# New Alliance Records

New Alliance Records was an independent record label founded by American musicians D. Boon and Mike Watt (of The Minutemen) and longtime friend and associate Martin Tamburovich. They were inspired by the example of their friends in southern California, Black Flag, who had earlier formed SST Records. The existence of SST led Watt to understand, according to a 1987 interview he gave to Musician magazine, how easy it was to get a record made: "All you had to do was pay the record plant man."
The label's first release was the 1980 various-artist compilation Cracks in the Sidewalk, which included tracks by the Minutemen, Black Flag, and Saccharine Trust. Other early releases on New Alliance included Hüsker Dü's first album Land Speed Record and the Minutemen's second-ever release, the seven-inch EP Joy. Eventually the label grew to nurture the early career of the Descendents, issue additional compilation albums (Chunks and Mighty Feeble), and release other recordings by the Minutemen (The Politics of Time), Secret Hate (Vegetables Dancing), and Hüsker Dü (the In a Free Land EP). The label also showcased a number of post-punk bands from the South Bay area of southern California, notably Slovenly, Phantom Opera, and Invisiblechains.
After D. Boon's death in 1985 due to a car-accident and the increasingly busier schedule of Watt's post-Minutemen band Firehose, Watt and Tamburovich sold New Alliance to SST in 1987. Greg Ginn, SST's owner and Black Flag's guitarist, proceeded to transfer all of the Minutemen and Descendents back catalog and Hüsker Dü's Land Speed Record to SST and turned New Alliance into a subsidiary label of SST that concentrated on more adventurous and non-mainstream records, including jazz, instrumental, poetry, and spoken-word releases. New Alliance also released the debut single of Ciccone Youth and material from The Coachmen, both of which were Sonic Youth-related projects.
New Alliance ceased its operations in 1998 in order to save money. Its back-catalog has been deleted, its releases are no longer available through SST Records, and there is no mention of the label or its artists on SST's website.
Label co-founder Tamburovich died of a bacterial infection in 2003.
Rapp Records founder Rad Ramsey & Martin Tamburovich reactivated New Alliance in 2000 as a Rapp Records sublabel. It also brought back its back-catalog. This time it was specialized for Rap, Rock & Reissuing its old material. However, in 2006, SST filed a case against Rapp & forced Ramsey to close down New Alliance.

## Catalogue

| Catalogue number | Year | Artist | Title |
| NAR 001 | 1980 | Various | Cracks in the Sidewalk |
| NAR 002 | 1981 | Slivers | Restraint for Style |
| NAR 003 | 1981 | Various | Chunks |
| NAR 004 | 1981 | Minutemen | Joy |
| NAR 005 | 1981 | Descendents | Fat |
| NAR 006 | 1981 | The Salvation Army | Mind Gardens |
| NAR 007 | 1982 | Hüsker Dü | Land Speed Record |
| NAR 008 | 1982 | Various | Feeble Efforts |
| NAR 009 | Unreleased | Peer Group | Rhetoric and Hands |
| NAR 010 | 1982 | Hüsker Dü | In a Free Land |
| NAR 011 | 1982 | Plebs | A Collection of Question Marks |
| NAR 012 | 1982 | Descendents | Milo Goes to College |
