Memphis Industries
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Memphis Industries is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 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:...

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Memphis Industries was established as a record label in 1998 by the brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob with the first release being Blue States' Forever EP. It is perhaps best known for The Go! Team
The Go! Team
The Go! Team are a six-piece band from Brighton, England. They combine indie rock and garage rock with a mixture of blaxploitation and Bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars similar to the style of Sonic Youth. Their songs are a mix of live...

 and Field Music
Field Music
Field Music are a band from Sunderland, England who formed in 2004. The band's core consists of brothers David and Peter Brewis , with Andrew Moore. Their line-ups have at times featured members of both Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads...

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  • Absentee
    Absentee (band)
    Absentee are a band from London, signed to Memphis Industries. They are Dan Michaelson , Melinda Bronstein , Babak Ganjei , Laurie Earle and Che Albrighton .-Career:...

  • Arthur & Yu
    Arthur & Yu
    Arthur & Yu are an indie folk band from Seattle, Washington. Their sound has been compared to that of various 1960s bands, as well as an aesthetic appeal of John Lennon/Yoko Ono. The duo's title roots from childhood nicknames, 'Arthur' and 'Yu', for Olsen and Westcott, respectively. They have been...

  • The Black Neon
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Black Moth Super Rainbow is an American experimental band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their music contains elements of psychedelia, folk, electronica, and pop...

  • Blue States
    Blue States (band)
    Blue States are an English downtempo music band, headed up by Andy Dragazis. The band has been active since 1997, and is currently working, based in London, England. There have been four albums to date, the latest 'First Steps Into...' in 2007, with a B-sides collection Sum Of The Parts in 2009...

  • Bricolage
    Bricolage
    Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts, to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process...

  • Broadway Project
    Broadway Project
    Broadway Project is musician Dan Berridge from Bristol. Reviewers often describe the music as "cinematic" and it combines elements of ambient, jazz and hip hop. The epic nature of his records has led to him being commissioned to write scores for a number of feature films and British television...

  • Cymbals Eat Guitars
    Cymbals Eat Guitars
    Cymbals Eat Guitars is an indie rock band from Staten Island, New York, founded by high school friends Joseph D'Agostino and Matthew Miller. The band's name comes from a Lou Reed quote describing the sound of the Velvet Underground.-History:...

  • Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards
  • Dungen
    Dungen
    Dungen is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as progg or psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock....

  • Dutch Uncles
    Dutch Uncles
    Dutch Uncles are an indie band from Manchester. They are known for their use of atypical time signatures within a pop context. Their influences includes several bands such as The Smiths, King Crimson, Steve Reich, XTC and Talking Heads.-Biography:...

  • Dreamend
    Dreamend
    Dreamend is a Chicago-based shoegazer musical group signed to Graveface Records, whose music is characterized by textured guitar work and prominent drums and percussion. Song styles range from post-rock to bluegrass...

  • Elephant
    Elephant
    Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...

  • El Perro del Mar
    El Perro del Mar
    El Perro del Mar is a musical project that was founded in December 2003 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The sole member of El Perro del Mar, Sarah Assbring, initially started as an MP3/CD-R artist and released her first songs through Hybris Records...

  • Field Music
    Field Music
    Field Music are a band from Sunderland, England who formed in 2004. The band's core consists of brothers David and Peter Brewis , with Andrew Moore. Their line-ups have at times featured members of both Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads...

  • Fort Lauderdale

  • Frankie Rose and the Outs
  • The Go! Team
    The Go! Team
    The Go! Team are a six-piece band from Brighton, England. They combine indie rock and garage rock with a mixture of blaxploitation and Bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars similar to the style of Sonic Youth. Their songs are a mix of live...

  • Hooray For Earth
    Hooray For Earth
    Hooray For Earth is a New York City-based rock band built around the home-recordings of singer and multi-instrumentalist Noel Heroux. The group first emerged publicly as Hooray For Earth in late 2005 in Boston, MA. The original lineup stood as Heroux, bassist Christopher Principe, guitarist Gary...

  • J. Xaverre
  • Jukeboxer
    Jukeboxer
    Jukeboxer is the moniker of Brooklyn-based musician Noah Wall. His music is put together digitally from recorded sounds, usually him playing an instrument. Many of his songs are the products of collaborations with other musicians...

  • Le Loup
    Le Loup
    Le Loup is an American indie band founded in September, 2006, in Washington, D.C. by Sam Simkoff . The band also includes Christian Ervin , Michael Ferguson , Dan Ryan , Robert Sahm and Jim Thomson . Their name is French for "The Wolf"...

  • Milagres
    Milagres
    Milagres is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.-References:...

  • Papercuts
    Papercuts
    Papercuts is an American indie pop project centered around Jason Robert Quever.-History:Papercuts is the musical project of San Francisco songwriter/producer Jason Quever. Quever had been making home recordings since high school, but the first official release as Papercuts was 2004's Mockingbird...

  • The Pipettes
    The Pipettes
    The Pipettes are a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton by "svengali" Robert "Monster Bobby" Barry. The group has released two albums, We Are the Pipettes, and Earth vs...

  • The Phoenix Foundation
    The Phoenix Foundation
    The Phoenix Foundation are an progressive indie rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand.-Early years and China Cove:Founded by Conrad Wedde, Samuel Flynn Scott, and Luke Buda in 1997 while students at Wellington High School, they were joined by Tim Hansen , Richie Singleton and Will Ricketts ...

  • The Ruby Suns
    The Ruby Suns
    The Ruby Suns are an indie/pop group from New Zealand. They formed in 2004 when Californian Ryan McPhun moved to Auckland and started playing in several bands such as The Brunettes and The Tokey Tones.-Biography:...

  • The Russian Futurists
    The Russian Futurists
    The Russian Futurists are a Canadian indie pop band based in Toronto. Their music can be described as lo-fi, indie-electronica fused with a twee-pop temperament...

  • School Of Language
  • The Shaky Hands
    The Shaky Hands
    The Shaky Hands are a Portland, Oregon based rock group, formed in 2003 by musician Paul Culp, of "Lonesome Radio Heart" and Colin Anderson. Nicholas Delffs joined soon after on vocals and guitar...

  • The Squire of Somerton
  • The Week That Was
  • Tokyo Police Club
    Tokyo Police Club
    Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. It consists of vocalist and bassist David Monks , keyboardist Graham Wright, guitarist Josh Hook , and drummer Greg Alsop ....

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