[1] Fenway began as a management company and an independent record label, signing and releasing records by artists including Read Yellow, State Radio, Consonant (Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley’s other band), The Kickovers (the first act to sign, with former Mighty Mighty Bosstones member Nate Albert and ex-Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh), The Love Scene, Longwave, and Unbusted.
Fenway has also released compilations such as the In Our Lifetime series which has featured the artists My Morning Jacket, Ash, Cave In, Ben Kweller, Rival Schools, and Dropkick Murphys.
Kates has also collaborated with Red Sox GM Theo Epstein and Peter Gammons' bi-annual concert event Hot Stove Cool Music, which debuted with a show that featured Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo, Buffalo Tom, Juliana Hatfield, Red Sox stars Bronson Arroyo and Lenny DiNardo and the New York Yankees' Bernie Williams.
The Hot Stove Cool Music compilation featured artists including Pearl Jam, Paul Westerberg, and The Allman Brothers Band.
The Sessions eventually moved to Great Scott in Allston and have featured The Cribs, Hard-Fi, Echo & The Bunnymen, Kate Nash, Freelance Whales, The Magic Numbers, Arab Strap, The Subways, The Twenty Twos, Editors, Wolfmother, White Lies, Juliana Hatfield & Evan Dando, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, and many more.