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A Record label is a brand of an organization, usually a company, that finances the release of musical albums. Traditionally, a record label will sign a Musical Artist to a contract to release one or more Musical Albums and will also provide marketing support to pay for promoting the album. A... more
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x Bedrock Records Bedrock Records MMII Gypsy
Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed. It is based around a club night in London also called Bedrock. Bedrock Records has released many singles from artists such as Astro &...
Bedrock Desyn Masiello
OS 0.2 John Digweed
OS 0.3
OS 0.1
x Jeepster Records   It's a Cool Cool Christmas Belle & Sebastian
Jeepster Records is a London, England-based independent record label which is currently the home of bands Parka and SixNationState. The label is noted for having been the home of critically acclaimed artists Belle and Sebastian and Snow Patrol....
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant SixNationState
Push Barman to Open Old Wounds Isobel Campbell
Dog on Wheels Mark Mcclelland
Lazy Line Painter Jane Snow Patrol
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x Ninja Tune Ninja Tune Foley Room DJ Food
Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1993 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards electronic, alternative hip hop, instrumental hip hop, nu jazz, drum and bass, and...
You Are Beautiful at All Times The Cinematic Orchestra
Sorry I Make You Lush Alfred Weisberg-Roberts
Shadows Rhys Chatham
Ma Fleur Bonobo
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x Geffen Records Geffen logo Weezer Driveblind
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M; label group. Geffen Records was founded in 1980 by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s,...
Pinkerton Jawbreaker
Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head It Bites
Weezer Remy Zero
13 Ways to Bleed on Stage Drivin N Cryin
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x Atlantic Records Atlantic Records Logo from 1966 to 2005 Giant Steps Led Zeppelin
Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a...
Fear of a Blank Planet John Coltrane
No Quarter The Average White Band
Snakes and Arrows Streets
Led Zeppelin Jody Watley
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x Parlophone Parlophone Ebony and Ivory Radiohead
Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. The ₤ trademark is a German L, for Lindström. It also resembles the British pound sign (£), which itself is derived from the letter L for Libra, meaning pound in...
Please Please Me Morning Runner
Love Songs Skin
Distant Light The Departure
Arena Scarlet Party
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x Blue Note Records Blue Note Records Moanin' Clifford Brown
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. Blue Note Records is...
Brian Blade Fellowship Milt Jackson
Movin' and Groovin' Bud Powell
Maiden Voyage Fats Navarro
Bing, Bing, Bing! Tadd Dameron
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x Island Records   This Was U2
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years, but is now owned by Universal Music Group and is operated in the United States through The Island Def Jam Music Group...
A Song for Jeffrey Jethro Tull
A Drivin N Cryin
Boy The 77's
Attack of the Killer B's Greenwheel
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x Sun Records Sun Record Label Roy Orbison at the Rock House Junior Parker
Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27, 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley (whose recording contract was sold to RCA Victor...
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar Jack Clement
Now Here's Johnny Cash Charlie Rich
All Aboard the Blue Train Elvis Presley
Greatest! Jerry Lee Lewis
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x Rephlex Records Rephlex Records Boku Mo Wakaran Aphex Twin
Rephlex Records is a record label started in 1991 by electronic musician Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) and Grant Wilson-Claridge. With more than a decade active, the way they act and the music they promote creates curiosity and ultimately this...
Remixes 12" The Tuss
Boku Mo Wakaran Universal Indicator
Samurai Math Beats Black Devil
Analord Mike Paradinas
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x Swan Song Records Swan Song Records In Through the Out Door The Pretty Things
Swan Song Records was a record label launched by an English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974. It was overseen by Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant and was a vehicle for the band to promote its own products as well as sign artists who found it...
Straight Shooter Led Zeppelin
Desolation Angels Robert Plant
Rough Diamonds John Bonham
Bad Company Bad Company
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x Do It Records   Dirk Wears White Sox Adam & the Ants
Do It Records was an independent record label in London started in 1978 by Robin Scott, Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning. Over the next six years, they released several recordings by M, Adam and the Ants, Anthony Moore and Yello. It also was a record...
Roogalator
Adam Ant
x Nothing Records Nights of Nothing MM And All that Could Have Been Nine Inch Nails
Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. in 1992. It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to...
Big Loada 12 Rounds
The Fragile Scott Putesky
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) Marilyn Manson
The Golden Age of Grotesque Gidget Gein
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x Alternative Tentacles Alternative Tentacles 1980-1986 T.S.O.L.
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles," and after...
