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Doom → Bloom
S/S 2025

New Creative Era - Podcast

Seven things we want from a new creative era

New Creative Era episode 11

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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 in history. The audience for independent creative work has never been bigger. The business model that sustained the old system — gatekept media, limited shelf space — doesn’t work for where we are now. It’s been breaking down for decades. A ne

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 overwhelmed with projects — both the ones brought to us by our guest curators for this season (more on them in a moment) — as well as the people who have shown up to start making releases of their own. To all of this we sa

DOOM -> BLOOM — S/S2025

New season, new creative era

Culture is the frontier

Our societies are changing in immense ways. Time spins sideways, fast-forwards, and crashes back with each news whiplash. Every jarring moment leaves us a little more desensitized, a little more unmoored. In the middle of all this chaos, it’s fair to wonder: how much does creative work even matter right now? But when we look around, the answer is clear: creative culture is everywhere. When people want to enact change—or stop it—they turn to culture. They express themselves through art, langua

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S/S 2025

Spring/Summer 2025 is the marker of a new chapter, a universe where Metalabel is all of ours together, to build and use and iterate on as we see fit. 34 artists are choosing to BLOOM with us, with new releases until August aggregated here.

6 releases

Collectives in action

A small selection of collectives shaping the new creative era.

12 releases

Curated by Molly Soda

Brooklyn-based internet performance artist Molly Soda—known for exploring the boundaries of reality, performance, and physical space—curates a series of releases for the Metalabel universe.

22 releases

Curated by Danielle Paterson

Danielle Paterson is an art tech curator, advisor, and researcher. She curates world-builders and transient creators who navigate subcultures, digital mythologies, and spiritual frameworks to envision alternate realities and collective futures.

6 releases

Curated by Josh Citarella

Artist and writer Josh Citarella curates new work across collectives and mediums for release on Metalabel.

20 releases

Conjugated forms

Artists from around the world translating their ideas across forms as creative exploration. Books becoming films becoming music becoming art becoming fashion becoming _______. A curated selection by the Metalabel Squad.

14 releases

Print isn't dead

In the face of major downsizing and consolidation across the industry, these young contemporary magazine and projects are trailblazing a new meaning of “in print”. A curated selection by the Metalabel Squad.

13 releases

$0 introductions

Sometimes, the perfect place to start is with an introduction. Free opens doors. Free helps people discover something new. A compilation of some of Metalabel Squad's favorite free or pay-what-you-wish releases to begin your collection.

17 releases