

"Bone sues Capricorn, Walden over label sale". ^ "Q Prime Pair Buy Half Of Volcano From Zomba".^ "Tool Engaged In Legal Battle With Record Label"."Labels ring in new year with executive shuffling A&M warms to Ice Cube" Billboard 110:4 (24 January 1998) "Local Label in Zomba Spin, Freeworld Founder Shy's Future in Doubt".

It contains tools for weather education, including weather games, activities, experiments, photos, a glossary and educational teaching materials for the classroom. "Zoo Acquired by Start-Up Volcano Firm Also Launches Hip-Hop Imprint" Billboard 108:34 (24 August 1996) Weather Wiz Kids is a fun and safe website for kids about all the weather info they need to know. National Association of Record Industry Professionals. Tool released its contract fulfillment album for Volcano, Fear Inoculum, on August 30, 2019, completing their five-album requirement. With Yankovic fulfilling his Sony contract on their main label RCA, with his 2014 album Mandatory Fun, Volcano functions primarily as a reissue label. Records, Capricorn Records (later) and Zoo Entertainment catalogs. In 2002, Zomba was purchased by BMG, returning Volcano to the BMG umbrella it had previously been a part of as Zoo Entertainment in the early nineties. Volcano also purchased Capricorn Records in December 2000. Records which had just been purchased by Pearson PLC. They would sell their share back to Zomba in the early 2000s.ġ998 also marked the year that Volcano acquired the contracts and masters of Scotti Bros. A month later, Q Prime, led by top managers Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch, purchased a 50% stake in Volcano and made sure that hard-rock artist Tool would stay. Though the Zoo branding was briefly reintroduced, Zomba quickly returned the Volcano moniker, abandoning Zoo altogether. In the spring of 1998, Freeworld was purchased and "saved" by the Zomba Label Group. Additionally, the label's flagship artist Tool was attempting to leave the label which resulted in a lengthy lawsuit. Many of the label's employees were either cut or left. Freeworld was short-lived, as the label was plagued with financial trouble and the relationship with Austin faltered. In October 1997, Volcano merged with Dallas Austin's Rowdy Records to become Freeworld Entertainment. However, the Zoo name was eventually phased out and many of Zoo artists became the cornerstone of the Volcano roster. The first album released with the new ownership was flagship Zoo artist Tool's album Ænima followed by actor Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar's album Our Little Visionary. Initially, the company was meant to have two divisions Zoo/Volcano and Volcano which would be a hip-hop imprint. It is essentially the continuation of Zoo Entertainment which Czinger bought from BMG in 1996. Volcano Records was founded in 1996 by Kevin Czinger.
