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No one was spared: former label mates (Waka Flocka Flame, OJ Da Juiceman) other big name rappers (Eminem, 2 Chainz) and label employees all drew his ire.
Each member took on the kind of administrative responsibilities usually given over to managers and label employees - the bass player runs the website, the keyboard player helps with PR - and kept their day jobs.
As proof, the operator, a Queens man who declined to give his real name but is known online as Splash, showed The New York Times several e-mails from record label employees and third-party marketers offering songs mentioned in the affidavit.
Formed by a bunch of record collectors and label employees, for 15 years New York's Endless Boogie have been cranking out unabashedly old-timey, long-winded electric blues in a manner that's part Canned Heat, part Can: classic rock boiled down to its fundamentals and looped into sublime, hypnotic infinity.
DJ Chuck T, a mixtape D.J. in South Carolina, told me that when label employees send him tracks to include on his mixtapes, they request a copy of the mixtape so that they can show their bosses the track is "getting spin from the street". He also said record-label promoters want sales figures for his mixtapes so they can chart sales patterns, which they use in marketing their own releases.
To form the list, we polled industry insiders including record label employees, attorneys and media buyers.
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A record label employee with Buddy Holly glasses, Ferrell also plays bass for No Man, No Eyes, an "experimental rock band".
Similarly, many other acts, including Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Luther Vandross and Beck, have made similar challenges to their recording contracts, whether invoking California labor laws, the sale of a label or the departure of a significant label employee.
Before the band set off on tour, more bad luck struck: a girlfriend of a record label employee broke her ankle; the tour bus driver called to say he would be late because the bus had already broken down; and Thorgeir Gudmundsson, the band's drummer, could not start his car to meet the band.
As a former record label employee turned Los Angeles DJ, he's toured with acts like Animal Collective and Fleet Foxes, and served as a music supervisor for films and television.
A label employee anonymously told us, "Those guys pretty much admitted, I think in the zine Bananafish, that they threw the Matador advance money up their arms".
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