Drive-Thru Records’ archived pages document a changing set of band names, from Riverfenix and Rx Bandits on a 1998 homepage to nine image banners on a 2001 bands page. The captures also span two domain spellings, which matters when looking for the old roster.
This guide is built from those captured pages, plus the community release index for catalog numbers. Where a claim comes from contributor written database prose rather than from the label, it says so in the sentence. Staple News is not connected to any label named here.
December 1998, four names on the homepage
The earliest useful capture is a December 1998 homepage with one line of coming attractions on it: “Coming Soon: Music videos for you to download from Cousin Oliver, Rx Bandits, Mothermania, and Riverfenix!!!!” Four exclamation marks, four acts, and a promise of downloadable videos, a concrete example of what the label was promoting in that capture.
Riverfenix is the detail worth pausing on. Three years later the label had a banner for the same act filed simply as fenix, a different filename from the earlier Riverfenix wording.
June 2001, nine banners on the bands page
The label’s own bands page as captured on 13 June 2001 carried no readable text at all. It carried nine images, and the filenames provide identifiers for those banners: allister, benjamins, fenix, finch, midtown, nfg, rxbandits, somethingcorp, and thestartingline.
Nine months later the homepage was leading with a single release. Its page title on 24 March 2002 reads “FINCH- What It Is To Burn -3.12.02”, and the same capture warns that the site needed a plugin to view at all, which limits what can be read from that HTML capture alone.
What the catalog index shows
The community release index for the label holds 1,393 rows across fourteen pages. The first page returned in the inspected index contains twenty-three distinct artist names, among them Allister, The Starting Line, The Early November, Midtown, New Found Glory, Something Corporate, Finch, Socratic, Hellogoodbye, Steel Train, Rx Bandits, and Senses Fail.
Rows are not records. They count variants, promos, reissues and compilations separately, so 1,393 describes a database rather than an output. Catalog numbers on those rows mix the label’s own prefix with distributor numbering, so you will see DTR #34 and DTR #38 next to strings like 440-060-081-2 and B0000155-12. One of those, DTR #38, is the 2003 reissue covered on our page about the From the Depths of Dreams pressings.
Band renamings show up in the data too. That first index page carries both A New Found Glory and New Found Glory as separate artist strings, which is the same group either side of a name change rather than two acts on the roster. The same record also files a sublabel underneath the main one, Love Minus Zero Recordings, so a release can carry the smaller name and still belong here.
DTR #38 is the one this site has already traced. It is the 2003 reissue of the Senses Fail debut EP, the pressing whose entry records that a song was left off “at Drive-Thru’s insistence”, and it sits in that band’s release history as an expanded release following the earlier ECA Records issue.
Two domains, one of them parked
The label’s web history is split. The 1998 and 2002 captures above sit on drivethrurecords.com with no hyphen. The hyphenated version, which is the address in use today, was serving something else entirely in the same era.
In April 2004 the hyphenated domain returned a parking page offering “About Us - Inquire About this Domain” over directory categories for loans, insurance and gambling. By May 2013 it had become a hosting placeholder reading “This is my site description. Powered by InstantPage from GoDaddy.com.” Today it serves an official store titled Drive-Thru Records, with sections for Music, Apparel and one band, Hellogoodbye.
What the database says and the label does not
The contributor written profile on the release index makes three claims worth separating from everything above. It says the label was founded in 1996 by a brother and sister, that the pair placed it on indefinite hiatus as of 2008, and that its label code is LC 00199. The same record files it under a parent label of MCA Records.
None of that appears in any label page read for this guide. It may well be right, and both years were repeated across the encyclopedia results we saw when we searched this topic. It is still contributor prose rather than a statement from the people who ran the label, which is a different kind of evidence, and this page keeps the two apart. If a label statement turns up, our editorial standards cover how to send it in.