Mom + Pop Music
Mom + Pop Music is a New York City-based independent record label.  Founded by Michael Goldstone in 2008, its roster includes Alicia Keys, Courtney Barnett, Madeon, Tom Morello, Porter Robinson, Tycho, Tash Sultana, Sunflower Bean, Beach Bunny, Caamp, and Del Water Gap.   Goldstone serves as co-president of Mom + Pop Music with Thaddeus Rudd, who joined the label as Goldstone's business partner and co-president in 2009.

On the 10th anniversary of the label's founding, Goldstone said:  "Our ambition for Mom + Pop has been and always will be to build a collaborative label with transparency and sincere respect for our artists’ creative controls."

Initially backed by Q Prime Management owners Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein, Mom + Pop first opened its doors in Times Square, across from the Brill Building. In 2013, the company moved its New York City office to Manhattan's NoMad district, just north of Madison Square Park and the Flatiron Building.  Mom + Pop employs 15 people in its New York City and Los Angeles offices, ranging in responsibilities from A&R to digital marketing and design.

In addition to  Grammy Award-nominee and ARIA Award-winner Barnett, Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave co-founder/guitarist Morello, ARIA Award-winner Sultana, the Mom + Pop Music roster includes, among others,  R&B singer-songwriter Alina Baraz, German-Canadian-English singer-songwriter Alice Merton, Bangladeshi-American producer Jai Wolf, and indie rock trio Sunflower Bean, among others. The label's first two signings were An Horse and Joshua Radin; since then, Mom + Pop Music has signed diverse artists such as Tokyo Police Club, Freelance Whales, Sleigh Bells, Metric, Ingrid Michaelson, Andrew Bird, Lucius, FIDLAR, Poliça, Neon Indian, and Jagwar Ma.

Goldstone and Rudd signed Flume in 2012, followed by Barnett in 2014. Flume went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Electronic Album, and Barnett was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy in 2016. In 2017, Mom + Pop signed Merton, who had independently topped the charts in Germany. In June 2020, Goldstone and Rudd appeared on Billboard's "Indie Power Players" list, an annual list of independent music industry executives "driving artists to chart-topping success outside the major-label machinery."

Artists

Current

Alan Palomo / Neon Indian
Alice Merton
Alicia Keys
Alina Baraz
Ashe
Bayonne
Beach Bunny
Caamp
Courtney Barnett
Del Water Gap
Evann McIntosh
Fidlar
FKJ
Goth Babe
Hinds
Hotel Garuda
Jai Wolf
Lil Nas X (with Columbia Records) also with MGMT
Lucius
Maya Hawke
Madeon
MGMT
Orion Sun
Porter Robinson
Raffaella
Sleater-Kinney
Sunflower Bean
Tash Sultana
Tegan and Sara
Tom Morello
Tycho
underscores

Former

An Horse
Andrew Bird
Animal Kingdom
Cloud Nothings (with Carpark Records)
DMA's
EL EL
Flume
Freelance Whales
Hunters
Ingrid Michaelson
Jagwar Ma
The Jezabels
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Joshua Radin
Kindness
Lady Lamb
Metric
Mikhael Paskalev
MNDR
Poliça
Sleeper Agent
Sleigh Bells
Smith Westerns
Tei Shi
Tired Pony
Tokyo Police Club
White Sea
Wild Cub
Wavves

See also
 List of record labels

References

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2008 establishments in New York City
Alternative rock record labels
American independent record labels
Entertainment companies based in New York City
Record labels based in New York (state)
Record labels established in 2008
Sony Music