Beggars

Hillsborough, NC (January 6, 2020) – Redeye, the North Carolina-based leading North American independent distributor, today announces new U.S. distribution deals for physical products with The Beggars Group, Domino Recording Co. and Saddle Creek effective January 1, 2020.

Forthcoming titles in the new deal include Grimes Miss Anthropocene (4AD), Pinegrove Marigold (Rough Trade), Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar (Domino), and Frances Quinlan Likewise (Saddle Creek).

“Redeye prides itself on our relationships with our customers and label partners,” says Glenn Dicker, co-founder of Redeye. “Over the years, we have looked at the Beggars Group as the gold standard of what could be achieved by an independent company with hard work and dedication to artists and music. Additionally, Domino and Saddle Creek are among the many great labels we’ve stayed connected to over the years so we’re proud to now have them all as part of the family.”

“Historically, independent labels have always seen...

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Jan 6th 2020 – The Beggars Group of Labels (4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, Young Turks and XL Recordings) announces updates to roles in their radio department.

ELLENA OSIS shifts into role of Non-Commercial Radio Director. A part of the Beggars radio team as a consultant since 2017, Ellena is now responsible for non-commercial radio airplay and promotional strategies for a wide variety of artists across Beggars’ labels. In addition to consulting for us, she previously also ran her own AAA Radio Promotion & Artist Development company, The House That Built Me. Prior to that, she was the Senior Director of AAA Radio at SONY/RED, and before that was National radio director at Mute Records. Ellena will continue to work out of the New York office.

BRIANA GRECO is now be the key point of contact for college and specialty radio in the US....

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Vaughan Oliver taught me to appreciate quality. He taught me how to look at the physical world. He was a force of nature and I’m having such a hard time processing this.

I have no idea how to define in a few words the enormous impact he had on my life. Two Virgos with a tendency toward being controlling we somehow managed to compliment and bolster each other in our mission to transcend mediocrity. The breadth and scale of work is incomparable, continuously fanned by the inspiration a new collaboration would bring. I’m aware that we each considered the other a bit of an enigma, a contradiction to our own personalities, and I also know that our mutual respect for each other remained intact.

We had drifted apart having less frequent contact as the years passed and I moved to the States. This last year, aware of an unrelated but...

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