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INTERSCOPE LAYS OFF 75 STAFFERS TODAY -- That's the unconfirmed report we're getting - very quietly, 75 folks in various departments were handed pink slips. Not good.

ARTISTS WE'VE FEATURED PRIOR TO THEIR SIGNING:

Rebecca Jordan (pub) -- Imagem
Brian Wright -- Sugar Hill
Chloe Leighton -- Beluga Heights/WB
Sonia Leigh -- Southern Ground Artists
Oh Land -- Epic
Simon Lynge -- Lo-Max (ex-U.S.)
Neon Hitch -- EMI (Pub) / Warner Bros.
Amazing Baby -- Shangri-La
Castaneda -- Songs Music Publishing (pub only)
The Hampdens -- Nettwerk
Stacy Clark -- Shangri-La (and now Vanguard)
Elizabeth & The Catapult -- Verve Forecast
Dommin -- Roadrunner
Meiko -- Lucky Ear/MySpace/DGC
Iglu & Hartly -- Mercury (UK)/Universal Republic (US)/EMI (pub)
Airborne Toxic Event -- Shout! Factory
Miranda Lee Richards -- Nettwerk
Brendan James -- Decca
A Fine Frenzy -- Warner Chappell (pub)
Ingrid Michaelson -- Cabin 24/Original Signal/RED
Colorforms (now Obi Best)-- Orphan (now Social Science)
Kate Walsh -- Verve (US)/Mercury (UK)
Andrew Paul Woodworth -- Rodeostar
Jessie Baylin -- Verve Forecast
Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies -- Breakout Music
Five Finger Death Punch -- The Firm
Never Heard Of It -- Virgin

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We "get it".

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Friday, January 23, 2009