{{Short description|American record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Gearhead Records | image = Gearhead_Records_logo.png | founded = {{start date|2000}} | founder = Michelle Haunold, Mike Lavella | distributor = Burnside | genre = Punk, rock | country = United States | location = Northern California | website = {{URL|www.gearheadrecords.com}} }}
'''Gearhead Records''' is an independent record label based in Northern California<ref>{{Cite web|last=Blabbermouth|date=2009-04-15|title=CRANK COUNTY DAREDEVILS Sign With GEARHEAD RECORDS|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/crank-county-daredevils-sign-with-gearhead-records/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET}}</ref> which grew out of ''Gearhead'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Punknews.org|title=About Gearhead Records|url=https://www.punknews.org/labels/gearhead|access-date=2021-04-16|website=www.punknews.org|language=en}}</ref>
==Magazine and festivals== The organization, originally a magazine, has also hosted festivals. Wrote ''Exclaim!'' in 2003:
{{Blockquote|For a lot of the world Gearhead magazine defined the whole 'hot rod punk rock and roll revolution' back in the 90s championing bands like the Supersuckers and Rocket from the Crypt. Well, this bunch of grease-crazed garage freaks started a record label not so long ago and have also managed to put on rock fests worldwide, and some could argue that the Swedish Gearfest festival turned a lot of ears on to the retro-rock sounds coming out of {{sic|th|ere}} way before a lot of mainstream press was even aware of it all.<ref name="exclaims"> {{cite news | title =Gearhead Records Smash Up Derby | first =Craig | last =Daniels | url =http://exclaim.ca/music/article/various_artists-gearhead_records_smash_up | newspaper = | publisher =Exclaim! | date =Aug 31, 2003 | access-date = 2016-09-22 }}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|Gearfest returned in 2016 with a line up that included The Troublemakers, The Roxy Suicide (featuring Dave Mansfield from the Gearhead band The Mansfields), Red Planet, Pat Todd and the Rank Outsiders and Leesa From the Creamers. The festival was held on September 24th in Sacramento California.<ref name="Gearfest '16"> {{cite news | title =Gear Up For "Gearfest" | first =Raina | last =Legarreta | url =http://www.egcitizen.com/lifestyle/gear-up-for-gearfest/article_5ca3bc12-573a-5479-a1d4-e3a1a888784c.html | newspaper = | publisher =Elk Grove Citizen | date =September 21, 2016 | access-date = 2016-09-22 }}</ref>}}
==Artists == {{See also|Category:Gearhead Records artists}} {{more citations needed section|date=August 2014}} {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * "Demons" (Sweden) * The Dragons (San Diego, CA) * Electric Eel Shock (Japan) * Gito Gito Hustler (Japan) * Hard Feelings (band) (Austin, TX) * Hellacopters (Sweden) * Hellbound Glory (Reno, NV) * The Hives (Sweden) * Lords of Altamont (Los Angeles, CA) * The Mansfields (Denver, CO) * New Bomb Turks (Columbus, OH) * Red Planet (San Francisco, CA) * The Riverboat Gamblers (Denton, TX) * Rock n Roll Soldiers (Eugene, OR) * Turbo A.C.'s (New York, NY) * Wildhearts (UK) }}
==See also== {{Portal|Rock music}} * List of record labels
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category}} * [http://www.gearheadrecords.com Gearhead Records] * [http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/57f06.html In Music We Trust Interview with Mike LaVella]
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