Bomp! Records: Америкалық жазба компаниясының тарихы

American record label

Bomp! Records is a Los Angeles based record label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw, and Suzy Shaw.

Who Put the Bomp was a rock music fanzine edited and published by Greg Shaw from 1970 to 1979. Its name came from the 1961 hit doo wop song by Barry Mann, "Who Put the Bomp". Later, the name was shortened to Bomp! Bomp!, and extended by Shaw to the record label Bomp! Records, which he headed until his death in 2004.

The magazine was a departure from the mainstream and its writing style unique with its own opinion described as almost partisan. The magazine was first published in 1970. It was created by Greg Shaw and his wife. The magazine chronicled bands that Shaw deemed worthy of covering. And he did it passionately. Shaw made it known too that the magazine was not going to cater to nostalgia or be an info receptacle for fanatical collectors of obscure out of print records. A significant number of writers who wrote for the magazine went on to greater things.

Ken Barnes who wrote articles like "10 Greatest Power Pop Songs" for Best Classic Bands, and other publications such as Fusion and Phonograph Record was once co editor for the magazine. Jay Kinney who was a key man in the underground comics movement in the late 1960s, served as art director for the magazine. Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren co authored Bomp: Saving the World One Record at a Time, published by Ammo Books in 2007. In 2009, Bomp! and Ugly Things published Bomp 2 – Born in the Garage, edited by Suzy Shaw and Mike Stax.