Underground Operations Explained

Underground Operations
Founder:	Mark Spicoluk
Status:	Defunct
Distributor:	Universal Music Group
Genre:	Punk, metalcore, post-hardcore
Country:	Canada
Location:	Toronto, Ontario
Url:	undergroundoperations.com

Underground Operations was an independent punk rock record label based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1995, the label was originally based in Ajax, Ontario.^{[1] [2]} Operated by Mark Spicoluk, former Closet Monster member and former bass player for Avril Lavigne, this label was one of the most successful independent labels in Canada.^[3] Spicoluk started the label when he was 16 years of age.^[4] Underground Operations shut down on December 2, 2016.^[5]

Bands

• Abandon All Ships
• The Artist Life
• Aspirations
• Bombs Over Providence
• Closet Monster
• Chad Michael Stewart/Machete Avenue
• Dead Letter Dept
• Dean Lickyer
• Diemonds
• Hands & Teeth
• Heart Attack Kids
• The Holly Springs Disaster
• Hostage Life
• I Hate Sally
• Kathleen Turner Overdrive
• Kingdoms
• Lights
• Marilyn's Vitamins
• Means
• Protest the Hero
• Rob Moir
• Skynet (band)|Skynet
• These Silhouettes

Discography

• 1999: Closet Monster – A Fight for What Is Right
• 2000: Closet Monster – Where the Fuck Is Revolution?
• 2002: Protest the Hero – Search for the Truth EP
• 2002: (coles) Notes From The Underground compilation
• 2002: Closet Monster – Killed the Radio Star
• 2003: Marilyn's Vitamins – Vans Don't Run On Love And Records Aren't Pressed With Smiles
• 2003: Bombs Over Providence – Liberty's Ugly Best Friend
• 2003: Protest the Hero – A Calculated Use of Sound EP
• 2004: Hostage Life – Sing for the Enemy EP
• 2004: Closet Monster – We Re-Built This City
• 2004: Greetings from the Underground compilation
• 2005: The Power of Music compilation
• 2005: Dead Letter Dept. – Rock N' Roll Hates You
• 2005: The Brat Attack – From This Beauty Comes Chaos And Mayhem
• 2005: Bombs Over Providence – Shake Your Body Politic
• 2005: Summer 2005 Sampler compilation
• 2005: Protest the Hero – Kezia
• 2006: Machete Avenue – The First Cuts
• 2006: I Hate Sally – Don't Worry Lady
• 2006: Hostage Life – Walking Papers LP
• 2007: Summer 2007 Sampler compilation
• 2007: The Holly Springs Disaster – Motion Sickness Love
• 2007: I Hate Sally vs. GFK – Sp(l)it EP
• 2007: These Silhouettes – The Thomas EP EP
• 2008: Summer 2008 Sampler compilation
• 2008: Chad Michael Stewart – Machete Avenue
• 2008: Dean Lickyer – Dean Lickyer
• 2008: Means – To Keep Me from Sinking
• 2008: Protest the Hero – Fortress
• 2008: Lights – Lights EP
• 2008: Aspirations – EP! EP
• 2008: The Artist Life – Let's Start a Riot EP
• 2008: Kathleen Turner Overdrive – Marauders!Wolves!Scavengers!Party!
• 2009: Kingdoms – Daughters of Atlas EP
• 2009: Protest the Hero – Gallop Meets the Earth
• 2009: The Artist Life – Let's Start a Campfire EP
• 2010: Abandon All Ships – Geeving
• 2011: Protest the Hero – Scurrilous
• 2011: The Artist Life – Impossible
• 2012: DVBBS – Initio
• 2012: Abandon All Ships – Infamous
• 2012: Diemonds – The Bad Pack
• 2013: Rob Moir – Places to Die
• 2013: Skynet – The Wild EP
• 2014: Abandon All Ships – Malocchio
• 2014: Hands & Teeth – Before the Light EP
• 2014: Underground Operations / Cloud Empire 2014 Sampler compilation
• 2014: Hands & Teeth – Digital 7" EP
• 2015: Diemonds – Never Wanna Die
• 2015: Rob Moir – Adventure Handbook
• 2016: Heart Attack Kids – No Future
• 2016: Closet Monster – Suicide Note compilation

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site
• Underground Operations on Myspace

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sayyad.ca. sayyad.ca. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120219044453/http://www.sayyad.ca/webdesign/amplify8192/interviewunderground.html. 2012-02-19.
2. Web site: Underground Operations Biography. www.maplemusic.com.
3. http://www.exclaim.ca/musicschool/labellife.aspx?csid1=64 Exclaim
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022140345/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-806386361.html "Closet Monster: convictions of a punk rock strategist", Canadian Musician, March 1, 2005, Bliss, Karen
5. Web site: Underground Operations . 2018-04-26 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180320175920/http://undergroundoperations.com/ . 2018-03-20.