Crunchy Frog is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

, established in 1994 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark

Denmark

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The label is owned by the four members of Thau. The daily operations is handled by Jesper "Yebo" Reginal Petersen, drummer of Thau (later: Tothe International, The Tremolo Beer Gut, Psyched Up Janis, Trains and Boats and Planes, Heavy Trash and Junior Senior). The label also owns and operates Vibrashop, an online mail order record store.

Among the bands that have released albums on Crunchy Frog are: Thau, Tothe International, Learning from Las Vegas, The Naked

The Naked (band)

The Naked was a Danish indie-rock band that existed from the end of the 1980s and disbanded in 1999. The band started out under the name Naked Lunch, later shortening the name to Naked, and finally to The Naked....

, Superheroes

Superheroes (band)

Superheroes was a Danish pop/rock band that split up in 2006.- Members :*Thomas Troelsen *Thomas Christensen *Tanja Simonsen *Lars Hovendahl *Bjarke Staun *Asger Tarpgaard...

, Düreforsög, The Tremolo Beer Gut, The Mopeds, Junior Senior

Junior Senior

Junior Senior was a pop musical duo from Denmark. The duo consisted of Jesper "Junior" Mortensen and Jeppe "Senior" Laursen ....

, The Raveonettes

The Raveonettes

The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments, and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals...

, Powersolo, Heavy Trash

Heavy Trash

Heavy Trash is an American rockabilly band based in New York City, formed by Jon Spencer of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Matt Verta-Ray . The band's music draws from an eclectic mix of genres, including rock & roll, blues, alternative country, Americana and garage punk...

, Wolfkin, Sterling

Sterling

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, epo-555, Beta Satan, 18th Dye

18th Dye

18th Dye was a Berlin-based German/Danish noise rock band formed in 1992 by German Sebastian Büttrich , Danish-German Heike Rädeker and Dane Piet Bendtsen . They broke up in 1999 after 2 albums and an EP, but reformed in 2005...

 and Lars and The Hands of Light.

The name of the record company is taken from a famous Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

sketch about a pair of policemen who question the head of a confectioners about his new product "The Whizzo Quality Assortment," which includes "Crunchy Frog."

External links

• Crunchy Frog Records official website
• Vibrashop online store