Asthmatic Kitty
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Asthmatic Kitty is an American
United States
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 independent record label
Record label
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 founded in 1999
1999 in music
-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

 by a community of musicians from Holland
Holland, Michigan
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, Michigan
Michigan
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 led by musician Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...

 and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local colleges and universities. While the original Holland nucleus has dispersed across the country, the fellowship is still growing, with new friends and shared projects with other independent labels. Asthmatic Kitty is now based in Lander, Wyoming
Lander, Wyoming
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, Indianapolis
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 and New York City
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.

The label's name refers to Sara, a stray with feline asthma
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 adopted by Lowell Brams in 1994. Sara lived to be fifteen years old, dying on December 23, 2008. She was based in Lander, Wyoming
Lander, Wyoming
Lander is a city in, and the county seat of, Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. Named for transcontinental explorer Frederick W. Lander, Lander is located in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River. A tourism center with several dude ranches nearby, Lander is located just...

, a location of high elevation where the thin, dry air alleviated most of her asthma symptoms.

Bands and artists






  • Bunky
    Bunky (band)
    Bunky is the a band in San Diego, California on the Asthmatic Kitty label. Its members are Emily Joyce and Rafter Roberts. The band's name is a combination of the words "bunny" and "monkey"....

  • Castanets
  • Cryptacize
    Cryptacize
    Cryptacize is a California pop band founded by Nedelle Torrisi and Chris Cohen in 2006. Cryptacize, along with Cohen's other project The Curtains, records for the Asthmatic Kitty label. Nedelle has released two cds on the Kill Rock Stars label, one as a solo performer and one as a member of the...

  • Chris Schlarb
  • DM Stith
    DM Stith
    David Michael Stith is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who released his first album Heavy Ghost in 2009 on the Asthmatic Kitty label...

  • Fol Chen
    Fol Chen
    Fol Chen is a musical group from Los Angeles signed to Asthmatic Kitty records.The band "maintained utmost secrecy from the start", and frontman Samuel Bing "drew a black mask around his eyes" for a performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic in July 2009., while the band wore...

  • Half-handed Cloud
    Half-handed Cloud
    Half-handed Cloud is a band from Berkeley, California. It was started as a one man band by John Ringhofer, who created the band name based on an occurrence in the Old Testament. Half-handed Cloud is under Asthmatic Kitty Records. His previous band was Wookieback with Matthew Vollmer and Brandon...

  • Helado Negro
  • Hermas Zopoula
  • I Heart Lung
  • Jookabox
  • Julianna Barwick
    Julianna Barwick
    Julianna Barwick is an American musician who was born in Louisiana and raised in Brooklyn. Her music is built around multiple loops and layers of her voice...


  • Land of a Thousand Rappers
  • Laura Park
  • Liz Janes
  • My Brightest Diamond
    My Brightest Diamond
    My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. The band has released two studio albums, 2006's Bring Me the Workhorse and 2008's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, along with a remix album Tear It Down and a download-only release through iTunes...

  • Osso
  • Rafter
    Rafter (band)
    Rafter is the performing name of musician and producer Rafter Roberts. He also owns his own studio, Singing Serpent, in San Diego.- CD/LP :* Sweaty Magic * Sex Death Cassette...

  • Royal City
  • Shannon Stephens
  • Shapes and Sizes
    Shapes and Sizes
    Shapes and Sizes are a Canadian indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia. There are four members — Nathan Gage, Caila Thompson-Hannant, Rory Seydel and John Crellin. After self-releasing their self-titled first album in early 2006, the band caught the attention of Sufjan Stevens' record...

  • Sufjan Stevens
    Sufjan Stevens
    Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...

  • The Curtains
    The Curtains
    - History :The Curtains are a California Pop music group that was founded by Chris Cohen and Trevor Shimizu in San Francisco, California in 2000. The first three Curtains albums are mostly instrumental music which uses electric guitar, analog synthesizer and drums...

  • The Welcome Wagon
    The Welcome Wagon
    The Welcome Wagon is a Gospel/indie pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of Presbyterian minister Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique...



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