The Rise of Daptone Records

Daptone Records and its pointman, Gabriel Roth, were the focus of a Times magazine piece this past weekend. Roth is pretty pompous and elitist about music ("purist" is too soft a term) but he's making something good. The story also serves to point out that the tried and true tribulations of all the great record labels will probably strike Daptone sooner or later and we may have to talk about the Fall of Daptone Records someday.