Alive Naturalsound Records

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Alive Naturalsound Records
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Founded1993 (1993)
Founder
  • Patrick Boissel
  • Suzy Shaw
Genre
Country of originUnited States
Location Burbank, California
Official website www.alive-records.com

Alive Naturalsound Records (also known as Alive Records) is an independent record label formed in 1993 in Los Angeles, California by Patrick Boissel, specializing in garage rock, punk, psychedelic, and blues rock. It grew out of Boissel's association with the U.S. label Bomp! Records.

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Artists

Alive bands on tour as of 2022 [1]
Artists with releases on Alive Naturalsound [2]

Discography

Selected releases for Alive Naturalsound Records [2]
YrCat. #Release titleArtist(s)
2022ALIVE222Pronounced Jah-See Gyasi
2022ALIVE221All To Hell Black Diamond Heavies
2022ALIVE220Hair Of El Perro
2022ALIVE219Going Back To Hoonsville – DL Single Datura4
2021ALIVE218Have You Heard This Story Swamp Dogg
2022ALIVE217Sleep Without Dreaming Beechwood
2021ALIVE216Get Humble Handsome Jack
2021ALIVE215I Was Born In A Swamp T-Model Ford
2021ALIVE214Alter Echoes Triptides
2020ALIVE213Between Dimensions Vol.2 The Telescopes
2020ALIVE212Between Dimensions Vol.1 The Telescopes
2020ALIVE211Another World/The Best Of The Archives Paul Collins' Beat
2020ALIVE210Rough and Tumble Dirty Streets
2020ALIVE209Skin Suit The Bobby Lees
2020ALIVE208West Coast Highway Cosmic Datura4
2019ALIVE207Everyday Dreams Jesper Lindell
2019ALIVE206Let It Burn GospelbeacH
2019ALIVE205Shake and Bake Left Lane Cruiser
2019ALIVE204Blessed is the Boogie Datura4
2019ALIVE203Desert Dreams Lonesome Shack
2019ALIVE202Trash Glamour Beechwood
2018ALIVE201Another Winter Alive GospelbeacH
2018ALIVE200Everything’s Gonna be Alright Handsome Jack
2018ALIVE199Out Of My Head Paul Collins
2018ALIVE198Inside The Flesh Hotel Beechwood
2018ALIVE197Dirty Photographs The Bonnevilles
2018ALIVE196Songs From The Land Of Nod Beechwood
2017ALIVE195Death And The Blues Mark “Porkchop” Holder
2017ALIVE194Alive And Well In Ohio Buffalo Killers
2017ALIVE193Change of Heart/Dreamin' GospelbeacH
2017ALIVE192Another Summer Of Love GospelbeacH
2017ALIVE190Listen For Tone The Bonnevilles
2017ALIVE189Claw Machine Wizard Left Lane Cruiser
2017ALIVE188Let It Slide Mark Porkchop Holder
2017ALIVE187s/t Heath Green and The Makeshifters
2016ALIVE186Bigger Than Life Jack Lee
2016ALIVE185Hairy Mountain Datura4
2016ALIVE184Blood On The Keys James Leg
2016ALIVE183Live! In California Radio Moscow
2016ALIVE181Talking Loud Sulfur City
2016ALIVE180Arrow Pierce My Heart The Bonnevilles
2016ALIVE179Beck In Black Left Lane Cruiser
2016ALIVE178Cluster Of Pearls Hollis Brown
2016ALIVE177The Victory Motel Sessions King Mud
2015ALIVE176White Horse Dirty Streets
2015ALIVE175West Of Anywhere DM3
2015ALIVE174Pacific Surf Line GospelbeacH
2015ALIVE173Below The Belt James Leg
2015ALIVE172Demon Blues Datura4
2015ALIVE171Dirty Spliff Blues Left Lane Cruiser
2015ALIVE170Primal Vinyl Shoes
2015ALIVE168Rock n' Roll is a Beautiful Thing - 20th AnniversaryVarious
2015ALIVE167Fluff Andy Gabbard
2015ALIVE166Nine Lives & Forty Fives Prima Donna
2014ALIVE164The White Man Made Me Do It Swamp Dogg
2014ALIVE163Let Loose! The Bloodhounds
2014ALIVE162Do What Comes Naturally Handsome Jack
2014ALIVE161Feel The Noise Paul Collins
2014ALIVE160Magical Dirt Radio Moscow
2014ALIVE159More Primitive Lonesome Shack
2014ALIVE158Gets Loaded Hollis Brown
2014ALIVE157The Good Life John The Conqueror
2013ALIVE154Desert Skies Beachwood Sparks
2013ALIVE153The Brand New Z.Z. Hill Album Z.Z. Hill
2013ALIVE152I'm A Loser Doris Duke
2013ALIVE151Wolfmoon Wolfmoon
2013ALIVE150Sandra Phillips Too Many People In One Bed
2013ALIVE149Rock Them Back To Hell Left Lane Cruiser
2013ALIVE148Blades Of Grass The Dirty Streets
2013ALIVE147High & Low Down Lightnin' Slim
2013ALIVE146Raw Spitt Charlie Whitehead
2013ALIVE145In Between Tears Irma Thomas
2013ALIVE144Gag A Maggott Swamp Dogg
2013ALIVE143Ohio Grass Buffalo Killers
2013ALIVE142Radt On! Swamp Dogg
2013ALIVE141Total Destruction To Your Mind Swamp Dogg
2013ALIVE140Ride On The Train Hollis Brown
2012ALIVE137Alive at The Deep Blues Fest Various
