| Birdnest Records | |
| Founded: | 1982 |
| Founder: | Per Granberg |
| Genre: | Punk |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Location: | Köping |
| Url: | birdnest.se |
Birdnest Records is a Swedish record company mainly dealing in punk music.
It was founded by Per Granberg who also plays in Charta 77. The company was founded as a DIY company with the intention of only publishing Granberg's own records in 1982, under the name Birdskit. After a while Birnest also took on other bands, mostly in the trallpunk genre, and in 1988 they changed the name to Birdnest. When trallpunk became popular in the early 1990s the company grew. Notable bands are Dia Psalma and De lyckliga kompisarna.[1]
During the same period several smaller record companies were distributed by Birdnest (among them Desperate Fight Records from Umeå).[2] In the late 1990s the company suffered from restructurings at MNW who they had shared distribution with. Birdnest managed to straighten out the finances thanks to a support gala for the company. However the activity of the company has gone down and it now mostly publish records by Granberg's own bands and his friends. As a complement to the record company they also run Birdnest Mailorder that sells records online and at concerts.
On 12 September 2022 the studio with master tapes archive was destroyed in a fire.[3]