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6 unusual facts about Tooth & Nail Records


American Dream EP

At a Seattle spot on the tour, an A&R executive from Tooth & Nail Records spotted them, subsequently bringing them to the attention of the label and getting them signed.

Cruel to Be Young

Cruel to Be Young is indie band Jonezetta's second full-length album, which was released on September 16, 2008 through Tooth & Nail Records.

Fall on Me

Tooth and Nail melodic rap duo Furthermore covered the song on their 2002 album She and Him.

Sal Paradise

Sal Paradise was also the name of an indie rock band on Tooth & Nail Records in the mid 1990s, and he is mentioned in a song, "The Story of the Blues (part 2)", by singer-songwriter Pete Wylie, who quotes, "The city intellectuals of the world are divorced from the folk-bodied blood of the land and are just rootless fools." (In fact the quotation is from another of Kerouac's characters, Jack Duluoz - also based on Kerouac himself - in his 1968 novel Vanity of Duluoz).

Spartan Records

John T. Frazier previously director of marketing at Tooth and Nail records founded the Spartan Records record label in January 2007 in Seattle, Washington.

Swimming with Dolphins

On June 21, 2010, Swimming with Dolphins signed onto the Seattle record label Tooth & Nail Records.


Children 18:3

The band released the EP in 2006 and sent a copy to Tooth & Nail Records CEO Brandon Ebel.

Roadside Monument

Roadside was signed to Tooth & Nail Records only about four months after they formed in 1994, because they had good fortune in being discovered by Brandon Ebel.

The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation

The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation is the second full length release by rock band Zao, released on Tooth & Nail Records on April 1, 1997.


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