Trauma Records

Trauma Records was a Los Angeles–based independent record label created in 1993 by Paul Palmer and Rob Kahane.

Trauma Records had a joint venture agreement with Interscope Records that included financing and distribution through Interscope Records. Trauma signed and developed bands such as Bush, No Doubt, Phunk Junkeez, and The Flys. Trauma's Bush catalog was transferred to Kirtland Records in 2005.

Trauma Records was the label under which NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal released his hip-hop albums. However, his most anticipated album, Shaquille O'Neal Presents His Superfriends, Vol. 1 was never released. It also released several soundtracks to popular films starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen such as Holiday in the Sun and When in Rome.

In 2004 Trauma Records became a subsidiary of Interscope Records, and is currently inactive with no website or current address. Interscope has all but phased out the label following its decline in management and sales.

The label has been reactivated a… More