| NAR 013 | 1983 | Various | Mighty Feeble |
| NAR 014 | 1983 | Tragicomedy | Homage to Nada |
| NAR 015 | 1984 | Blood on the Saddle | Blood on the Saddle |
| NAR 016 | 1983 | Secret Hate | Vegetables Dancing |
| NAR 017 | 1984 | Minutemen | The Politics of Time |
| NAR 018 | 1984 | Nip Drivers | Destroy Whitey |
| NAR 019 | 1984 | Slovenly | Even So |
| NAR 020 | 1984 | Slovenly | After the Original Style |
| NAR 021 | 1985 | Invisible Chains | Invisible Chains |
| NAR 022 | 1986 | Phantom Opera | Phantom Opera |
| NAR 023 | 1986 | Steve Stain | The Brain Feels No Pain |
| NAR 024 | 1986 | Michael C. Ford | Language Commando |
| NAR 025 | 1985 | Descendents | Bonus Fat |
| NAR 026 | 1985 | Descendents | I Don't Want to Grow Up |
| NAR 027 | 1986 | Slovenly | Peter |
| NAR 028 | 1986 | What Makes Donna Twirl? | Amber Skin |
| NAR 029 | 1986 | Descendents | Enjoy! |
| NAR 030 | 1986 | Ciccone Youth | Burnin' Up |
| NAR 031 | 1988 | Michelle T. Clinton & Wanda Coleman | Black Angeles |
| NAR 032 | 1986 | Dos | Dos |
| NAR 033 | 1986 | Crimony | Reverence |
| NAR 034 | 1988 | Phantom Opera | Lives of Violence |
| NAR 035 | 1988 | The Coachmen | Failure to Thrive |
| NAR 036 | 1988 | Rudolph Grey | Transfixed |
| NAR 037 | 1988 | Yanomamos | Quizas |
| NAR 038 | 1988 | Crimony | The Crimony EP |
| NAR 039 | 1990 | Jack Brewer Band | Rockin' Ethereal |
| NAR 040 | 1988 | Martin Bisi | Creole Mass |
| NAR 041 | 1990 | GobbleHoof | GobbleHoof |
| NAR 042 | 1989 | Office Ladies | Brains in Bed Brains and Boots No Boots in Bed |
| NAR 043 | 1989 | No Man / No Man's Band | Damage the Enemy |
| NAR 044 | 1989 | Dos | Numero Dos |
| NAR 045 | 1989 | Various | Taste Test #1 |
| NAR 046 | 1989 | Bootstrappers | Bootstrappers |
| NAR 047 | 1989 | The Death Folk | Deathfolk |
| NAR 048 | 1990 | Wanda Coleman | High Priestess of Word |
| NAR 049 | 1990 | Solomon Grundy | Solomon Grundy |
| NAR 050 | 1991 | Rudolph Grey | Mask of Light |
| NAR 051 | 1990 | Roger Miller | Presents: Xylyl and a Woman in Half |
| NAR 052 | 1990 | The Purple Outside | Mystery Lane |
| NAR 053 | 1993 | Various | Eternal Voices (Traditional Vietnamese Music in the United States) |
| NAR 054 | 1991 | Various | JazzSpeak: a Word Collection |
| NAR 055 | 1991 | Sproton Layer | With Magnetic Fields Disrupted |
| NAR 056 | 1991 | Blackmadrid | Atlantic Crossing: the People's Journey |
| NAR 057 | 1993 | Roger Miller, Ben Miller, Larry Miller | M-3 |
| NAR 058 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 059 | 1991 | Wanda Coleman, Marv Evans | Berserk on Hollywood Blvd. |
| NAR 060 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 061 | 1991 | Dos | Uno con Dos |
| NAR 062 | 1991 | Marisela Norte | Norte/word |
| NAR 063 | 1991 | Jack Brewer Band | Harsh World |
| NAR 064 | 1992 | Scott Richardson | Tornado Souvenirs |
| NAR 065 | 1991 | Danny Weizmann | The Wet Dog Shakes |
| NAR 066 | 1993 | Michelle T. Clinton | Blood as a Bright Color |
| NAR 067 | 1992 | Various | DisClosure: Voices of Women |
| NAR 068 | 1993 | Louie Lista | To Sleep with the Lights On (Blues Theater) |
| NAR 069 | 1992 | Various | Innings & Quarters |
| NAR 070 | 1993 | Joel Lipman | Down Your Street |
