Wichita Recordings is an

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located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees include Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Best Coast, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John. The label signed Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for a UK distribution deal for the group's debut album. They also signed the UK producers

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for the UK. The label's first release was the Bright Eyes album ''

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'', released in 2000. Wichita Management runs alongside the label, and currently represents

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, Brolin, Shannon And The Clams,

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, Star Slinger, Dam Mantle and Theo Verney. 2015 saw Wichita Recordings celebrate 15 years as a label, and have released new music from FIDLAR, Cheatahs, Meg Baird,

, Girlpool, Waxahatchee and Total Babes. 2016 releases included Globelamp's debut LP ''The Orange Glow'', Mothers (band), Mothers' debut LP ''When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired'', and the debut from Oscar, ''Cut and Paste''.

Current artists

* Cheatahs *

* Espers (band), Espers * Euros Childs * FIDLAR *

* Girlpool *

* Greg Weeks * Indoor Pets * Los Campesinos! * Lovvers * Meg Baird * Mothers (band), Mothers * Oscar *

* Ride (band), Ride * Slow Club * Swearin' * Total Babes * Waxahatchee * Young Legionnaire

Former artists

* Best Coast * Bloc Party * The Blood Brothers (band), The Blood Brothers * Bright Eyes * The Bumblebeez * The Bronx (band), The Bronx * Canyon (band), Canyon * Cate Le Bon * Conor Oberst * Martin Carr, Brave Captain * Clap Your Hands Say Yeah * The Cribs * Desaparecidos (band), Desaparecidos * The Dodos * The Drips * Elastica * First Aid Kit (band), First Aid Kit * Giant Drag * Globelamp * Her Space Holiday * Kele Okereke, Kele * Kid606 * Les Savy Fav * Lissy Trullie * My Morning Jacket * Northern State (rap group), Northern State * The Pattern (Band), The Pattern * Penfold Plum * Peter Bjorn and John * Peter Morén *Ruby (British band), Ruby * Saul Williams *

* Sky Larkin * Spectrals * Those Dancing Days * Times New Viking * Wauvenfold * Weevil (Band), Weevil * Wild Flag * Yeah Yeah Yeahs

References

External links

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Interview with founder Mark Bowen, HitQuarters September 2006Smooth operators
''The Guardian''.
Wichita Recordings
''Remix''.
Declarations of independents
''Music Week''. {{Authority control British independent record labels Alternative rock record labels Wichita Recordings artists, Wichita Recordings albums,

Current artists

Former artists

See also

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