True Panther Sounds

True Panther Sounds
Parent company	Matador Records (since 2009)
Founded	2004
Founder	Dean Bein Molly Samuel Avi Klein
Distributor(s)	Beggars Group (selected releases)
Country of origin	United States of America
Location	New York City
Official website	http://www.truepanther.com/

True Panther Sounds (TPS) is a New York City-based record label run by Dean Bein, and owned by Matador Records. Artists released by the label represent many genres, including notable acts such as Girls, King Krule, Tobias Jesso Jr., Shlohmo and Glasser.

True Panther was started in 2004 by Dean Bein, Molly Samuel and Avi Klein to put out a tour-only 7" by Bein and Samuel's band Red Tape Apocalypse. The label moved with Bein from San Francisco to New York and continued to put out records from bands using a one-to-one project style, "putting money into something, praying it would sell enough to put out something else," as Bein explained in a recent interview with Microphone Memory Emotion.

An early success to come from TPS was the debut album from San Francisco-based band Girls. The album was a joint venture between Matador and True Panther and became one of the most talked about indie albums of 2009, receiving critical praise from Pitchfork Media and The New York Times.

A post on the Matador Records blog by founding partner Gerard Cosloy on November 4, 2009, stated, "After months of speculation (much of it in our own corridors), we can happily announce that Matador Records has purchased the True Panther Sounds label." This news ended rumors that Matador owned all or a percentage of True Panther. Cosloy went on to confirm that True Panther's future releases will be worked through the Matador marketing and promotion team.

True Panther Sounds has released the following records:

1) http://microphonememoryemotion.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/monday-exclusive-dean-bein/
2) http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/
3) http://www.truepanther.com/release
4) http://www.myspace.com/truepanthersounds

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