This is your label.

I've written and released more than fifty songs as Neon\\Haven. I love it more than almost anything. And for most of those songs, I had no idea what I was doing once the music was finished.

Not the making part. The making part is the good bit. I mean everything after. Which distributor. What a split sheet is. Why my name showed up on someone else's artist profile. Whether the person in my DMs promising thousands of listens was real. (He wasn't. I'll tell you about that one in another post.)

I kept thinking: there should be a label for people like me. Not a label that signs you and takes half. A label that just does the hard, boring, confusing parts, tells you exactly what it costs, and then gets out of the way.

So that's what this is.

What "your label" means

When you release with us, your song goes out on Blackout Room Records. You can say you're on a label. You are. We think that's pretty cool, and you should too.

But here's the bit I need you to hear: you own 100% of your music. You keep 100% of your royalties. We collect every cent the stores pay and send 100% of it to you every month, with a statement. That's in the contract, in plain English, clause 7.

We charge a fee for the work, shown up front, in Australian dollars, before you pay anything. That's it. That's the whole business.

Why bother

Because I wish I'd known everything a label could do for me when I just wanted to put my music out into the world. Because it's not about profit when you're doing what you love. And because the song you made at 1am deserves better than sitting on your phone.

Send it. Whatever it is, however you made it. You'll hear back from a real person either way.