Weathered Statues Brutal Juice
Beneath the Shadows Pansy Division
Deadline Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Welcome to Violence Burning Image
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x Ankst Ankst logo Patio Super Furry Animals
Ankst was a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams. After a handful of low key cassette releases, the label relocated to Cardiff and became a more...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Ectogram
Moog Droog Y Cyrff
Tatay Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Bwyd Time Rheinallt H Rowlands
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x Warp Records   Mirrored Two Lone Swordsmen
Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent English record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob...
...I Care Because You Do Aphex Twin
On Chris Clark
Geogaddi Grizzly Bear
Music Has the Right to Children Battles
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x American Recordings American Recordings Hypnotize Tom Petty
American Recordings is a Los Angeles-based record label headed by record producer Rick Rubin. The label's most successful artists include Slayer, The Black Crowes, Danzig, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, and System of a Down. The label was founded as Def...
Peng! Jayhawks
Space Age Batchelor Pad Music The Four Horsemen
Mezmerize God Lives Underwater
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Jeff Hanneman
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x Columbia Records Columbia Records Kind of Blue Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on...
Serenade Bruce Springsteen
Silver Bird Play
Delusion of the Fury Rasputina
Mingus Ah Um Toto
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x Motown Records Motown Records Journey through the Secret Life of Plants Rosie Gaines
Motown was a record company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of the words motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit. Now...
TCB Erick Sermon
G.I.T. on Broadway Another Bad Creation
The Supremes Rare Earth
Motown 1's Remy Shand
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x Capitol Records Capitol Records Your Saving Grace Steve Miller Band
Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI, formally located in Los Angeles, but currently operating New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark...
Sailor Jethro Tull
Walk On Stir
Get the Knack Vanilla Ninja
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? Exodus
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x RCA Records 600px-RCA_Logo.svg.png Horrorscope Carter Beauford
RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor) is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America (later renamed RCA Corporation), which was the parent...
Breakaway The Average White Band
Platinum and Gold Collection King's Singers
Eve 6 Cave In
It's All in Your Head Chantay Savage
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x Brunswick Records Brunswick Records The Who Sings My Generation Al Jolson
Brunswick Records is a United States based record label. The label is currently distributed by Koch Entertainment. Records under the "Brunswick" label were first produced by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company (a company based in Dubuque, Iowa...
Angel of Mine Jackie Wilson
The "Chirping" Crickets Mary Lou Williams
Buddy Holly Duke Ellington
Colour Collection Mills Brothers
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x Elektra Records Rhino's Elektra box set "Forever Changing: the Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973" Ride the Lightning Jon Crosby
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009. Elektra was formed in 1950 by Jac...
S&M Jon Fishman
Kill 'Em All The Afghan Whigs
The Cars Remy Zero
Doolittle Trey Anastasio
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x A&M Records A&M Records The Essential Collection: 1965-1997 Giant Steps
A&M; Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M; division. A&M; Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was “Carnival Records,”...
May Day West End Girls
The Dude Dodgy
Coming From Reality The Hours
Tuesday Night Music Club For Real
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x Reprise Records Reprise Records Gordon Wilco
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records. Reprise (pronounced rih-PREEZ) was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more...
This Was Jethro Tull
Insomniac Rock Kills Kid
Dookie 54-40
Nimrod. Belly
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x Polydor Records Polydor Records The Reminder Alex Parks
Polydor Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group and is currently headquartered in the UK. Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924,...
White T-Shirt The Creation
Schnappi's Winterfest Monaco
One of a Kind Alterkicks
Destiny Ram
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x Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon The Painted Veil Gustav Mahler
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label, now part of the Universal Music Group (UMG). It is also UMG's oldest active label. The Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft was founded in 1898 by German-born United States citizen Emile Berliner...
Scorched Richard Wagner
The Motorcycle Diaries Claudio Arrau
Invisible Connections Leonard Bernstein
North Sofia Gubaidulina
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x Arista Records /guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000049aef1e GTR Deborah Cox
Arista Records (pronounced /ˈɛərɪstə/) is an American record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA/Jive Label Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS...
With Sympathy The Average White Band
One Nation Under Moodswings
Supernatural Artful Dodger
Pyramid Blackhawk
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x Bad Boy Records Bad Boy Records Back Up N Da Chevy Carl Thomas
Bad Boy Records (originally Bad Boy Entertainment) is an East Coast record label, dealing largely in Hip-Hop/R&B; music, founded by producer/rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs in 1993. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is...
