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Apr 8, 2020 · XL Recordings is now among the world’s most successful independent record companies. Its prize asset is Adele, who was signed on the basis of a four-song demo in 2006.
- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Jun 8, 2012 · In the past 15 years, Richard Russell, the owner of the British independent record company XL Recordings, has shepherded his label to more than its fair share of industry success.
- Jacob Ganz
May 8, 2017 · In the mid-nineties, XL had its first major commercial success, with the Prodigy, a band that adapted the rave sound for the arena-rock stage.
- Matthew Trammell
Sep 9, 2017 · The first big success of the label was surprisingly not the rock record but by all means a 1994's masterpiece — "Music For The Jilted Generation" by The Prodigy.
Apr 11, 2020 · The book – published on April 3rd, the same day XL released Friday Forever, the second LP by Russell’s ad-hoc collective, Everything Is Recorded – largely eschews salacious stories from behind the scenes, and even its autobiographical elements seem to be used primarily as a structural device.
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Apr 3, 2020 · The trajectory of XL Recordings, a beacon in independent music, is largely thanks to the ears of Richard Russell. Over the decades, the British label has studiously inducted fundamental sounds into the zeitgeist.