Mammoth Records

Founded by Jay Faires in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina, Mammoth Records was one of the premiere independent record labels of the 1990s. Its roster featured such diverse talent as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Bats, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams.

The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993. The label hit the open market again in 1997.

Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998. Mammoth Records was folded into Hollywood Records in 2003.

Other Mammoth Artists
1988

A Picture Made – Past EP

Downsiders – All My Friends Are Fish

1990

Frequency – North Carolina Compilation

1991

Vanilla Trainwreck – Sofa Livin' Dreamazine

1992

Big Wheel – Holiday Manor

Vanilla Trainwreck- Sounding To Try Like You

1993

Big Wheel – Slowtown

Transmissions From The Planet Dog - Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

1994

Eat Static – Implant

Kevn Kinney - Down Out Law

Kill Creek – St. Valentine’s Garage

Laundry – Blacktongue (Mammoth/Prawn Song)

Porch (Mammoth/Prawn Song)

Vanilla Trainwreck- Mordecai

Velo-Deluxe- Superelastic

1995

Alphabet Soup – Layin Low in the Cut (Mammoth/Prawn Song)

Banco de Gaia – Last Train to Lhasa (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Banco de Gaia – Maya (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Bandit Queen – Hormone Hotel

Children of the Bong – Sirius Sounds (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Eat Static – Abduction (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Eat Static – Epsylon (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Eskimo – The Further Adventures of Der Shrimpkin (Mammoth/Prawn Song)

Feed Your Head – Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Feed Your Head – Volume 2 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Fun^Da^Mental – Seize the Time (Mammoth/Beggars Banquet)

Quadruped – Vol 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 1 (MR0103-2)

Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 2 (MR0104-2)

Vowel Movement- Vowel Movement (Mammoth/Atlantic)

1996

Clarissa – Silver

Dirty Dozen Brass Band- Ears To The Wall

Future Loop Foundation – Time and Bass (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Jabberjaw Compilation – Pure Sweet Hell (feat. Everclear, Mary Lou Lord and Jawbreaker)

Jack Drag - Jack Drag (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

Kill Creek – Proving Winter Cruel

Melvins - Stag (Mammoth/Atlantic)

MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Zen Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. the Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead and the Stone Temple Pilots)

Planet Dub – Planet Dub (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

The Raymond Brake - Never Work Ever (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

1997

Clarissa – Blood and Commons

Elevate – Interior (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

Fabric – Woolly Mammoth (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

Feed Your Head – Volume 3 : Accelerating The Alpha Rhythms (Mammoth/Planet Dog)

Jack Drag –Unisex Headwave (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

KCRW Rare on Air - Rare On Air Vol. 3 (feat. Fiona Apple, Patti Smith and Ben Folds Five)

MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Future Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. D’Angelo, The Flaming Lips and The Chemical Brothers)

Strangefolk – Weightless in Water

Two Dollar Pistols - On Down the Track (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)

1998

April March – Lessons of April March (Mammoth/Ideal)

Creeper Lagoon – I Become Small and Go (Mammoth/Ideal)

Far Too Jones – Picture Postcard Walls

Jocelyn Montgomery & David Lynch - Lux Vivens: The Music of Holdegard von Bingen

My Friend Steve – Hope and Wait

Natural Calamity – Peach Head (Mammoth/Ideal)

The Hope Blister – Smile’s OK (Mammoth/4AD)

1999

10 Cents - Buggin' Out (Mammoth/Ideal)

Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Buck Jump

James Mathus & His Knockdown Society – Play Songs for Rosetta

Whalen – Jazz Squad

Splendid - Have You Got A Name For It (Unreleased)

Strangefolk – A Great Long While

Styles of Beyond – 2000 Fold (Mammoth/Ideal)

2000

Frankie Machine - One

2001

Schatzi - Death Of The Alphabet e.p.

2002

Schatzi - Fifty Reasons To Explode

Soundtracks

Hurricane Streets – feat. Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy”, Xzibit and De La Soul

Jesus' Son – feat. Wilco and Joe Henry

Orgazmo - (Mammoth/ideal) feat. Wu-Tang Clan, Dust Brothers, Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Smashmouth

Reality Bites - feat. Juliana Hatfield, U2 and Dinosaur Jr.

The Crow - feat. Machines of Loving Grace, RATM and The Cure

The Crow: City of Angels - feat. Seven Mary Three, Iggy Pop and Deftones

Artist Links
Mammoth Classics on YouTube

Mammoth 20th Birthday

Schatzi

Seven Mary Three

Juliana Hatfield

Squirrel Nut Zippers

Joe Henry

Dillon Fence

Dash Rip Rock

Fu Manchu

Blake Babies

Chainsaw Kittens

Freestylers

Frente

Victoria Williams

Wiseguys

KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic

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