Current roster

• Giant Sand
  Giant Sand
  Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album...
  
  
• Guided By Voices
  Guided by Voices
  Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard...
  
  
• Howe Gelb
  Howe Gelb
  Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer based in Tucson, Arizona.-Projects:Gelb's approach to music is collaborative and he has recorded with a number of side projects...
  
  
• Josephine Foster
  Josephine Foster
  Josephine Foster is an American modern folk and psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer...
  
  
• Wooden Wand
  Wooden Wand
  Wooden Wand is one moniker of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. Having over 100 releases from proper albums to handmade CDRs to limited-edition vinyl, Toth is by all accounts an astoundingly prolific artist...
  
  
• Bobby Conn
  Bobby Conn
  Bobby Conn is an American musician based in Chicago, Illinois, known for his pop-rock. He often collaborates with other artists such as musicians Colby Starck and Jim O'Rourke, and film-maker Usama Alshaibi. In 2003, Conn produced a session for UK punk band The Cribs, whom he met when they were a...
  
  
• Surf City
  Surf City
  Surf City may refer to:* Huntington Beach, California, legally trademarked as Surf City, USA* Surf City, New Jersey* Surf City, North Carolina* Santa Cruz, California, colloquially referred to as Surf City...
  
  
• Jackie O Motherfucker
• Rocket From The Tombs
  Rocket From The Tombs
  Rocket From the Tombs is an American rock music band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio.Heralded as an important protopunk group, they were little known during their lifetime, though various members later achieved renown in Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys...
  
  
• Archers of Loaf
  Archers of Loaf
  Archers of Loaf is an American indie-rock band originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, formed in 1990. The group toured extensively and released a total of four studio albums, a collection album, numerous singles and EPs, and a live album which was released after the band broke up in...
  
  
• Half Japanese
  Half Japanese
  Half Japanese is a punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Coldwater, Michigan bedroom around 1975. Their original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out of tune guitar...
  
  
• Robert Pollard
  Robert Pollard
  Robert Pollard is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter who is the leader and creative force behind indie rock group Guided by Voices, who disbanded in 2004, only to reform in 2010...
  
  
• ESG
  ESG
  ESG may refer to:* Engineering Seismology Group, a microseismic monitoring and data analysis company from Canada.* Environmental Social and Corporate Governance, the commonly accepted factors involved in Responsible Investment assessments...
  
  
• Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons , John Gibbons , Isobel Sollenberger , Clint Takeda , Jason Kourkonis , and Aaron Igler...
  
  
• Virgin Passages
  Virgin Passages
  Virgin Passages are a three piece musical ensemble from Staffordshire- Sources :Time Out - External links :* Fire Records - Artist page...
  
  
• Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
  Dave Cloud
  Dave Cloud is an American musician, singer, songwriter, storyteller and occasional actor...
  
  
• Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts
  Mathew Sawyer
  Mathew John Sawyer is a British visual artist and musician, who lives and works in London and Athens. Sawyer studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London....
  
  

"Fire Embers" re-issue series

• ESG
  ESG
  ESG may refer to:* Engineering Seismology Group, a microseismic monitoring and data analysis company from Canada.* Environmental Social and Corporate Governance, the commonly accepted factors involved in Responsible Investment assessments...
  
  
• Pigbag
  Pigbag
  -Origin and formation:Pigbag were formed in Cheltenham in late 1980 by Chris Hamlin, a fashion student at Cheltenham Art College. Hamlin recruited multi-instrumentalist Roger Freeman, an old friend from his hometown of Birmingham, along with Chris Lee on trumpet and James Johnstone, a guitarist,...
  
  
• Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...
  
  
• Teenage Fanclub
  Teenage Fanclub
  Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love...
  
  
• Television Personalities
• Smudge
  Smudge
  Smudge is an Australian rock band. Its frontman Tom Morgan is better known outside Australia as a songwriting collaborator of Evan Dando and his band The Lemonheads.-History:...
  
  
• AC Acoustics
  Ac acoustics
  AC Acoustics were a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1990 . Over their thirteen years of existence, they released a string of singles, EPs and albums on a number of independent record labels. They split up in 2003....
  
  
• The Adverts
  The Adverts
  The Adverts were an English punk band who formed in 1976 and broke up in late 1979. They were one of the first punk bands to enjoy chart success in the UK, and their line-up included Gaye Advert, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first female punk star".-Career:The band was...
  
  
• Close Lobsters
  Close Lobsters
  Close Lobsters are a Scottish indie pop/rock band. They first came to wider prominence with the track "Firestation Towers" on the NME's C86 compilation, they signed to Fire Records and released their debut single "Going To Heaven To See If It Rains" in October 1986...
  
  

Associated artists

• Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond
  Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons , John Gibbons , Isobel Sollenberger , Clint Takeda , Jason Kourkonis , and Aaron Igler...
  
  
• Liars
  Liars (band)
  Liars is a three-piece band formed in 2000 consisting of Angus Andrew , Aaron Hemphill , and Julian Gross...
  
