WolfandWeather
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I'm currently part of a two-piece alternative rock band and we're gearing up to release our second self-produced EP (our first since our re-branding).
I've been thinking about releasing it on our own independent label, mainly because there's a possibility that I'll be producing works by other artists, creating works as part of a collective, or even moving into other forms of media at some point in the future and it seems like an interesting idea to group all of these different projects together under a kind of umbrella label. I was even thinking about naming the label after our previous band as a way of tying everything together and bridging the gap between our last EP and our new one.
The problem is I have absolutely no idea how to go about starting a record label and I definitely don't want to have to start getting into tax and legal issues. Does a record label have to be a registered, legitimate business or can it be more informal? Can it just be a name I use to associate different projects? Is all of this way too confusing?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks
I've been thinking about releasing it on our own independent label, mainly because there's a possibility that I'll be producing works by other artists, creating works as part of a collective, or even moving into other forms of media at some point in the future and it seems like an interesting idea to group all of these different projects together under a kind of umbrella label. I was even thinking about naming the label after our previous band as a way of tying everything together and bridging the gap between our last EP and our new one.
The problem is I have absolutely no idea how to go about starting a record label and I definitely don't want to have to start getting into tax and legal issues. Does a record label have to be a registered, legitimate business or can it be more informal? Can it just be a name I use to associate different projects? Is all of this way too confusing?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks