Mint Records

Mint Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based independent record label founded in 1991, by friends and campus radio enthusiasts Randy Iwata and Bill Baker. Mint has put out over 150 releases, several of which have won Juno Awards.

Iwata and Baker started working together at CITR-FM, the University of British Columbia radio station. Three years after graduation, they left the station, and founded Mint Records in January, 1991 to release the music of up-and-coming bands in Vancouver.

One of their earliest successes was a band called cub who, alongside Bunnygrunt and labelmates Maow, helped pioneer the vein of indie pop known as cuddlecore.Nico Case, performed in both Cub and Mao, released her first solo album on Mint.

In the late 1990s, the label was heavily affected by the financial crisis at and eventual bankruptcy of distribution company Cargo Records, when Cargo's failure to pay the label for Gob's album Too Late... No Friends led to the band, then Mint's most lucrative act, defecting to rival label Nettwerk.

In the year 1998, Mint Records album Get Outta Dodge by Huevos Rancheros was nominated for a Juno Award in the Best Alternative Album category,

Mint achieved Billboard chart success in the early 2000s with Neko Case and The New Pornographers. In 2001, the band's album Mass Romantic won the Juno Award for Best Alternative Album.Mass Romantic was listed at #17 in the 2001 Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll, and later ranked at #24 in Blender's 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever list.

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