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Yancey Strickler

Metalabel Director

We’re all ears

We’re all ears

We normally send an email out every Tuesday sharing what’s on our mind. But lately we’ve found ourselves talking so much, we’re more interested in hearing what someone else has to say. So we’re choosing to leave this space intentionally blank. Instead, we’d love to

New Creative Era the book: A conversation is the start of something

New Creative Era the book: A conversation is the start of something

A new release from Metalabel Press on the creative life

The Creative Century

The Creative Century

We’re now 25 years into the 21st century. A quarter of the way through. What will define it? The internet? Cell phones? AI? Sure. But there’s another one: creativity. Few ideas have reshaped our world more this century than creativity. We think of it as an eternal ideal

Together we will bloom

Last week on New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discussed what we’d like to see in a different creative status quo. Tune in for a list of seven ideas from each of us. More people are making creative work — and being seen for it — than at any other point

The dawn of our new world

The dawn of our new world

This week we've been happy/nervous/relieved/excited to introduce Spring/Summer 2025 and the next iteration of Metalabel. Which, most importantly, opens up this universe for all of us together to release and express our creative output how we best see fit. All week we’ve been

New Creative Era episode 11: Seven things we want from a new creative era

New Creative Era episode 11: Seven things we want from a new creative era

New Creative Era episode 11

DOOM -> BLOOM — S/S2025

DOOM -> BLOOM — S/S2025

New season, new creative era