| Bar/None Records | |
| Founder: | Tom Prendergast Glenn Morrow |
| Distributor: | Alternative Distribution Alliance, Secretly Distribution |
| Genre: | Alternative rock Indie rock Folk |
| Country: | U.S. |
| Location: | Hoboken, New Jersey |
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey.[1]
Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio, booking and promoting bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982.
The first release on Bar/None was by Rage to Live, whose leader, Glenn Morrow, soon became a partner in the label. Morrow had already built a network of contacts in the alternative music community having toured nationally with his previous band, The Individuals, and had also worked in the A&R department of Warner Bros. and as the managing editor of New York Rocker magazine. In 2000, Prendergast left New Jersey and moved back to Ireland, sold his shares to Morrow.[2]
The Bar/None debut album of They Might Be Giants sold more than 100,000 copies and their follow-up, Lincoln, more than doubled those sales.
Other artists that started on Bar/None and went on to the major record labels include Luka Bloom, Yo La Tengo (Atlantic/Matador), Freedy Johnston, They Might Be Giants, (Elektra), and Tindersticks (London/PolyGram).
See main article: List of Bar/None Records artists. As of 2019, there have been over one-hundred and twenty artists signed to Bar/None Records.