Creative practices
Creative work is changing in ways you can feel good about
The power of releasing, why small is beautiful, and the advantages of cooperation
Creative practices
How creative people make and release work, and the emotional and spiritual journeys to get there.
Creative practices
What if we met at the intersection of art and creativity?
Metalabel + our readers get together IRL
Creative practices
What can Metalabel do for you, really?
What is it that makes Metalabel different?
Release strategies
Give free a chance
Seeing through our Creative Hierarchy of Needs
Creative practices
Creation feels like standing in the middle of the ocean and trying to start a wave
When you stand on the precipice of something you’ve worked hard on finally seeing the light of day, the
Creative practices
Q&A: Train Songz on making zines and building community
Train Songz
Summer 24, #4
Physical zine
On Friday morning something unexpected happened on Metalabel: the fourth edition of a
Zines
This zine could change your life
An appreciation for a time-tested format
Creative practices
We're not for everyone — and that's the truth
Behind the scenes from the thick of it
Release strategies
Sell out without selling out
A '90s and '20s counterculture clash
Q&As
Q&A: Artist Zarina Nares on making limited run artwork
“Hey. Honestly, I’m just… I don’t know.”
By Zarina Nares
Art Book
8 x 10, 132 pages
10
Creative practices
Practices and cathedrals
Exploring modes of creative effort
Release strategies
How to use New Media to revive existing work
Embed the past in the present and the present in the past
Q&As
Q&A: YACHT on what it means to release
A beloved indie dance-rock duo changes the game again
Creative practices
Small is more meaningful than big
Imagine it’s your birthday party.
It’s the start of the night. You and your closest friends are there.
Creative practices
How to talk about your creative work at a party
Plus a charming new artist book from Japan
Creative practices
The artist and the inner retreat
After recent reflections on the challenges we feel about needing to promote our work (here and here), we’ve come
Creative practices
Promotional principles for creative people
Plus the Creative Independent reissues “On making a living as an artist”
Creative practices
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed.
Before the internet being an