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7 unusual facts about independent record label


Attic Faith

Attic Faith is Emmett Tinley's first full-length solo album, released on April 15, 2005 on Independent records.

Drentch

They have already released two independent albums, and are currently working on their third album.

Independent record label

The Offspring's 1994 album Smash is the highest selling independent record of all time.

Mshasho Productions

Mshasho Productions, also referred to as, Mshasho Music Productions, and, Mshasho Records is an Namibian Independent record label founded by Namibian musician and producer, Martin "The Dogg" Morocky in 2003.

Nathan Cody

He is best known for his many commercials produced for Entercom and Clearchannel, as a radio personality on the Top 40 station KDND 107.9 "The End," and for his work with Independent record label Quasitone Productions.

Now, Now

In 2007, Now, Now signed to local Minneapolis-based indie record label Afternoon Records, founded by friend Ian Anderson.

Pamela Williams

In November 2009, Williams released a Nu Jazz CD, Chameleon, the first release from her own indie label Saxtress Entertainment.


Acme Records

Acme Records, an independent record label based in Hastings, East Sussex, England, was formed in 1994 by Gary Ramon (the frontman of Sun Dial).

Barking Hoop Recordings

Barking Hoop Recordings is an independent record label founded by percussionist/composer Kevin Norton in 1999.

Beatnik Beatch

In 1986 they released At The Zulu Pool, under the San Francisco based indie label Industrial Records.

Below Par Records

Below Par Records is an Australian independent record label established in 2000 by three sixteen-year-old Sydney high-school students, Jai Al-Attas, Mark Catanzariti and Steven Chalker.

Bolero Records

Bolero Records is an independent record label established in March of 2002 by world renowned Nuevo Flamenco guitarist, Armik, based in Tarzana, California.

Brassland Records

Brassland is an artist-operated independent record label started in 2001 by Alec Hanley Bemis and Aaron and Bryce Dessner.

BulletProof Music

BulletProof Music (also known as Bulletboy Music) is a now-defunct independent record label that was founded in 1997.

Casey Dienel

Dienel presently performs and records as White Hinterland, whose first album, titled Phylactery Factory, was released on March 4, 2008, by the independent record label Dead Oceans.

Der Plan

Der Plan decided to remain independent within their own label, although they accepted a partial contract with Teldec to re-release the single.

Diamante Music Group

Diamante Music Group was a Newport Beach, California based independent record label distributor active from 1993 through 2004.

Disques Hushush

(also known as Disques Hushush or more simply as Hushush) is an independent record label created by Dimitri della Faille (aka recording artist Szkieve) in Montreal (Quebec), Canada in 1998.

Ductape Records

Ductape Records is a Toronto-based independent record label that was spawned from a magazine of the same name in 1997.

Eibon Records

Eibon Records is an independent record label from Milan, Italy, founded in 1996.

Fork and Spoon Records

Fork and Spoon is a Columbia, South Carolina based independent record label founded in 2010, by Jordan Blackmon, Chris Gardner and Aaron Graves.

Fred Records

Fred Records is a British independent record label created in 2002 by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith to re-release his own back catalogue of recordings and previously unreleased material.

Future Fossil Records

Future Fossil Records is an independent record label that Chris Butler (Tin Huey, The Waitresses) owns and runs in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

Gettin' It Together

"Gettin' It Together" is a song by former professional skateboarder and Quannum Projects-member Tommy Guerrero, released March 22, 2004 on the independent label Galaxia Records.

Girlyman

Its self-released debut album, Remember Who I Am, sold 5,000 copies before it was re-released by Daemon Records, the independent record label run by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.

Human Condition Records

Human Condition Records is an independent record label based in Edinburgh, Scotland which was founded in 1990 by Jamie Watson, ex-guitarist of Scottish punk group The Solos.

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

James Pennington

James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ and producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, United States.

King Creosote

Anderson also contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault; which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

2010: He contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault, which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

Limping for a Generation

Formed in 1981, the group, after a one-off indie single, signed to RCA, and released Limping for a Generation, an album that in retrospect is considered a masterpiece but which did not attract commercial success at the time.

MVB Records

MVB Records is a New York City based independent record label founded in 2008 and is owned by MVB Entertainment.

Neighborhood Records

There is also an independent record label by the same name that was founded by M.A. Sotelo in 2006.

Palo Duro Records

Palo Duro Records is an independent record label established in 2001 to focus primarily on Texas-based singer/songwriters and bands.

