11/12/2024
I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of Goat Song Records, a new stand-up comedy label headquartered in Nashville. As a boutique, exclusive label, its focus will be on quality over quantity– working with established and emerging comics through catalog management, “from-video” audio projects, and original recordings.
Goat Song Records celebrates the craft of comedy, the art of joke writing, and the magic of performance. Stand-up comedy is an assembly of wit, exaggerations and skillful lies– an ethical gray area of creative insincerity designed to lead you into surprise and delight. It plays with your beliefs, manipulates your assumptions, and tests your tolerance. It is not a safe space.
The label will actively promote intelligent, unique, and transgressive material designed for discriminating comedy fans, with a contemporary social media strategy and a focus on building a like-minded community of fans. Our world will be an oasis of exceptionally smart and well-honed stand-up as a respite from car-seat TikTokers and one-trick crowd-work ponies.
Working with comics such as Patton Oswalt, Emo Philips, Margaret Cho, Dana Gould, Jena Friedman, Robert Hawkins, and Arj Barker will establish Goat Song as a premier label with its soul rooted in the tradition of comedy masters.
To keep current on our upcoming releases, recordings, and curated label-agnostic playlists, I kindly ask you to follow our new, yet-to-be-populated socials. The YouTube channel will also showcase videos from around the comedy world- stand-up, sketches, anything funny. The Spotify channel will feature label-agnostic playlists from the best comedy albums presented in themes- S*x, Politics, Religion, Dark Humor, etc. The first one is a collection of comedians on the subject of music and bands. There is a private playlist available to subscribers of our mailing list that features only the newest and best tracks from contemporary comics- nothing released more than two years ago. Sign up for the mailing list on our website.
Your ground-floor support is important and appreciated. Links to the socials in comments.
Why “Goat Song Records”?
Before YouTube or Netflix, before CDs or vinyl, before comedy clubs, spotlights, or even theater itself…there were goat songs.
In ancient Greece, people would adorn themselves in goat skins to mimic satyrs, and devote their impudent, often raunchy monologues to the revelrous wine god Dionysus at festivals in his honor. Competitions were held for the best and funniest, birthing the dramatic arts in the Western world– and our foremost comedians today honor this audacious legacy.
-Dan Dion
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Founder Dan Dion
As a comedy producer Dan Dion has worked for Audible, Apple, Sony Pictures, The Purple Onion, SF Sketchfest, and The Holy City Zoo. As a photographer, his comedian portraits are exhibited at clubs and festivals worldwide, and published in the book ¡SATIRISTAS! with Paul Provenza. For five years he was the Head of A&R at record label 800 Pound Gorilla, evaluating and signing artists, and working closely with All Things Comedy and SiriusXM satellite radio.
