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I.R.S. Records

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I.R.S. Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979. [1]

92 relations: A&M Records, All Set, Alternative rock, Alternative TV, Ark 21 Records, Belinda Carlisle, Berlin (band), Black Sabbath, Buzzcocks, Camouflage (Stan Ridgway song), Caroline Distribution, Chiddy Bang, College rock, Concrete Blonde, Dada (band), Dead Kennedys, Dizz Knee Land, Doctor and the Medics, Dread Zeppelin, EMI, Fall Out, Fine Young Cannibals, Foxy Shazam, Gary Numan, General Public, Genitorturers, Hey, Matthew, House music, I.R.S. No Speak, I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge, Ian Copeland, Illegal Records, Independent record label, Ithaka Darin Pappas, J. J. Cale, Jack Clement, Jerry Moss, Joey (Concrete Blonde song), Jools Holland, Karel Fialka, Let's Active, Los Angeles Times, Mad About You (Belinda Carlisle song), Magazine (band), Marc Scibilia, MCA Records, Mexican Radio, Miles Copeland III, Miles Copeland Jr., MTV, ..., Murk (band), New wave music, Oingo Boingo, Only a Lad, Our Lips Are Sealed, Peter Zaremba (musician), Progressive house, Punk rock, R.E.M., Renaissance (band), Rock and roll, Roxanne (song), Save It for Later, Scott Merritt, She Drives Me Crazy, Sixty Eight Guns, Skafish, So Get Up, Spirit in the Sky, Squeeze (band), Stan Ridgway, Stewart Copeland, Striking Matches, Tenderness (song), The Alarm, The Bangles, The Beat (British band), The Cramps, The Damned (band), The Fall (band), The Fleshtones, The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, The Go-Go's, The Lords of the New Church, The One I Love (R.E.M. song), The Police, The Stranglers, Timbuk3, Universal Music Group, Wall of Voodoo, William Orbit, 120 Minutes. Expand index (42 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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All Set

All Set is the fifth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Alternative TV

Alternative TV (sometimes known as ATV) are an English band formed in London in 1977.

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Ark 21 Records

Ark 21 Records was a record label established by Miles & Stewart Copeland in 1977, based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Berlin (band)

Berlin are an American new wave band originally formed in Orange County, California.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band, formed in Bolton, England, in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto.

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Camouflage (Stan Ridgway song)

"Camouflage" is a 1986 Stan Ridgway song from the album The Big Heat.

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Caroline Distribution

Caroline Distribution, founded in 1983, has become one of the U.S. music industry’s largest third party distribution companies for the independent music sector.

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Chiddy Bang

Chidera Anamege, now known by his stage name Chiddy Bang, is an American hip hop recording artist.

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College rock

College rock was the alternative rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s.

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Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde were an alternative rock band from Hollywood, California.

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Dada (band)

Dada (stylized dada) is a three piece rock band from California (United States).

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978.

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Dizz Knee Land

"Dizz Knee Land" is the debut single by Los Angeles-based alternative rock group dada.

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Doctor and the Medics

Doctor and the Medics is a British glam rock band formed in London in 1981.

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Dread Zeppelin

Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Fall Out

"Fall Out" is a song by the English New wave rock band The Police.

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Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals were a British rock music band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele, guitarist Andy Cox (both formerly of The Beat),Fine Young Cannibals and Cherry are success stories; Chris Heim..

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Foxy Shazam

Foxy Shazam is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio (composed of lead vocalist Eric Nally, guitarist Loren Turner, pianist Sky White, bassist Daisy Caplan, trumpeter and back-up vocalist Alex Nauth, and drummer Aaron McVeigh).

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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General Public

General Public was a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexys Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash.

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Genitorturers

The Genitorturers are an industrial metal band from the United States, with influences extending into the 1990s hardcore punk and electronic music.

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Hey, Matthew

"Hey, Matthew" is a single released by the British musician Karel Fialka, in 1987.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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I.R.S. No Speak

I.R.S. No Speak was an instrumental-only imprint of the I.R.S. Records record label, founded by Miles Copeland III in January 1988.

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I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge

I.R.S. Records Presents: The Cutting Edge, also known as The Cutting Edge or IRS's The Cutting Edge, was a music program that aired on MTV (US) from March 1983 to September 1987, on the last Sunday of every month.

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Ian Copeland

Ian Adie Copeland (April 25, 1949 – May 23, 2006) was an American music promoter and booking agent who helped launch the new wave movement in the United States.

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Illegal Records

Illegal Records was an independent record label, founded by Miles Copeland III with his younger brother Stewart Copeland and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan in 1977.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Ithaka Darin Pappas

Ithaka Darin Pappas, often known simply as Ithaka, is an American sculptor, painter, photographer, songwriter, vocalist, hip hop artist, writer, poet, record producer and surfer of partial Greek descent.

