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An independent label is defined by the Association of Independent Records (AIM) as one with a controlling share over any Major label shareholder:

A “major” is defined in AIM’s constitution as a multinational company which (together with the companies in its group) has more than 5% of the world market(s) for the sale of records and/or [...]

First off – thanks to Steve Brockley and Alison Louder for their spark of inspiration which made the Motown Mess last night a thing!
Steve’s interpretation of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get it On was a highlight of the show for me, that song has a sad undercurrent, much of Motown does, as life does I guess, [...]

Belleisle is a young group of old souls who jumped into recording to catch these sounds as they are coming together all early, earnest and yearning in the band-becoming-band process. Tasha Cyr’s voice is particularly delicate, charming, soo soul sad and careful, thoughtful, dropping soft things in her phrasing. (Tasha is recording with the Darling [...]

Here are some of Marilis‘ photos from the Fixture Recordings release party.
Cagibi was a nice warm spot to hole up for a evening to celebrate the release of our first 3 cds and cassettes. After leaving with far fewer cds than we had brought (hurrah!) we trekked over to Nouveau Palais with the bands [...]

We’re busy making CDs and tapes in preparation for our label showcase on Thursday (in two days). Here are some photos of us putting together the cases. We’re waiting for a shipment of 200 blank printable CDs (from a company that, turns out, has bad customer reviews and may have taken our money and run. [...]

Fixture Recordings

is celebrating the release of 3 new albums:
Brave Radar Distracting Strangers, Dirty Beaches Old Blood, and Postcards Postcards
We invite you to meet our bands:
Thursday, February 14th
Doors 9pm
Show 10pm
Le Cagibi
5490 St. Laurent
Montreal, QC
The show is pay-what-you-can and entrance of $7 or more includes a free new release!

Poster by Genevieve Dumas.

Fixture Recordings
Célèbre la sortie de [...]

This is a multiple-part post on getting your CD out of your living room. Part One is about radio airplay. Part Two will be about getting reviewed and sending your CD to record labels. Part Three might be about distribution if we have some by then.

I thought of blogging this a while ago, but wasn’t [...]

This summer I was searching around for companies that could assist me with the production of a debut EP for the Solar Dog catalogue. When you’re thinking about producing a record there are quite a few things to consider – from demo recordings to production, mixing and mastering, packaging and artwork, reproduction and distribution, etc, [...]