  
• Gravenhurst
  Gravenhurst (band)
  Gravenhurst is a vehicle for the music of the singer-songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist, Nick Talbot, who lives in Bristol, England and is signed to Warp Records.-History:...
  
  
• Mercury Rev
  Mercury Rev
  Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker , Jonathan Donahue , Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a...
  
  
• Mike Watt
  Mike Watt
  Michael David Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and Firehose; , he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen...
  
  
• Jessica Bailiff
  Jessica Bailiff
  Jessica Bailiff is an American singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. Her music is largely classified as slowcore, although it contains elements of post-rock and shoegaze. Bailiff was discovered by Low's Alan Sparhawk, who recommended her earlier demos to Kranky Records, the label on which Bailiff...
  
  
• Ed Harcourt
  Ed Harcourt
  Ed Harcourt is an English singer-songwriter. To date, he has released five studio albums, two EPs, and thirteen singles. His debut album, Here Be Monsters, was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize...
  
  
• Flying Saucer Attack
  Flying Saucer Attack
  Flying Saucer Attack was an experimental space rock band that formed in Bristol, England in 1992. David Pearce was the core member of the group, and Rachel Brook was a member for most of the band's lifetime....
  
  
• Califone
  Califone
  Califone is an experimental rock band from Chicago. The band is named after Califone International, an audio equipment manufacturer. Their work has been critically acclaimed....
  
  
• Willy Mason
  Willy Mason
  Willy Mason is an American singer-songwriter.- Early life :He was born in New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both folk singers. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard...
  
  

Past artists

• Pulp
  Pulp (band)
  Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker , Russell Senior , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....
  
  
• Chuck Prophet
  Chuck Prophet
  Chuck Prophet is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. A Californian, Prophet first achieved notice in the American psychedelic/desert rock group Green on Red, with whom he toured and recorded in the 1980s...
  
  
• Television Personalities
• Blue Aeroplanes
• Pastels
• The Lemonheads
  The Lemonheads
  The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member....
  
  
• Teenage Fanclub
  Teenage Fanclub
  Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love...
  
  
• Sammy
  Sammy (band)
  Sammy was the partnership of guitarist Luke Wood and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Hartman. The band was initially signed to Smells Like Records, the label owned by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. Later the band signed to DGC/Geffen. The band was signed to Fire Records in the UK and Europe.The...
  
  
• Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...
  
  
• Gun Club
• The Parachute Men
  The Parachute Men
  The Parachute Men were an indie pop/indie rock band from Leeds, England, formed in 1985. They released two albums and several singles before splitting up in the early 1990s.-History:...
  
  
• Delicate AWOL
  Delicate AWOL
  Delicate AWOL were a British experimental rock band active between 1998 and 2005. The band were notable for their cross-pollination of various musical forms , for their links with British post-rock band Rothko, for their activities in promoting the London underground music scene of the early 2000s,...
  
  
• Tells
  Tells (band)
  Tells are a British experimental band formed by the former core members of Delicate AWOL, Jim Version and Caroline Ross.-Sound:Tell's sound mixes aspects of avant-garde folk music with art-rock, jazz and improvised structures. Their music has a strong textural basis with a loose approach to rhythm...
  
  
• The Servants
  The Servants
  The Servants was an indie band formed in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England by singer and songwriter David Westlake. The Servants were on 1986’s NME-associated C86 compilation, and the greatly expanded 48-song reissue version in 2006. The Servants was the original home of Luke Haines...
  
  
• Sign Language
• Lives of Angels
• HTRK
  HTRK
  HTRK is an Australian band formed in 2003.-Biography:Originating in Melbourne and based in London since 2007, HTRK started playing in 2003 when guitarist Nigel Yang and bassist Sean Stewart invited vocalist Jonnine Standish to create music inspired by Lynchian imagery, protopunk and post...
  
  
• The Rose of Avalanche
  The Rose of Avalanche
  The Rose of Avalanche were an alternative rock band from Yorkshire, England, formed in the early 1980s. They released seven albums before splitting up in 1992.-History:...
  
  
• Gigolo Aunts
  Gigolo Aunts
  -Early history:The band was formed by middle school students Steve Hurley, Dave Gibbs, Phil Hurley and Paul Brouwer in 1981 in Potsdam, New York, originally known as Sniper...
  
  
• Mega City Four
  Mega City Four
  Mega City Four were an English indie/pop punk band who were popular in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Mega City Four consisted of guitarist/vocalist Wiz, his brother and rhythm guitarist/vocalist Danny Brown, bassist/vocalist Gerry Bryant and drummer Chris Jones...
  
  
• The Badgeman
  The Badgeman
  The Badgeman are a four piece indie rock band from Salisbury, Wiltshire formed in 1988 by John Packwood , Tim Kerley , Neale Hancock , and Simon Wigglesworth . The band has been variously categorised as shoegazing, indie rock, psychedelic rock, and post punk...