Hustlenomics Craig Mack
Don't Talk, Just Listen Jordan McCoy
Just Watch Me Dream
We Invented The Remix Vol. 2 Black Rob
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x Jive Records Jive Records People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Easyworld
Jive Records is a record label based in New York City, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and operating under the Zomba Label Group. Jive is primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop and rap artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy...
Justified Living Things
Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast Imajin
Schizophrenic E-40
Thug Life Vol. 1 Backstreet Boys
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x Rykodisc Rykodisc Easy Karen Finley
Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance. Claiming to be the first CD-only independent record...
Them or Us Andrew Bird
Waka/Jawaka Waltham
Fillmore East - June 1971 Osaka Popstar
Chunga's Revenge The Raspberries
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x Death Row Records Deathrowlogobig Death Row Greatest Hits Lady of Rage
Death Row Records is a record label that was founded in 1991 by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight, and was once home to some of West Coast hip hop's most well-known rappers, including 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound (Kurupt and Daz Dillinger)....
Dysfunktional Family Warren G
The Prophet: The Best Of The Works Lil' 1/2 Dead
Against Tha Grain Tha E.P. Danny Boy
Until the End of Time Nate Dogg
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x Nuclear Blast   The Sound of Perseverance Belphegor
Nuclear Blast is an independent major record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk...
Live in Eindhoven One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
Behind the Wall of Sleep Cathedral
King of Fools Sirenia
A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming Slaughter
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x Saddle Creek Records Saddle Creek Records Help Wanted Nights Sorry About Dresden
Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. The label was founded by Conor Oberst and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records) and later helmed by Robb Nansel and Mike Mogis, who then stepped aside to focus on...
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Broken Spindles
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Desaparecidos
Danse Macabre Criteria
Blank-Wave Arcade Art in Manila
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x Priory Records      
Priory Records is a record company in the UK founded in 1980 and devoted mostly to church music and organ music. Important projects have included the complete Psalms sung by Cathedral Choirs to Anglican chant, all of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis...
x Sound Circus      
Sound Circus is a United Kingdom based record label, founded by the pianist Joanna MacGregor.
x Maverick Records maverick records Deftones Family Force 5
Maverick Recording Company is a American record label owned and operated by Warner Music Group, and distributed through Warner Bros. Records. Maverick Records was founded by Madonna, Frederick DeMann, Ronnie Dashev and Time Warner in April 1992 as...
The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture Mest
I Will Deftones
Death Proof Solar Twins
Bedtime Stories American Hi-Fi
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x Benbecula Records Benbecula Records Pylonesque EP Ochre
Benbecula Records is a Scottish independent record label. Established in 1999 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by local musicians Phase 6 and Beluga, Benbecula Records began as a CD-R-based record label before moving towards large-run commercial vinyl record...
Seeing And Doing Frog Pocket
Blue Shift Emissions
x Interscope Records Interscope Records Tragic Kingdom The Reverend Horton Heat
Interscope Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M; label group. Interscope was formed in 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field with financial support from Atlantic...
The Sweet Escape Transister
Year Zero M.O.P.
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Days of the New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me Social Code
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x Century Media Records   The Awakening Jon Schaffer
Century Media Records is an independent record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf in Dortmund, Germany in 1988 and...
A Night at the Opera Norma Jean
Imaginations from the Other Side Holy Moses
Nightmares Made Flesh Turisas
The Varangian Way Mercenary
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x Mercury Records Mercury Records Freddie and the Dreamers Con Funk Shun
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local...
Perfect Strangers The Creation
Signals Let Loose
Hemispheres Black 47
A Farewell to Kings Thirteen Senses
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x Bluurg Records      
Bluurg Records is a record label set up by the UK punk rock band The Subhumans in 1981. Bluurg Records
x Sterno Records SternoRecord    
Sterno Records was a United Kingdom based record company issuing gramophone records from 1926 through 1935. The label was a subsidiary of Homophone Records. The audio fidelity of Sterno Records is below average for the time.
x Liberty Records Liberty Records Wild West Lee Greenwood
Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous...
Kix Brooks Anne Murray
Hawaii Five-O The Searchers
Battle Hymns Willie Nelson
The Gospel According to the Meninblack Sugarloaf
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x The Winner Records The Winner Records    
The Winner Records was a United Kingdom based record label from 1912 onwards. Its records were manufactured by the Edison Bell Record Works, London. This company, founded by James Hough, had originated in the early 1890s as an importer of Edison and...
x Broadcast Twelve Records BroadcastTwelveRecord    
Broadcast Twelve Records was a United Kingdom based record label active around the late 1920s - early 1930s (?). Despite what the numeral might imply, the label produced standard sized 10-inch 78rpm gramophone records. The label was a subsidiary of...
x Nettwerk Nettwerk The Perishers Live Halou
The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, as well as Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles,...
