About
Skyrocket Records is an indie record label based in Los Angeles, founded by recording artist and songwriter Nick Daugherty.
After a 365-day mad dash toward a record deal, which earned him hundreds of album pre-sales, national press, television, and radio and more than 120,000 website hits, Daugherty had a startling revelation: with the advent of new technology and tools for independent artists, the traditional record company mold has been forever broken.
Now, more than ever, it’s an indie market.
The next chapter in Nick’s Journey saw the creation of an unselfish new “home” for music, a home both productive and profitable. A home that gives its artists the balance of profits from their own album sales. A home that evokes the early days of the classic labels: where many artists appear as guests or as backing musicians on each others’ records, often crossing style and genre to do so. A home where the unimaginable is simply the norm: where all the artists on the label own their own music and recordings.
That home is Skyrocket Records.
Nick’s Journey led him to veteran music producer Mandi Martin (Amy Kuney, Oleta Adams, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke), who is currently producing Daugherty’s first album, set for release in January 2008.
Defiantly, on day 365 of his journey, Daugherty began inventing a totally different future for his music - creating what has become Skyrocket Records — a home for himself and the growing list of artists he works with.
“I’m so in love with the music I’m making now - both as a recording artist and as a songwriter. It’s all on my own terms, with people I believe in. And I never have to ask permission from anyone to do what I’m doing.”
With an A-list team of mentors, musicians, and music marketers on call, Skyrocket Records is poised to set the bar for independent music in 2008. Stay tuned.