Last Gang Records is a record label formed by Canadian music industry lawyer Chris Taylor and concert promoter Donald K. Tarlton in the fall of 2003 at the Pop Montreal Music Festival. Last Gang was nominated as Independent Record Label of the Year at the Canadian Music Awards in 2006. It was acquired by Entertainment One in March 2016, with Taylor being appointed the new president of eOne Music, now MNRK Music Group.

Last Gang Publishing

Founded in 2006, Last Gang Publishing is a music publishing company with primary operations based in Toronto, Canada, and Los Angeles, USA. Last Gang Publishing represents both external clients, such as Dubmatix, Egyptrixx, and Hiawatha, and internal Last Gang Records recording artists, such as Mother Mother, Silver Starling, and O'Luge.

Artists

Last Gang Records has released albums by: • Arkells • Bang Lime • Bear Mountain • Billy Talent • Boys Noize • Chromeo • Crystal Castles • Dark Horses • Death from Above • Dirty Ghosts • Emay • Egyptrixx • Electric Youth • Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton • Fan Death • Femme Fatale • From Fiction • Fur Trade • Sebastien Grainger • Ryan Hemsworth • Hiawatha • Hot As Sun • Huoratron • The Jealous Girlfriends • Kay • The Kickdrums • K-OS • Leisure Cruise • Let's Go To War • Lights • Loving • Magneta Lane • Metric • The Meligrove Band • Mixhell • Modern Superstitions • Moon King • Mother Mother • MSTRKRFT • The New Pornographers • AC Newman • Nightbox • Noble Oak • O'Luge • Ohbijou • Operators • Lindi Ortega • Panurge • Purity Ring • PVT • Rush Midnight • San Sebastian • Silver Starling • Slan • Standish / Carlyon • Stars • Mark Sultan • Terry Lynn • Ten Kens • Tiga • Tizzy Gang • Tricky Woo • The Two Koreas • We Are Enfant Terrible • Wolf & Cub

Gold and Platinum Certifications

Metric Old World Underground: Where Are You Now? Death From Above, 1979 You're A woman; I'm A Machine Metric Live It Out Metric Fantasies

Awards and nominations

Juno Awards

Polaris Music Prize

The Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit. Last Gang Records has had three albums make the short list and 11 nominations on the long list.