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Sick Room Records

former record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7507581 ↗
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Sick Room Records Ltd. (often referred to as Sickroom) was an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded in 2001 by Mitch Cheney and Steve Sostak of the band Sweep the Leg Johnny and Ryan Duncan. The label put out releases that can fall into the categories of indie rock, post rock, math rock, noise rock and punk rock. The label closed in 2017.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7507581. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sick Room Records” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.