Little Pocket Records

**Little Pocket Records** is an independent record label and indie rock music collective from Toledo, OH.

## History

In the early years of the record label, two of the founding members, Kyle Bliss and James Degregorio, put on a yearly music festival known as the Toledo Indie Pop Festival. Held at various venues in Toledo, local bands and others from around the country performed at the festival. Several of these bands later played on compilations or full albums produced by the label.

The music record label production side of the company worked as a distribution label for several indie rock bands around the world, including Kingsauce, Little My, The 1959 Hat Co, and Santa Monica Swim and Dive Club. The music collective consisted of certain prominent indie rock groups from Detroit, MI to Toledo, OH that also released music on the label, such as The Homeville Circleand The Antivillains. The 1959 Hat Co released music on fellow indie label HHBTM Records–along with Kingsauce, WeePOP! Records–along with Little My, and on Slumber Party Records–along with Thunder Power.

Over the span of a decade the label released 22 records from indie rock bands spanning from Cardiff, Wales to New York, NY and Boise, ID. In 2009, the record label released a compilation album called _Winter Holidays with Little Pocket Records_ that featured bands from several countries, such as Gary Pig Gold, Echo Orbiter, and St. Christopher.

The label quickly grew an international audience that it maintained until the distribution side of the label slowed production in the 2010s. Member bands continue to produce and distribute albums on various labels.

#### Album Artists

- The Homeville Circle
- The 1959 Hat Co
- Wooden Owls
- A Little Oceanic
- The Melbournes
- The Helper T-Cells
- The Saw Had Eyes That Sea
- Santa Monica Swim and Dive Club
- Little My
- Kingsauce
- Blue of the Sky
- And Bears, Oh My!
- The Antivillains

#### Compilation Artists

- Cineplexx / Ally Kerr
- St. Christopher
- Echo Orbiter
- Irene
- Glowfriends
- Gary Pig Gold
- Retail
- Komon
- Folklore
- The Moonbeams
- The Soft City
- POP ETC
- Lisa Mychols
- Postcards
- The Cryogenic Strawberries
- Invisible Strings
- Hyperbole is Great
- The Fairly Handsome Band

#### Festival Artists

- Red Pony Clock
- His Name is Alive
- Bears
- Arrah and the Ferns
- The Hard Lessons
- New Grenada
- The Helper T-Cells
- Brown Recluse Sings
- Frontier Ruckus
- This Story
- The Afternoon Naps
- Kiddo
- Patience Please
- Paper Airplane
- The Antivillains
- Zoos of Berlin
- The Homeville Circle
- StylEx
- The Hat Company

## Releases

|Artist|Album|Release Number|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Little Pocket Records|Taste of Summer (compilation)|LPR001|
|The 1959 Hat Co|Awesome Sneakers|LPR002|
|Little My|Little My's Fourth|LPR003|
|Kingsauce|Cancelled|LPR004|
|The Homeville Circle|Midwestern Shambling|LPR005|
|A Little Oceanic|(self-titled)|LPR006|
|The Homeville Circle|Great Lakes EP|LPR007|
|Little My|Little My’s Sixth|LPR008|
|Little Pocket Records|(compilation)|LPR009|
|The 1959 Hat Co|Fair Weathered Friends|LPR010|
|The Homeville Circle|Moths And Rust|LPR011|
|Kingsauce|Chanukah Blues|LPR012|
|And Bears, Oh My!|From the Carpet Bagger’s Halo|LPR013|
|Santa Monica Swim and Dive Club|Mud Honey|LPR014|
|The Melbournes|(self-titled)|LPR015|
|The Helper T-Cells|(self-titled)|LPR016|
|Winter Holidays with Little Pocket Records|(compilation)|LPR017|
|The Saw Had Eyes That Sea|Paper Thin Rhapsodies|LPR018|
|The Antivillains|So Much For Romance|LPR019|
|The Saw Had Eyes That Sea|The Four Seasons EP|LPR020|
|Wooden Owls|(self-titled)|LPR021|
|The 1959 Hat Co|Spring Thoughts EP|LPR022|
|Blue of the Sky|Oh My Girl|LPR023|
|Blue of the Sky|Little Pocket Records Covers|LPR024|

## See also

- List of record labels

## Infobox (record label)

- **name**: Little Pocket Records
- **image**:
- **founder**: Kyle Bliss, Steven Mohr, James Degregorio
- **genre**: Indie rock
- **country**: U.S.
- **location**: Toledo, Ohio