Again in 2019, indie rock-focused document label Tiny Engines primarily shuttered after quite a lot of its artists accused them of cost points and breach of contract — which co-founder Chuck Daley admitted to. Now, co-founder Will Miller has introduced that he’s reviving the label as its sole proprietor beneath a “new administration construction.”
In a press release shared to Tiny Engines’ Twitter Friday, Miller wrote that he’s “dedicated to creating certain artists and their data are being cared for correctly and handled with the required respect,” in addition to “ensur[ing] that artists are being paid what they’re owed.”
The assertion clarifies that each one accounting between the label and its artists has been accomplished, with all artists having now been paid in full. Moreover, 80% of the label’s masters possession contracts have now been amended to licensing contracts — with the remaining 20% scheduled for completion by the tip of 2023 — which means the label’s artists will now personal their masters.
The controversy surrounding Tiny Engines got here to a head in November 2019 after Stevie Knipe, who performs beneath the moniker Grownup Mother, publicly accused the label of not paying them in a well timed vogue, including that they felt their “work was not in protected or accountable palms.” Different artists adopted with sadly comparable tales, together with Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties, who launched her 2020 mixtape Free I.H.: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Ready For as a placeholder of types to meet her contract earlier than releasing her following “actual” album Let Me Do One Extra beneath extra superb circumstances.
“It was simply uncool,” Tudzin advised Consequence in 2021. “It wasn’t residing as much as the ethos that they’d laid out for the artists that they represented, and [Adult Mom] lastly determined to name them out on it, after which every part fell aside.”
As for the way forward for the label, Miller provides: “You the fan owe us nothing. We’ll search to regain your belief in our actions as a label and in how we deal with our artists. If you do not need to help Tiny Engines please proceed to help the artists in any method you possibly can.”
See the total assertion from Tiny Engines under.
Tiny Engines’ catalog boasts releases from artists together with The Hotelier, Spirit of the Beehive, Model Pussy, Empty Nation, Tigers Jaw, Seaside Slang, It Appears to be like Unhappy., and extra.
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— Tiny Engines (@tinyengines) June 30, 2023
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