all while shattering sales records and packing stadiums. But behind the British star’s meteoric rise is a story not often told: the role of XL Recordings, the independent label that gave her the ...

The music has to be vital; cutting edge, forward-thinking, tunes that push boundaries – but the people who get it most, our ...

Also the HQ of British record label Soul Jazz Records, the store houses everything from dubstep and punk rock to bossa nova and jazz. With frequent international stock shipments from across the ...

To compound matters, British labels now often find themselves in competition with American record companies when it comes to signing top U.K. talent – Jobanputra tells Variety he has missed out ...

By Glenn Peoples In the ‘00s, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan looked at the disruptive nature of early social media platform MySpace and saw the death of the record label.