SGR grew out of the North Texas music scene around the turn of the millennium. Some of its earliest connections came through Laser Trax, an Arlington CD store with an in-house recording studio, and through the bands, recording projects and friendships that grew around it.
The label's first release, Soundcheck to An Empty Room, arrived in 2001 as a snapshot of local and regional punk, ska, hardcore and DIY music. Early SGR releases followed from projects including Springfield University, The Sandwich Mafia, No Time For Heroes and other friends of the label.
Sign Guy Records was never a traditional full-time record label. It went quiet when life got busy and came back when there was something worth putting out.
Along the way, releases were recorded on whatever made sense at the time: digital studio machines, cassette recorders, reel-to-reel tape, home recording setups and eventually modern digital production.
Today, SGR is active again as both a home for new music and an archive for the label's earlier history.
The current catalog includes indie and alternative rock, punk and pop-punk, electronic music, experimental recordings, archival material and whatever else seems like it belongs here.