Blank Verse Records offers artists — musical and visual — an opportunity to shine.
Morgan Slade’s love for vinyl dates back to the 1980s. Growing up in Los Angeles, he heard plenty of what his parents were spinning — a combination of The Rolling Stones and Donna Summer — but when someone brought albums by Black Sabbath, Devo and Black Flag to a family gathering, everything changed.
“My mind was blown,” he says. “Me and my friends, we’d get on the bus in LA, and we would go around and buy records whenever we had money every week. That’s how it started.”
As for how it’s going, Slade is no longer just a collector. He recently crossed over to the other side, having founded a new Richmond-based label called Blank Verse Records. He hopes to empower bands with dreams of pressing their music to vinyl, and in a way that honors each album as the interdisciplinary artistic opportunity that it is.
“I want to celebrate these artists,” Slade says. “That look and feel is such a big part of it.” MORE