Is Metalabel, From the Former CEO of Kickstarter, the Cure for the Ills of the Creator Economy? | Artnet News

We’re very inspired by Factory Records, the Manchester-based label that put out New Order and Happy Mondays and Joy Division. Twenty-four Hour Party People was about Factory Records. In their catalog is release number 51, which is the Hacienda nightclub. The idea of a record label dropping a club as one of its releases, and it’s in their catalog be... See more

This will be Metalabel’s ninth release, called Advance Pool. This is going to be a $100,000 regenerating fund of money that will be open for anyone creating a collaborative creative project to apply to. By receiving an advance, you agree that you will release that work through Metalabel. And then, once your work goes live, the revenues from that wo... See more

It was while reading a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad, about the history of punk and hardcore—which is a world I’ve also come from—that I started to think about the label format, especially the indie label format, as a really nice analogue. Because there’s this beautiful moment of all these great indie labels where they ... See more