Inexperienced Line Document’s co-head of artists and repertoire, Ariana Borromeo (left), and label president Michelle Wu.
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Inexperienced Line Document’s co-head of artists and repertoire, Ariana Borromeo (left), and label president Michelle Wu.
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If you consider a file label, what do you image? You may think guys in fits with gold data hanging from their partitions, making offers and bilking bands out of their hard-earned cash.
Inexperienced Line Information is the alternative of all of that.
“We need to present the sources for rising artists, I feel, as a result of quite a lot of the instances, the precise music trade file labels are very gatekeep-ey,” says Michelle Wu, president of Inexperienced Line Information. “It’s extremely exhausting for newer artists to interrupt in.”
Inexperienced Line is a completely student-run label at Boston’s Northeastern College, the place the main focus is not on making a revenue however uplifting musicians.
As a part of our Sense of Place: Boston sequence, we sat down with Wu to study extra about how Inexperienced Line Information places artists first, how college students take a challenge from begin to end, and what makes a Inexperienced Line Information contract very totally different from these at some other file label.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.