Ninth Street Opus

Ninth Street Opus
Founded	2008 (2008)
Founder	Wayne Skeen
Genre	Alternative, Americana, country, folk, hip hop, indie, pop, rock
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	Berkeley, California
Official website	www.ninthstreetopus.com

Ninth Street Opus is an independent record label in Berkeley, California. Founded in 2008 by producer Wayne Skeen, Opus is a genre-agnostic label, with recordings that focus on artists with strong live musical performances.^[1] Their catalog’s recordings have dipped into folk, country, rock, jazz and alternative rock music genres. Opus offers management, tour support, Internet and traditional marketing and promotion, long term career and fan building and publishing.

The artist roster has seen steady growth since the label's start (see complete discography). The first band to sign on to Ninth Street Opus in 2008 was Blame Sally. Their first album with the label, Night of 1000 Stars, was released in May 2009.^[2] Shortly thereafter, Opus released Carrie Rodriguez’ Love and Circumstance which remained in the top three on Billboard's Americana Charts for over six weeks. In the winter of 2010, Opus released Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion's album Bright Examples, produced by Andy Cabic and Thom Mohanan of Vetiver and includes artists such as Gary Louris and Mark Olson of The Jayhawks.

Along with long term “label artists”, Opus also works on projects on an individual basis. These projects have included recordings with young artists looking for a professional album to tour with, side projects of signed artists and longer termed series projects with various artists.

Opus Studios, also located in the Ocean View district of West Berkeley, has a 48 channel mixer and a plethora of instruments including a grand piano, vintage mics, a Hammond B3 and harmonium available for recording artists to use. The studio includes a glass vocal booth, control room and large tracking room so full bands can record together live.

Chief engineer/studio manager is Dave Luke.^[3]

Along with founder, Wayne Skeen, in-house producers include San Francisco duo, The Rondo Brothers. The Rondo Brothers,^[4] Jim Greer and Brandon Arnovick, formally joined the Opus team after producing the first recordings of Rondo Sessions with The Kin.^[5]

• Blame Sally
• Carrie Rodriguez
• Cyndi Harvell
• Diego's Umbrella
• Forrest Day
• Greylag
• The Real Nasty
• Rondo Brothers
• The Roseline
• Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion

• Annie Bacon & her OSHEN
• Felsen
• The Pam and Jeri Show
• U.S. Elevator
• Angelo Moore

Year	Title	Artist
2009	Night of 1000 Stars	Blame Sally
2009	Corner of the World	Luce
2009	Paper City	The Real Nasty
2009	There is No Reason Here (There is only a persistent feeling that we ought to look closely and love deeply	Annie Bacon & her OSHEN
2009	The Pam and Jeri Show	The Pam and Jeri Show
2010	The Year We’ll Have	Luce
2010	Love and Circumstance	Carrie Rodriguez
2010	Felsen Loves You	Felsen
2010	Live at Stern Grove Festival	Blame Sally
2010	From the Echo	Cyndi Harvell
2010	Bright Examples (EP)	Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
2010	The Kin Rondo Sessions EP (US)	The Kin
2010	The Kin Rondo Sessions EP (UK)	The Kin
2010	The Kin Rondo Sessions EP (Japan)	The Kin
2010	Strangers and Friends	The Real Nasty
2011	We Still Love Our Country	Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle
2011	Bright Examples- (full length LP)	Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
2011	Richardson EP	Diego's Umbrella
2011	Forrest Day	Forrest Day
2011	Speeding Ticket and a Valentine	Blame Sally
2011	Dirty Dollars	The Real Nasty
2012	U.S. Elevator EP	U.S. Elevator
2012	The Only Way to Kill You EP	Greylag
2012	Vast as Sky	The Roseline
2012	Moons & Junes	U.S. Elevator
2012	Brand New Step	Angelo Moore
2012	Proper Cowboy	Diego's Umbrella
2012	Handsome Sea	U.S. Elevator
2013	Give Me All You Got	Carrie Rodriguez

• http://ninthstreetopus.com