Downtown Takes The Express Train Away From Warner Music Group
Downtown Records, home of Justice, Santogold, Kid Sister, and many other bands seemingly designed for the blog era’s express-consumption cycle, is moving its distribution from the largely Warner Music Group-owned ADA (with occasional upstreams over to Atlantic) to a deal with the Fonatana distribution arm of Universal Music Group. (The deal beings with the release of this month’s Cold War Kids disc.) Downtown has done well keeping on top of today’s music trends, so whatever avenue gets them the most exposure in retail is clearly in their best interest, but what does this say about WMG, which has seen more than its fair share of artists jumping ship from it these days as well? [Marketwatch]
