Mint Records
Mint Records is a
History
Iwata and Baker started working together at CITR-FM, the University of British Columbia radio station. Three years after graduation, they left the station, and founded Mint Records in January, 1991 to release the music of up-and-coming bands in Vancouver.[1]
One of their earliest successes was a band called
In the late 1990s, the label was heavily affected by the financial crisis at and eventual bankruptcy of distribution company Cargo Records,[4] when Cargo's failure to pay the label for Gob's album Too Late... No Friends led to the band, then Mint's most lucrative act, defecting to rival label Nettwerk.[5]
In the year 1998, Mint Records album Get Outta Dodge by
Mint achieved Billboard chart success in the early 2000s with
By its tenth anniversary Mint had released 32 albums, 23 singles and five EPs.[13]
In October 2006, in conjunction with Exclaim! magazine and CBC Radio 3, Mint Records mounted a cross-Canada tour called the "Exclaim! Mint Road Show!" with headliners The New Pornographers along with Immaculate Machine and Novillero (except the final show in Vancouver, which featured Young and Sexy and Bella).[20]
In 2010, Mint Records album
In 2011, a book about Mint Records by Kaitlin Fontana was published by ECW Press. It is titled Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records.
Current artists
- The Evaporators
- Faith Healer
- Heaven for Real
- Kellarissa
- Nardwuar
- Peach Kelli Pop
- Renny Wilson
- Sook-Yin Lee
- Wares
Past artists[22]
- Andrew W.K.
- Atomic 7
- The Awkward Stage
- Bella[23]
- The Buttless Chaps[24]
- Carolyn Mark
- The Choir Practice
- The Corn Sisters
- cub
- Duotang
- Duplex!
- fanshaw
- The Gay
- Geoff Berner
- gob
- The Groovie Ghoulies
- The Handsome Family
- The Hanson Brothers
- Hot Panda
- Huevos Rancheros
- I Am Spoonbender
- Immaculate Machine
- John Guliak
- Kid Champion
- Lou Barlow
- Maow
- Mark Kleiner Power Trio
- The Mr. T Experience
- Needles // Pins
- Neko Case[25]
- The New Pornographers
- New Town Animals
- Novillero
- Operation Makeout
- The Organ[26]
- P:ano
- The Pack A.D.
- Pansy Division
- Pick A Piper
- Pluto
- The Ramblin' Ambassadors
- Riff Randells
- The Sadies
- The Smugglers
- The Stand GT
- Tankhog
- The Tennessee Twin
- Vancougar
- Volumizer
- Windwalker
- Young and Sexy
See also
- Mint Records Presents the CBC Radio 3 Sessions
- List of record labels
References
- ^ "Greetings from Vancouver!". SPIN 2 March 2006.
- ^ Hogan, Marc (2007-05-10), Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Cub: Betti-Cola / Come Out Come Out, Pitchfork Media, retrieved 2010-05-17
- ^ "Neko Case and her enduring bond to Canada". The Buffalo News, By Michael Farrell Feb 26, 2016
- ^ "Still in Mint condition: A small Vancouver record label has quietly carved out an enviable 'killer brand' reputation in the indie market". The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2001.
- ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9.
- ^ "Yearly Summary | The JUNO Awards" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ https://www.billboard.com/artist/neko-case/chart-history/
- ^ https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-new-pornographers/chart-history/
- ^ "Artist Summary | The JUNO Awards" Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "The New Pornographers: The Last Picture Show". Magnet,
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 2001: Critics Poll" Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever" Archived 2010-05-29 at the Wayback Machine. Blender.
- ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 2003: Critics Poll".
- ^ "Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums, Songs Of The ’00s". Stereogum, 10 December 2009.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 2005: Critics Poll".
- ^ "Music Reviews, Features, Essays, News, Columns, Blogs, MP3s and Videos | PopMatters". 2005
- ^ 2006 Polaris Music Prize
- Pitchfork Media. Archived from the originalon 2 October 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ "Mint to release Radio 3 sessions collection for 15th Anniversary Roadshow". Punk News
- ^ "Artist Summary | The JUNO Awards"[permanent dead link].
- ^ "Artist | Mint Records".
- ^ "Get the lowdown on Vancouver's music scene". Georgia Strait, 28 February 2007.
- ^ "The Buttless Chaps Calling it Quits". CBC News.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Neko Case leaves Mint to sign with Anti- Records". Georgia Strait, 25 June 2008.
- ^ "The Organ Calls It Quits". Georgia Strait