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  • Record Store Day 2024

    Sound City Records and Sponge are proud to announce the release of Planet Girls (The Lost 1999 Album) for Record Store Day 2024!Planet Girls serves as the long-lost version of Sponge’s 1999 release, New Pop Sunday. After releasing back-to-back gold albums, Rotting Pinata & Wax Ecstatic, Sponge saw a label change during the recording of their 3rd release. During initial recording of the album, Legendary Producer, Kevin Shirley (Journey, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes) was brought in to create a more pop-rock in nature album, which was departure from the grittier sound of their first two albums. The album was eventually...

  • Motor City Rocks 2023

    Sound City Records & 106.7 Detroit's Wheels is excited to release "Motor City Rocks 2023" to honor the rock legacy of WLLZ! Motor City Rocks features Detroit rock from Bittersweet Alley, The Reefermen, HALLOWEEN, Cadillac Kidz, Mark Farner, Rhythm Corps, Adrenalin, Tino G’s Dumpster Machine, Dave Edwards & The Look and Ted Nugent. “Motor City Rocks 2023” was exclusively manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit, and made in collaboration with Sound City Records Jason Hartless and Jason Hartless Sr. The album's official release date is August 25th and will be available at record stores across the metro Detroit region and limited...

  • Ted Nugent - Nuge Vault VOL 1: Free For All

    The Nuge Vault opens April 22nd 2023 for Record Store Day 2023!! The first volume of the Nuge Vault collection features studio outtakes and rough mixes of the iconic 1976 Ted Nugent album, Free-For-All from Ted’s newly discovered personal tape archives. Never before heard early versions of classic Nugent songs such as “Free For All”, “Dog Eat Dog” and “Street Rats” gives fans a glimpse at the writing and demo process of what turned into an all time classic rock album. Limited to 4000 units on Great White Vinyl Executive Produced by: Ted Nugent & Jason Hartless ORDER HERE Track Listing:...

  • Record Store Day Black Friday 2022

    Sound City Records is proud to announce 2 amazing release coming as part of RSD Black Friday 2022! TED NUGENT - SPIRIT OF THE WILD 2xLP (Clear Orange Vinyl) Spirit of the Wild ranks as one of Ted Nugent's finest moments because it cuts away the filler and keeps the wildman's tendency for indulgence in check. This album marked the return of Nugent's original sound of hard rock instead of the pop metal style of his '80s solo work, as well as the brief return of vocalist Derek St. Holmes. "Spirit of the Wild" is the theme song for Ted...

  • Ted Nugent - “Nuge Vault” Coming 2023

    Ted Nugent and Sound City Records have partnered on the "Nuge Vault" collection. During rehearsals for 2022 Ted Nugent Summer tour, long-time Nugent Drummer and VP of Sound City Records, Jason Hartless discovered boxes full of tapes containing hundreds of hours of unreleased Ted Nugent Demos, Live Shows and Studio Outtakes. Coming in 2023, the "Nuge Vault" will be a multi-volume collection available on Vinyl, CD and Digital platforms, Produced by Ted Nugent and Jason Hartless STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS

  • Introducing Sound City Records

    27-year-old Jason Hartless has been a very in demand Drummer in the music world for quite a few years. He began touring at the tender age of 11 years old. At 14 years old, yet to see a day of high school, he was a hired gun drummer for one of the opening acts on Motley Crue’s “Crue Fest 2” tour that crisscrossed the United States the summer of 2009. He was recruited at 20 years old by the fellow Detroit native, Ted Nugent and has been his go-to drummer on all Nugent related work since; Jason and Nugent just finished up the Sold-Out “Detroit Muscle”...