[2][3] The label promotes a variety of music artists including Ages and Ages,[4] Ash Black Bufflo, Cuong Vu,[5] Graham Haynes,[6] Femi Kuti, Gary Lucas,[7] Lumerians, Thomas Chapin,[1] Patrolled By Radar, Joe Morris,[8] Rachid Taha, Seun Kuti, and Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers.

[10] In 2008, while working as the Night Manager for The Knitting Factory venue at their Leonard St. location in Manhattan, Tim Putnam was approached by Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis to form a strategic partnership with Partisan Records.

Together they've reissued the Fela Kuti catalogue and revived the Knitting Factory Records label.

[11] With the Partisan Records team behind it,[12] KFR has released six albums from Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti in January 2011.

[3] The label released the entire catalogue of Kuti's Universal-controlled music in North America from 2009 to 2011.