Backspace Records

it’s happening everywhere in the music industry these days. eager to get their music out there to the masses, ambitious independent diy artists are launching labels, finding their own distribution and are collectively establishing a new model by which everyone’s doing business in the latter 2000s. aligning with their business partner mack lindsey, the dynamic husband and wife team of ben and kimberly rowell is leaping full force into the fray with their exciting and eclectic new backspace records, an atlanta based indie label dedicated to, as their mission statement reads, developing artists musically while giving them the chance to succeed financially. rather than growing backspace as a niche label, their goal is to have a roster of diverse artists and niche each one of them. the twist is that ben rowell didn’t launch backspace to help promote his own band—in fact, he did it in the aftermath of big sky’s breakup after 12 years as one of gainesville, florida’s most popular rock outfits