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Los Angeles, CA 90025
USA
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Shout! Factory
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The (very short) History of Shout! Factory
Some of us here at Shout! are refugees from the Rhino label where we managed to unleash an ungodly number of music compilations, retro-TV re-issues and a few movies of dubious distinction on an unsuspecting public. Now, just when you thought it was safe, we're launching Shout! Factory.
We had an amazing run at Rhino. I'm not taking too much credit. My brother Richard, Harold Bronson, Gary Stewart and several others deserve the bulk of it. 25 years for Richard, 15 years for me, and about the same for our partner Bob Emmer. Bob was Rhino's head of Business Affairs and the man responsible for putting us together with Atlantic in 1992.
Last year it was time to move on, and Richard decided to put together a new label, got Bob involved then brought me in. The optimist that he is - he sees this as a great time for an entrepreneurial, independent audio and video co.
They bought the Biograph catalog last year - our first acquisition - for the classic Skip James album (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues), Son House, Johnny Shines, plus historic piano rolls from Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. We're putting together a bunch of Blues compilations (single and various artists), we're working on some themed multi-artist titles with mainstream, big hits, and some more conceptual compilations with cool, unexpected tracks.
Initially, it looks like the video/DVD business could be bigger for us than audio. Our early releases are really varied - The DVD for The Rhythm, Love & Soul PBS special (PBS only until Summer); Pop culture documentaries - Timothy Leary, Kerouac, John Waters, Andy Warhol; A doc. about the 2000 Florida election scandal - Unprecedented; Legendary animation from Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival, where some of the edgiest and most creative animation that you have and haven't heard of gets started; The Warren Miller ski film library - new and classic films from the king of the genre; Some great concert videos - like Joni Mitchell's classic 1980 concert "Shadows and Light" with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and other amazing musicians. We're in negotiation for several cult and classic TV show libraries that we hope to announce over the next few months.
That's about all there is for now but we're coming up with new stuff every day so please stop back soon to catch up or, better yet, sign up for our no-spam newsletter and we'll send you updates from time to time (like once a month, not once an hour).
Sincerely,
Garson Foos
Some of us here at Shout! are refugees from the Rhino label where we managed to unleash an ungodly number of music compilations, retro-TV re-issues and a few movies of dubious distinction on an unsuspecting public. Now, just when you thought it was safe, we're launching Shout! Factory.
We had an amazing run at Rhino. I'm not taking too much credit. My brother Richard, Harold Bronson, Gary Stewart and several others deserve the bulk of it. 25 years for Richard, 15 years for me, and about the same for our partner Bob Emmer. Bob was Rhino's head of Business Affairs and the man responsible for putting us together with Atlantic in 1992.
Last year it was time to move on, and Richard decided to put together a new label, got Bob involved then brought me in. The optimist that he is - he sees this as a great time for an entrepreneurial, independent audio and video co.
They bought the Biograph catalog last year - our first acquisition - for the classic Skip James album (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues), Son House, Johnny Shines, plus historic piano rolls from Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. We're putting together a bunch of Blues compilations (single and various artists), we're working on some themed multi-artist titles with mainstream, big hits, and some more conceptual compilations with cool, unexpected tracks.
Initially, it looks like the video/DVD business could be bigger for us than audio. Our early releases are really varied - The DVD for The Rhythm, Love & Soul PBS special (PBS only until Summer); Pop culture documentaries - Timothy Leary, Kerouac, John Waters, Andy Warhol; A doc. about the 2000 Florida election scandal - Unprecedented; Legendary animation from Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival, where some of the edgiest and most creative animation that you have and haven't heard of gets started; The Warren Miller ski film library - new and classic films from the king of the genre; Some great concert videos - like Joni Mitchell's classic 1980 concert "Shadows and Light" with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and other amazing musicians. We're in negotiation for several cult and classic TV show libraries that we hope to announce over the next few months.
That's about all there is for now but we're coming up with new stuff every day so please stop back soon to catch up or, better yet, sign up for our no-spam newsletter and we'll send you updates from time to time (like once a month, not once an hour).
Sincerely,
Garson Foos
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