matador?
 

fuck, if there was ever a label i didnt like. i was thinking maybe they were gonna sign to troubleman unlimited, which is a fairly big indie label, and one that puts out wierd noise/no wave stuff like the luttenbachers, and wolf eyes and hair police and stuff, as well as more conventional indie rock. considering sonic youth as a general rule has always been right inbetween those genres, it woulda been a perfect match. it wuda been REALLY rad if they went way off the deep end and signed to skin graft or savage land or something and started making nihilist noise punk again. either way, its better than geffen. cant bitch too much.

matador suits the current sound and popularity of the band pretty well i'd say.

stop moaning.
;)

yeah the band is too big for troubleman. i knew it was either going to be matador or sub pop.

i thought after starbucks they would go to hershey's chocolate.

troubleman unlimited is one of the shittiest labels ever.

not their roster, but their business practice. dude will be lucky if he doesn't end in jail.

Sub Pop would have been cool though.

Whoah, Matador has like 5 of my favourite bands on it? They're my favourite label that isn't Warp.

that doesnt mean shit to me.

i know im bitching about something really random and lame. i just think itd be rad if sonic youth went waaaay underground again. i mean, thurston and crew hang around with people that are way younger and make way more extreme music, and its pretty clear from the side projects and solo lps, noise is what their digging on right now. but i guess thats what divides sonic youth from thier other projects, sonic youth is a rock band first and foremost, which i guess i woulndt want any different. ill shut up now.


side note about labels? is bulb still around? i think i missed a memo because they were putting out a wealth of great records in late 90s, early 00's, now, nothing.

doesn't mean shit to you? remember that when you don't get your orders or money back, or when they don't send the records to the stores and all you get in return is insults.

think about it, most bands on troubleman are jumping ship for a reason.

i never really liked troubleman anyway. i actually forgot that the label existed until this thread, but i only pay attention to havoc records anymore.

they should have gone to Sympathy. i think their status has outgrown sftri's though.

A label's just a label.

I don't really like most bands on Matador to be honest.

It could be worse, they could've signed to saddle creek.

What's the deal? I doesn't really matter what label they put it out on, as long as it's got good distribution.

Maybe batreleaser doesn't like Matador's logo. He 'd prefer a big skull on the next Sonic Youth record, it would look much indie-noisy death metal.

I think Matador is a very "safe" label releasing mostly crappy bands, but hey Sonic Youth's last album was really safe and crappy. So, it makes sense.

I don't have a single problem with Matador.

Me either. A label's just a label like I said. But I'm being uh.. topical, I guess. Hah.

Eh, I like Yo La Tengo but that's about it from their roster.

they should sign with... they should... no they should go to this label!

but who the fuck cares ?

just realese good album sy . !

Are Sub Pop still going?

Come to think of it, are SFRTI still going?

Blimey.

I don't really know much about Matador. Was Liz Phair's first album on Matador? I like that.

There're Times New Viking, Cat Power, (Pavement), Mission of Burma, Yo la Tengo...

http://www.matadorrecords.com/bands/index.html

yes
and yes if by SFRTI you mean SFTRI

oh baby, they should have gone with SFTRI, and have mark Ryden or one of the other of long gone johns cool artbuddies do the cover

sub pop went bankrupt after the wolf eyes/postal service tour fell through.

Unwound, Boards of Canada, Chavez, Superchunk, Mogwai, Guided by Voices, Smog & Unsane were also on Matador at one stage or another.

Sub Pop just had a huge 25th Anniversary festival in Seattle (Redmond more properly at Marymoor Park) which included a Green River reunion (the videos are all over you tube, and they're pretty decent even, all of the guitarists played from both versions of the band, so they were pretty massive). They hung a huge Sub Pop banner on the Space Needle, which must have cost some real money.

That said, yeah, Sub Pop hasn't done anything new worth noticing in many years. I really like Wolf Eyes Human Animal album, and I'm not in love with the group by any stretch. And they resigned Mudhoney when Reprise dumped them, which has led to somewhat less mediocre albums from what I've heard, but I'm not exactly excited.

Matador has put out more good recent albums than Sub Pop by far, even if it's mostly by stalwarts such as Yo La Tengo and Mission of Burma. Sonic Youth should fit in perfectly with the likes of them, and I'm serious about crossing my fingers for a SY/Burma tour!

and Matmos too. Unwound were never exactly on Matador though I think they did some licensing, all of their actual albums came out on Kill Rock Stars. Vern's other band Long Hind Legs had a deal with Matador, but when they heard the record and it was instrumental electronica they refused to put it out (I know this from Verne directly) so somewhere there's a very interesting LHL album waiting to see the light of day.

They're not a label I have any particular interest in. They've had some good bands on it - Bailterspace, Graeme Downes (The Verlaines), The Clean, Chris Knox, David Kilgour, JPS Experience.

From that list I just posted, I'm guessing they were a Flying Nun distributor in America or something.

hey seeing you seem to know Unwound people, i'd be really curious to know what they're up to now. Are they planning anything solo at all? Have they completely retired and now work at Burker King or what? They were such a fucking great band. Raw and edgy. wow.

Prediction: Unwound reform.

^^^that would be awesome.

20th anniversary. Even though Sup Pop 100 was 1986.

i didn't like alot of bands on DGC.... guns and roses, anyone?

why does it matter that you don't like bands on the label.. you like sonic youth so thats all that should matter

Guns N Roses are amazing.

sonic youth/aerosmith split

skam
would be great. love it and it sounds just badass

I don't fuckin' care with whom they sign, all I want is a Sonic Youth record per year.

Troubleman doesn't have the distribution or the ability to promote to the way the band should be at this point, and Matador does... that simple.

I thought Drag City would've been a cool label for them to be on.

gawd, again?

matador = shitloads of good bands, shitloads of bad bands, more bad bands now than before but it's not them who are going to play the instruments or tell them "you know? you should sound like yo la tengo, get thurston and kim to harmonize on a track...ohh and maybe do an instrumental with a saucy title; man, you have too much energy on these songs, we were thinking you could maybe give it a little pavement attitude, that would be great".

i hate label hatred and label worship, it's just morons who make money off bands.

i wish they could have gone with kiddieriot...