![]() ![]() They would probably have dissolved anyway. Jawbreaker and At The Drive-In were already exhausted and on the verge of collapse, the change to a major label didn’t help, but I also don’t think not doing so would have helped them much. ![]() Those bands that suffered the most after signing to a major label already had other issues. ![]() In most cases existing problems in the band were amplified by the new pressure to be successful and sell lots of records first to prove that they were worth it, and second to try and recoup the money the record label had just spent on them. Reading the histories of each of the bands, it doesn’t look like the signing to a major label had a huge effect on its own, it was more in combination with other factors already at play. So, with one exception, I’d certainly heard of all the bands before, even if in some cases I wasn’t familiar with all of their material. In terms of musical era and style, this lands firmly in my teenage and student years. ![]() The 2021 book Sellout by Dan Ozzi covers the major label debuts of eleven Punk/Hardcore/Emo bands from the 90s to 00s, how they got there and how it went. ![]()
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