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Upbeat Records

independent record label that releases the work of Cake

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ7898196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Upbeat Records is an independent record label that releases the work of Cake.

History

Originally, Columbia Records requested that Cake release a greatest hits compilation, but the band promptly refused. During the legal fall-out, Cake formed its own record label and released B-Sides and Rarities.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Upbeat Records” as independent record label that releases the work of Cake. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Upbeat, Records and independent.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Upbeat, Records and independent providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Upbeat Records” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.