Last Gang Records
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Last Gang Records is a record label that was formed by Canadian music industry attorney Chris Taylor and concert promoter Donald Tarlton in the Fall of 2002 at the Pop Montreal Music Festival.
Taylor had been working for the group Metric since the early days of 1998 and had literally "shopped" the band to over 100 record labels around the world but to no avail. He was prepared to release the album himself with his own money when he met with Tarlton. After viewing the Metric video for "Grow Up and Blow Away" (a single on a Metric album that would not be released until 2007) Donald offered to help Taylor realize his vision of introducing Metric's music to the world. They formed a joint venture company under the DKD label group Last Gang Records. Since formation, LGR has branched out to be its own stand alone record label.
Metric released their critically acclaimed, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? in the autumn of 2003, and Last Gang Records was born.
[edit] Artists
Last Gang Records has released recordings by:
- Metric
- Death From Above 1979
- Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
- MSTRKRFT
- Boys Noize
- Chromeo
- Bang Lime
- Tiga
- Panurge
- Mother Mother
- Femme Fatale
- The New Pornographers
- Tricky Woo
- From Fiction
- Crystal Castles
