About Me
formed in 1989 by native New Yorker Chris Lombardi, Matador Records is the premier contemporary rock label of its era. Or we're in the top 20 or so. Current artists include Cat Power, The Ponys, Fucked Up, Jaguar Love, Earles & Jensen, Love Of Diagrams, Stephen Malkmus, Belle & Sebastian,Jennifer O'Connor, The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, Laura Cantrell, Dead Meadow, Matmos, Jay Reatard, Preston School Of Industry, Mission Of Burma, Mogwai, AC Newman, Early Man,, Brightblack Morninglight, and more. Alumni include Boards Of Canada,Guided By Voices, Interpol, Dizzee Rascal, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Double, Techno Animal, Barbara Manning, Graeme Downes, Come, Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound, Bardo Pond, The Flying Nuns, Seachange, Bettie Serveert, Unsane, Pizzicato Five, Spoon, Cornelius, M. Ward, Guitar Wolf, Richard Hell, Tommy Keene, Helium, Mary Timony, The Soft Boys, Liz Phair, Silkworm, The Fall, The Frogs, Bassholes, Mecca Normal, Jega, the Arsonists, Fire In The Kitchen, White Hassle, Bailter Space and many more. Visit our website for more info, http://www.matadorrecords.comPlease note : we'll gladly add individual humans as friends (just so long as you don't do anything unfriendly to us), but if you're a band, label or company that we're not actually familiar with, please don't request an add. We don't wanna be jerks about this, but we don't want to imply endorsement/friendship with artists we don't know or firms we're not associated with. If you'd like to approach us about putting something out, we respectfully ask that you read the faq at http://www.matadorrecords.com first. Thanks.
