TEAM AV

TEAM AV is an American independent record label. Formerly known as Arborvitae Records, the label signed an exclusive distribution deal with Southern Records in 2000 when it was based in Champaign, Illinois. In 2002 the label relocated to California and a short time later became part of the exclusive label group of Lumberjack-Mordam Distribution, before eventually relocating again to Ames, Iowa. Since 2000 The label has released more than a dozen albums of various styles and has worked with engineers such as Bob Weston, Chris Walla, Mike Lust, Brendan Gamble, Tim Iseler and Brian Deck.
In July of 2004 the TEAM AV band American Draft appeared on episode 269 of the Peabody Award-winning radio program This American Life, entitled "Someone to Watch Over Me," performing a cover of the George Gershwin song of the same name.
In 2007 the message "mass produced consumer products kill nature" appeared on the label's website, at which time it announced a move away from commercially packaged compact discs and toward digital and hand-made physical releases, citing ecological reasons. The label has a long history of supporting animal rights and environmental protection organizations, and its unofficial motto is "protecting wildlife with noise since the year 2000."
TEAM AV has released albums with:
* American Draft
* Baby & Hide
* DMS
* Everybody Uh Oh
* Mt. St. Helens
* Murder By Death
* Oso
* Piglet
* Red Shirt Brigade
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* Volta Do Mar
TEAM AV has also released two compilation/sampler albums including songs from:
* A Light Sleeper
* The Bargos Steeler
* BNR
* Destructionnaire
* Fizzle Like A Flood
* Fly Everywhere
* The French New Wave
* The Guns of Navarone
* Hashbrown
* Andrew Hawthorne
* North By Northwest
* The Potomac Accord
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* Rectangle
* Showshane
* Sounds Like Braille
* Stay Young, Little One
* This Bright Apocalypse

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