Michigan's home for experimental rock 'n' roll! Check out our full catalog on Bandcamp!

Label all-stars The Livewires doing what they do best (you guessed it, that thang) on the set of their new live movie, LIVEwires!


Rectal Exam Records was founded by cousins Ben Ackley and Nathan Madery as a way to release the 20 minute recording session they captured one evening after stepping away from a family function. The duo, known variously as Pig Rectum, The Koala Bears, Richard Johnson & The Scrotum Totems, Pig Rectum II, Greasy Onion Bag, and Ackley & Madery, launched the empire you know today with a simple, but raucous, guitar-and-vocals bedroom recording. Today, Rectal Exam Records' roster boasts hundreds of artists recording everything from experimental rock to experimental electronica! In fact, Pig Rectum, The Koala Bears, Richard Johnson & The Scrotum Totems, and Pig Rectum II all specialized in a genre called "All," and The Livewires have played everything from metal to jazz to electro and avant garde, recording songs as short as 0:03 and as long as an hour! Looking for the future of music? You found it.


Sample some of our recent releases!



Rectal Exam Records is proud to be the home of these and other great artists:

Pig Rectum
The Koala Bears
The Bumble Bees
The Victims
Richard Johnson & The Scrotum Totems
Pig Rectum II
The Livewires
Greasy Onion Bag
Anti-Society
Ackley & Madery
Bruce Britelight
Genital Slurpees