679 Artists is a Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

-owned record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 based in London

London

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, England.

Started by Nick Worthington who after leaving XL Recordings

XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label owned by Richard Russell. It originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records.Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire...

 in 2001 started the company with Warner Music, and holds the position of MD and A&R Director. It is named "679" as this was the address of the Pure Groove shop on Holloway Road.

The label's first release was The Streets

The Streets

The Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...

' debut, Original Pirate Material

Original Pirate Material

Original Pirate Material is the debut album by the English rapper and producer Mike Skinner, under the name The Streets.The album is a unique take on UK garage and lyrics dealing with everyday circumstances and occurrences...

 (which was named The Observers best album of the 2000s).

The label progressed with subsequent albums from artists including Death From Above 1979

Death from Above 1979

Death from Above 1979 are a Toronto-based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo. Their album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011.-History:...

, The Futureheads

The Futureheads

The Futureheads are an English post-punk band from Sunderland. consisting of Ross Millard , Barry Hyde and David "Jaff" Craig...

, Kano

Kano

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, King Creosote

King Creosote

Kenny Anderson, known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has released over forty albums, with his latest, Thrawn, released in 2011. Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band, The Burns Unit...

 and Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets are an English five-piece indie band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London. The band was formed by Henry Harrison , Blaine Harrison and William Rees when the boys were still at school and would send each other songs on cassettes...

, and also included the million selling second Streets album, A Grand Don't Come for Free

A Grand Don't Come for Free

A Grand Don't Come for Free is the second studio album from British garage and Hip hop act The Streets. It was released on 18 May 2004 and is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...

.

Current artists

• Little Boots
  Little Boots
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• Marina and the Diamonds
• Plan B
• Siren Sirens
• Spark
  Spark (singer)
  Jess Morgan , better known by her stage name Spark, is an English singer-songwriter from London.-Life and career:Spark was born in Fazakerley, Liverpool, England, and grew up in Walthamstow, London. At the age of twelve, she learned how to play the guitar and started writing her own music. She grew...
  
  
• The Streets
  The Streets
  The Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...
  
  
• Benny Banks

Former artists

• Annie
• Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands are an indie pop band from New Zealand influenced largely by post punk and indie pop groups such as The Smiths, Gang of Four, Orange Juice, Talking Heads, as well as NZ post-punk of The Mint Chicks and This Night Creeps...
  
  
• Dead Disco
  Dead Disco
  Dead Disco were an English electronic/indie pop musical group formed in 2005 by Lucy Catherwood, Marie France and Victoria Hesketh .-Biography:The trio met in August 2005 at the University of Leeds...
  
  
• Death from Above 1979
  Death from Above 1979
  Death from Above 1979 are a Toronto-based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo. Their album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was released in late 2004. The band broke up in 2006, but announced a reunion in 2011.-History:...
  
  
• M. Craft
  Martin Craft
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• King Creosote
  King Creosote
  Kenny Anderson, known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has released over forty albums, with his latest, Thrawn, released in 2011. Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band, The Burns Unit...
  
  
• The Earlies
  The Earlies
  The Earlies are a band formed by Christian Madden and Giles Hatton from Lancashire, England, and Brandon Carr and John Mark Lapham from the United States...
  
  
• The Futureheads
  The Futureheads
  The Futureheads are an English post-punk band from Sunderland. consisting of Ross Millard , Barry Hyde and David "Jaff" Craig...
  
  
• Kano
  Kano (rapper)
  Kane Brett Robinson , better known as Kano and also known as Kane O, is an English rapper and actor. His grandparents came to England as immigrants from Jamaica. He was formerly a key member of east London’s N.A.S.T.Y...
  
  
• MSTRKRFT
  MSTRKRFT
  MSTRKRFT is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, Ontario. The group was started in 2005 by Jesse F. Keeler of Death from Above 1979 and Al-P formerly of the Mississauga, Ontario electropop group Girlsareshort...
  
  
• Mystery Jets
  Mystery Jets
  Mystery Jets are an English five-piece indie band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London. The band was formed by Henry Harrison , Blaine Harrison and William Rees when the boys were still at school and would send each other songs on cassettes...
  
  
• The Polyphonic Spree
  The Polyphonic Spree
  The Polyphonic Spree is a choral symphonic pop rock band from Dallas, Texas that was formed in 2000 by Tim DeLaughter. The band's sound relies on a variety of vocal and instrumental color by featuring a choir, flute, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano, guitars, bass, drums,...
  
  
• The Rifles
  The Rifles (band)
  The Rifles are an English indie rock band from Chingford, London.Their debut album No Love Lost was released on 17 July 2006 and reached #26 in the UK charts...
  
  
• Run the Road
  Run the Road
  Run the Road is a series of compilations released on 679 Recordings and Vice. It is intended to showcase a wide variety of grime artists from the genre such as Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Kano.-Run the Road's Musical Implications:...
  
  
• The Secret Handshake
  The Secret Handshake
  The Secret Handshake is the electronica/soul musical project of self-taught musician Luis Dubuc. Dubuc sings and plays all instruments on the band's studio albums, including guitar, synthesizer, piano, percussion, and sound effects which he creates on his computer.He has a new musical project, a...
  
  
• Secret Machines
• The Stills
  The Stills
  The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...
  
  
• The Webb Brothers
  The Webb Brothers
  The Webb Brothers are a rock band from Chicago, Illinois, who formed in 1998.-History:The Webb Brothers are Christiaan, Justin and James Webb, sons of the songwriter Jimmy Webb and Patsy Sullivan, a cover girl and top model. They are grandsons of actor Barry Sullivan. Christiaan and Justin attended...
  
  
• We Smoke Fags