Seminal indie rock label founded in Olympia, Washington in 1991. (Deerhoof, Thao Nguyen, Sleater-Kinney, Elliot Smith) ★★★★

Leading Canadian indie-rock label (Stars, Broken Social Scene, Feist) ★★★★

Leading indie rock label, based in Brooklyn, NY (Ariel Pink, Weyes Blood, Cate Le Bon) ★★★★

Essential indie rock label founded in a record shop in London in 1976 (Parquet Courts, ANOHNI, black midi) ★★★★

Leading indie rock label, based in Bloomington, Indiana (The War on Drugs, Ahnoni, Yoko Ono, Cherry Glazerr) ★★★★

Leading NYC indie rock/avant rock label. Partners with Knitting Factory Records. (Fela Kuti, The Black Angels, Craig Finn, Mercury Rev) ★★★★

Premiere indie rock label, based in NYC (Interpol, Belle & Sebastian, Kurt Vile) ★★★★

Leading indie rock label, based in London (my bloody valentine, Stephen Malkmus, Dan Deacon) ★★★★

Influential British indie label releasing music across pop, rock, hip hop and r&b (FKA Twigs, Sigur Rós, Thom Yorke, The xx) ★★★★

Leading indierock label, based in Bloomington, Indiana (Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Dinosaur Jr.) ★★★★

Los Angeles label releasing across genres, including indie rock, hip hop, soul, etc. (Tom Waits, Neko Case, Mavis Staples, Calexico) ★★★★

Acclaimed Chicago indie rock label (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Ty Segall, Bill Callahan) ★★★★

Seminal techno & ambient label based in the Kompakt record shop in Cologne. (Gas, Michael Mayer, Wolfgang Voigt, The Field) ★★★★

"Bureau B releases past and future classics unearthed from genres incl. electronica, avant-garde, post-rock, neo-classical and krautrock." (Ulrich Schnauss, Faust, Roedilius, Cluster, Eno) ★★★★

Influential and prolific LA cross-genre label (Knxwledge, Green-house, Sam Gendel) ★★★★

Beloved UK electronic label (Flying Lotus, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never) ★★★★

Beloved London electro label (Tycho, Modeselektor, Little Dragon) ★★★★

Essential electronic label, based in London. (Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure, Goldfrapp) ★★★★

Munich electronic label founded 1994 (Moodyman, Laurent Garnier, Kruder&Dorfmeister) ★★★

LA electronic label (Daedalus, Snakefoot) ★★★

Essential alt hip hop label, based in Los Angeles (J Dilla, MadVillian, Knxwledge, Georgia Ann Muldrow, mndsgn, Sudan Archives) ★★★★

Iconic underground hip hop label founded in New York City in 1994. (Madlib, Kool Keith, Akrobatik, Mr. Lif, Daedalus) ★★★★

leading indie hip hop label, based in Tucson, AZ (Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kool Keith, The Perceptionists) ★★★★

alt-hiphop label spun off from Warp Records (Prefuse 73, MF Doom, BadBadNotGood) ★★★

Hip-hop label from Mainz, Germany ★★★

NY/Dallas indie rap label ★★★

Brooklyn hip-hop and other genres (MF Doom, Pete Rock, J Dilla)

"Label, think tank, network and home for producers and beatmakers who believe in their craft and vision."

Seminal ambient label (Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell) ★★★★

ambient label from Brighton, UK ★★★

Ambient/instrumental label from Brighton, UK ★★★

Dutch ambient/electronic label ★★★

French ambient/experimental record label/book publisher ★★★

electronic/ambient imprint of the UK-based label Young, whose roster includes The XX, FKA twigs and Kamasi Washington. ★★★

electronic / ambient / avant garde label founded in 1994 by Tony Morley, 4AD's press officer. ★★★

Japanese indie label releasing electronic, ambient and new age music ★★★

UK alt-pop label (CocoRosie, Courtney Barnett) ★★★★

Legendary British altpop label founded in 1980 (Cocteau Twins, Big Thief, The National) ★★★★

David Byrne's label (Pharaoh Sanders, Nouvelle Vague ★★★★

Hamburg indie music ★★★

German alt-pop/psychedelic label. Grew out of fanzine of the same name ★★★

off-beat French pop label (Yann Tiersen) ★★★

Finnish-language alt-pop from Finland ★★★

French alt-pop label ★★★

Boundary-defying Chicago label focused on jazz and its offshoots ★★★★

Prominent NYC label releasing contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz and cross-genre music. ★★★★

German label releasing jazz, experimental, classical and cross-genre music (Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny) ★★★★

Iconic NYC jazz label ★★★★

NYC jazz label (Dave Douglass) ★★★

classic Jazz imprint released many early records by John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, etc. Now releasing a trickle of re-issues and new jazz artists. Subsidiary of UMG & Verve. ★★★

NYC label releasing new + reissued avant garde jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders) ★★★

UK label "home to jazz, funk and global sounds - past, present and future" ★★★

Celebrated boundary-crossing NYC "indie classical" label. "We support the projects and careers of ground-breaking post-genre composers and performers" ★★★★

classical and contemporary label founded in 1984; spun off from ECM Records. (Steve Reich, Arv Pärt, Keith Jarrett, John Cage) ★★★

