Ceremony will release a 6-song EP of covers on August 9 via Bridge Nine Records. Pre-orders are available on vinyl, CD and cassette here. The band has signed to Matador Records for their next album.

To celebrate Matador Records' 21st birthday, they are releasing a 6 CD boxset with 99 tracks covering the band's 21 years of release history on October 4th. You can order the boxset here (US) or here (UK) and all proceeds (including artist royalties) will go to charities chosen by the label's owners. Head to the replies for tracklisting and more details of this...[read more]

Interpol have rejoined Matador records and will release their new self-titled album on September 14th.

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As a follow-up to this post, we have received the following email from Tony at Victory Records.

Message from Tony

I do not know and have never spoken to Gerard Cosloy or anyone at Matador. I have never said anything derogatory about the label (that he is part owner of along with the company being 50% owned by Martin Mills at Beggars Banquet), its bands or anyone that works there. However, over the last...[read more]

Matador Records' co-owner's house burns down and Tony Brummel sends him an email just saying "karma."

Paul Banks of Interpol will be releasing Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper, produced by Peter Katis (who produced the first two Interpol albums), on August 4th through Matador Records. It features guest appearances by members of Ratatat and The Occasion. You can download the song "Fun That We Have" for free here.

Tracklist
01) Only If You Run
02) Fun That We Have
03) Skyscraper
04) Games for Days
05) Madrid Songread more]

One of Matador Records' pressing plants tossed the label's vinyl masters after they declared bankruptcy.

Fucked Up have signed to Matador Records.

Matador Records is having a contest for aspiring designers to design their new t-shirts.

Message From The Label

Dear Friends,To commemorate Matador's barely legal status (ie. we're celebrating our 18th this year), we're commissioning a series of t-shirts. Though the garments are meant to be vaguely label/logo insipired, but we're hoping for something a bit more inspired that our previous designs (though that...[read more]