FEATURED: RCRD LBL on the Kanye West blog
Not to be all super fanboys, but HELLO, Kanye blogged about us over the weekend! How awesome is that. We've been following the man's blog for a while now (great for design tips) and we're pretty psyched about getting a mention (about our inflight channel on Virgin Air, no less). Check it out below!
DOWNLOAD: Fake Shark - Real Zombie - Designer Drugs
More Canadian awesomeness after our earlier Born Ruffians post, via Vancouver-based post punk crew Fake Shark - Real Zombie: their tune “Designer Drugs” has that hardcore-dance-meets-metal feel that was made popular by the dearly departed Test Icicles, coupled with the vibe from newer horror-pop bands like Ghost Frequency and Haunted House. Grab this download and rage thru lunch time!
FEATURED: RCRD LBL on EW.com's 100 Greatest Websites
Whoa! Imagine our surprise and honor when we saw this morning that EW.com linked to us in their updated “100 Greatest Websites” feature. It’s awesome to be recognized like that, especially when rubbing shoulders with the other amazing blogs that are on the list. Expect even more cool stuff from us in the near future, and thanks a lot, EW.
RCRD LBL on Virgin America inflight radio
Good news from RCRD LBL HQ for people who like good tunes and transatlantic flights. We’re proud to report that as of right now, you can listen to loads of RCRD LBL artists like Justice, Matthew Dear, Professor Murder, Sam Champion, Flying Lotus and more on RCRD LBL’s Virgin America inflight entertainment channel. So next time you fly Virgin make sure to tune in and enjoy our hand-picked musical offerings…
Thanks for a great 2007! Holler at us on MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and sign up for our brand new mailing list
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First things first, thanks to all of you who have been visiting the site, downloading our songs, emailing us, subscribing to our RSS feeds and blogging about our artists and labels. We truly appreciate it, as do all of our bands and partner labels.
As we wrap up the year, we're really excited about what's in store for ’08. More details will emerge, but for now, what we can say is that you can expect new releases from all of our RCRD LBL artists (plus lots of others artists we are going to start working with) and tons of cool exclusives from our network of labels.
To help us stay in the loop with all of you, we've created an email list that you can sign up for—right under the What Is RCRD LBL section. Send us your deets and we'll hook you up with free MP3s, exclusive content, news and updates from your favorite RCRD LBL artists and labels and perhaps we'll throw a cool subscriber-only contest your way too. Also, you can now follow us Twitter, be our friend on MySpace or Facebook and like before, download any of our widgets and pass them around and embed them in any way you see fit.
It's all yours for the taking and we hope you continue to enjoy it.
We'll be blogging over the holiday, so swing by and be in touch.
Cheers,
RCRD LBL
Welcome to RCRD LBL
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So you've probably followed a link or something and wanted to see what's up.
Well, we'd like to welcome you to RCRD LBL, a brand new music site where all of the downloads are both free AND legal. In a world where many people get their music for free, we wanted to create a site where bands we loved could put their music out there for free AND get paid for it. RCRD LBL is a new model and an experiment, putting great music out there for free and with absolutely no DRM. We hope you enjoy the music and support what we're doing by making RCRD LBL part of your daily music diet.
In some ways we're a music blog, written by people who want to bring you cool new music day in, day out. In other ways, we're a record label, championing, signing and partnering with bands we believe in. We'll have tons of exclusive tracks from everyone from Mos Def to Switch to Dirty on Purpose to Cold War Kids, but we're also working with an amazing roster of partner labels (see below) who will also be blogging and giving away music on the site. And since we're a blog, we'll also be pointing you to best of what else is out there on the web.
We're kicking things off today with a slate of amazing new tracks from Justice (featuring Spank Rock and Mos Def!!!), Jacques Renault, Bad Veins, Meanest Man Contest and Kings & Queens and in the days and weeks to come you'll be able to hit us up for exclusive new music from Junip (featuring Jose Gonzalez), Tokyo Police Club, Switch, Ra Ra Riot, The Champain Era, Apes and Androids, Dirty On Purpose, Professor Murder, Sam Champion and many, many more.
Here are our label partners:
- Warp
- Modular
- Dim Mak
- Downtown
- Drowned In Sound
- dirtybird
- Ghostly International
- SEEN
- Kompakt
- Turntable Lab
(with more labels to come!)
A few things about the site:
All of our downloads are free and legal, but we'd ask that you not rehost the tracks on your site or use them in any way that might be considered commercial. Since this is an ad-supported venture the best way to support what we're doing is to visit the site on a regular basis and/or to embed one of our widgets on your blog (you may have noticed the little modules on the right). The whole point behind the widgets is that we want to make it easy to grab any element of the site, from streaming music and tour dates, to photos and videos, and embed it in your own site or on your OS X Dashboard. We'll be adding compatibility with more platforms soon.
We'd also like to encourage you to register and create a My RCRD LBL user account. You don't have to log-in to download music, but you do need to register to post comments, and you can also use your My RCRD LBL account to create customized RSS feeds featuring just the artists and labels you're interested in.
And if you do the RSS thing, you can grab our feed here.
Everything's free, everything's open, and everything's yours: we hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
RCRD LBL
P.S. - If you're a band or label that's interested in working with us, hit us up at aandr AT rcrdlbl.com (Please NO MP3 attachments, just links!). If you find any bugs or have any problems with the site, email us at webmaster AT rcrdlbl.com. And if you have any other questions, you can reach us at info AT rcrdlbl.com.
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