Point No. 1

After recording a demo, Chevelle played small concerts for three years until being signed to Steve Taylor's independent Christian label Squint Entertainment.

Psychonaut Records

Psychonaut Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Dutch rock band The Gathering.

RBC Records

RBC Records is an online independent record label and Management company founded by partners Ben Grossi and Brian Shafton.

Reflex Records

Reflex Records was an American independent record label formed by the members of hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü and Terry Katzman.

Rocketown Records

Rocketown Records was an independent record label which was started in 1996 by Michael W. Smith.

Ron Johnson Records

Ron Johnson Records was an UK independent record label based in Long Eaton operating between 1983 and 1988.

Shifty Disco

Shifty Disco is a British independent record label based in Oxford, England.

Sigma Editions

Sigma Editions is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman (both ex-members of Thela).

Souls of Mischief

The group released two albums on Hiero's self-owned independent label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings: 1999's Focus, and 2000's Trilogy: Conflict, Climax, Resolution.

The Spicy Effect

The Spicy Effect, commonly referred to as Spicy or Spicy Music, is a Greek independent record label founded in 2009 by songwriter and record producer Phoebus, in association with the investment arm of Nea Tileorasi.

Tony D

Tony D was the first artist to have a record released on Mark Rae's burgeoning British Grand Central Records independent record label (then called Gone Clear Records).

Topic Records

It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.

Trend Is Dead! Records

Records (stylized as tREND iS dEAD! records) is an independent record label based out of Normal, Illinois, United States.

United Musicians

United Musicians is an independent music collective founded by Aimee Mann, Michael Penn and Michael Hausman.

When Life Hands You Lemons

When Life Hands You Lemons is the debut full-length album by American alternative rock group Piebald, released on Boston, Massachusetts-based independent label Hydra Head Records in 1997 (see 1997 in music).


see also

33rd Street

33rd Street Records, an independent record label based in Greenbrae, California

À gogo

Au Go Go Records, Melbourne, Australia based independent record label

Acrobat Records

Acrobat Records is the independent record label of American songwriter Matt Nathanson formed in 1993.

Against the Tide

Against the Tide is an EP by Mêlée, released on Jul 8, 2003 by independent record label Hopeless Records.

Aline de Lima

It was released on the French independent record label Naïve, which has also released the music of Carla Bruni.

Amor Louco

It was released in 1989 by now-defunct independent record label Wop-Bop Records and re-released in CD form in 2001 by another independent label, RDS.

Clann Zú

Before the band's breakup, it was signed to Winnipeg-based G7 Welcoming Committee Records, an independent record label established by Chris Hannah and Jordan Samoleski—of labelmates Propagandhi—and Regal in 1997.

Classified Records

Independent record label from the San Francisco Bay Area that released music from recording artists Jocelyn Enriquez, Pinay, Julie Plug, M:G, Drop n Harmony, as well as the Serenade compilation series.

Coba Coba Remixed

Coba Coba Remixed is the first remix album of Novalima's original album, Coba Coba, both under the U.S. independent record label, Cumbancha.

Daniel Romano

Romano is also a partner in his own independent record label, You've Changed Records, along with Steve Lambke, formerly of the Constantines.

Ella May Saison

A year after her second album release, she signed a recording deal with Evander Holyfield's independent record label, Kats Eye, and released So In Love in 1997.

Emma Pollock

A founding member of The Delgados, she signed a solo recording contract with British independent record label 4AD in 2005 after the amicable split of the band.

Endtime

Endtime Productions, an independent record label based in Scandinavia

Excelsior Recordings

Excelsior Recordings is an independent record label located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Fast Food Rockers

The Fast Food Rockers' version, adapted by Mike Stock, Steve Crosby and Sandy Rass, was the first release of independent record label Better The Devil Records.

Fence Records

Fence Records is an independent record label based in Anstruther and Cellardyke, Fife, Scotland, founded by musician King Creosote and run by The Pictish Trail until August 2013.

FIRE.inc.

was an Icelandic independent record label run by Heimir Björgúlfsson between 1993 and 2003.

Goldisc Records

Goldisc Records was an independent record label, formed in New York in 1960 by legendary producer George Goldner.

Greg Headley

Gregory D. Headley (born in Dallas, Texas) is an experimental composer and performer, as well as owner of 28 Angles, an independent record label.

H.W.A.

The three members came together in 1989 for an independent record label, Drive-By Records to record their first album, Livin' in a Hoe House, which was released a year later.

