Taang! Records is an independent record label based in San Diego, California. The label mainly releases records by punk, Oi!, Ska and Hardcore bands. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that Downtown San Diego be merged into this article or section. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Oi! is a sub-genre of punk rock originating in the United Kingdom that sought to align punk with a working-class street-level following. ... This page is about the musical style. ... Hardcore punk (aka Hardcore) is a subgenre of punk rock, the sound is thicker, heavier, and faster than punk rock and implimented 1970s heavy metal influences in its music. ...

Originally founded in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, Taang! also ran a storefront in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The store itself was known at that time for the collection of punk rockers who essentially lived there. For a short time, the store’s DIY prices and location made it a punk landmark and helped to revitalize the underground music scene in Boston in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (D) Area    - City 232. ... Chess players in Harvard Square in August of 2005 Harvard Square is a large triangular area in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street. ... Cambridge City Hall Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02139 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...

With little fanfare or advance notice, the entire Taang! operation moved to California in the early 1990s. The label still sells many of its original Boston hardcore albums, in addition to its later California additions.

Artists

• The Anti-Heros
• Buck-O-Nine
• The Business
• D.Y.S.
• The Dickies
• The Exploited
• Forced Reality
• The Freeze
• Gang Green
• Hard-Ons
• Jerry's Kids
• The Lemonheads
• The Lyres
• Maelstrom
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Mission of Burma
• Moving Targets
• Negative FX
• Poison Idea
• Rat City Riot
• Sam Black Church
• Seka
• Slapshot
• Sloppy Seconds
• Spacemen 3
• Spore
• SSD
• Stars & Stripes
• Stranglehold
• Swirlies
• Upsidedown Cross
• The Worthless
• The Bruisers

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See also

• List of record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

External link

• Official site