I.R.S. (International Record Syndicate) Records is a record label, launched in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records (UK).
I.R.S. releases were distributed by A&M; Records until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, and finally by EMI until the label...
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I.R.S. (International Record Syndicate) Records is a record label, launched in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records (UK).
I.R.S. releases were distributed by A&M; Records until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, and finally by EMI until the label folded in 1996. In 2011, EMI revived the label; currently, the label has Chiddy Bang and Foxy Shazam on its roster.
In 1985, Copeland brokered a deal to switch the label's distributor to MCA Records. Under the agreement, A&M; continued to release the label's pre-1985 catalog, much of which still can be found under the A&M; banner.
In 1990, the band Green Day included a letter from then-I.R.S. college radio rep Lori Blumenthal in one of their last cassette releases for Lookout Records. The letter expressed IRS' interest in signing the band to...
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