Matador Records
| Matador | |
|---|---|
| Active years | since 1989 |
| founder | Chris Lombardi |
| Seat | New York City |
| Website | http://matadorrecords.com |
| Label code | MAT |
| Sub-label | True Panther Sounds |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock |
Matador Records is an American music label . It specializes in independent music.
Matador was founded in 1989 by Chris Lombardi in his New York City apartment . A year later, Gerald Cosloy, the former operator of Homestead Records, joined as a further label operator. Since then, both have run the label together. In 1994 the independent label entered into a business partnership with the Atlantic Records label, which is part of the Warner Music major group . In 1996 Major Capitol Records bought a 49 percent stake in Matador, which Lombardi and Cosloy bought back in 1999. Matador has been part of the Beggars Group since 2002 and, in addition to its headquarters in New York, also has a branch in London. In September 2008 it was announced that Sonic Youth will release their 16th studio album on Matador.
Bands
Current bands
Former bands
- 18th dye
- Aereograms
- Arab strap
- Arsonists
- Babylon Dance Band
- Bailter space
- Barbara Manning
- Bardo Pond
- Bass holes
- Bettie Serveert
- The Bionaut
- Boards of Canada
- Bullet LaVolta
- Bunnybrains
- burger / ink
- Chain gear
- Chavez
- Chris Knox
- Circle X
- The clean
- Come
- Console
- couch
- dalek
- David Kilgour
- Demolition Doll Rods
- Dizzee Rascal
- D-Stroy
- Dustdevils
- Early Man
- The Fall
- Fire In The Kitchen
- Pinball machine
- The For Carnation
- The Frogs
- Fuck
- The Fucking Champs
- Graeme Downes
- Guided by Voices
- Guitar Wolf
- helium
- HP zincers
- Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo
- Yeah
- Jimi tenor
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- JPS Experience
- khan
- Customized
- Large professor
- Lesser
- Liquor Giants
- Live human
- Liz Phair
- Lynnfield Pioneers
- The Lyres
- Mark Eitzel
- Mary Timony
- MC Paul Barman
- Mecca normal
- The modernist
- Modest Mouse
- Moonshake
- Mount Florida
- Mr. Len
- Neko Case
- Nightmares on Wax
- Non Phixion
- Pastels
- Pell Mell
- Pitch shutter
- Pizzicato Five
- Plone
- Pole
- Portastatic
- Prisonshake
- Quickspace
- Railroad Jerk
- Red snapper
- Robert Pollard
- Run On
- Sad rockets
- The Schramms
- Sensational
- SF Seals
- Shams
- Silkworm
- Sleater Kinney
- smog
- The Soft Boys
- Solex
- Spoon
- Sportsguitar
- Superchunk
- Techno Animal
- Teenage fan club
- Thalia Zedek
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Tobin Sprout
- Toiling midgets
- Tommy Keene
- 2 foot flame
- Two Lone Swordsmen
- Unrest
- Unsane
- Unwound
- Void
- Wisdom of Harry