2013ALIVE136John The Conqueror John the Conqueror
2012ALIVE135Life Andre Williams
2012ALIVE132Dig. Sow. Love. Grow Buffalo Killers
2012ALIVE131Painkillers Left Lane Cruiser & James Leg
2012ALIVE130There's A Bomb In Gilead Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
2012ALIVE129 3 & 3 Quarters Radio Moscow
2012ALIVE128Beach Town Confidential Plimsouls
2012ALIVE127Where Is Parker GriggsVarious
2012ALIVE126 The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz Radio Moscow
2011ALIVE125 Donkey Jacket Henry's Funeral Shoe
2011ALIVE124 Yours Until The Bitter End The Bloody Hollies
2011ALIVE123 3 Buffalo Killers
2011ALIVE122 Two Of Everything Brian Olive
2011ALIVE121 The Case Files Peter Case
2011ALIVE120 Gardens Gardens
2011ALIVE119Solitary Pleasure James Leg
2011ALIVE118 Junkyard Speed Ball Left Lane Cruiser
2011ALIVE117 Crimes Occult Detective Club
2010ALIVE116A Haunted Person's Guide To The WitchesThe Witches
2010ALIVE115Taledragger T-Model Ford and GravelRoad
2010ALIVE114Most of What Follows Is True The Sights
2010ALIVE112Kill City Iggy Pop & James Williamson
2010ALIVE110King of Power Pop! Paul Collins
2010ALIVE109 Devotionals Tyson Vogel
2010ALIVE107Scott Morgan Scott Morgan
2010ALIVE106Big Red & Barabcoa Hacienda
2010ALIVE105Live! Beg Borrow & Steal The Plimsouls
2010ALIVE104New Rituals Mondo Drag
2010ALIVE103The Ladies Man T-Model Ford
2009ALIVE102 Alive As Fuck Black Diamond Heavies
2009ALIVE101Walking Out On Love The Breakaways
2009ALIVE100Big Deal (What's He Done Lately?) Brimstone Howl
2009ALIVE099Live At The Pirate's Cove The Nerves
2009ALIVE098All You Can Eat!! Left Lane Cruiser
2009ALIVE097Never Give Up On Your HallucinationsVarious
2009ALIVE096 Why Won't You Let Me Be Black? Nathaniel Mayer
2009ALIVE095Brian OliveBrian Olive
2009ALIVE094 The Perch Trainwreck Riders
2009ALIVE093 Brain Cycles Radio Moscow
2009ALIVE092 Universal Malcontents Outrageous Cherry
2009ALIVE091 Everything's For SaleHenry's Funeral Shoe
2008ALIVE090One Way Ticket The Nerves
2008ALIVE086 Let It Ride Buffalo Killers
2008ALIVE085 A Touch of Someone Else's Class Black Diamond Heavies
2008ALIVE083 Celebration Thomas Function
2008ALIVE082 Break Your Arm For Evolution SSM
2008ALIVE081 Bring Yo' Ass to the Table Left Lane Cruiser
2007ALIVE079 Why Don’t You Give It To Me? Nathaniel Mayer
2007ALIVE078Guts of Steel Brimstone Howl
2007ALIVE077 Radio Moscow Radio Moscow
2007ALIVE076Live, Masonic Auditorium Detroit, 01/14/1978 Sonics Rendezvous Band
2007ALIVE074 Every Damn Time Black Diamond Heavies
2006ALIVE073 Nothing to You EP + 3 Two Gallants
2006ALIVE072 The Throes re-mix Two Gallants
2006ALIVE070 Buffalo Killers Buffalo Killers
2006ALIVE069Lonely Road Revival Trainwreck Riders
2006ALIVE067SSM SSM
2006ALIVE066Hardest Walk Soledad Brothers
2004ALIVE054 The Throes Two Gallants
2004ALIVE053 Free EnergyThe Red Tyger Church
2004ALIVE050The Sound of San Francisco Various
2004ALIVE048Kosher Boogie Very Ape
2004ALIVE047 The Moan The Black Keys
2002ALIVE044 The Big Come Up The Black Keys
2001ALIVE043 Collection Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
2000ALIVE042The Last Bandit Nikki Sudden
1999ALIVE039November’s Heat Certain General
1999ALIVE038Old Skars & UpstartsVarious
1999ALIVE036 Forming Germs
1999ALIVE035International Rescue Swell Maps
1997ALIVE032 Cherry Bomb The Runaways/The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs
1997ALIVE031Do The Pop The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs w/ Deniz Tek
1996ALIVE022 Eating Jello with a Heated Fork Deviants IXVI
1996ALIVE021Satan Vs. The Working Man RF7
1996ALIVE017U.S. Bombs U.S. Bombs
1996ALIVE016Persecution Blues The Powder Monkeys
1995ALIVE015 Feed My Sleaze Murder Junkies
1995ALIVE014 Ptooff! The Deviants
1995ALIVE010Friday the 13th Wayne Kramer & John Sinclair
1994ALIVE007Worm Culture Kim Fowley
1994ALIVE005 Power Trip MC5
1994ALIVE002Cheyenne Martin Rev
1993ALIVE001 Brutality and Bloodshed for All G.G. Allin

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References

  1. "Touring Bands". Alive Naturalsound. 2019. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
  2. 1 2 "Catalogue". Alive Records. Archived from the original on 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2014-05-16.