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J. J. Cale

John Weldon "J.

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Jack Clement

Jack Henderson Clement (April 5, 1931 – August 8, 2013) was an American singer, songwriter, and record and film producer.

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Jerry Moss

Jerome S. "Jerry" Moss (born May 8, 1935) is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M Records, along with trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert.

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Joey (Concrete Blonde song)

"Joey" is the ninth track from Concrete Blonde's third and most successful album Bloodletting.

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Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.

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Karel Fialka

Karel Fialka is an Indian born British singer-songwriter, best known for his 1987 single, "Hey, Matthew".

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Let's Active

Let's Active is an American rock group formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1981, and often identified with the jangle pop guitar work of the group's frontman and songwriter Mitch Easter.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mad About You (Belinda Carlisle song)

"Mad About You" is a song written by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan and Mitchel Young Evans, produced by Michael Lloyd, for Belinda Carlisle's debut solo album Belinda.

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Magazine (band)

Magazine were an English post-punk band active from 1977 to 1981, then again from 2009 to 2011.

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Marc Scibilia

Marc Scibilia is an American singer-songwriter born and raised in Buffalo, New York, currently based in East Nashville, Tennessee.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Mexican Radio

"Mexican Radio" is a song written and performed by the band Wall of Voodoo, and produced by Richard Mazda.

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Miles Copeland III

Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944) is an American music and entertainment executive and former manager of The Police.

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Miles Copeland Jr.

Miles Axe Copeland Jr. (July 16, 1916 – January 14, 1991) was an American musician, businessman, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer best known for his close personal relationship with Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and his "controversial books on intelligence," including The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics (1969) and The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative (1989).

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Murk (band)

Murk (also known by several other names, including Funky Green Dogs) is a house-music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.

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Only a Lad

Only a Lad is the full-length debut album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1981, following their self-titled EP.

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Our Lips Are Sealed

"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song written by The Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall.

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Peter Zaremba (musician)

Peter Zaremba is an American singer and musician and member of The Fleshtones.

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Progressive house

Progressive house is a style (subgenre) of house music.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Renaissance (band)

Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, best known for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics like "Carpet of the Sun", "Mother Russia", and "Ashes Are Burning".

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Roxanne (song)

"Roxanne" is a song by English rock band The Police.

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Save It for Later

"Save It for Later" is a 1982 song written and recorded by The Beat.

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Scott Merritt

Scott Merritt is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer.

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She Drives Me Crazy

"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song recorded by English group Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1989 album The Raw & the Cooked.

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Sixty Eight Guns

"68 Guns" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band The Alarm, which was released as a single in September 1983 and later appeared on their debut album Declaration in February 1984.

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Skafish

Skafish is a Chicago punk band, fronted by Jim Skafish, cousin of Chicago area DJ Bobby Skafish.

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So Get Up

"So Get Up", written and vocalized by Ithaka, also known as Ithaka Darin Pappas, is a 1993 spoken-word Electronic dance music vocal-poem more frequently credited to the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon and the German trance music duo Cosmic Gate.

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Spirit in the Sky

"Spirit in the Sky" is a song written and originally recorded by Norman Greenbaum and released in late 1969.

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Squeeze (band)

Squeeze are a British rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Stan Ridgway

Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums.

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Striking Matches

Striking Matches is an American duo consisting of guitarists/songwriters Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis.

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Tenderness (song)

"Tenderness" is a song by General Public from their 1984 album All the Rage, produced by I.R.S. Records.

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The Alarm

The Alarm are a Welsh alternative rock/new wave band that formed in Rhyl, Wales, in 1981.

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The Bangles

The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981.

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The Beat (British band)

The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as The English Beat and in Australia as The British Beat) is a band founded in Birmingham, England, in 1978.

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The Cramps

The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.

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The Damned (band)

The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Fleshtones

The Fleshtones are an American garage rock band from Queens, New York, formed in 1976.

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The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" is a song by Timbuk3.

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The Go-Go's

The Go-Go's are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978.

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The Lords of the New Church

The Lords of the New Church were an English/American gothic rock supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from 1970s punk bands.

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The One I Love (R.E.M. song)

"The One I Love" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on the band's fifth full-length studio album, Document, and also as a 7" vinyl single in 1987.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene.

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Timbuk3

Timbuk3 was an American post-punk band which released six original studio albums between 1986 and 1995.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio".

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William Orbit

William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright; 15 December 1956)"William Orbit." Contemporary Musicians.

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120 Minutes

120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to the alternative music genre, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003.

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