From Nothing to One Trespassers William
The Ballad of Lawless Soirez Vairon
Rescue Me Andy Hunter°
Hello Love Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle
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x Attic Records      
Attic Records is an independent record label based in Hereford, England, UK, which signs house music, techno, electronica and progressive musicians.
x Biddulph Recordings      
Biddulph Recordings is a small record label based in Devon, England, specializing in classical music, especially by string instrument players. The label was founded in 1989 by Peter Biddulph, a violin dealer, and Eric Wen, a violinist and music...
x Rhino Entertainment Rhino Entertainment Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording The Average White Band
Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company, owned by Warner Music Group. Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of Pop Music,...
The Atlantic Collection T.S.O.L.
St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings Nitro
Sibling Rivalry Emmylou Harris
Sicks Grateful Dead
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x Roadrunner Records Roadrunner Records Systematic Chaos Blitzkrieg
Roadrunner Records (Roadrunner Music Group B.V.) is a record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. The label was launched in the Netherlands in 1980 as "Roadracer Records" in the...
United Abominations DevilDriver
Iowa Blue Mountain
Under a Pale Grey Sky The White Room
Primitive Delain
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x Hellcat Records Hellcat Records Close My Eyes The Slackers
Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the...
Transitions The Nerve Agents
Internal Salvation Hepcat
The World Roger Miret and the Disasters
Sing Sing Death House HorrorPops
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x Domino Records Domino Records Goodbye Hood
Domino Recording Company, generally known as Domino Records, is an independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in United States, releasing Domino artists' music from the label's Brooklyn offices and run by Kris...
69 Love Songs Royal Trux
Ma Fleur Clearlake
Strawberry Jam Alex Kapranos
Hope Nicholas McCarthy
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x Rawkus Records Rawkus Records Port Authority Dj Abstract
Rawkus Records is an American hip hop record label known for jump-starting the careers of both Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Rawkus was searching for a new sound at first, with initial releases being in the genres of House and Drum & Bass. Label heads...
The New Danger Black Star
Brace 4 Impak Skillz
The Big Picture Talib Kweli
Black on Both Sides Da Beatminerz
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x 143 Records   Call Me Irresponsible Jordan Hill
143 Records is the record label of producer David Foster. 143 is a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records. The numbers 1-4-3 are derived from the words "I love you."
It's Time The Corrs
Josh Groban David Foster
Closer Michael Bublé
Come Fly with Me Andrea Corr
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x Concord Records   Strange Weirdos Jane Monheit
Concord Records is a U.S. record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a...
Don't Mess with the Dragon Chanté Moore
The Love Album Joe Pass
Break Out The Rippingtons
Here at the Mayflower Patti Austin
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x Aftermath Entertainment Aftermathrecordslogo Curtis Stat Quo
Aftermath Entertainment is an American record label founded by Dr. Dre. It operates as a subsidiary of, and is distributed through, Universal Music Group's Interscope Records. Upon his departure from Death Row Records in June 1996, Dr. Dre quickly...
The Reformation Raekwon
Detox Hi-Tek
Before I Self Destruct Eve
King Mathers Hittman
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x Volition Records   Flow, River of My Soul Boxcar
Volition Records was an Sydney, Australia based record label specialising in electronic music styles such as house, techno, synthpop and trance. It was founded by Andrew Penhallow in the late 1980s, but folded in the late 1990s. Amongst the roster...
Vertigo Robert Racic
Revision South End
Algorhythm Severed Heads
Falling Joys
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x Dick Bros Record Company   Suits Fish
The Dick Brothers Record Company (1993 to 1998) was an independent record label formed by the singer Fish based in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. It predominantly released material by Fish, including 'official bootleg' live albums. Although...
Yin and Yang
Sunsets on Empire
x Hollywood Records Hollywood Records Saturate Prozzäk
Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by The Walt Disney Company focused in pop and rock music. Hollywood Records was created in 1989 as an attempt by Disney to develop new pop and rock artists to diversify the music group, besides...
The Least Worst of the Suicide Machines Flashlight Brown
Live! Live! Live! Caroline's Spine
Flash Gordon Nobody's Angel
The Village Indigo Girls
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