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Tower Records was an US record label active from 1964 to 1970. [B]For all unofficial releases (bootlegs, counterfeits ... , pirate compilations) that pretend to be a release of Tower please use [L=Tower (6)] ![/B] A subsidiary of Capitol Records, Inc., Tower often released music by artists who were relatively low profile in comparison to those released on the parent label, including a number of artists--such as [a252505] and [a252498] --later recognized as "garage bands". For this reason, Tower is often associated with the garage rock phenomenon of the 1960s. Capitol shut down Tower Records in 1970.