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Bridge Nine started in the summer of 1995 when 19-year-old hardcore-punk music fan Chris Wrenn decided to stop standing on the sideline and began contributing to the local scene by helping friends from his high school get a 7-inch record pressed. The label would release one or two records a year for the next four years, documenting bands from the Boston area during the 1990s while Chris held down a job as a window display artist at the iconic Tower Records on Newbury Street. Releasing records for friends’ bands was a hobby, and it helped connect Chris with hardcore-punk music fans worldwide as he began to network and build his brand. In the fall of 1999, after working with artists that rarely traveled beyond New England, Chris Wrenn’s Mission Hill roommates started a new band that was willing to tour extensively. That band was American Nightmare, and their debut EP became Bridge Nine’s 7th release.