Mammoth Records

Mammoth Records was founded by Jay Faires in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina. One of the most premiere independent record labels of the 1990s, Its roster featured diverse talent as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Bats, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams.
The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993. The label hit the open market again in 1997. Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998. Mammoth Records was folded into Hollywood Records in 2003.
==Other Mammoth Artists==
1988 
A Picture Made– Past EP 
Downsiders – All My Friends Are Fish
1990 
Frequency – North Carolina Compilation
1991 
Vanilla Trainwreck – Sofa Livin' Dreamazine
1992 
Big Wheel – Holiday Manor 
Vanilla Trainwreck- Sounding To Try Like You
1993 
Big Wheel – Slowtown 
Transmissions From The Planet Dog - Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
1994 
Eat Static – Implant 
Kevn Kinney - Down Out Law 
Kill Creek – St. Valentine’s Garage 
Laundry – Blacktongue (Mammoth/Prawn Song) 
Porch (Mammoth/Prawn Song) 
Vanilla Trainwreck- Mordecai 
Velo-Deluxe- Superelastic
1995 
Alphabet Soup – Layin Low in the Cut (Mammoth/Prawn Song) 
Banco de Gaia – Last Train to Lhasa (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Banco de Gaia – Maya (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Bandit Queen – Hormone Hotel 
Children of the Bong – Sirius Sounds (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Eat Static – Abduction (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Eat Static – Epsylon (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Eskimo – The Further Adventures of Der Shrimpkin (Mammoth/Prawn Song) 
Feed Your Head – Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Feed Your Head – Volume 2 (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Fun^Da^Mental – Seize the Time (Mammoth/Beggars Banquet) 
Quadruped– Vol 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 1 (MR0103-2) 
Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 2 (MR0104-2) 
Vowel Movement - Vowel Movement (Mammoth/Atlantic)
1996 
Clarissa– Silver 
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Ears To The Wall 
Future Loop Foundation – Time and Bass (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Jabberjaw Compilation – Pure Sweet Hell (feat. Everclear, Mary Lou Lord and Jawbreaker) 
Jack Drag - Jack Drag (Mammoth/Hep-Cat) 
Kill Creek – Proving Winter Cruel 
Melvins - Stag (Mammoth/Atlantic) 
MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Zen Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. the Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead and the Stone Temple Pilots) 
Planet Dub – Planet Dub (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
The Raymond Brake - Never Work Ever (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
1997 
Clarissa– Blood and Commons 
Elevate – Interior (Mammoth/Hep-Cat) 
Fabric – Woolly Mammoth (Mammoth/Hep-Cat) 
Feed Your Head – Volume 3 : Accelerating The Alpha Rhythms (Mammoth/Planet Dog) 
Jack Drag –Unisex Headwave (Mammoth/Hep-Cat) 
KCRW Rare on Air - Rare On Air Vol. 3 (feat. Fiona Apple, Patti Smith and Ben Folds Five) 
MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Future Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. D’Angelo, The Flaming Lips and The Chemical Brothers) 
Strangefolk – Weightless in Water 
Two Dollar Pistols - On Down the Track (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
1998 
April March – Lessons of April March (Mammoth/Ideal) 
Creeper Lagoon – I Become Small and Go (Mammoth/Ideal) 
Far Too Jones – Picture Postcard Walls 
Jocelyn Montgomery & David Lynch - Lux Vivens: The Music of Holdegard von Bingen 
My Friend Steve – Hope and Wait 
Natural Calamity – Peach Head (Mammoth/Ideal) 
The Hope Blister – Smile’s OK (Mammoth/4AD)
1999 
10 Cents - Buggin' Out (Mammoth/Ideal) 
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Buck Jump 
James Mathus & His Knockdown Society – Play Songs for Rosetta 
Whalen – Jazz Squad 
Splendid - Have You Got A Name For It (Unreleased) 
Strangefolk – A Great Long While 
Styles of Beyond – 2000 Fold (Mammoth/Ideal)
2000 
Frankie Machine - One
2001 
Schatzi - Death Of The Alphabet e.p.
2002 
Schatzi - Fifty Reasons To Explode
Soundtracks
Hurricane Streets – feat. Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy”, Xzibit and De La Soul 
Jesus' Son – feat. Wilco and Joe Henry 
Orgazmo - (Mammoth/ideal) feat. Wu-Tang Clan, Dust Brothers, Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Smashmouth 
Reality Bites - feat. Juliana Hatfield, U2 and Dinosaur Jr. 
The Crow- feat. Machines of Loving Grace, RATM and The Cure 
The Crow: City of Angels - feat. Seven Mary Three, Iggy Pop and Deftones
==Artist Links==
Mammoth Classics on YouTube
Mammoth 20th Birthday
Schatzi
Seven Mary Three
Juliana Hatfield
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Joe Henry
Dillon Fence
Dash Rip Rock
Fu Manchu
Blake Babies
Chainsaw Kittens
Freestylers
Frente
Victoria Williams
Wiseguys
KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic
John Strohm's Music Blog
==References==
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1116676444.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=mammoth+records
http://www.variety.com/article/VR101450.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&query=mammoth+record
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117775630.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=jay+faires
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