I started Mutineer Records to make sure Flowerbomb’s “pretty dark” made it to vinyl. Our scope expands slowly but the mission remains the same - to make sure amazing music by singular artists is pressed on high quality vinyl. We’re still in our infancy but there are a few core beliefs and practices that define us:

• We send a portion of every sale to Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect and preserve the Amazon rain forest.

• Currently, we have personal relationships with members of our bands before we sign them and love and respect are always at the core of those relationships.

• Physical releases are important to us.

• Music is sacred, magical, and powerful.

I once heard Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC say that “music succeeds where politics and religion often fail.” That truth, bookended by Joe Strummer’s belief that “Punk rock is exemplary manners to your fellow human being” form the spiritual foundation of what we’re trying to do on our little pirate ship of a record label.

Mark Reiter
Mutineer Records
Washington, DC