Then, he asks rhetorically, “What is a professional in the record business? What does a professional artist mean, versus a hobbyist? I would say a repertoire that accumulates over time and becomes substantial.”
It must be frustrating when acts move on to more lucrative deals? Joseph Arthur, Metric. I mean, it’s exciting, but . . .
“It’s rad, but it’s frustrating. It depends on my mood,” explains Factor, who understands that being a part of a quality artist’s catalog has value, as does creating a quality catalog for Everloving.
“With any of our artists, they’re left kind of exposed out there because we’re not a big company with people ushering them in and out of everywhere. They’re out there selling themselves. Everyone is a roll-up-your-shirtsleeves artist — [that’s] the Everloving vibe,” he shrugs.
“Too much is changing to be concerned with how the music business is changing — the world is changing. It’s not that the music business is gonna crash and that’s it. The whole world is gonna crash, in the same way, at various times. Songs will still be important to the world.”
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