Scratchie Records

Based at:
239 11th Avenue,
New York, NY 10001.

Currently releasing records by The Sounds and The Blank Theory.

Scratchie was founded in 1995 by Jeremy Freeman, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne/Ivy, Kerry Brown from Catherine, and Smashing Pumpkins people James Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky.

Initially they were based in Chicago had distribution through Mercury Records, but a year of legal wrangling ended the pact after Universal merged with Mercury's parent company, Polygram. They then signed a deal with Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) and moved to New York.