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Motown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved Hits
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...
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The cities’ best indie labels
What follows is an encyclopedic listing of some of our favorite labels. You can thank us later, when youâÄôre famous. WHAT: Afternoon Records www.afternoonrecords.com The year was 2003. While the ...
50 Years Later: How 1975’s No. 1 albums hold up after a half-century
The year 1975 was a very good one for Elton John and Chicago. It was pretty good as well for artists from Olivia Newton-John ...
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For Major Labels, 2024 Was the Year of Independents
By Glenn Peoples In the ‘00s, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan looked at the disruptive nature of early social media platform MySpace and saw the death of the record label.
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Record labels forgot these songs existed. One man rescued them
By night, he’s a music industry crusader – digging up obscure gems and persuading record labels to make them available online. Over the last six years, he’s been responsible for 725 releases ...