SST Records
SST Records is a
record label formed in
1978 in
Long Beach, California by
Greg Ginn. It was originally an electronics company called
SST Electronics (one of the employees was
Black Flag bassist
Chuck Dukowski);
Ginn converted it to a record label so he could release
Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown EP. The label was a prominent figure in the L.A. punk scene around 1980 and 1981, releasing more albums by
Black Flag as well as
The Minutemen, The Descendents, and
The Stains, and has since remained a major symbol of the city's underground culture.
SST quickly branched out in its early years to release albums by bands outside of the southern California area, notably
Soundgarden,
Meat Puppets,
Husker Du,
Bad Brains, and others.
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