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Beat the World Records
Parent companyEMI, The End
FounderThe Dandy Warhols
Distributor(s)Caroline, Endless
GenreIndie, Rock, Electronic
Country of originUnited States
LocationPortland, Oregon

Beat The World Records is The Dandy Warhols owned and operated Portland, Oregon-based record label, originally launched in 2008.

Formation

Main article: The Dandy Warhols

In 2008, Portland band The Dandy Warhols split with long-time record company Capitol Records and officially launched Beat The World Records, a Caroline Records EMI 3rd-Party label.[1] That same year, The Dandy Warhols released ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., the first official release on Beat The World. Shortly thereafter they put out an EP, Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume One, consisting of electronic remixed versions of tracks from Earth and Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume Two a few months later.[2] In 2009, the band released The Dandy Warhols Are Sound, the original mix of their album Welcome to the Monkey House. This version of the record was the initial mix done by Grammy Award-winning soul producer Russell Elevado, which was rejected by Capitol Records and shelved for six years. Are Sound received a generally muted response, and fared poorly in comparison to the original album.

In the same year, Beat The World released a Dandy Warhols cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird" in tribute to the death of Michael Jackson, referencing the lyrics of their 2003 song "Welcome to the Monkey House", from the album of the same name: "When Michael Jackson dies/We're covering Blackbird".[3]

The Caroline Records / EMI Years (2008-2010)

Main articles: Logan Lynn and The Upsidedown

In addition to releasing their own music on the label, in 2009 The Dandy Warhols signed Portland indie-electropop artist Logan Lynn and shoegaze outfit The Upsidedown.[4] Both bands released records on the label in 2009. Rockers Monstrous, indie pop boy band The Hugs, Los Angeles western rock group Spindrift and Dandy guitar rock proteges The 1776 were signed in the years which followed. The Dandy Warhols continue to release material on Beat The World to this day. Lynn left the label in 2010,[5] as did The Hugs. In an interview from 2010 posted on The Dandy Warhols website, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor is quoted as saying "“We’re terrible at business, terrible. We don’t know what we’re doing. It’s like trying to have children run a household. We need to hook up with some indie label.” In an interview with German magazine Catch Fire from later that same year, Logan Lynn is quoted as saying "I love the Warhols and everybody had really great intentions going in but...No radio, no real distribution, no licensing, no PR. Without those things in place, artists fail...and my last record fell victim to that."[6] While Monstrous and Spindrift never officially released anything on Beat The World, The 1776 released their debut album on the label in 2011.

The End Records Years (2011-The Present)

Beat The World cut ties with Caroline Records EMI in 2010 and began working with The End Records in 2011. The Dandy Warhols released This Machine on April 24, 2012.

Artist Roster (Current and Former Affiliated Acts)

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  1. ^ "The Dandy Warhols to Release Their Own Records | News | nme.com". nme.com. March 7, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
  2. ^ "Records". dandywarhols.com. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Gothman, Sean (June 26, 2009). "Blackbird". dandywarhols.com. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  4. ^ http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-11007-cd_reviews_incredible_yacht_control_logan_lynn.html
  5. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/logan-lynn-discusses-turn-it-out_n_1752723.html
  6. ^ http://www.catch-fire.com/2010/11/interview-logan-lynn-about-his-career-suicide-free-download-of-the-album-track-smoke-rings/
  7. ^ http://www.beattheworld.com/wp/roster/
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