by Bram Teitelman | May 12, 2010 | Label Moves
It’s awesome to be able to report good news every now and then. We reported earlier this week that Terra Firma, the investor group that owns label group EMI, needed to pay creditors $156 million by this Friday to stop the label from changing ownership to...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 12, 2010 | Label Moves
Ending several months of speculation, Darkest Hour have signed with E1. The Washington D.C. band had been signed to Victory Records since 2001, having released five albums on the label. Each album has done better, sales-wise than the one before, with their most...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 8, 2010 | Label Moves
After four albums, three of which were on Prosthetic Records, Savannah quintet Kylesa have signed with Season of Mist Records. The sludgy, psychedelic band have already started working on writing their fifth proper album, the follow-up to last year’s Static...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 7, 2010 | Label Moves, Legal Woes
The assets of music label TVT have been bought by Bicycle Music, a Los Angeles-area music publishing company, Billboard reports. The assets include 700 masters, or about 80 albums worth of material. Bands signed to TVT over their 25 year history include Nine Inch...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 26, 2010 | Gloom And Doom, Label Moves
According to Billboard, the Sony Music Label Group has cut staff at their labels, consolidating staff at Columbia, Epic and their shared services department. Apparently, about 20 label staffers were let go yesterday. In the past few months, there were also cuts at...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 25, 2010 | Label Moves
After a pair of albums for Virgin, Korn have announced that their forthcoming album, Korn III – Remember Who You Are, will be released on Roadrunner. Guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer announced in an online chat that Roadrunner would be the...