A-F Records is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 originated by the band Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag is a punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States, formed in 1988. The band is well known for its outspoken political views. Much of the band's lyrics have focused on fervent anti-war activism, criticism of United States foreign policy, corporatism, U.S. wealth...

, based in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, USA. This label was created to help expose more political punk rock

Punk rock

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 bands to a greater audience. The label's offices were damaged when a September 2004 flood hit Pittsburgh; although the label's employees were able to save much of the equipment and inventory, A-F Records dropped Inhuman, Tabula Rasa and Virus Nine in the wake of the flood for financial reasons.

They have formerly been distributed on Mordam

Mordam Records

Mordam Records was a Sacramento, California record distribution company for independent record labels. It was originally founded in San Francisco in 1983 as an independent punk distribution company by Ruth Schwartz...

, but moved to RedEye

Redeye Distribution

Redeye Distribution is an independent music distribution company founded in 1996 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Redeye currently distributes such labels as Marsalis Music, Barsuk Records, Warp Records, Daptone Records, Luaka Bop Records, Kill Rock Stars, Sargent House, Hydra Head Records, The...

 when Mordam was bought by Lumberjack in early 2006.

Former artists

• Anti-Flag
  Anti-Flag
  Anti-Flag is a punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States, formed in 1988. The band is well known for its outspoken political views. Much of the band's lyrics have focused on fervent anti-war activism, criticism of United States foreign policy, corporatism, U.S. wealth...
  
  
• Darkest Hour (A-F Records released Archives
  Archives (Darkest Hour album)
  Archives is a compilation album by Darkest Hour, released on October 3, 2006 through A-F Records.The disc includes tracks from the band's first two independent EPs, 1996's The Misanthrope and 1999's The Prophecy Fulfilled. The audio for this release was re-mastered from the original master tapes...
  
   which is a compilation album featuring the band's first two independent EPs.)
• Destruction Made Simple
• Endless Struggle
• Inhuman
  Inhuman
  Inhuman may refer to:*Inhuman, a member of the fictional Marvel Comics race, the Inhumans*Inhuman , an album by Desecration*Inhuman Games, a game companyIt may also refer to:*Inhuman Condition, an EP from the band Massacre...
  
  
• Inquisition
• Modey Lemon
  Modey Lemon
  Modey Lemon is an American garage rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group formed in Pittsburgh's South Oakland neighborhood in 1999 as an informal side project of Dean Swagger, a rock trio that had spent the previous year mainly performing in basements to college party crowds...
  
  
• Morning Glory
• Much the Same
  Much the Same
  Much the Same was a punk rock band from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Their style is based on the fast, melodic skate punk of the mid-to-late 1990s made popular by bands such as NOFX, Lagwagon, and No Use for a Name....
  
  
• New Mexican Disaster Squad
  New Mexican Disaster Squad
  New Mexican Disaster Squad was a hardcore punk band. It was formed in Orlando, Florida in 1999. Their last show was at the Fest 7 on November 1, 2008 though the band did reunite to play Radfest in North Carolina, May 2010....
  
  
• Pipedown
  Pipedown
  Pipedown was a hardcore punk band from Northern California with radical leftist lyrics. Starting in Grass Valley, California in 1997, their lyrics often remind of eco-anarchism, especially since they recommended books like the Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and its Future and Deep...
  
  
• Red Lights Flash
  Red Lights Flash
  Red Lights Flash was a punk band from Graz in Austria.The band was formed in 1997. They have political lyrics and play melodic-punk. Red Lights Flash was the first European band that signed a contract with the punk label A-F Records...
  
  
• Tabula Rasa
  Tabula Rasa (Pittsburgh band)
  Tabula Rasa was a post-hardcore math-rock band from Pittsburgh, PA. They were featured on Deep Elm’s Me Against the World: The Emo Diaries Chapter 7 and released a self-titled EP on One Day Savior Recordings as well as a full length album The Role of Smith on A-F Records.-History:The band was...
  
  
• The Code
  The Code (band)
  The Code is a former American ska-punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band released their first full-length CD on A-F Records, which they followed up with a split with Whatever It Takes. They have also toured with bands such as Rise Against, Against Me!, Bouncing Souls, Pipedown and...
  
  
• The Methadones
  The Methadones
  The Methadones were a band formed in 1993 by guitarist/vocalist Dan Vapid. The Methadones initially lasted only a few shows before Dan put them to the side to focus on his main band Screeching Weasel. By 1999 Dan was no longer a member of Screeching Weasel or his other band The Riverdales, and...
  
  
• The Unseen
• Thought Riot
  Thought Riot
  Thought Riot was an American hardcore punk band from California's Central Valley. The band was composed of kids pushing progressive political ideas through their lyrics...
  
  
• Virus Nine
  Virus Nine
  Virus Nine is a Punk Rock band from Medford, Oregon, established in 1996.-Members:* Vocals: Mike Estes* Drums: Ryan Dingee* Bass: Tim Capehart* Guitar: Daniel Peel* Guitar: Daniel Benne-Former members:* Guitar: Josh Guillory* Guitar: Mike Bertrand...
  
  
• Whatever It Takes