Red Scare Industries (sometimes referred to as Red Scare Records) is a punk rock record label. The label was started in San Francisco (but moved to Chicago) by former Fat Wreck Chords employee Toby Jeg.
Jeg started the label in 2004 when his friend Brendan Kelly of The Lawrence Arms wanted a new label to release the EP for his new band The Falcon, it has since released material for bands such as The Lillingtons, Cobra Skulls, The Copyrights, Sundowner, Teenage Bottlerocket, and more. For 2010 and 2011, Red Scare albums by The Menzingers and The Sidekicks have been named album of the year by punknews.org.
The label has also worked with non-Red Scare artists on additional projects, including "Red Oktoberfest", an annual weekend music festival in Chicago which has featured bands such as The Lawrence Arms, American Steel, and Off With Their Heads, and the Swingin' Utters tribute album, Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to the Swingin' Utters, which most notably featured the Dropkick Murphys.
Artists
Current artists
Arms Aloft
Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds
Broadway Calls
The Brokedowns
Bullets To Broadway
Druglords Of The Avenues
Elway
The Falcon
Good Friend
Guerilla Poubelle
Heart & Lung
The Heat Tape
Joe McMahon
Laura Jane Grace
No Trigger
Ramona
Reaganomics
SACK
Sam Russo
Sicko
Sludgeworth
Success
Tightwire
The Bollweevils
Vultures United
Former artists
Billy Liar (active with Pirates Press Records) The Bombpops (active with Fat Wreck Chords) The Copyrights (active with Fat Wreck Chords) Cobra Skulls (active with Fat Wreck Chords) Direct Hit (active with Fat Wreck Chords) Enemy You (disbanded) La Plebe (disbanded) The Lillingtons (disbanded) Nothington (disbanded) MakeWar (active with Fat Wreck Chords) Masked Intruder (active with Pure Noise Records) The Isotopes (active with Stomp Records) The Holy Mess (disbanded) The Methadones The Menzingers (active with Epitaph Records) The Lippies (disbanded) Red City Radio (active with Pure Noise Records) The Riptides (America only) (active with Asian Man Records) The Sidekicks (disbanded) Sincere Engineer (active with Hopeless Records) Sundowner (active with Fat Wreck Chords) Teenage Bottlerocket (active with Fat Wreck Chords)