Sappy Records 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:...

 based in Sackville, New Brunswick

Sackville, New Brunswick

Sackville is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Mount Allison University is located in the town...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, started by Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

 in 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 in order to release her own cassette.

The first 7" vinyl release was "Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia

Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia

Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia is an EP by Moncton, New Brunswick's, Eric's Trip. It was released by Sappy Records in 1993. On the album cover it says "Stereo Mountain", which was the band's alter-ego. They released only this one album under the name...

" in 1993, which featured a track each by the members of Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...

.

In 1994 Jon Claytor and Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

 became business partners and ran the label together until 2000.

The label lay dormant for a number of years after Julie Doiron won a Juno Award

Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

 for Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars

Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars

Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars is a 1999 album recorded by Julie Doiron in collaboration with the indie rock band Wooden Stars. It represented the first time that Doiron had collaborated with a band since the end of Eric's Trip....

in 2000, and subsequently signed to Endearing Records

Endearing Records

Endearing Records is a Canadian independent record label established in 1994, now based in Vancouver, originally based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Endearing Records has released many albums by Canadian indie artists since the mid 90s, such as Destroyer, The Meligrove Band, Julie Doiron, The...

 in Canada and Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar is an indie rock record label based in Bloomington, Indiana.-History:In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, friends of Darius Van Arman who performed in a band under the moniker The Curious Digit had just recorded a new album, but they were signed to no label...

 internationally. The label was restarted in 2006 by Julie Doiron, Jon Claytor and Paul Henderson.

Sappy Records also hosts the Sappy Records Music Festival (or SappyFest) in Sackville, New Brunswick, and has featured notable acts such as The Acorn

The Acorn

The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Their songs have charted on Canadian campus charts and have been in rotation on CBC Radio 3 and The Verge....

, Attack in Black

Attack in Black

Attack in Black was a Canadian indie rock band from Welland, Ontario. They first signed to Skate Ahead Records for their self-titled album debut in 2005. In spring 2006, they signed with Dine Alone Records...

, Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.-Infiniheart:Following a few scattered independent releases, done mostly on homemade CDs with hand-drawn art, VanGaalen released Infiniheart on Canadian independent label Flemish Eye...

, Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player, Chris Luedecke, of Chester, Nova Scotia...

, Ohbijou

Ohbijou

-Biography:Ohbijou began as the solo project of Brantford singer-songwriter Casey Mecija . Through the process of songwriting and composition, Casey discovered a need for the musical support of her sister Jennifer Mecija , whom Casey invited to assist with her early performances...

 and Wintersleep

Wintersleep

Wintersleep is a Canadian indie rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Background:Wintersleep formed in 2001 and released two albums with Dependent Music, a music label and artists' collective that began in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1994....

. It takes place in the summer.

Roster

• Broken Girl
• Elevator
  Elevator (band)
  Elevator is a band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Started in 1994 as Elevator To Hell, a solo outlet for Eric's Trip lead man Rick White, the project eventually grew to include Eric's Trip drummer Mark Gaudet and White's ex-wife Tara on bass and, for a short while, Ron Bates of Orange Glass as a...
  
  
• Eric's Trip
  Eric's Trip
  Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...
  
  
• The Inbreds
  The Inbreds
  The Inbreds were a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1992. Originally from Kingston, Ontario, Canada the band relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996. Three of the four albums released during the band's existence reached number one on the Canadian national university charts, and the band...
  
  
• Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...
  
  
• Lonnie James
• Lousy
• Moon Socket
• Orange Glass
• The Peter Parkers
• Shotgun & Jaybird
  Shotgun & Jaybird
  Shotgun & Jaybird were a Canadian indie rock band based in Sackville, New Brunswick.-History:Shotgun & Jaybird formed in mid-2003 when Dick Morello, formerly of The Janitors, travelled to the Yukon and was later joined by his lifelong friend and former Janitor, Shotgun Jimmie, from Ajax, Ontario...
  
  
• Snailhouse
  Snailhouse
  Snailhouse is the pseudonym of the Canadian indie rock artist Mike Feuerstack. Feuerstack is also the guitarist of indie rock band Wooden Stars. Snailhouse is essentially a solo project with multiple contributing artists, including Julie Doiron of Eric's Trip, with production work by Jeremy Gara of...
  
  
• Thee Suddens
• Wooden Stars
  Wooden Stars
  Wooden Stars are a Canadian indie rock band formed in the 1990s. The band, from Ottawa, consists of vocalist and guitarist Julien Beillard, guitarist Mike Feuerstack, bassists Josh Latour and Mathieu Beillard, and drummer Andrew McCormack.-Style:...
  
  

Discography

SAP00A Orange Glass - Orange Glass (7")

SAP001 Stereo Mountain - Julie And The Porthole To Dimentia

Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia

Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia is an EP by Moncton, New Brunswick's, Eric's Trip. It was released by Sappy Records in 1993. On the album cover it says "Stereo Mountain", which was the band's alter-ego. They released only this one album under the name...

 (7", EP)

SAP002 Broken Girl - Dog Love Part II (7")

SAP005 Elevator To Hell - Forward To Snow

Forward To Snow

Forward to Snow is a 1995 EP release by the band Elevator.-Track listing:# "The Who"# "Double Pleading"# "Clearly See Me"# "Forward to Snow"...

 (7")

SAP006 Broken Girl - Nora (7")

SAP007 The Suddens - How Things Go (7")

SAP008 Snailhouse - Snaihouse (7")

SAP009 Broken Girl - Broken Girl (CD)

SAP010 Orange Glass - Circle Dance (7")

SAP011 Orange Glass - Meet The Robot (7")

SAP012 Moon Socket - The Best Thing (CD)

SAP013 Lousy - Lousy (7")

SAP014 Elevator To Hell - Backwards May (7")

SAP015 The Inbreds

The Inbreds

The Inbreds were a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1992. Originally from Kingston, Ontario, Canada the band relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996. Three of the four albums released during the band's existence reached number one on the Canadian national university charts, and the band...

 - Double Yolk (7")

SAP016 Wooden Stars - Mardi Grad (CD)

SAP017 Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...

 - Long Days Ride Till Tomorrow (CD)

SAPPY001 Shotgun & Jaybird

Shotgun & Jaybird

Shotgun & Jaybird were a Canadian indie rock band based in Sackville, New Brunswick.-History:Shotgun & Jaybird formed in mid-2003 when Dick Morello, formerly of The Janitors, travelled to the Yukon and was later joined by his lifelong friend and former Janitor, Shotgun Jimmie, from Ajax, Ontario...

 - There Are Days And Then There Are Days (CD, Maxi)

SAPPY002 Shotgun & Jaybird

Shotgun & Jaybird

Shotgun & Jaybird were a Canadian indie rock band based in Sackville, New Brunswick.-History:Shotgun & Jaybird formed in mid-2003 when Dick Morello, formerly of The Janitors, travelled to the Yukon and was later joined by his lifelong friend and former Janitor, Shotgun Jimmie, from Ajax, Ontario...

 - Trying To Get Somewhere

Trying to Get Somewhere

Trying to Get Somewhere is the fifth and final release by Canadian indie rock band Shotgun & Jaybird, released in 2006 on Sappy Records.-Track listing:# "3 1 8 6 4 2 9 7 5"# "Two and Two is Four"# "Writing on Our Arms"# "Come Back Slowly"...

(CD)

External links

• Sappy Records Label Site
• Sappy Records MySpace site