| NAR 071 | 1993 | Linda J. Albertano | Skin |
| NAR 072 | 1993 | Harry E. Northup | Personal Crime |
| NAR 073 | 1996 | John Sinclair | Thelonious: a Book of Monk Volume 1 |
| NAR 074 | 1993 | Tommy Swerdlow | Prisoner of the Gifted Sleep |
| NAR 075 | 1993 | Martin Bisi | All Will Be Won |
| NAR 076 | 1992 | The Death Folk | Deathfolk II |
| NAR 077 | 1992 | The Blue Humans featuring Rudolph Grey | Clear to Higher Time |
| NAR 078 | 1995 | Jack Brewer | Rhythm or Suicide (Poems and Writings) |
| NAR 079 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 080 | 1992 | GobbleHoof | FreezerBurn |
| NAR 081 | 1995 | Deborah Patino | Nocturnal |
| NAR 082 | 1994 | Michael C. Ford | Fire Escapes |
| NAR 083 | 1993 | Holly Prado | Word Rituals |
| NAR 084 | 1994 | Various | Internal Journal |
| NAR 085 | 1993 | Bill Mohr | Vehemence |
| NAR 086 | 1993 | Pleasant Gehman | Ruined |
| NAR 087 | 1992 | Steve Abee | Jerusalem Donuts |
| NAR 088 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 089 | 1994 | Luis Campos | Poetry! |
| NAR 090 | 1993 | Paul Body | Love Is Like Rasputin |
| NAR 091 | 1994 | Miles Ciletti | Long Days and Monster Nights |
| NAR 092 | 1994 | Mick Vranich & Wordban'd | Cloak of Skin |
| NAR 093 | 1994 | Lynn Manning | Clarity of Vision |
| NAR 094 | 1994 | Chuck Dukowski, Paul Cutler, Bill Stinson | United Gang Members |
| NAR 095 | 1993 | Luis Alfaro | Down Town |
| NAR 096 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 097 | 1994 | Roger Miller | Oh |
| NAR 098 | 1993 | Mick Vranich | Idols of Fear |
| NAR 099 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 100 | 1997 | Danny Weizmann | Hollywoodland |
| NAR 101 | 1995 | Louie Lista, David Crittendon | Walkin' & Talkin' |
| NAR 102 | 1994 | Michael Lally | What You Find There |
| NAR 103 | 1993 | Eloise Klein Healy | Artemis in Echo Park / The Women's Studies Chronicles |
| NAR 104 | 1993 | The Blue Humans featuring Rudolph Grey | To Higher Time |
| NAR 105 | 1993 | Overpass | Overpass |
| NAR 106 | 1994 | Jack Brewer and Bazooka | Saved from Death in the Dream World |
| NAR 107 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 108 | 1995 | Iris Berry | Life on the Edge in Stilettos |
| NAR 109 | 1995 | Quincy Troupe | Root Doctor |
| NAR 110 | 1994 | Dingle | Red Dog |
| NAR 111 | 1994 | Elisabeth Belile | Your Only Other Option Is Surgery |
| NAR 112 | 1994 | Henry J. Morro | Somoza's Teeth |
| NAR 113 | 1994 | Willie Sims | Story Yeller |
| NAR 114 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 115 | 1994 | Various | Internal Journal, Vol. II |
| NAR 116 | 1994 | Lisa Freeman | Rough Roads |
| NAR 117 | 1994 | Dr. Noah Young | Freaks: No Fear of Contagion |
| NAR 118 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 119 | 1996 | Kathi Martin | Rocky Road |
| NAR 120 | 1995 | Harry E. Northup | Homes |
| NAR 121 | Unreleased | Unknown | Unknown |
| NAR 122 | 1995 | Julie Ritter | Medicine Show |
| NAR 123 | 1995 | Martin Bisi y las Cochinas | See Ya in Tia Juana |
| NAR 124 | 1996 | Martin Bisi y las Cochinas | Dear Papi, I'm in Jail |
| NAR 125 | 1997 | Jack Brewer and Bazooka | Elysian Intervals |
| NAR 126 | 1997 | The Reluctant Toby | The Ultimate Hobby |