No Idea Records

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For other uses, see No Idea (disambiguation).

No Idea Records is an independent record label based in Gainesville, Florida which produces both vinyl records and compact discs. The label also organizes The Fest, an independently operated annual festival known for featuring over 250 punk, hardcore, pop-punk, country, crust, powerviolence, metal, indie rock, avant-garde and similar musical acts across many venues for 3 days in Gainesville, Florida each fall.

No Idea Records started not as a record label, but as a zine in 1985, published independently by Var Thelin and Ken Coffelt and some friends of theirs from high school. By the seventh issue in 1989, Var was running the zine with Sarah Dyer and other contributors and collaborators. Starting with the sixth edition, the No Idea zine included 7-inch records with each issue. The first featured a local Gainesville band called Doldrums, and the second was a split 7", one side of which belonged to later Bay Area legends Crimpshrine, a major influence on the musical style which dominates No Idea to the present. Since its beginnings, No Idea has remained a foundation of the Gainesville punk scene and is considered by many to have spawned its very own style of punk rock, sometimes half-jokingly referred to as "beard punk" or "beardcore," due to the large proportion of members in bands having beards, or more commonly as variations of emo, post-hardcore, and pop-punk.

Artists who have released material on No Idea

• Acrid
• Against Me!
• Alkaline Trio
• Ampere
• Annalise
• Anthem Eighty Eight
• Armalite
• Army of Ponch
• Assholeparade
• Astrid Oto
• Atom & His Package
• Billy Reese Peters
• Bitchin'
• Blacktop Cadence
• Bridge & Tunnel
• Burnman
• Chuck Ragan
• Clairmel
• Cleveland Bound Death Sentence
• Coalesce
• Colbom
• Combatwoundedveteran
• Creepoid
• Crucible
• Deadsure
• Dear Landlord
• Defiance, Ohio
• Dillinger Four
• The Draft
• Elmer
• The Ergs!
• Fay Wray
• Fifth Hour Hero
• Fiya
• Floodgate
• Floor
• Four Letter Word
• Fracture
• Ghost Mice
• Glass and Ashes
• Grabass Charlestons
• Gunmoll
• Gus
• The Holy Mountain
• Hot Water Music
• I Hate Myself
• Jawbreaker
• J Church
• Jud Jud
• Latterman
• Leatherface
• Left for Dead
• Less Than Jake
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Moonraker
• New Mexican Disaster Squad
• New Wave Blasphemy
• No Choice
• North Lincoln
• Off With Their Heads
• Old Growth
• Onion Flavored Rings
• Palatka
• Panthro U.K. United 13
• Paul Baribeau
• Planes Mistaken for Stars
• Pung
• Radon
• Rehasher
• Riverboat Gamblers
• Ruination
• Rumbleseat
• Samiam
• Scouts Honor
• Shores
• Small Brown Bike
• Sparkmarker
• Spoke
• Strike Anywhere
• Strikeforce Diablo
• The Swarm
• The Tim Version
• This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
• This Is My Fist!
• Tired From Now On
• Tomorrow
• The 'Tone
• Trapdoor Fucking Exit
• True North
• Twelve Hour Turn
• Unitas
• Usuals
• Western Addiction
• Whiskey & Co
• Young Livers

Other releases

• V/A – Back to Donut!
• V/A – Bread: The Edible Napkin
• V/A – Down in Front
• V/A – Read Army Faction
• V/A – No Idea 100: Redefiling Music
• V/A – Tour Diary
• V/A – Sight and Sound: The History of the Future
• V/A – The Shape of Flakes to Come

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site