Matador Records

Matador Records is an influential record label, famous for a roster of highly-respected indie rock artists and bands.

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 1994, the label had 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.

Recently, Matador has had to sidestep unwanted involvement in the current Recording Industry Association of America dispute over Peer-to-peer file sharing networks.[1] Matador's Patrick Armory 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.

Current (active) bands

* Belle and Sebastian
* Brightblack Morning Light
* Cat Power
* Cornelius
* Dead Meadow
* The Double
* Early Man
* Interpol
* Laura Cantrell
* M. Ward
* Stephen Malkmus
* Matmos
* Mission of Burma
* Mogwai
* A.C. Newman
* The New Pornographers
* Jennifer O'Connor
* The Ponys
* Preston School of Industry
* Pretty Girls Make Graves
* Seachange
* 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
* Couch
* dälek
* David Kilgour
* Demolition Doll Rods
* Dizzee Rascal
* D-Stroy
* Dustdevils
* 18th Dye
* The Fall
* Fire In The Kitchen
* Flipper (band)
* 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
* Jega
* Jimi Tenor
* The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
* JPS Experience
* Khan
* Kustomized
* 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
* Pavement
* Pell Mell
* Pitchblende
* 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 Fanclub
* 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

See also

* List of record labels

External links

* Official site
* Gerard Cosley Interview 1999 & MP3 Sample