Allison McGourty

Who is Allison McGourty?

Allison Claire McGourty is a British producer and writer. She is the creator, co-writer and producer of an ongoing major multimedia project exploring the early history of American recorded music.

In 2003, McGourty founded the British independent record label LO-MAX Records, whose releases are distributed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Shortly afterwards, she signed the New Jersey-based rock band The Wrens to the label after spotting them at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. The band, and their 2005 Lo-Max album The Meadowlands, subsequently received critical acclaim from the UK press. Other signings to the label include The Go-Betweens and Kevin Ayers.

In 2010, McGourty signed the Greenlandic singer-songwriter Simon Lynge, whose debut album, The Future, reached the top of the Amazon.com UK Rock Charts in the week of its release, as well as gaining the artist considerable media attention, with several radio interviews, and features in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, and the German edition of Rolling Stone. McGourty has produced a documentary film about Lynge, set in Greenland.