Shock Entertainment is Australia’s largest independent music & DVD distributor. Shock exclusively licences/ distributes labels and artists for the Australian and New Zealand territories, covering music, music DVD, and DVD product.

On the music side, we represent labels such as Acony (Gillian Welch), Compass Brothers  (Adam Brand, Sunny Cowgirls), Cooking Vinyl (Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy, The Cranberries) / Essential (Duran Duran), Daptone (Sharon Jones), Death Row, Dine Alone  (City and Colour), Distort, Dramatico (Katie Melua, Caro Emerald), Eagle Entertainment/ Eagle Vision, Earache, E1, Fat Wreck Chords, Fat Possum, Fearless, Last Gang, Nettwerk, No Sleep, Resist (Parkway Drive), Rise, Rough Trade, SideOneDummy (The Gaslight Anthem, Title Fight), Snapper / KScope/ Charly, Sumerian, Sunday Best (Kitty, Daisy & Lewis), Vagrant, Wrasse and many more.

We also represent numerous overseas artists direct, including José González, Bring Me The Horizon, Bush, Crystal Castles, Placebo, Martha Wainwright, Gomez, The Go! Team, Ween, Ben Kweller, All That Remains and Junip, and Australian artists such as C.W. Stoneking, British India, Frenzal Rhomb and Calling All Cars to name a few.

Recently, Shock set up a brand new imprint label Permanent Records which has been set up with the sole purpose to foster and develop local independent talent, our homegrown artists initially including Steve Smyth and Kate Martin.

Shock represents a wide array of DVD and BluRay product from such partners as WWE (Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble), Timelife (A Touch of Frost, Prime Suspect, Titanic), E! Entertainment (Keeping Up With The Kardashians), Aztec International (Inspector Rex), MGM (classic Hollywood films), ITV (Lewis), HanWay (Merchant Ivory Productions), BBC (M.R. James, Antiques Roadshow), Digital Rights Group (Black Books, Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, Balls of Steel), Discovery(Meerkat Manor), Granada (Shaun Micallef), Optomen (Gordon Ramsay), Passion (Ace of Cakes), Electus (Mob Wives), FremantleMedia (Jamie Oliver, The Bill, Prisoner Cell Block H), CBS (The Twilight Zone, Touched By An Angel, Gomer Pyle) , Fabulous Films (Kojak), Stuntbaby (Ross Noble), Lakeshore Entertainment (Crime Story) and Distinction Series (Werner Herzog, John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky).

From our humble birth in 1988 in a tiny Melbourne terrace house, we’ve grown a lot in the last 20+ years and continue to be just as progressive and creative as ever. Now, and into the future.