24 Hour Service Station is an independent record label founded by Marshall Dickson in Tampa, Florida in 1993.
24 Hour Service Station's first signing in 1994 was Rosewater Elizabeth, an up and coming ethereal group in the Tampa Bay area music scene. The label then went on to release records by Shoemaker Levy 9, Questionface, and a tribute album to The Smiths entitled Godfathers of Change.
In 1997, Dickson put the label “underground” to take a different path in the music business, starting a sales and marketing career with Sony Music.
In 2007, Dickson decided to re-launch the record label while also maintaining the helm as General Manager of Reax Music Magazine.
The label then released the Car Bomb Driver album Evacuate, and by 2008, 24 Hour Service Station had put out a total of 17 releases and signed 13 bands including History, Win Win Winter and The Beauvilles.
In 2009, the label undertook a charitable project, a New Order tribute album entitled Ceremony - A New Order Tribute, benefiting the Salford Foundation Trust's Tony Wilson Award. The album is dedicated to the founder of Factory Records who died in 2007 from cancer. Dickson was inspired by Tony Wilson to start 24 Hour Service Station. CEREMONY - A New Order Tribute gained the attention of artists worldwide who donated their time and recordings to support the charity which assists young people who demonstrate a special talent or ambition in the arts or creative skills.
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