For the similarly named Australian record company, see Liberation Music.
Liberation Records is a Southern California record company. It was formed by 16-year-old David Taba in 1994. The label notably discovered and released the debut album of Home Grown and, in 1994, released the classic Punk Sucks compilation. This compilation included tracks from Southern California artists who would soon become popular internationally, including Sublime, Blink 182 and Pennywise. The label has also released and/or reissued classic pop-punk albums from The Queers, Screeching Weasel, The Vindictives, and more. The label also owns New American Dream Records, which released music by the Icarus Line, Discount, Kind of Like Spitting, and Ink & Dagger.
