With Festivals On Hold, Indie Booker Shifts Focus to Limited-Run Record Label
Billboard
2/18/2021
Jon Halperin
Jon Halperin has held just about every job in music — managing bands, running an indie record label, overseeing a pop-up store at Coachella, booking bands for the Glasshouse in Pomona, Calif. and running point on talent buying for festivals stretching from the Dominican Republic to Long Beach, Calif., where he has lived for over a decade.
In theory, a pandemic is an existential crisis for a person constantly in motion, but with most of his music work put on hold, Halperin decided it was time to pursue an idea he had been batting around for a couple of months — the launch of Stay Free Recordings, a limited run music label specializing in 7-inch records on collectable colored vinyl by mostly independent acts.