Please reply by e-mail right away if you have an answer for me.
Thanks,
Anil Prasad
wcs...@ccs.carleton.ca
> Can someone tell me what the status of Caroline records in NYC is? Are
> they still a true independent or did a major label buy up a huge chunk
> of them?
Caroline has *never* been a "true" independent. Caroline, the distributor
that owns and runs the label of the same name, was founded as a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Virgin Records sometime in the early '80s. (That's why
all that Virgin UK Mike Oldfield back-catalogue -- among others -- is
turning up on Caroline in the States.) To top it off, Virgin was bought
earlier this year by Thorn-EMI, so I guess in a megacorporate-ladder sort
of way, SubPop's distribution is controlled by EMI, via Caroline, via Virgin.
There's a decent article on all this indie/not-indie stuff in the September
_Pulse._
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Lazlo (la...@triton.unm.edu)