Bar/None Records

Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982 and started Pier Platters record store, which subsequently developed a national reputation as one of the finest alternative stores in the country. With the store as a laboratory to try out reco... More

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