Frontier Records

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{{Infobox record label 
| name = Frontier Records
| image_name = Frontier.png
| image_size = 250px
| image_bg =
| parent =
| founded = {{Start date|1980}}
| founder = Lisa Fancher
| status = Active
| distributor =
| genre = [[Punk rock]], [[deathrock]], [[alternative rock]], [[indie rock]]
| country = United States
| location = Los Angeles, California
| url = {{URL|http://www.frontierrecords.com/site/}}
}}

'''Frontier Records''' is an [[independent record label]], started in [[1980 in music|1980]] in [[Sun Valley, Los Angeles]] by Lisa Fancher,<ref>[http://frontierrecords.com/about.html About Frontier Records]</ref> a former employee of [[Bomp! Records]], and writer of the liner notes for the first album by [[The Runaways]].

Frontier Records first found success with the release of the [[Circle Jerks]] album ''[[Group Sex (album)|Group Sex]]''. The label went on to put out records by such bands as [[Suicidal Tendencies]], [[American Music Club]], [[Heatmiser]], [[Redd Kross]], [[Thin White Rope]], [[T.S.O.L.]], [[Christian Death]], and the [[Young Fresh Fellows]], among others.

On November 7, 2010, Frontier Records hosted a party for their 30th anniversary at the Echoplex in [[Los Angeles]] which featured a reunion by seminal [[punk rock|punk]] band [[Middle Class]], their first performance in nearly 30 years. The [[Adolescents (band)|Adolescents]], [[Rikk Agnew]], T.S.O.L., the [[Avengers (band)|Avengers]], and the [[Flyboys (band)|Flyboys]] also performed.

