Company 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, [1] [2] Cooking Vinyl Australia works with a variety of international and domestic label partners.
Australian artists and bands signed directly to Cooking Vinyl Australia include Ceres, CIVIC, Eliza & The Delusionals, Emma Donovan, Fanny Lumsden, High Tension, Jebediah, King Stingray, Luca Brasi, STUMPS, Tyler Richardson and Windwaker.
After working together at Shock records, [2] 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. [3] [4]
In 2018, Cooking Vinyl Australia partnered with Sony Music Australia with Sony making "a significant investment" in the Indie label. [5] [6] 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" [5] - Leigh Gruppetta, The Music Network, 2018
In November 2022, Cooking Vinyl Australia signed Melbourne/Naarm based band CIVIC and announced the release of their latest album Taken By Force (released February 2023). [7]
In September 2023, it was announced that Cooking Vinyl Australia had signed Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah. [8]
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:
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The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Fanny Lumsden Hey Dawn | Best Country Album | Won | [9] [10] |
2023 | Parkway Drive Darker Still | Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album | Won | [9] [10] |
Best Group | Nominated | |||
2023 | King Stingray Lookin' Out - Sam Brumby | Best Video | Nominated | [9] [10] |
2023 | King Stingray That's Where I Wanna Be Tour | Best Australian Live Act | Nominated | [9] [10] |
2022 | Emma Donovan Under These Streets (with the Putbacks) | Best Soul/R&B Release | Nominated | [11] |
2022 | King Stingray King Stingray | Album of the Year | Nominated | [11] |
Best Group | Nominated | |||
Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist | Won | |||
Best Rock Album | Nominated | |||
2022 | King Stingray Kayla Flett, Gabi Coulthurst & Dimathaya Burarrwanga for King Stingray | Best Cover Art | Nominated | [11] |
2020 | Parkway Drive Viva the Underdogs | Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album | Nominated | [12] [13] |
2020 | Fanny Lumsden Fallow | Best Country Album | Won | [12] [13] |
2018 | Fanny Lumsden Real Class Act | Best Country Album | Nominated | [14] |
2018 | Parkway Drive Reverence | Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album | Won | [15] |
2018 | Luca Brasi Stay | ARIA Award for Best Rock Album | Nominated | [16] |
2018 | Parkway Drive Reverence | Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album | Won | [17] |
2016 | Parkway Drive Ire | Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album | Nominated | [18] |
2016 | Fanny Lumsden Small Town Big Shot | Best Country Album | Nominated | [19] |
2010 | Parkway Drive Deep Blue | Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album | Won | [20] |
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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2023 | Parkway Drive Darker Still | |||
Best Independent Heavy Album or EP | Nominated | [21] | ||
2023 | King Stingray | |||
Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year - Presented by PPCA | Nominated | [22] | ||
2023 | King Stingray CAMP DOG | |||
Independent Song of the Year | Nominated | [23] | ||
2023 | King Stingray KING STINGRAY | Best Independent Rock Album or EP | Nominated | [24] |
Independent Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
2022 | King Stingray Get Me Out | Independent Song of the Year | Nominated | [25] [26] |
2022 | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Under These Streets | Best Independent Soul/R&B Album or EP | Won | [27] |
2021 | Emma Donovan Crossover | Independent Album of the Year | Nominated | [28] [29] |
Best Independent Soul/R&B Album or EP | Won | |||
2021 | Fanny Lumsden Fallow | Independent Album of the Year | Nominated | [28] [29] |
Best Independent Country Album or EP | Won | |||
2021 | Parkway Drive Viva the Underdogs | Best Independent Heavy Album or EP | Nominated | [28] [29] |
2019 | High Tension Purge | Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album | Nominated | |
2018 | Fanny Lumsden Real Class Act | Best Country Album | Won | [30] |
2017 | Luca Brasi If This Is All We're Going to Be | Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album | Nominated | [31] [32] |
2013 | Parkway Drive Atlas | Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album | Nominated | [33] |
2010 | Parkway Drive Deep Blue | Won | [34] [32] |
The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J and which are judged by the music and on-air teams from radio stations Triple J, Triple J Unearthed and Double J [35] The awards are given in an on-air ceremony held in November each year as part of triple j's AusMusic Month.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | King Stingray | |||
Triple j Australian Live Act of the Year | Nominated | [36] | ||
2023 | Polaris Fatalism' | |||
Australian Album of the Year | Nominated | [37] | ||
2022 | Eliza & The Delusionals Now and Then' | |||
Australian Album of the Year | Nominated | [38] | ||
2022 | King Stingray KING STINGRAY | Australian Album of the Year | Nominated | [39] |
Double J Artist of the Year | Nominated | [40] | ||
2021 | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks | |||
Double J Artist of the Year | Nominated | [41] | ||
2021 | King Stingray 'Milkumana (directed by King Stingray and Sam Brumby)' | |||
Australian Video of the Year | Nominated | [42] | ||
2021 | King Stingray 'King Stingray' | |||
Unearthed Artist of the Year | Won | [43] | ||
2015 | Parkway Drive 'Ire' | |||
Australian Album of the Year | Nominated | [44] | ||
2015 | Emma Donovan | |||
Double J Artist of the Year | Nominated | [45] | ||
2014 | Ceres | |||
Unearthed Artist of the Year | Nominated | [46] | ||
2012 | Parkway Drive 'Altas' | Australian Album of the Year | Nominated | [47] |
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