Leading US classical label, based in Baton Rouge, LA. Founded in 1976. ★★★

Belgian classical label ★★★

NY avant-garde/contemporary classical label founded by three founders of the Bang on a Can Festival ★★★

Swiss classical label ★★★

French classical label founded by the late Michael Bernstein, now owned by the Belgian classical/jazz label umbrella known as Outhere ★★★

Italian classical label ★★★

LA label releasing in a variety of genres including jazz, r&b, soul and hip hop (BADBADNOTGOOD, Holy Fuck, Allah-Lahs) ★★★★

Old school soul label based in Loveland Ohio, where it operates out of the Plaid Room record store. ★★★★

Seminal Los Angeles label founded by Flying Lotus. Releasing many important artists at intersections of jazz, hip hop, r&b and funk. (Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Teebs, Kamasi Washington, Daedalus) ★★★★

Portland electronic/r&b label (mndsgn) ★★★

Nashville country/r&b label (CeeLo Green) ★★★

Brighton, UK label/club night. Defining its sound as "jazzbreakshiphopsoulfunkbeatsounds" ★★★

jazz/r&b/etc. record label from London, UK. ★★★

Los Angeles alt-R&B label (Gramatik) ★★★

Leading metal label (Boris, Sunn O)))) ★★★

Manchester UK label "releasing the finest riffs from the UK heavy underground." ★★★

metal/heavy rock label from San Ramon, CA ★★★

Leading indie metal label, based in Upper Darby, PA. "30 years of contaminating the masses!" ★★★

UK punk & garage label (Billy Childish, Holly Golightly, Johnny Moped) ★★★

Punk/hardcore label based in East Hackney, London ★★★

Richmond, VA indie rock/punk label ★★★

San Francisco punk label founded by Fat Mike of NOFX ★★★

Leading experimental label (Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke, Oneohtrix Point Never) ★★★★

Berlin experimental label (Thurston Moore, Bill Laswell, Iannis Xenakis) ★★★

NYC experimental/noise label. Operated a record store in the East Village 2006-11 (Merzbow) ★★★

UK cross genre label (Merzbow, Harold Budd, Thurston Moore) ★★★

NYC label releasing lost 80's synth and new wave music ★★★

French reissue label "focused on rare global pop and folk music from the early 1950's to the late 1980's." ★★★

UK label specializing in jazz/funk/world crate digger reisisue compilations. Released J Dilla's first record, Welcome 2 Detroit, in 2001. ★★★

Edinburgh reissuer of rare soul, r&b releases ★★★

London label releasing eclectic compilations, world artists. co-founded by Damon Albarn of Blur. Record store of same name was founded in London in 1974. ★★★★

London-based label featuring experimental music from around Asia. "a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music." ★★★

"home for harmony and dissonance, classic and eccentric jazz, experimental music, space age pop, noise, bop, beat poetry, & outsider music!" ★★★

Rock/electronic/other label from Romainville, France. "Send us love and money." ★★★

Seminal ambient label (Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell) ★★★★

Essential indie rock label founded in a record shop in London in 1976 (Parquet Courts, ANOHNI, black midi) ★★★★

Leading indie rock label, based in London (my bloody valentine, Stephen Malkmus, Dan Deacon) ★★★★

Influential British indie label releasing music across pop, rock, hip hop and r&b (FKA Twigs, Sigur Rós, Thom Yorke, The xx) ★★★★

Celebrated boundary-crossing NYC "indie classical" label. "We support the projects and careers of ground-breaking post-genre composers and performers" ★★★★

Prominent NYC label releasing contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz and cross-genre music. ★★★★

Iconic underground hip hop label founded in New York City in 1994. (Madlib, Kool Keith, Akrobatik, Mr. Lif, Daedalus) ★★★★

Leading NYC indie rock/avant rock label. Partners with Knitting Factory Records. (Fela Kuti, The Black Angels, Craig Finn, Mercury Rev) ★★★★

Seminal techno & ambient label based in the Kompakt record shop in Cologne. (Gas, Michael Mayer, Wolfgang Voigt, The Field) ★★★★

"Bureau B releases past and future classics unearthed from genres incl. electronica, avant-garde, post-rock, neo-classical and krautrock." (Ulrich Schnauss, Faust, Roedilius, Cluster, Eno) ★★★★

Munich electronic label founded 1994 (Moodyman, Laurent Garnier, Kruder&Dorfmeister) ★★★

Hip-hop label from Mainz, Germany ★★★

Rock/electronic/other label from Romainville, France. "Send us love and money." ★★★

French ambient/experimental record label/book publisher ★★★

off-beat French pop label (Yann Tiersen) ★★★

French alt-pop label ★★★

LA label releasing in a variety of genres including jazz, r&b, soul and hip hop (BADBADNOTGOOD, Holy Fuck, Allah-Lahs) ★★★★

Essential alt hip hop label, based in Los Angeles (J Dilla, MadVillian, Knxwledge, Georgia Ann Muldrow, mndsgn, Sudan Archives) ★★★★

Seminal Los Angeles label founded by Flying Lotus. Releasing many important artists at intersections of jazz, hip hop, r&b and funk. (Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Teebs, Kamasi Washington, Daedalus) ★★★★

Influential and prolific LA cross-genre label (Knxwledge, Green-house, Sam Gendel) ★★★★