WGNS Recordings releases music recorded by WGNS Studios.

History

WGNS was initially started by Gray Matter's Geoff Turner in Maryland in the early 1980s as a cassette label.^[1] WGNS stood for "We Gots No Station."^[2] Initial recordings were mastered to a cassette and then dubbed from the master to cassettes which were numbered and sold. The releases typically included a ziploc bag containing artwork and lyric sheets.^{[citation needed]} As time went on, Turner built WGNS Studios as a basement recording studio for local musicians.^[2] The studio moved many times, with locations in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia.^[1][3]

In 1984 the first vinyl release, the Bloody Mannequin Orchestra's Roadmap to Revolution LP, a 12" 33⅓ rpm record was released.

WGNS was responsible for the rise of great artists such as Ennui and Dave Grohl.^{[citation needed]} In the summer of 1991, Scream drummer Grohl went into WGNS Studios and recorded four songs, playing all the instruments himself.^[2] A tape of the songs, given by Grohl to Simple Machines co-founder Jenny Toomey, became a candidate for the label's Tool Cassette Series.^[4] Simple Machines released the songs on the Pocketwatch (album) using Grohl's pseudonym Late! in summer 1992.^[2] In May 1992, Ennui recorded at the WGNS studio located in Arlington, Virginia.^[5] Grohl recorded again at WGNS Studios in December 1996, when it was back in Washington, DC.^[1][6]

References

Releases

• Simply Suberbe
• Gots No Station Compilation
• Streetlights in the Dark
• The Candy's Not Poisoned
• Roadmap to Revolution
• WGNS/Metrozine Compilation
• The Halloween Cassette

See also

• List of record labels

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