Load Records
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Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label .
It was begun by Ben McOsker to put a 7-inch record out for band Boss Fuel. The label quickly became the most prominent source for the noise music coming out of Providence, Rhode Island --loosely functioning in the same way that Sub Pop served grunge out of Seattle in the early '90s. Some claim McOsker has released some of the most exciting noise/experimental music of the early '00s, including new music from Lightning Bolt, Neon Hunk, Metalux, Noxagt and Friends Forever. Others have attributed a cookie-cutter aesthetic to the label. Make up your own mind!
The music of Load Records is popularized and reviewed through national zines like Blastitude, Arthur and Dead Angel.
Bands that have released material on the Load Records label:
- Arab On Radar
- Astoveboat
- Brainbombs
- Burmese
- Coughs
- Excepter
- Fat Day
- Forcefield
- Friends Forever
- Gerty Farish
- Hawd Gankstuh Rappuh MC's
- the Hospitals
- thee Hydrogen Terrors
- Khanate
- Kites
- Kites/Prurient
- Landed
- Lightning Bolt
- Men's Recovery Project
- Metalux
- Mindflayer
- Mr. California and the State Police
- Mystery Brinkman
- Nautical Almanac
- Necronomitron
- Neon Hunk
- Noxagt
- Olneyville Sound System
- Pink and Brown
- Pleasurehorse
- Prurient
- Scissor Girls
- Sightings
- Six Finger Satellite
- Total Shutdown
- the USAISAMONSTER
- Ultralyd
- Vincebus Eruptum
- John Von Ryan
- Vaz
- the White Mice
- Wizardzz