Heckabad Music is committed to bringing you music. We've been doing just that since 1992, when 4-track cassette recorders ruled and "roots music" was just a twinkle in her daddy's eye.  We'll never claim to have the next big thing, nor will we pressure you to buy any of the big things we might actually have. We are merely committed to bringing you music.

We are an independent record label. We are a collective of musicians. We produce music. We distribute music. We promote music. We love music.

We believe in the live performance. We pine for the relationship that existed between performer and audience before the advent of the phonograph or the wire or the wax or payola. We'd like to think that a snippet-in-time, stagnant, recording of music does not even come close to the mind-expanding experience that music could and should be. Hey, but albums are still pretty darn cool. 

We honor and cherish the marrying of words and music.  We never lose sight of the fact that lyrical song was born of ancient oral traditions of storytelling to pass down wisdom and history, and we try our best to nurture that tradition.

We shy from using genres to label our artists. Listen, and label them yourselves if you must. Our goal is poetry, the story, and an honest day's music. Our ongoing mission is to seek out brave new stuff, to go where few hipsters have gone before...

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