Growing up like a weed through the cracks in a grubby inner-city Sydney pavement, Ivy League Records was the brainchild of music managers Pete Lusty, Andy Cassell and Andy Kelly and musician James Roden. The label first came into being in 1997, born out of a very simple desire to release music that the label’s founders loved, to give as many people as possible the opportunity to love it too. Ivy League’s very first release, a seven-inch single by the seminal Sydney act, John Reed Club set the template for the label’s musical pre-requisites: spirit, melody and heart.

Partnering with Mushroom in 2003, Ivy League had the great honour and pleasure of releasing a roll-call of some of the greatest local acts over the course of the past 27 years: Youth Group, 78 Saab, Hoolahan, The City Lights, Josh Pyke, The Vines, Lanie Lane, A Swayze and the Ghosts, The Teskey Brothers, The Rubens, Cloud Control, Mia Wray, WILSN, Hatchie, RVG, The Beths, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, The Mess Hall, Red Riders, Bad Dreems and so many more.

Ivy League Records has merged with Mushroom’s labels, publishing and neighbouring rights divisions to form: Mushroom Music where many Ivy League artists will continue their very fine work.