London's Dirty Water Records 'Spin' Off Sister Label Partner in USA

LONDON and PHOENIX, September 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

London record label Dirty Water Records has agreed licensing terms with the new, independent, US label Dirty Water Records USA. This will make the UK label's catalogue more readily available stateside, enable Dirty Water Records USA to release and promote its own product under the Dirty Water Records brand, and create a transatlantic partnership to work together to continue enabling the music we all love and to give all our fans the least expensive option to harass their neighbours with their loud rock'n'roll records.

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The London-based record label has been growing rapidly over the past few years, its irreverent, raucous brand of garage rock picking up new fans with each new release. Founded in 2004 by club DJ and club promoter PJ Crittenden (who ran the now infamous Dirty Water Club, the label started off doing small run releases for friends' bands and quickly developed into a full-on record label, riding the wave of the near legendary North London club night that is notorious for its many gigs that have gone down in history, celebrity regulars, and wild DJ stomp parties that continue to rage on after more than 20 years.

The club and label's name is a tribute to The Standells' 1966 hit "Dirty Water" which glorifies the US city of Boston, Massachusetts. Coincidentally, not only was the original, long-term home of the Dirty Water Club a North London pub named "The Boston Arms", but US ex-pat Paul Manchester (aka Boston Paul) - first a fan, then a friend, then a partner - engineered the label's first big release: the reissue of the Boston group Lyres' 1979 classic single, "Don't Give It Up Now" c/w "How Do You Know". Spanish dynamo Diego Dominguez was the third initial partner in the label and the fourth partner, Bostonian ex-pat Matt Hunter, first met Boston Paul at the Boston Arms before a Dirty Water Club gig by Boston's legendary Lyres.

Since then, the label has released a world class selection of acts including American chart-botherers Muck and the Mires, from Boston, LA's Mr. Airplane Man & The Morlocks, San Diego's The Loons, Detroit's The Hentchmen, Cleveland's Archie and the Bunkers, NYC's Dirty Fences, Keokuk's GONN (a particular honour and pleasure to release) as well as Magic Christian (featuring the talents of Blondie's Clem Burke and Cyril Jordan from the Flamin' Groovies) plus Japan's The Routes & The Fadeaways, Argentina's Los Peyotes ,France's Les Grys-Grys, The Dustaphonics, & The Arrogants , Denmark's The Youth, David Peter and the Wilde Sect and POWERSOLO, Sweden's The Branded, Thee Gravemen Holland's De Keefmen, Portugal's d3o, Spain's Los Chicos, Hollywood Sinners, & Los Bengala, Ireland's The Revellions & The Urges, Austria's Wild Evel and the Trashbones (soon), New Zealand's The Cavemen, Australia's The Kits, UK's MFC Chicken, King Salami and the Cumberland 3, The Vicars, The Masonics, The Priscillas, The Vipers, The Despondents, Johnny Throttle, Oh! Gunquit, Atomic Suplex and Suicide Generation and The Dirty