Factory Records founder starts new label

Factory Records founder starts new label: "British music entrepreneur Tony Wilson, whose noted and notorious post-punk indie label Factory Records was the subject of the 2002 feature '24 Hour Party People,' has started up a new imprint, F4 Records. Based in Manchester, England, F4 is launching with the Jan. 31 release of 'Where We Live,' a single by the local hip-hop/garage collective Raw-T. An album from the group, 'Realise and Witness,' will be issued in March. Pinnacle is distributing F4 in the United Kingdom. F4 is also mounting a download site with Pinnacle, with initial Web-only offerings by guitarist Vini Reilly (of the original Factory group the Durutti Column) and the Manchester group Young Offenders Institute."