CSR-001 · OUT NOW · SCO 23:47
Cupid Soldiers Records
Independent label · Est. 2019 · PHX

Cupid Soldiers Records

where the real ones get heard

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What we're putting out.

The catalog of Cupid Soldiers Records. Stewarded properly, released when it's ready.

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Mixtape · Out now Hella Sketchy self-titled — key art placeholder
CSR-001

Hella Sketchy

The self-titled mixtape the label was built around. Still the clearest statement of what this catalog is for.

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In production Catalog reissue — key art placeholder
CSR-002

Catalog reissue

[PLACEHOLDER — add final copy] Remastered and properly credited, with the unreleased material that never got a home.

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In development More to come — key art placeholder
CSR-003

More to come

We sign a small number of artists and we sign them properly. The next release announces when it's ready, not when the calendar says so.

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Why we exist

In June 2019, an eighteen-year-old artist named Jacob died after a two-week coma.

He was Hella Sketchy. He was signed to Atlantic Records. His label believed he would be bigger than Justin Bieber. He didn't make it to twenty.

Cupid Soldiers Records exists because a catalog needs someone to protect it, and because the next kid making records like his needs a label that won't repeat what happened. We hold Jacob's masters, we put out new music, and we say out loud what the industry usually keeps quiet.

Read the full story at Cupid Soldiers →

The systems meant to elevate young creative people are also the systems that are killing them.

Est. 2019 · Cupid Soldiers Studios · PHX

Latest from the label

Liner Notes.

Releases, session notes, signings, occasional thoughts. The label's half of Field Notes.

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06.18.26 · 09:12 SCO
Releases · CSR-002

What a proper reissue actually takes

Rights, stems, credits, and the parts of a catalog nobody kept. A walkthrough of the work.

5 min read → 06.04.26 · 16:30 SCO
Signings · Open

How we sign artists

Masters, publishing, and splits explained in plain language before anyone signs anything.

4 min read → 05.21.26 · 11:44 SCO
Behind-the-scenes

Scoring Two Weeks Notice

Building a score around an artist's own production, with Cupid Soldiers Films.

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Three ways in

Where to start.

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Listen

On Spotify. Hella Sketchy's catalog plus new music from the label.

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Watch

Two Weeks Notice: The Departure of Hella Sketchy, from Cupid Soldiers Films.

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Submit

Three tracks, one paragraph, private link. We listen to everything.
Made by humans

Signing artists the way we wish Jacob had been signed.

Masters, publishing, and splits explained in plain language before anyone signs anything. That's not a marketing line — it's the operating principle this label is built on.

Send a private streaming link, three tracks maximum, and one paragraph about what you're trying to say. No zip files, no attachments. We answer the ones we're serious about.

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