Shock Records

Shock Records is Australia's largest independent label. The label helps in sales of overseas releases from labels such as Epitaph Records, as well as from smaller labels such as Cement Records. Shock Records was founded in 1988 by David Williams, Frank Falvo and Andrew McGhee. With the label published, distributed and exported it records. All three previously worked already in the sale or distribution in the music industry. Williams worked for a company called Musicland in Melbourne, Falvo worked for Exposure Records and McGhee for Greville Records. Shock Exports is the name of the export department of Shock Records.

Shock Records expelled the CDs of The Saddle Club.

Shock Records distributes and exports recordings of Australian artists belonging to different genres. The label received the Governor of Victoria Export Award in the years 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Previously published 20,000 copies on the label. Shock also founded CDFA what DVDs, music, computer games and other entertainment products are sold throughout Australia.

Shock Records was the first Australian major label, which completely took advantage of the internet for his business. In 1994, it was the first Australian label that sells recorded music over the Internet and in 1997 the label offered the MP3 download of Singles at. Among Frenzal Rhomb and Bodyjar as groups were represented.

The first number-one album of the label was Smash by the American band The Offspring. Shock Records opened its first sales office in New Zealand in 1999, with the album Crush by Jennifer Paige was the first release, which also reached a number-one spot in the charts.

Division

Labels

  • Architecture label
  • Boomtown Records
  • Burning Heart
  • Cooking Vinyl
  • Delta Grove
  • Epitaph Records
  • Eyeball Records
  • Fat Wreck Chords
  • Fearless Records
  • Hopeless Records
  • In - Fidelity Records
  • Ipecac Recordings
  • Psychopathic Records
  • Redline Records
  • Resist Records
  • Shock Wave Records
  • Trustkill
  • Vagrant Records
  • White drugs
  • Yep Roc Records

Bands

  • AC4
  • Against Me!
  • Ane Brun
  • Ani Difranco
  • The anyones
  • Area- 7
  • Back Sliders
  • Blakfish
  • Bodyjar
  • Bring Me the Horizon
  • British India
  • Buckley Ward
  • Calling All Cars
  • The Casanovas
  • City and Colour
  • Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males
  • The Drones
  • Dubious Brothers
  • Every Move a Picture
  • Freestylers
  • GZR
  • The Gibson Brothers
  • The Gilmorea
  • Gomez
  • Good Shirt
  • Hellogoodbye
  • The Saddle Club
  • Heli Simpson
  • Heroes For Hire
  • Hoodoo Gurus
  • House Vs. Hurricane
  • Junip
  • The Kill Devil Hills
  • Lambchop
  • Laura Gissara
  • Luka Bloom
  • Neko Case
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • NOFX
  • A Touch of Frost
  • Bad Girls
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Callan
  • Cannon
  • Cracker
  • Fast Forward
  • Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  • Living Lohan
  • Nash Bridges
  • Neighbors
  • Prisoner
  • California High School
  • Sons and Daughters
  • Street Hawk
  • The Girl from Tomorrow
  • The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow 's End
  • The Honeymooners
  • The Micallef Program
  • The New Twilight Zone
  • Twilight Zone
  • The Weird Al Show
  • Touched by an Angel
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • White Diamond: A Personal Portrait of Kylie Minogue
  • WWE
Punk subculture Rock music Smash (The Offspring album) Burning Heart (song) Gomez (Band) Lambchop (band) Bad Girls (1994 film) Callan, County Kilkenny Cannon (TV series) Neighbours Saved by the Bell
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