We caught up last fall with Broken Clover Records boss Mickey Darius. The label operator lives in the Bay Area but works with a plethora of artists across different genres all over the world. Mickey shared with us his origin story, how he created a label model that really pays artists and his thoughts on streaming services.
In addition to this info Mickey shared, Broken Clover Records will donate all label profits to charity in February!
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Broken Clover Records announces biannual “Giving Back” charity campaign for February ’23, donating all this month’s profits
Bay Area record label Broken Clover Records announces their biannual Giving Back campaign for February 2023 today. Every February and August the label donates its share of profits to worthy causes selected by the label’s artists. This month’s charities include: The ACLU, San Francisco Public Schools, Fresh Meat Productions, Friends of Noise, Jean Dutoit Collective, and SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition. For more details and links to the charities, go HERE.
The label begun in 2018 by Bay Area native Mickey Darius includes albums by June of 44, Democratic Republic of Congo’s Fulu Kolektiv (sister initiative to Fulu Miziki), experimentalists Enablers, queer country Secret Emchy Society, Lori Goldston (Nirvana cellist), Basque (Spain) punks +oc and many more.
Broken Clover is a label approaching the music business in many new ways. Darius pays the label’s artists their entire royalties up front as soon as the records arrive, for everything they would earn if the entire pressing sells out.
“They did their part, so should not be held hostage, waiting for the label to do the selling part,” Darius says. “We are quite literally putting food on our artists tables and paying rents…even if we don’t sell a single copy, and this means a lot to me.”
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