.[4]
[edit] Artist list
The following artists either are performing or have performed under the Tooth & Nail label.
[edit] Current
- The Almost
- And Then There Were None
- The Becoming
- Behold, the Conqueror!
- Bon Voyage
- Children 18:3
- The Classic Crime
- Copeland (Plans to disband after final farwall tour in early 2010)
- Corey Crowder
- The Crucified
- The Drawing Room
- Emery
- Fair
- Family Force 5
- FM Static
- Hawk Nelson
- Ivoryline
- Jonezetta
- Joy Electric
- The Letter Black
- Mae(Signed to Cell Records; The band still has a distribution agreement with Tooth & Nail though)
- MxPx
- Neon Horse
- Number One Gun
- Poema
- Project 86
- Queens Club
- Run Kid Run
- Ruth
- Secret and Whisper
- Sent By Ravens
- Showbread
- Since October
- Starflyer 59
- Surrogate
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- Underoath
[edit] Former
- Ace Troubleshooter (Disbanded, members now in Relient K and My Red Hot Nightmare)
- A Dream Too Late (Active)
- All Wound Up (Disbanded)
- Anberlin (Active, now signed to Republic Records)
- AP2 (Disbanded)
- Aaron Sprinkle (Currently the lead singer of Fair)
- As Cities Burn (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)
- Bloodshed (Disbanded; members now in Pilot Whale)
- Brave Saint Saturn (Active; side project for members of Five Iron Frenzy and Roper)
- The Brothers Martin (Status unknown, most likely a one-time project)
- Calibretto 13 (Disbanded; members now in Harley Poe, Everything, Now!, Divebomber, and Darling)
- Capital Lights (Disbanded August 21, 2009)
- 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)
- Crux (Active, unsigned)
- 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 (Reunited, two new demos on MySpace)
- Fanmail (Disbanded; members in Radio Saints and My Compatriots)
- Far-Less (Indefinite Hiatus after release of EP this Summer)
- 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)
- The Fold (Active, currently unsigned)
- 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)
- Further Seems Forever (Disbanded; members went on to form Dashboard Confessional, Action Reaction and Fields Forever)
- 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, three member in Vesta)
- Klank (Active)
- The Lonely Hearts (Active, one member in Demon Hunter)
- Lucerin Blue (Disbanded)
- Luxury (Active, currently on Northern Records)
- MewithoutYou (On hiatus)
- 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 (Active, independent)
- The O.C. Supertones (Disbanded, members now in Relient K, and Demon Hunter)
- Off the Record (Disbanded)
- Outer Circle (Disbanded, former side project for members of Stavesacre)
- Overcome (Disbanded, members went on to form Indwelling)
- 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 INO Records)
- Poor Old Lu (Disbanded, members went on to form Fair, Rose Blossom Punch, and perform solo)
- Puller (Disbanded)
- The River Bends (On hiatus; Denison Witmer records as a solo artist on The Militia Group records)
- Roadside Monument (Disbanded, members went on to form Unwed Sailor, Raft of Dead Monkeys, and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves)
- Rob Walker (On hiatus)
- .rod laver (disbanded)
- Royal (Disbanded)
- Sal Paradise (Disbanded)
- Search the City (Indefinite hiatus)
- The Send (On hiatus, currently writing material for a new album)
- 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)
- Spoken (Active, on The Alien Patrol Records/Fidelity Entertainment Group)
- Squad Five-O (Disbanded, members now in Gasoline Heart, Marah, and 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, members now in Surprises and Small States, To Speak Of Wolves)
- Terminal (Disbanded, members now in Alive in Wild Paint, Oh, Sleeper)
- Too Bad Eugene (Disbanded)
- 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, Joe Greenetz and Dan Koch. Sherwood is unaffected by this side project.)
- Watashi Wa (changed name to Eager Seas, then disbanded; members now in Lakes, and Briertone)
- The Wednesdays (Active, currently with Thorp Records)
- Wish For Eden (Disbanded)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Brown, Bruce A. (February 1994). "R.E.X. Begins to Distribute for Grrr Records". CCM Magazine 16 (8): 12. ISSN 1524-7848.
- ^ a b c d e Bonham, Chad (May / June 1998). "Tooth & Nail". 7ball (18): 22-25. ISSN 1082-3980.
- ^ "Underoath – Define the Great Line". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=477820&aid=785760. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ Welcome to EMICMG.com
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