Shimmy-Disc
Shimmy-Disc is a New York City–based independent record label founded in 1987 by Mark Kramer. Before it was sold to the Knitting Factory, artists like Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Low, Fly Ashtray, Galaxie 500, King Missile, Boredoms, Ruins, Ween, Gwar, The Semibeings, and Uncle Wiggly recorded on the label. Label founder, Kramer, also has production credits on records by Half Japanese, White Zombie, Yo La Tengo, John Zorn, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, memorable parts of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, the Butthole Surfers and many others. The label also released compilation albums such as Rutles Highway Revisited , 1990, which featured various artists from the label, and also introduced new artists like Paleface.
In 2020, Kramer revived the Shimmy-Disc label in partnership with Joyful Noise Recordings in conjunction with their artist-in-residence series. Since then the label has released a slew of new records by Paul Leary, J.D. Pinkus, Hunter S. Thompson, remastered and unreleased material from Daniel Johnston, Bruce Haack, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Laraaji and others.