4AD
Music Production Company
Caught in the Net: The heart of darkness...Big Pink on their roster, the UK's 4AD is one of the most interesting independent record labels around. Recently they started the "4AD Sessions" (4ad.com/sessions). Here there are exclusive videos of 4AD artists performing covers and... In this article: 4AD, Lykke Li, Okkervil River, Will Oldham, Scott Walker, Youth Novels, and Bon Iver |
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The Stranger - Line Out | 2 days ago
'80s Classics on 4AD, Beggars Banquet Reissued on Vinyl
News '80s Classics on 4AD, Beggars Banquet Reissued on Vinyl Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM Heart-warming news for your pre-Thanksgiving consideration: Vinyl 180 will be reissuing LPs by Bauhaus, Lisa Gerrard,...
In this article: Lisa Gerrard, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Cult, The Mirror Pool, and Bauhaus
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
4AD
...Banquet itself) were folded up on to the 4AD label. Bands like Stereolab and The National were signed to 4AD as a part of this merger. While 4AD didn't handle any distribution outside the United Kingdom for many years, it had many willing...
In this article: Cocteau Twins, Beggars Banquet, Peter Kent, Ivo Watts-Russell, Red House Painters, This Mortal Coil, Pixies, TV On The Radio, and Beggars Group
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Drowned in Sound - News | October 27, 2009
Bauhaus re-issues: In The Flat Field and Mask Omnibus Editions reviewed
...have a little pause for thought about the people who made those records and more besides possible for public consumption. The label 4AD, an offshoot of Beggars Group (nee Beggars Banquet) may be shortly entering its fifth decade of...
In this article: Bauhaus, In the Flat Field, Peter Murphy, Mask, Daniel Ash, Go Away White, Dark Entries, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Ziggy Stardust, and Kevin Haskins
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PopMatters | October 20, 2009
Magazine: The Correct Use of Soap (Feature)
...Use of Soap's frayed and forlorn slower numbers put one in mind of late Big Star (a solo Devoto later covered two Alex Chilton songs on the 1987 4AD compilation It'll End in Tears). For their third album, Magazine drafted in producer Martin...
In this article: Howard Devoto, Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap, Martin Hannett, Bad Seeds, and Buzzcocks
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Independent.ie | September 24, 2009
Mythical Sounds: The Pixies
...of course they hated it. That's a fucking secretary? Please." They got their break when they came to the attention of obscure UK label 4AD. Set to work with cult producer Steve Albini, the quartet produced a stunning full-length debut,...
In this article: Pixies, Kim Deal, Doolittle, The Breeders, Sounds, Fool the World, Boston, and Surfer Rosa
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Independent.co.uk - Music | August 22, 2009
British Sea Power, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, LondonThe XX, Hoxton Hall, London
...folk singing: in 1986, Ivo Watts-Russell, encouraged by Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, issued the Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares album on the 4AD label. But it's a timely rediscovery. Prior to BSP, the LBC belt out a set of their own, all...
In this article: British Sea Power, London, Yan, Henry Allingham, Hamilton, Bauhaus, Phil Sumner, History Boys, and First World War
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Independent.ie | August 21, 2009
By my reckoning, 1984 ruled
...as thrillingly otherworldly now as it did then. They also contributed the extraordinary cover of Tim Buckley's Song To The Siren on the 4AD collective This Mortal Coil's debut It'll End In Tears, which also contained bewitching version of...
In this article: Reckoning, Grant McLennan, Lloyd Cole, Paddy McAloon, Rattlesnakes, Olympia, The Blue Nile, Sandie Shaw, and Peter Buck
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PopMatters | August 05, 2009
Feel It: An Interview With Kim Deal of the Pixies and the Breeders (Feature)
...from addiction to mixtapes to Battlestar Galactica, her mind never slows, and my only recourse is to try and keep up. Being off 4AD and self-releasing Fate to Fatal, are you feeling a sense of artistic freedom that you hadn't felt...
In this article: Kim Deal, Pixies, All Tomorrow's Parties, God, Minehead, War Pigs, and Saints
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Business Wire Entertainment News | July 21, 2009
Kerchoonz Social Network and Streaming Site Signs Key Independent Labels: 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL Recordings
...20,000 tracks from Beggars' significant catalogue. Beggars Group represents the labels XL Recordings, Rough Trade, Matador, and 4AD and whose acts include a diverse selection of award-winning artists such as Grammy award winner...
In this article: Kerchoonz, Beggars Group, XL Recordings, The Strokes, Rough Trade Records, Dizzee Rascal, and Atlas Sound
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Wikipedia | November 26, 2008
Livonia (His Name Is Alive album)
Livonia is the debut LP by His Name Is Alive, originally released on 4AD in the UK in 1990, and in 1992 on 4AD/Rykodisc in the USA. Livonia is the debut LP by Livonia, Michigan's His Name Is Alive (HNIA). HNIA frontman Warren Defever began...
In this article: Livonia, Warren Defever, His Name Is Alive, Ivo Watts-Russell, This Mortal Coil, John Fryer, Karin Oliver, and USA
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Description from Wikipedia:
4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today. It now forms part of the Beggars Group, along with Matador Records, Rough Trade Records and XL Recordings, and 4AD has the likes of Beirut, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, Camera Obscura, The Breeders, Stereolab, TV on the Radio and Scott Walker on their roster.
- Name:
- 4AD
- Location:
- London
- Founder:
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- Ivo Watts-Russell
- Peter Kent
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1979
- Parent Company:
- Beggars Group
- Genre:
- Alternative rock
- Website:
- http://www.4ad.com
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