Pirates Press Records

Pirates Press Records is a punk rock record label founded in 2005. The label is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with its headquarters located in Emeryville, California. The label releases music representing a variety of punk rock subgenres, including Oi!, street punk, hardcore, ska-punk, and pop-punk, as well as related genres such as ska, reggae, and indie rock. Some of the best-known artists who have released music with the label include Rancid (as well as several members' individual side projects and other bands), Cock Sparrer, Subhumans, The Aggrolites, The Slackers, The Bar Stool Preachers, and more. Bands affiliated with the label regularly feature on lineups at major festivals such as BYO Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival in Las Vegas, NV, USA; Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, UK; and Riot Fest in Chicago, IL, USA. The label has also released several notable compilations, including the Oi! This is Streepunk! series, label sampler One Family One Flag (and its follow up For Family and Flag), and Oi! 40 Years Untamed, a 40th anniversary follow-up to Garry Bushell's Oi! compilation series.^[1] The label also released Under One Flag, a year-long, weekly 7" record subscription.

The label is a sister company of Pirates Press, a manufacturing & production company that is responsible for pressing all of the label's releases, in addition to releases from many outside customers. Due to the close relationship with the pressing company, the label is known for featuring unique pressings featuring a variety of color configurations and packaging options.^[2] The label's first release was a box set of 7-inch picture discs, and subsequent releases have included features such as hologram vinyl, glow-in-the-dark vinyl, UV digitally printed vinyl, custom shapes or text milled out of the vinyl, and a flexi disc released in a custom-labeled glass bottle designed to resemble a Molotov cocktail.^[3]