SST Records
1978–present·Long Beach, CA·2 bands
Greg Ginn's Black Flag-adjacent label that accidentally became the center of 80s American underground rock. Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth's EVOL/Sister/Daydream Nation, Saccharine Trust, Saint Vitus. The catalog from 1982 to 1989 is one of the great runs in indie rock history. Accounting got messy later, artists got paid badly, and by the 90s it was mostly just Ginn-affiliated releases. But the golden era defined a generation.