Harvest of Hope Foundation

No Idea Records & Ryan Murphy is an independent record label that helps the Harvest of Hope Foundation with many of its benefit shows.

Heyday

Heyday Records, an independent record label founded in 1988 by Pat Thomas

Iceage

In February 2013, they released their second album, You're Nothing, after signing with the high profile independent record label Matador Records.

Il Popolo del Blues

Il Popolo del Blues is also an independent record label and its catalogue includes a number of albums and releases such as Morning Manic Music, one of the label’s latest releases and Ernesto De Pascale's first solo album.

Into the Murky Water

Into the Murky Water is the second full length studio album from band The Leisure Society, released on 2 May 2011 by independent record label Full Time Hobby.

Invisible Hands

Invisible Hands Music, an independent record label founded by musician Charles Kennedy

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise Recordings, an independent record label founded in Indiana in 2003

Katy Rose

After parting from V2 Records in 2005, her band project, Candy Eyed (a collection of song demos done with Beck's musical director Greg Kurstin), was released by independent record label River Jones Music.

LA Symphony

Formed in 1997, the band released their first album, 1999s Composition No. 1 on independent record label Eartube Empire.

Make Do and Mend

It was announced in July 2011, that UK-based independent record label, Holy Roar Records, would release Make Do and Mend's discography on a double LP.

Miriam Linna

Miriam Linna (b. Sudbury, Ontario) has run the Brooklyn-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986 with her husband—the producer and singer-songwriter Billy Miller.

No Trigger

In 2005, No Trigger signed to independent record label Nitro Records, and their debut full-length, entitled Canyoneer, was released on March 21, 2006.

Ray Santilli

In 1985 he founded "Music Broadcasting Services Ltd", an independent record label which handled the exclusive rights to the Walt Disney Audio Catalogue in the United Kingdom.

Razzia

Razzia Records, independent record label based in Stockholm, Sweden

Small Wonder

Small Wonder Records, a UK independent record label owned and managed by Pete Stennett

Starshine

Starshine Records, a late 1960s, now defunct independent record label

Steve Pavlovic

In 1998, upon receiving a demo tape from then unsigned Melbourne band Quentin's Brittle Bones (now known as The Avalanches), Pavolic founded the independent record label Modular Recordings.

Stone'd Records

Stone'd Records is an independent record label founded by Grammy winning soul singer Joss Stone after her split from longtime label EMI.

Thanasis Lightbridge

He is a Greek keyboard player/composer best known as the founder of electronica art metal band Dol Ammad and independent record label Electronicartmetal Records.

The Get Set

The Get Set signed an exclusive recording contract with top independent record label Crank! A Record Company, whose roster also includes The Gloria Record, Mineral, The Icarus Line, and Neva Dinova.

The Prayer Boat

However, the band were determined to keep trying, and they moved to Glasgow in 1994, signing a deal with a new independent record label, Almo Sounds.

The Spicy Effect

After eight years under an exclusive songwriting and record production collaboration with independent record label Heaven Music of ANT1 Group, Phoebus announced on 21 October 2009 via his website that he had left the label, without providing further details.

This Is... Icona Pop

Icona Pop (also known as This Is...) is the second studio album and debut international album by Swedish duo Icona Pop, released on September 24, 2013 by Swedish independent record label TEN and Atlantic Records subsidiary Big Beat Records in the US.

Trident Music

Trident Music is an independent record label based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tumult

Tumult Records, an independent record label based in San Francisco.

Turn Records

Turn Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 in Santa Clara, California by Jeff Walsh, who was a DJ at KSCU (Santa Clara University) at the time.

Twisted Black

In July 2006, Twisted Black was arrested and charged by officers with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Midland, Texas, shortly after signing a deal with New York-based independent record label TVT Records.

Uniform Choice

His band, Funeral Information, had played early punk shows with SIN 34 and Black Flag and his other band, Target 13, had written the song "Rodney On The ROQ" for KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, which appeared on the compilation album Rodney On The ROQ, Vol 2 under the independent record label Posh Boy Records.

Vivian Carter

During the 1950s and early 1960s Vee-Jay grew to become a major independent record label with acts including The Spaniels, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, The Four Seasons and, for a time, The Beatles.

What's New About Love?

Includes songs by the alternative Portuguese rock bands Os Golpes and Os Velhos, both from the independent record label Amor Fúria, as well as songs by the American band The Walkmen.