Reblogging a couple of useful search tips and operators I came across via http://twitter.com/haynes_dave

My top Spotify tip: put a - before a term to do a NOT search, eg “band:u2 -year:1988-2009″ brings up all U2 before 1988. (via @mr_trick)

And to search for record labels use:

label:labelname

Alphabetical list of record labels on Spotify (Google Spreadsheet)