Liberation: The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status. Nomad: A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.
Liberation/Nomad Records: A record label dedicated to giving unknown, talented artists a chance at making their music heard while not forcing them into a certain mold or genre and giving them the freedom to wander the music industry as they please.
Info
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Genres Accepted: Any
Formats: Mp3 download, CD, vinyl
Founded: 2010
Major Staff
Name - Position - % Ownership
Max Pruitt - Co-founder/CEO - 45%
Vin Peters - Co-founder/Scout - 25%
Matt Collins - Investor/Scout - 15%
Andrew Higgins - Accounting/Investor - 5%
Marcus Parker - Investor/Distribution - 10% BeginningsOriginally just Nomad Records, the label began in 2010 when the Chaos Awards V Best Band winner Reported Failure needed a label to release their third full length album "Disarm". Instead of signing to a major label or extending their contract with the small, local label they had been on guitarist Vin Peters contacted his friend Max Pruitt and they started Nomad Records. Pruitt had once been in a band with Peters, but had soon given up the music dream and gone into business.
The label took shape slowly. Investors were hard to come by, but eventually they had enough money to record and distribute Reported Failure's album "Disarm". The album eventually peaked at #5 on the charts and the label made enough profit to start truly becoming a player in the music industry.
Expansion and Midas TouchCome 2011 a new Reported Failure album was in the works, but Nomad Records was essentially broke. Somehow Vin Peters was able to get enough money together to sign the bands Riot! in the Boulevard and Realm. Realm's album "Sacred Chants of Death" was released as well as Riot! in the Boulevard's "Sin City Serenade EP" and soon Reported Failure's fourth album "Post-Grunge Catastrophe" was also released.
These albums were mildly successful, but soon this mild success exploded mostly for Riot! in the Boulevard. The band had two #1 hits from this album. By Autumn 2011 Nomad Records had been renamed Liberation/Nomad Records (one branch for already established acts and another for smaller unknown acts) and it's roster of artists featured the biggest names in rock n roll at the time. The label seemed to set trends and most of the artists they signed exploded and turned to gold. Riot! in the Boulevard's debut self titled LP was one of the most successful albums of 2011. Realm's album went double platinum. Reported Failure released a concept EP that sold on average a quarter of a million copies a week for several months and became the second best selling EP of the year. Nomad Records was no longer a small unknown label, infact they were the most successful indie label in the music industry and they were certainly no longer broke.
Big Names and Regime Changes As 2011 came to a close Vin Peters unexpectedly left Nomad Records. All of his shares in the company were sold to music industry legend Ryan Ross Hernandez. This happened around the same time that Katie Coyle and Stephanie Fierce joined Liberation/Nomad Records. This marked a new era of Nomad Records in which the label struggled to find their identity in the music industry after having many of their artists blow up in 2011. Vanity soon joined the label. The label was brought into the more serious league of labels and considered one of the biggest alongside Studio60 and Chaos Records, but there was open anger to this from members of Riot! in the Boulevard, James Urie, and Reported Failure plus longtime fans and employees. Regardless of this the label reached a new height of success with all of the artists doing incredibly well. Stephanie Fierce, Katie Coyle, and Reported Failure just to name a few artists came away from Chaos Awards V with some big wins.
More Big ChangesBriefly Vin Peters did come back to Nomad as an adviser to look for upcoming artists. The old Nomad Records of 2011 struggled with the new Nomad Records of 2012. Max Pruitt and Ryan Ross Hernandez ended up moving the Nomad offices to New York. This was too much for the California native. Reported Failure, the band that brought about the Record company's existence, left the label and signed a 1 album deal with studio60. Despite this Liberation/Nomad still was massively successful under Max Pruitt and RRH and at the sixth Chaos awards the label won the award for best label.
The New LabelIn the summer 0f 2012 Ryan Ross Hernandez started a new label, North Hill Records, with Nadia Berry. The label was essentially Liberation/Nomad Records in everything but the staff and the name. All existing contracts with Nomad were transferred to North Hill. North Hill now owns every record that was released on Nomad before July 2012. Max Pruitt was left behind and given the name rights to Liberation/Nomad Records, but the label lacked any artists to release new records, old records to sell, or resources so the label was essentially just a name.
This was a problem. Pruitt was going to just give up on running a label until he was contacted by Vin Peters. The two made up and quickly began plans to rebuild Liberation/Nomad Records. Thy got a staff together and at around the same time North Hill was up and running the new or rather old Nomad Records was ready to start business again.
We will contact any artist that catches our eye. If we dont contact you it probably doesn't mean we hate you but that we dont know about you. So please email us or mail us mixtapes and we will consider signing you. (OOC: PM me)
topLADS - Lets Skip The Minor Details (2012)
Shadowmachine - Machine Music (2013)Destinee & Adele - Not Ovey You Yet (2013)Clara Thompson - Colors (Coming Soon - 2013)A statement from Vin and Max:
Quote:We're back. In the last year we lost sight of what we really wanted to do with this label and didn't really realize what we could do. We are here to rebuild. This time around we are going to keep one thing in mind as we do business in this circus of a music industry. We are going to be a indie label with the reach of a major label, or rather a major label with the attitude of an indie label. What we mean by this is that after the past two years we have gained the connections and resources to have the same amount of reach and ability to distribute our artists's music as the other big labels, but we are still having the attitude of signing small bands that we think are good. We aren't going to sign artists just because we know they'll sell records. Were going to sign artists because we know they'll sell at least a few records to us working at Nomad Records. How do you qualify to be signed at Liberation/Nomad Records? We just have to fucking love you
More technical stuff coming now. We've got a new staff, and some new owners. There are five of us that own shares of the company right now. Me and Max of course plus Matt jumped in as an investor to give us a boost. In addition we have the accountant from the old label and one of the distribution guys who combined own 15% of the label. New staff. New ideas. New label. Lets do this!
Edited by user 04 April 2013 08:11:04(UTC)
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