==Albums released on Frontier Records==
{| class="wikitable"
| width="10"| Cat. No.
| width="80"| Artist
| width="80"| Title
| width="30"| Release date
| width="120"| Notes
|-
|1001
|[[Flyboys (band)|Flyboys]]
|''Flyboys''
|March 1980
|
|-
|1002
|[[Circle Jerks]]
|''[[Group Sex (album)|Group Sex]]''
|October 1980
|
|-
|1003
|[[The Adolescents|Adolescents]]
|''[[The Adolescents (album)|Adolescents]]''
|May 1981
|a.k.a. ''The Blue Album''
|-
|1004
|[[T.S.O.L.]]
|''[[Dance with Me (T.S.O.L. album)|Dance with Me]]''
|June 1981
|
|-
|1005
|[[China White (band)|China White]]
|''[[Danger Zone (EP)|Danger Zone]]'' (EP)
|August? 1981
|
|-
|1006
|[[Choir Invisible]]
|''Choir Invisible''
|November 1981
|
|-
|1007
|[[Christian Death]]
|''[[Only Theatre of Pain]]''
|March 1982
|
|-
|1008
|[[The Three O'Clock|The Salvation Army]]
|''The Salvation Army''
|May 1982
|Later reissued on Frontier 1049 as by ''Befour Three O'Clock''
|-
|1009
|[[Rikk Agnew]]
|[[All by Myself (Rikk Agnew album)|''All by Myself'']]
|October 1982
|
|-
|1010
|[[The Three O'Clock]]
|''Baroque Hoedown''
|October 1982
|
|-
|1011
|[[Suicidal Tendencies]]
|''[[Suicidal Tendencies (album)|Suicidal Tendencies]]''
|July 1983
|
|-
|1012
|[[The Three O'Clock]]
|''Sixteen Tambourines''
|October 1983
|
|-
|1013
|[[The Long Ryders]]
|''Native Sons''
|October 1984
|
|-
|1014
|[[The Pontiac Brothers]]
|''Doll Hut''
|October 1985
|Later reissued as part of Frontier 1047
|-
|1015
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[Exploring the Axis]]''
|October 1985
|
|-
|1016
|[[Naked Prey]]
|''Under the Blue Marlin''
|March 1986
|
|-
|1017
|EIEIO
|''Land of Opportunity''
|May 1986
|
|-
|1018
|[[Redd Kross]]
|''[[Born Innocent (Redd Kross album)|Born Innocent]]''
|August 1986
|
|-
|1019
|[[The Pontiac Brothers]]
|''Fiesta en la Biblioteca''
|September 1986
|Later reissued as part of Frontier 1047
|-
|1020
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[Moonhead]]''
|January 1987
|
|-
|1021
|[[The Young Fresh Fellows]]
|''[[The Men Who Loved Music]]''
|1987
|
|-
|1022
|Flying Color
|''Flying Color''
|1987
|
|-
|1023
|[[American Music Club]]
|''[[Engine (American Music Club album)|Engine]]''
|1987
|
|-
|1024
|[[Naked Prey]]
|''40 Miles from Nowhere''
|1987
|
|-
|1025
|EIEIO
|''That Love Thing''
|1988
|
|-
|1026
|[[The Pontiac Brothers]]
|''Johnson''
|1988
|
|-
|1027
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[In the Spanish Cave]]''
|1988
|
|-
|1028
|[[The Young Fresh Fellows]]
|''[[Totally Lost]]''
|1988
|
|-
|1029
|[[Circle Jerks]]
|''[[Wild in the Streets (Circle Jerks album)|Wild in the Streets]]''
|1988
|
|-
|1030
|Mallet-Head
|''Mallet-Head''
|1988
|
|-
|1031
|[[American Music Club]]
|''[[California (American Music Club album)|California]]''
|October 1988
|
|-
|1032
|Dharma Bums
|''Haywire''
|
|Reissue. Originally issued on [[PopLlama Records|PopLlama]]
|-
|1033
|[[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
|''[[Damned Damned Damned]]''
|1989
|Reissue of band's 1977 debut, originally on [[Stiff Records]].
|-
|1034
|[[The Young Fresh Fellows]]
|''[[This One's for the Ladies]]''
|
|
|-
|1035
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''Squatter's Rights''
|
|
|-
|1039
|(Various Artists)
|''Dangerhouse, Volume 1''
|
|Compilation of tracks originally issued on [[Dangerhouse Records|Dangerhouse]] label
|-
|1040
|Weirdos
|''Weird World Volume 1''
|
|
|-
|1041
|[[The Young Fresh Fellows]]
|''[[Electric Bird Digest]]''
|
|
|-
|1042
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[The Ruby Sea]]''
|
|
|-
|1047
|[[The Pontiac Brothers]]
|''Doll House/Fiesta en la Bilbioteca''
|
|Compilation of Frontier 1014 & 1019.
|-
|1048
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[Sack Full of Silver]]''
|
|Reissue. Initially issued on [[RCA Records]].
|-
|1049
|[[The Three O'Clock|Befour Three O'Clock]]
|''Happen Happened''
|
|Reissue of Frontier 1008, with 9 bonus tracks
|-
|1050
|(Various Artists)
|''Dangerhouse, Volume 2: Give Me a Little Pain|''
|
|Compilation of tracks originally issued on Dangerhouse label
|-
|1051
|[[Flop (band)|Flop]]
|''Flop & the Fall of the Mopsqueezer''
|
|
|-
|1052
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[The One That Got Away (album)|The One That Got Away]]''
|
|Live recording of band's final concert
|-
|1053
|[[The Young Fresh Fellows]]
|''[[It's Low Beat Time]]''
|
|
|-
|1054
|[[The Pontiac Brothers]]
|''Fuzzy Little Piece of the World''
|1992
|
|-
|1055
|[[Jacob's Mouse]]
|''No Fish Shop Parking''
|
|
|-
|1056
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''The Axis Calls'' (DVD-R)
|
|Not a record album, but a concert DVD
|-
|1057
|[[Heatmiser]]
|''[[Dead Air (Heatmiser album)|Dead Air]]''
|
|
|-
|1058
|[[Jacob's Mouse]]
|''I'm Scared''
|
|
|-
|1059
|[[Flop (band)|Flop]]
|''Whenever You're Ready''
|
|Reissue of [[Sony]] release. Picture disc only.
|-
|1060
|The Affected
|''A Fate Worse Than a Fate Worse Than Death''
|
|
|-
|1061
|[[The Blackeyed Susans]]
|''[[All Souls Alive]]''
|1994
|
|-
|1062
|[[Heatmiser]]
|''[[Yellow No. 5 (EP)|Yellow No. 5]]''
|
|
|-
|1063
|[[Heatmiser]]
|''[[Cop and Speeder]]''
|
|
|-
|1064
|[[Thin White Rope]]
|''[[Spoor (album)|Spoor]]''
|
|Compilation of outtakes, demos, b-sides, and rarities
|-
|1065
|Sacrilicious
|''When You Wish Upon a Dead Star''
|
|
|-
|1066
|Shame Idols
|''I Got Time''
|
|-
|1067
|[[Flop (band)|Flop]]
|''World of Today''
|
|
|-
|1068
|Meanies
|''10% Weird''
|1995
|
|-
|1069
|[[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
|''[[Music for Pleasure (The Damned album)|Music for Pleasure]]''
|
|Reissue of band's second 1977 album, originally on [[Stiff Records]].
|-
|1071
|Shame Idols
|''Rocket Cat''
|
|Marc Webb's first video ''My Star''
|-
|1073
|[[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
|''[[Not the Captain's Birthday Party?]]''
|April 1997
|Reissue of live material, originally on [[Demon Records]].
|-
|1074
|Mummydogs
|''Mummydogs''
|
|
|-
|1075
|Weirdos
|''Weird World Volume 2''
|
|
|-
|1076
|[[The Adolescents|Adolescents]]
|''Complete Demos 1980-1986''
|
|
|}

<small>''to be continued...''</small>

== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

== References ==

<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://www.frontierrecords.com Official '''Frontier Records''' homepage]
* [https://archive.org/details/LisaFancherOnOutsightRadioHours22August2010 2010 Interview with Lisa Fancher on Outsight Radio Hours]

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[[Category:Companies based in Los Angeles]]
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