A Different Drum was an independent record label and an online store based in Smithfield, Utah, founded in 1996.
A Different Drum has released hundreds of albums, singles, and compilations and was the biggest synthpop label in the U.S.[1] The label is credited with helping to keep the synthpop genre progressing during the grunge rock mid-1990s and into the early 2000s,[2] particularly supporting American Synthpop Groups (Cosmicity, The Echoing Green, B!
[5] In the early to mid 2000s, A Different Drum signed new acts such as Iris and Provision.
The label held a yearly Synthpop Music Festival which ran for 3 years, from 2004 to 2006; in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Red Lion Hotel.
[6] The festival featured label acts that were signed to A Different Drum, performing alongside new unsigned Synthpop bands in a musical showcase spanning three days over Labor Day weekend.