Cooking Vinyl Australia
Type | Independent record label |
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Industry | Music & Entertainment |
Founded | 2013 |
Founder | Stu Harvery
Leigh Gruppetta Michael Goldschmidt |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Owner | Stu Harvey & Leigh Gruppetta |
Website | https://www.cookingvinylaustralia.com/ |
Cooking Vinyl Australia is an independent record label based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2013 by co-managing directors Leigh Gruppetta and Stu Harvey in partnership with Martin Goldschmidt, Cooking Vinyl Australia boasts a diverse roster of artists and works with a variety of international and domestic label partners.
Australian artists and bands signed directly to Cooking Vinyl Australia include Ceres, Eliza & The Delusionals, Emma Donovan, Fanny Lumsden, High Tension, Johnny Hunter, King Stingray, Luca Brasi, STUMPS, Tyler Richardson and Windwaker.
History
After working together at Shock records, Leigh Gruppetta and Stu Harvey founded Cooking Vinyl Australia in 2013, in a partnership with Martin Goldschmidt, the London-based Cooking Vinyl Group Founder & CEO.
In 2016, Cooking Vinyl Australia launched a music publishing division based in Sydney, Australia. Reporting directly to Goldschmidt, Cooking Vinyl Publishing is a standalone company overseen by Matthew Donlevy, the former managing director of Peermusic.
In 2018, Cooking Vinyl Australia partnered with Sony Music Australia with Sony making "a significant investment" in the Indie label. As part of the arrangement, Cooking Vinyl Australia's recordings would be distributed globally through Sony's distributor and label services company The Orchard.
“We are thrilled about what the future holds as we enter this next phase of the business" - Leigh Gruppetta, The Music Network, 2018
In November 2022, Cooking Vinyl Australia signed Melbourne/Naarm based band CIVIC, announcing the release of their forthcoming album Taken By Force, set for release February 2023.
Label Partners
Cooking Vinyl Australia works with a variety of international and domestic label partners to release and promote music in Australia and New Zealand. These include:
- Bargain Bin
- Cooking Vinyl UK
- Dine Alone Records
- Greyscale Records
- Resist Records
- Run For Cover Records
- SideOneDummy Records
- Triple Crown Records
- Thirty Tigers
Artists
Current
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Past
- Boydos
- Calling All Cars
- Elizabeth Fader
- Endless Heights
- Ivan Ooze
- Kate Miller-Heidke
- Mike Noga
- The Chats
- Tracy McNeil & The Goodlife
Awards and nominations
AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2022 | King Stingray Get Me Out | Independent Song of the Year | Nominated | |
2022 | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Under These Streets | Best Independent Soul/R&B Album or EP | Won | |
2021 | Emma Donovan Crossover | Independent Album of the Year | Nominated | |
Best Independent Soul/R&B Album or EP | Won | |||
2021 | Fanny Lumsden Fallow | Independent Album of the Year | Nominated | |
Best Independent Country Album or EP | Won | |||
2021 | Parkway Drive Viva the Underdogs | Best Independent Heavy Album or EP | Nominated | |
2019 | High Tension Purge | Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album | Nominated | |
2018 | Fanny Lumsden Real Class Act | Best Country Album | Won | |
2017 | Luca Brasi If This Is All We're Going to Be | Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album | Nominated | |
2013 | Parkway Drive Atlas | Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album | Nominated | |
2010 | Parkway Drive Deep Blue | Won |
See also
- Cooking Vinyl UK - (UK, 1886 - ); founded by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence in Acton, London, England in 1986.
- List of record labels
- Sony Music Australia - (Australia, 2004 - ); operated by American parent company Sony Music Entertainment
- The Orchard - (USA, 1997 - ); founded by Scott Cohen and Richard Gottehrer in New York City. A subsidiary of Sony Music, the company specialises in media distribution, marketing and sales across music and entertainment.