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Jan 21, 2026 14 min

Record Labels Aren’t Evil—They’re Just Optional Now

from Making a Scene Presents Hosted by Richard LHommedieu

Making a Scene Presents - Record Labels Aren’t Evil—They’re Just Optional Now For most of modern music history, record labels were not just powerful. They were necessary. If you wanted to record, distribute, promote, or even be taken seriously, you needed a label. That reality shaped everything artists were taught to believe about success. Get signed. Give up control. Hope for the best. But here is the truth nobody in the industry likes to say out loud anymore. Record labels did not suddenly become bad. They simply stopped being mandatory. http://www.makingascene.org

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