Team Love is an

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based in

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, founded by

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and Nate Krenkel in

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. It has released albums by several other recording artists. Team Love also released the documentary film by Roy Germano, The Other Side of Immigration. A distinguishing marketing tactic of Team Love has been complete albums for download in unprotected mp3 format at no cost on their website in addition to traditional record and CD sales. This practice evolved into what is now known as The Team Love Library.

History

Formation

The label was founded in 2003 in part due to Oberst's frustration at not being able to sign and showcase talent quickly enough through the record label on which his own Bright Eyes albums are released,

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. Saddle Creek was a label his brother helped co-found but was operated and managed by various individuals. Team Love, while once distributed through Saddle Creek, is now distributed directly through

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Early years

Team Love's first release was Tilly and the Wall's ''Wild Like Children'' on June 22, 2004. In 2006, Team Love released

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' solo debut with The Watson Twins and later the Tilly and the Wall follow-up ''Bottoms of Barrels''. The year before, it put out records by

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and

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as well as the Bright Eyes live album ''

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'' (though the band's studio albums are still released through the Saddle Creek imprint). Team Love reissued Park Ave.'s '' When Jamie Went to London... We Broke Up'' in late 2005. The album was produced on Urinine Records in 1999, but in 2005 Urinine closed, making the album

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Later years

In later years, Team Love released Candylion by

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', frontman

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, a live album by art-rock band

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, and a remix EP for the Tilly and the Wall single Love Riot, taken from the band's 4th studio album Heavy Mood (2012) which included remixes by Cycad and

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Relocation (2009)

In 2009, Team Love moved from the East Village of Manhattan (13th Street, or "Sugar Street") to 11 Church Street in

NY. The label opened a public space called the Team Love Ravenhouse Gallery (a partnership with Ravenhouse Management) which serves as an art gallery, record store and physical space for music and art fans. The Gallery (TL-RH.com) is open weekends and by appointment. In 2012 the label released the four band compilation album Die Pfalz which featured local artists from the Hudson Valley including Breakfast In Fur, Shana Falana, Bloodletters and electronic artist Cycad. Also notably, Krenkel was a former A&R representative for 8 years with Sony/ATV Publishing before leaving to manage

and start Team Love. He was responsible for signing singer/songwriter

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to Sony ATV Music Publishing, who was the main songwriter for

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' debut album '' Come Away with Me'', winning a

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for Song of the Year for her first hit Don't Know Why. In 2012 Krenkel acquired Full ownership of Team Love.

Artists

* A Weather * Andrea Tomasi * Arranged Marriage (band) * The Banddroidz * bentcousin * The Berg Sans Nipple * Billy Stoner * Bright Eyes * Broderick & Broderick *

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* Choir Boy (band) *

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* Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band *

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* High Up (band) *

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* InDreama * Jason Boesel *

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* Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins * Johanna Warren *

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* Long Beard (band) *

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* Mars Black * McCarthy Trenching * Midnight Masses (band) * MiWi La Lupa * Nik Freitas *

* Park Ave. (band) *

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* QUARTERBACKS (band) * Refried Ice Cream * Roger Lion * Rig 1 * Roy Germano * Roz and The Ricecakes *

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* SDX (band) * Sea of Bees * Shana Falana *

* Simon Joyner *

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* Tilly and the Wall *

* The Wave Pictures Former artists *

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(later moved to

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)

References

Business Week Interview: Team Love: Downloads Sell CDs

External links

* {{Authority control Alternative rock record labels American independent record labels Companies based in New York City Conor Oberst Record labels established in 2003