| In the 11th episode of This Week in Music, Darius Van Arman of Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, and Dead Ocean joins Ian Rogers in the studio to talk about how Darius got started, his initiatives with Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian, which includes a #2 debut of Bon Iver on the Billboard chart. The discussion includes topics ranging from distribution, 360 deals, and breaking artists. 0:00 - Intro Darius Van Arman 3:30 - Talk about artist distribution 4:40 - 1999-2000, Serious about artist and label distribution. 6:00 - What was your ethos behind your drive in the early 2000's 7:30 - Also started a manufacturing company. Signing artist 1st and then figuring out the business later. On the fly. 9:00 - Things began to grow after working with K records. 9:48 - Overhead was minimal. 10:15 - Talk about Pedro the Lion 11:15 - Michigan record by Sufjan Stevens 12:15 - Ian to Darius- Indie rock has an efficient marketing channel of its own, do you agree? What kind of role does the internet have to do with word of mouth? 15:15 - Where is Bon Iver with their 1st record and current sales? 17:15 - Bon Iver waited 4 more years to put out a 2nd album? Bon Ivar the album is very ambitious, do you agree? 19:15 - Bon Iver's self titled album sold 104000 in the first two weeks. 20:45 - How do you guy's go about selecting artist and labels? 22:15 - Co-authoring with artist. 50-50 deals. Committed to being scaleable. 24:45 - Sometimes artists must ask for more, and you have to say 'no'. Yet ... |
