Major labels are reportedly “overhauling contracts” for newly signed artists, with some now restricting artists from re-recording their music no earlier than 10 years or more after leaving the label.
Signing to a label is basically taking venture capital investment for your company except the deal is way worse because the label takes back all the investment capital and owns your music
its a lot more attractive to traditional musicians. digital artists can do all this on their imac these days and self publish but its harder to do when you need actual space and equipment to record live drums and shit
"free" access to recording studios, sound engineers, songwriters, lyric writers, producers
Signing to a label is basically taking venture capital investment for your company except the deal is way worse because the label takes back all the investment capital and owns your music
its a lot more attractive to traditional musicians. digital artists can do all this on their imac these days and self publish but its harder to do when you need actual space and equipment to record live drums and shit