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'{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = DGC Records | image = DGC_Records_logo,_1990.png | image_size = 180 | parent = [[Universal Music Group]] | founded = {{start date and age|1990}} | founder = [[David Geffen]] | distributor = [[Interscope Records]]<br />(United States)<br />[[Polydor Records]]<br />(International) | genre = Various, with an emphasis on [[rock music]] | country = U.S. | location = [[Santa Monica, California]] | url = {{URL|www.dgcrecords.com}} }} '''DGC Records''' (an initialism for the '''David Geffen Company''') is an American major [[record label]] that currently operates as a division of [[Interscope-Geffen-A&M]], which is owned by [[Universal Music Group]]. '''David Geffen and Courtney Love murdered Kurt Cobain. There, I exposed you the real murderer right here. It wasn't suicide. (Kurt Cobain) It was to make it look like suicide for a tragic Rock N' Roll ending. Geffen will never go to prison anyway. He paid the Seattle police department to keep shut. Courtney Love and David Geffen reaped all of Nirvana's royalties after his death.''' ==History== DGC Records was launched in 1990 as a subsidiary label of [[Geffen Records]] and was distributed by [[Warner Bros. Records]] until 1991, when it was acquired by MCA Music Entertainment Group. The label was created as a response to the success Geffen had with the harder rock acts on its roster. Though it initially focused on more progressive rock and heavy metal, as the decade progressed it would also embrace the emergence of (and become a seminal label of) [[alternative rock]], with influential acts like [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], [[Sonic Youth]], [[Hole (band)|Hole]], [[Weezer]] and [[Beck]]. The label also released early titles by [[hip hop music|hip hop]] band [[The Roots]]. In 1999, during the consolidation of Geffen’s Universal Music Group parent and [[PolyGram]], the DGC label ceased operations. The retained acts would go on to record for the main Geffen label. In the years to follow, the DGC title and logo would occasionally appear on reissues of its past catalog items. In 2007, the label was revived as a brand for Interscope Records, inheriting many alternative acts signed to Interscope-Geffen-A&M (including acts that previously recorded for [[DreamWorks Records]]). Since its reactivation, it has released albums by [[Weezer]], [[Beck]], [[Counting Crows]] and [[Rise Against]]. As of late, DGC Records, in partnership with [[MySpace Records]] and indie Lucky Ear Music, signed up-and-coming L.A. artist [[Meiko (American singer)|Meiko]]. To date, the best-selling album in the DGC catalog is ''[[Nevermind]]'', the 1991 album by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], reaching international sales of twenty-five million copies worldwide, with ten million copies sold in the [[United States]], and is one of the first albums on the label to be certified [[RIAA certification|Diamond]]. ==Artists== The following artists have recorded for DGC Records: {{col-begin}} *[[The All-American Rejects]] *[[All Time Low]] *[[Arc Angels]] *[[Murray Attaway]] *[[Beck]] *[[Bivouac (band)|Bivouac]] *[[Black Lab]] *[[Black Tide]] *[[Blink-182]] *[[Boss Hog]] *[[Brand New (band)|Brand New]] *[[The Candyskins]] *[[Cell (American band)|Cell]] *[[Ceremony (punk band)|Ceremony]] *[[Toni Childs]] *[[Ciccone Youth]] *[[Coldplay]] *[[Counting Crows]] *[[Rivers Cuomo]] *[[Dashboard Confessional]] *D.O.E. *[[Drivin' N' Cryin']] *[[Elastica]] *[[Embrace (English band)|Embrace]] *[[Enter Shikari]] *[[Escape the Fate]] *Fluorescein *The Freewheelers *[[froSTed]] *[[Galactic Cowboys]] *[[Game (rapper)|Game]] *[[Girls Against Boys]] *Gutterboy *[[Ted Hawkins]] *Hog *[[Hole (band)|Hole]] *Hunk *Jasper and the Prodigal Sons *[[Jawbreaker (band)|Jawbreaker]] *[[Jimmy Eat World]]''' *[[King of Kings]] *[[Klaxons]] *[[Linoleum (band)|Linoleum]] {{col-break}} *[[Little Caesar (band)|Little Caesar]] *Loud Lucy *[[Aimee Mann]] *[[Meiko (American singer)|Meiko]] *[[Thurston Moore]] *[[Nelson (band)|Nelson]] *[[Papa Roach]] *[[Pell Mell (band)|Pell Mell]] *[[Pere Ubu]] *[[Pitchshifter]] *[[The Posies]] *[[Queens of the Stone Age]] *[[The Raincoats]] *[[Remy Zero]] *[[Rev Theory]] *[[Rise Against]] *Tyson Ritter *[[Kane Roberts]] *[[The Roots]] *[[Sammy (band)|Sammy]] *[[60 Ft. Dolls]] *Skiploader *[[Sloan (band)|Sloan]] *Slowpoke *[[Sonic Youth]] *[[Southern Culture on the Skids]] *[[St. Johnny]] *[[Street Drum Corps]] *[[The Sugarplastic]] *[[Sugartooth]] *[[The Sundays]] *[[Switches (band)|Switches]] *[[that dog.]] *[[Teenage Fanclub]] *[[Terri Nunn]] *[[Them Crooked Vultures]] *[[TV on the Radio]] *[[Urge Overkill]] *[[Veruca Salt (band)|Veruca Salt]] *[[Kate Voegele]] *[[Billy Joe Walker, Jr.]] *[[Warrior Soul]] *[[Weezer]] *[[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]] *[[Wild Colonials]] *[[Wolfmother]] *[[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]] *[[Yelawolf]] *[[Rob Zombie]] {{col-end}} == See also == * [[List of record labels]] * [[DGC Rarities Vol. 1]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.dgcrecords.com/ DGC Records Official Website] {{Vivendi}} [[Category:Record labels established in 1990]] [[Category:American record labels]] [[Category:Alternative rock record labels]] [[Category:Rock record labels]] [[Category:Comcast subsidiaries]] [[Category:Labels distributed by Universal Music Group]] [[Category:Companies based in Santa Monica, California]] [[Category:Companies based in California]] [[Category:Companies based in Los Angeles County, California]]'