BOOGALOO DOWN BROADWAY: WHEN FANIA RECORDS FUSED SOUL MUSIC WITH LATIN RHYTHMS AND MELODIES
Fania Records is mostly known as a superpower of salsa, issuing records by some of salsa’s biggest names,...
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JOHN PEEL AND THE WEIRD WORLD OF DANDELION RECORDS
The legendary BBC DJ John Peel is rightly recalled for championing new, obscure and overlooked musical artists. He...
MILES COPELAND: HIS LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Miles Copeland III was already a veteran music promoter and manager when the punk scene exploded in London....
CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal...
SCAT RECORDS REBORN: CLEVELAND ROCKS AGAIN
Cleveland’s Scat Records, brainchild of Robert Griffin, set a high bar for indie labels in the Midwest, especially...
JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
Despite being regarded as one of her generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years...
LABEL CONSCIOUS: EXPLORING ‘LOST’ MUSIC OF THE 1970S
One way to gauge the quality of older rock & roll recordings is by the label that released...
FORTUNE RECORDS: THE ROSETTA STONE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Ten years in the making, a beautiful new book by Billy Miller and Michael Hurtt, Mind Over Matter:...
REMINDER RECORDS: JEREMY THOMPSON’S LOVE OF LOST RECORDS
After his first vinyl reissues label, Sing Sing Records, was laid to rest in 2014, Jeremy Thompson couldn’t...
SLASH RECORDS, OR LET’S HAVE A WAR
Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label...
SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS
Bruce Licher’s rise to the top of post-punk graphic design began in 1980 as a means to package...
ROOM FOR JELLO: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FAULTY PRODUCTS RECORDS
Faulty Products was a small record label and distribution company with an outsized influence at a crucial time...
ORK RECORDS: STARTING AN INDIE-ROCK REVOLUTION ONE SINGLE AT A TIME
What do Richard Hell, Television, the dBs, Alex Chilton, the Feelies, Cheetah Chrome, Lester Bangs and Mick Farren...
ESP-DISK’: THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS RECORD LABEL IN AMERICA
ESP-Disk’, a record label started in New York in 1963 by Bernard Stollman, unleashed a sonic blast of...