Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen YearsLimited to 500 copies. Watermelon Records was founded in Austin, TX in 1989. Over the next decade the label would go on to release nearly 100 records before shutting its doors in 1998. The catalogue would lie dormant for nearly another decade before New West Records acquired rights to the releases in 2010. Now in 2016, New West Records is proud to present the relaunch of Watermelon Records with remastered releases of Alejandro Escovedos indispensable

Parquet Courts

They recorded a surprisingly vast amount of material

which took four years to record

but on his debut LP for R&S Records he expands his horizons with the most personal music of his career to date

Ella Fitzgerald - Cow Cow Boogie 24

Lost My Baby - Blues BustersåÊ

It‰۪s guaranteed to get any public

Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence on Secretly Canadian

Released in May 2000 to widespread acclaim

Many were issued as 45‰۪s or provided the foundation for hits by Culture and others

Combining alternate guitar tunings with nearly linear songwriting

playing up and down the West Coast and even blowingåÊSex Pistols off the stage at the latter‰۪s final performance