WHAT A LONG STRANGE (AND UNPROFITABLE) TRIP IT'S BEEN
Another Indie Label Bites the Dust
On March 20, 2002, I registered the skippingdiscs.com domain name and began soliciting demos for our first two releases and now, five unprofitable years later, we are officially going out of business. On March 20, 2007, our domain registration expires and the site will go down.
As much as I would love to keep this beautiful thing going, putting shoes on the table and food on the kids' feet (or is it the other way around?) takes precedence.
I want to thank all of the bands and artists who graciously appeared on our releases in exchange for pitifully small royalty payments, all of the other bands and artists who submitted tracks for our now never-to-be-released compilations, all of the air and online disc jockeys who played our stuff, all of the retail outlets and distributors who agreed to carry our CDs on consignment, and especially all of the music lovers from around the world who recognized something special (or a least a little different) in what our micro-label was trying to accomplish and purchased our CDs.
Rick
Our four releases:
Different for Girls
(women artists and female-fronted bands cover Joe Jackson)
Spiders From Venus
(women artists and female-fronted bands cover David Bowie)
Love Her Madly
(women artists and female-fronted bands cover The Doors)
Saturday Night Hay Fever
(bluegrass bands perform late '70s disco hits)
Artists that appeared on our compilations and tribute albums:
Brenda Anzelc
Aspyg
Blackfoot Brothers
Bug Funny Music Foundation
darkblueworld
Diane Davis
Evelyn Downing
EDENautomatic
Fabulous Disaster
First of June
Amy Fox
The Fur Ones
The German Art Students
High Class Family Butchers
Home Cookin'
Hot String Quintet
Idle Mirth
Wendy Ip
The Jenn Beast Band
Joe K's Kid
Amy Ketchum
elaine k
Krank
D'or Lata
Lazy Lane
Alice Lee
Fiona Lehn
Lunasect
Mars Arizona
Mary Lee's Corvette
May Hart Band
Bernadette McCallion
Whitney McCray
McGee Brothers
Essra Mohawk
Lisa Mychols
Andrea Perry
Pitch Black Dream
Q
Rachael Sage
The Saucers
Shesus
Simon Stinger
Switchblade Kittens
Tanqueray Cowboys
Tegan and Sara
Beth Thornley
2 Tone Blonde
Venus Envy
Astrid Young
Maxine Young
Ce Ce Zen
Zeta Bane
