If your dream career involves running your own record label, consider today’s episode of Rock it Out! Blog your first stop before you try and sign the next great rock band. Today, Sami brings together Bloodshot Records’ Nan Warshaw, Red Scare Industries’ Tobias Jeg, and Maek Records head Jason Sizer for a roundtable discussion on the in’s and out’s of labels and the necessary steps to becoming the next big label mogul. They also discuss the downsides of being your own boss, how new media’s altered the way labels function, and why, even as more artists manage their own careers and creative destinies, labels still matter to the industry at large.
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