Manimal Vinyl

Manimal Vinyl is a Los Angeles-based record label founded in 2006 by film/TV producer, composer and former fashion editor Paul Beahan. The label was started out of Beahan's living room in late 2006 in the historical Hancock Park neighborhood in central Hollywood. They released debut albums from Bat for Lashes, Warpaint and many other exclusive releases from avant-garde pop artists ranging from Yoko Ono, Moby, Duran Duran, Carla Bruni, IC3PEAK, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Devendra Banhart, Asia Argento and more. Manimal has also hosted all-star tribute albums to Madonna, The Cure, David Bowie and Duran Duran with all the tributees involvement. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 Manimal hosted three medium scale music festivals in Joshua Tree, California at the world-famous Pappy & Harriet's venue. Line-ups mostly included the labels artists, alumni and friends. In 2012 Manimal created a distribution, marketing and publicity branch and has non-exclusively partnered on campaigns with The Orchard, Warner Bros. Records, ATP and more. The label still operates with a large back catalog but has now expanded into film distribution and live events at its headquarters split between Calabasas and Malibu, California.