Roswell Records is an American record label founded by Dave Grohl in 1995 for his band Foo Fighters. It is currently an imprint of RCA Records and is based in New York City.
The label was originally set up by Capitol Records as a holding company to retain the rights to Grohl’s post-Nirvana music.
Roswell’s first release was the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut album in 1995. The gun on the album’s cover is partly intended as a reference to the outer space theme associated with the names of both Roswell Records and the Foo Fighters.
In July 1999, both Foo Fighters and Roswell left Capitol and signed with RCA Records at the height of the band’s popularity.
It was one of the most high-profile artist signings of the year and shifted the distribution rights of Foo Fighters-owned media from Capitol to RCA for their next studio album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
Since then, every Foo Fighters album released under the Roswell label has been distributed by RCA, and as of 2015, Grohl is president of Roswell Records, which still owns and licenses all of Foo Fighters' music.
