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US label. Label Code: LC 7181/ LC 07181 Originally founded as Def American Recordings in 1988 by Rick Rubin as a label for hip-hop and metal acts, although it has a very eclectic range. In 1993, it was renamed American Recordings. It has gone through many distributors since its founding, including Warner Bros. Records, BMG (Europe), Island Def Jam Music Group and now Sony Music Entertainment… Read more
since Rick Rubin was hired as co-president of Sony Music's Columbia Records in 2007. In 2012, Rick Rubin, upon his exit from Sony Music Entertainment, signed a new deal with Universal Republic Records (Universal Republic later changed its name to Republic Records) for a new incarnation of American. The first albums to be released under this new deal were ZZ Top's La Futura and The Avett Brothers' The Carpenter1 releases · 1993–1993
Sub-labels: Wild West Records, Ill Labels, Infinite Zero, WHTE LBLS, Rhyme Cartel Records, American Visuals, The American Recordings, Onion Records
