Frenchkiss Records
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Frenchkiss Records is an independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 based in New York, New York. The label was started in 1999 by Syd Butler
Syd Butler
Syd Butler is the bass player for Les Savy Fav and the owner and founder of Frenchkiss Records. Although born in Memphis, Tennessee, Butler grew up in Washington, D.C...

, bassist and founder of Les Savy Fav
Les Savy Fav
Les Savy Fav is a New York City indie rock band. Their style is influenced by art rock and post-hardcore. The group is known for the stage presence of lead singer Tim Harrington...

. The label's first purpose was to release Les Savy Fav's second album The Cat and The Cobra, but has since released 42 albums and is responsible for discovering a varying array of artists such as The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2004. The band consists of Craig Finn , Tad Kubler , Galen Polivka , Bobby Drake , and Steve Selvidge...

, The Antlers
The Antlers (band)
The Antlers are an indie rock band currently based in Brooklyn, New York, fronted by Peter Silberman.-History:Initially, The Antlers was a solo project created by vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman immediately after he had moved to Brooklyn, New York. Silberman wrote the first two albums,...

, The Dodos
The Dodos
The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.- History :The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual...

, Local Natives
Local Natives
Local Natives are an indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA. Their debut album, Gorilla Manor, was first released in the UK in November 2009, and later released in the US on February 16, 2010...

 and Passion Pit
Passion Pit
Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...

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  • The Antlers
    The Antlers (band)
    The Antlers are an indie rock band currently based in Brooklyn, New York, fronted by Peter Silberman.-History:Initially, The Antlers was a solo project created by vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman immediately after he had moved to Brooklyn, New York. Silberman wrote the first two albums,...

  • The Apes
    The Apes
    The Apes are a noisy, guitarless garage rock foursome from Washington, D.C.. The band formed in 1999 with the lineup of singer Paul Weil, keyboard player Amanda Kleinman , bassist Erick Jackson, and drummer Jeff Schmid...

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep (band)
    The Big Sleep are a three piece band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Sonya Balchandani , Danny Barria , and Gabe Rhodes...

  • Blinker the Star
    Blinker the Star
    Blinker the Star is a Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. Band leader Jordon Zadorozny is known for having cowritten songs with Courtney Love...

  • The Bloodthirsty Lovers
  • Detachment Kit
  • The Dodos
    The Dodos
    The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.- History :The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual...

  • The Drums
    The Drums
    The Drums are an American indie pop band from Brooklyn, NY with members stemming from the shortlived band Elkland . The band is currently on the Moshi Moshi/Island , Universal and Frenchkiss labels.-Formation:...

  • Call Me Lightning
  • Cut Off Your Hands
    Cut Off Your Hands
    Cut Off Your Hands are an indie pop band from New Zealand influenced largely by post punk and indie pop groups such as The Smiths, Gang of Four, Orange Juice, Talking Heads, as well as NZ post-punk of The Mint Chicks and This Night Creeps...

  • Ex Models
    Ex Models
    Ex Models is a no wave-influenced band based in Brooklyn, New York.-Career:The band, based around brothers Shahin and Shahryar Motia, was started while they were in high school. They reunited after college to make their first album, Other Mathematics, released in 2001 on Ace Fu Records...

  • Freelance Whales
    Freelance Whales
    Freelance Whales is an American indie rock band from Queens, New York, formed in 2008. Consisting of frontman Judah Dadone , and bandmates Doris Cellar , Chuck Criss , Jacob Hyman...

  • The Hold Steady
    The Hold Steady
    The Hold Steady is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2004. The band consists of Craig Finn , Tad Kubler , Galen Polivka , Bobby Drake , and Steve Selvidge...

  • Les Savy Fav
    Les Savy Fav
    Les Savy Fav is a New York City indie rock band. Their style is influenced by art rock and post-hardcore. The group is known for the stage presence of lead singer Tim Harrington...

  • Lifter Puller
    Lifter Puller
    Lifter Puller, or LFTR PLLR, was an American indie rock band from the Twin Cities and the Boston area between 1994 and 2000. Their music is considered innovative, with its angular riffs and a synth-infused sound that predated the 80's revival fads of the early 2000s...

  • Local Natives
    Local Natives
    Local Natives are an indie rock band based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA. Their debut album, Gorilla Manor, was first released in the UK in November 2009, and later released in the US on February 16, 2010...

  • The Plastic Constellations
    The Plastic Constellations
    The Plastic Constellations were a Minneapolis-based band. Formed in 1995 when they met as students at Hopkins High School, they played their first shows in 1996 at the well-known First Avenue venue when they were just 15 years old...

  • Passion Pit
    Passion Pit (band)
    Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...

  • Rahim
  • S PRCSS
  • Sean Bones
  • Sean Na Na
    Har Mar Superstar
    Sean Matthew Tillmann , better known by his stage names of Har Mar Superstar and Sean Na Na, is an American singer.-Life and career:...

  • Smoke and Smoke
  • Suckers
    Suckers (band)
    -Further reading:*http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/arts/music/10local.html*http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1629986/20100119/suckers__1_.jhtml*http://www.prefixmag.com/features/suckers/interview-burr/40603/...

  • Tangiers
    Tangiers (band)
    Tangiers are a Toronto-based indie rock band.Josh Reichmann and James Sayce resuscitated Tangiers after two band members left the band in 2003, adding ex-Guided by Voices drummer Jon McCann and keyboardist Shelton Deverell to the lineup.-Discography:*Hot New Spirits *Never Bring You Pleasure...

  • Thunderbirds are Now!
    Thunderbirds Are Now!
    Thunderbirds are Now! is a Livonia, Michigan-based post-punk revival band whose sound uses a mix of traditional post-punk, New Wave and noise rock. The band is heavily influenced by 1980s New Wave and other post-punk revival acts like Les Savy Fav...

  • Turing Machine
    Turing Machine (band)
    Turing Machine is an instrumental rock band formed in New York City in 1998 by Justin Chearno and Scott DeSimon, late of DC's noise-rockers Pitchblende and Gerhardt 'Jerry' Fuchs, who had moved to New York to play with Bitch Magnet guitarist Jon Fine's new band, Vineland...

  • Young Man


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