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Matador Records 
Founded 1989 Founder Chris Lombardi Genre Indie rock Country of origin United States Location New York City
LondonOfficial Website Matador Records Website Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of indie rock artists and bands.
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History
Matador was started by Chris Lombardi in 1989 in his New York City apartment. The following year, Lombardi was joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy, and the two of them have run it together since. In 1993, the label began a partnership with Atlantic Records which lasted for a couple of years. Then in 1996, Capitol Records purchased a 49 percent stake in Matador, but Lombardi and Cosloy bought it back in 1999. It has been co-owned by the Beggars Group since 2002 and now operates in both New York and London.
Patrick Amory, Matador's longtime label manager, is currently label President and a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.
In the early 2000s, Matador had to sidestep unwanted involvement in the current Recording Industry Association of America dispute over Peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Matador's Patrick Amory contacted the RIAA multiple times in order to ensure that an erroneous listing on the group's website of Matador as an RIAA member was removed. After several attempts, the name of the independent label was removed from the membership list.[citation needed]
Matador acquired True Panther Sounds as an imprint in 2009.[1]
In October of 2010, Matador celebrated the label's 21st anniversary with a series of concerts at the The Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Pavement, Yo La Tengo, The New Pornographers, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Guided By Voices, Kurt Vile, Cold Cave, Fucked Up, Liz Phair, Shearwater, Superchunk, Come, Times New Viking, Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Billy Corgan, Perfume Genius, Harlem, and Guitar Wolf were amongst the participants.
Roster
Current (active) bands
- A.C. Newman
- Belle & Sebastian
- Brightblack Morning Light
- Cat Power
- Ceremony
- Cold Cave
- Dead Meadow
- Esben and the Witch
- Fucked Up
- Harlem
- Interpol
- Julian Plenti
- Kurt Vile
- Matmos
- Mission of Burma
- The Cave Singers
- The New Pornographers
- Perfume Genius
- The Ponys
- Shearwater
- Sonic Youth
- Stephen Malkmus
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- Yo La Tengo
Alumni (previous bands)
- Aereogramme
- Arab Strap
- Arsonists
- Babylon Dance Band
- Bailter Space
- Barbara Manning
- Bardo Pond
- Bassholes
- Bettie Serveert
- The Bionaut
- Boards of Canada
- Bullet LaVolta
- Bunnybrains
- burger/ink
- Chain Gang
- Chavez
- Chris Knox
- Circle X
- The Clean
- Come
- Console
- Cornelius
- Couch
- dälek
- David Kilgour
- Demolition Doll Rods
- Dizzee Rascal
- The Double
- D-Stroy
- Dustdevils
- Early Man
- 18th Dye
- The Fall
- Fire In The Kitchen
- Flipper
- The For Carnation
- The Frogs
- Fuck
- The Fucking Champs
- Graeme Downes
- Guided by Voices
- Guitar Wolf
- Helium
- H.P. Zinker
- Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo
- Jaguar Love
- Jay Reatard
- Jega
- Jimi Tenor
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- JPS Experience
- Khan
- Kustomized
- Large Professor
- Laura Cantrell
- Lavender Diamond
- Lesser
- Liquor Giants
- Live Human
- Liz Phair
- Lou Reed
- Love of Diagrams
- The Lucksmiths
- Lynnfield Pioneers
- Lyres
- M. Ward (Matador Europe)
- Mark Eitzel
- Mary Timony
- MC Paul Barman
- Mecca Normal
- The Modernist
- Modest Mouse (Matador Europe)
- Mogwai
- Moonshake
- Mount Florida
- Mr. Len
- Neko Case
- Nightmares on Wax
- Non Phixion
- Pastels
- Pavement
- Pell Mell
- Pitchblende
- Pizzicato Five
- Plone
- Pole
- Portastatic
- Preston School of Industry
- Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Prisonshake
- Quickspace
- Railroad Jerk
- Red Snapper
- Robert Pollard
- Run On
- Sad Rockets
- The Schramms
- Seachange
- Sensational
- SF Seals
- Shams
- Silkworm
- Sleater-Kinney (Matador Europe)
- Smog
- The Soft Boys
- Solex
- Spoon
- Sportsguitar
- Superchunk
- Techno Animal
- Teenage Fanclub
- Thalia Zedek
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Tobin Sprout
- Toiling Midgets
- Tommy Keene
- 2 Foot Flame
- Two Lone Swordsmen
- Unrest
- Unsane
- Unwound
- Wisdom of Harry
Discography
On June 28, 2011, Matador added a comprehensive discography to its website.
See also
References
External links
Categories:- Matador Records
- Record labels established in 1989
- Indie music record labels
- Alternative rock record labels
- American independent record labels
- Beggars Group
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