City Slang is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 based in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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. It was created in 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 by former tour agent Christof Ellinghaus. Its main goal was to provide American, Canadian

Canada

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 and German independent

Indie (music)

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 artists with a way to distribute their records in the Europe

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an market, particularly the UK

United Kingdom

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, Germany, Austria

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 and, in some cases, the Netherlands

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. Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts (record label)

Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser and music publisher both in Canada and internationally...

 in particular has an established relationship with City Slang including a European office. City Slang's website as well as including a blog featuring the latest news from the label, also offers downloads of the latest songs by the artists.

Artists

• Amy Millan
  Amy Millan
  Amy Millan is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, was released by Arts & Crafts Records in September 2009.- Early life :Amy Millan...
  
  
• Arcade Fire
• Black Mountain
  Black Mountain (band)
  Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
  
  
• blackmail
  Blackmail (band)
  Blackmail is a German indie rock band from Koblenz, Germany which was started briefly in 1993. Blackmail are singer Mathias Reetz, brothers Kurt Ebelhäuser and Carlos Ebelhäuser and drummer Mario Matthias...
  
  
• Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...
  
  
• Built to Spill
  Built to Spill
  Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their most recent album, There Is No Enemy, was released on October 6, 2009.-History:...
  
  
• Caribou
  Caribou (musician)
  Daniel Victor Snaith is a composer, musician and recording artist under stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni. Under the supervision of Kevin Buzzard, he obtained a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London.- Career:...
  
  
• Calexico
• Dear Reader
• Get Well Soon
  Get Well Soon (band)
  Get Well Soon is a music and band project of the German singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper ....
  
  
• Goldrush
  Goldrush (band)
  Goldrush are a rock band from Oxfordshire, England. Their music has been compared to Nick Drake, The Byrds, The Flaming Lips and Grandaddy. The band centres around brothers Robin and Joe Bennett. The other members are Garo , Growler and Graham Roby...
  
  
• Jason Collett
  Jason Collett
  Jason Collett is a Toronto based singer-songwriter. He has released four solo albums, and is a member of Broken Social Scene. His latest album, Rat a Tat Tat, was released in March, 2010.-Early life:...
  
  
• Justine Electra
  Justine Electra
  Justine Electra is a Melbourne musician/singer songwriter and tek-house DJ, who was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Her recent debut Soft Rock was released to critical acclaim throughout Europe in 2006, and was released in the US on 23 March...
  
  
• Health
  HEALTH (band)
  Health is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's 2007 release with Crystal Castles charted at position nine in the UK indie singles chart.- History :...
  
  
• Lambchop
  Lambchop (band)
  Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre...
  
  
• Malajube
  Malajube
  Malajube is a francophone indie rock band based in Montreal. The band has three albums out on Dare to Care Records.-History:Formed by a group of friends in Montreal, the band made itself known in 2004 with the release of its first album, Le Compte complet. Critics welcomed the disc with positive...
  
  
• Menomena
  Menomena
  Menomena are an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States; currently made up of Justin Harris, Danny Seim and more recently Joe Haege of 31Knots and Tu Fawning...
  
  
• Nada Surf
  Nada Surf
  Nada Surf is an American alternative rock band. Formed in 1992, the New York band consists of Matthew Caws , Ira Elliot and Daniel Lorca .-Early years:...
  
  
• Norman Palm
• O'Death
  O'Death
  O’Death is an American alternative country band from Brooklyn, New York. They combine elements of folk, bluegrass, punk, metal and Americana music.-History:...
  
  
• Panthers
  Panthers (band)
  Panthers is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The Village Voice described them as "groundbreaking dissonant HC with Rolling Stones swagger." Three members were previously in the hardcore band Orchid. Panthers have released four records. The most recent two, The Trick and Things Are...
  
  
• Pink Mountaintops
  Pink Mountaintops
  Pink Mountaintops is a shoegaze psychedelic rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band consists of many of the same musicians who participate in the Black Mountain collective.-Band members:*Stephen McBean*Amber Webber*CC Rose*Lyndsay Sung...
  
  
• Radio 4
  Radio 4 (band)
  Radio 4 is a band from Brooklyn who formed in 1999. They claim that their sound, which has been described as "danceable punk", is "made in New York, is about New York, and sounds like New York"....
  
  
• Royal Bangs
  Royal Bangs
  Royal Bangs are an indie rock group from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band is composed of drummer Chris Rusk, singer and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Schaefer, and guitarist Sam Stratton .-History:...
  
  
• Schneider TM
  Schneider TM
  Schneider TM is the name used for the solo electronic music projects of Dirk Dresselhaus, a former member of several German indie rock bands, most notably Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge. He released his first single under this name in 1997, but his most notable piece to date was a track named...
  
  
• Sophia
  Sophia (indie band)
  Sophia is an indie rock band consisting of Robin Proper-Sheppard, former member of The God Machine, and the Sophia collective, a group of musicians who collaborate with Sophia...
  
  
• Stars
• The Album Leaf
  The Album Leaf
  The Album Leaf is an American solo musical project founded in San Diego, California in 1998 by Jimmy LaValle. He is known for his use of electronics, synthesizer and Rhodes piano...
  
  
• The Jai-Alai Savant
• The Most Serene Republic
  The Most Serene Republic
  The Most Serene Republic is a Canadian indie rock band based in Milton, Ontario. It takes its name from the sobriquet of formerly independent Venice under the Doges, which was regarded as "The Most Serene Republic of Venice".-Members:...
  
  
• The Notwist
  The Notwist
  The Notwist are a German indie rock band. Formed in 1989, the band moved through several musical incarnations despite maintaining a relatively stable lineup...
  
  
• To Rococo Rot
  To Rococo Rot
  To Rococo Rot is a Berlin-based trio who combine electronic and acoustic elements to create instrumental post-rock and electronic music. The group is composed of bassist Stefan Schneider and brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok . Ronald Lippok has also gained praise for his work in Tarwater...
  
  
• The Experimental Pop Band
  The Experimental Pop Band
  The Experimental Pop Band are a rock group led by former singer with The Brilliant Corners, Davey Woodward.-History:The band was formed in the mid-1990, initially as a studio project under the name The South West Experimental Pop Band, by former Brilliant Corners members Davey Woodward and Chris...