We’re Growing Again
One of the things that we pride ourselves on at Abrasive Monologues is hitting above our weight class. That requires continuous growth, and advancement on all fronts. We constantly look for new challenges creatively, musically and technologically. In maintaining the momentum that we’ve established over the past year, we are expanding our web presence once again. This time we’ve opened an official label account on Bandcamp to help continue establishing our reputation, and to give us another nexus to push, not only our artist roster, but indie music as a whole.
This new chapter, new endeavor, has established not only another home on the internet, but also a better defining of Abrasive as a group. I am pleased to announce the new artist roster!
Abrasive Monologues Artist Roster
- Jonathan Hadley
- Mario Marino
- Kian Dray
- Only the Host
- Tim Woodruff
- David Von Beahm
- Kanilrós
- Clysmic
- Two artists are pending invitation
A Joint Venture
I have developed Abrasive Monologues for two years on my own, in the background, as I do. We’ve achieved a lot of things. Google knows we’re a label. We show up on our artists knowledge cards. Those are wins. I have funded Abrasive Monologues out of my own pocket, cost splitting with Mario Marino where it made sense to do so. The expansion into new territories though, is a joint venture. The artist roster above is not just a list of artists who have chosen to align with a brand. They are partners. Another extension of the ideology that we can achieve much greater things together. When I think about people I want as partners… There’s no better list than that one.
Drop Us a Follow
The new label profile is up and running at Bandcamp and we have some projects lined up that should be fun and interesting.
You can find us here:
Abrasive Monologues on Bandcamp
How Abrasive Monologues Started
For those of you that may not be familiar, my name is Jonathan Hadley. I started playing music at twelve years old and it’s been a deep passion of mine ever since. I took a very long hiatus because I was living in apartments, which makes it hard to record. In 2021, I had moved into a house and decided it was time to see if I still had it. It was a rekindling of a love that lay dormant, just waiting.
After my first album, which was admittedly terrible, I stuck with it. I improved my gear where I could and started a second, much better album. I also started Abrasive Monologues. In the beginning, it was just a fun thing to throw on my meta data because it summed up my music so well.
How it Became a Label
At the end of the second album, I met a couple of people who matter a lot to the story. One being Matt Geiser, who added me to his Demons playlist and exposed my music to a wider audience. The second being Kanilrós, who is much more of a social butterfly that I am. We became friends, and wrote and recorded Signal together. Signal kicked off my third record “Warm Cyborgs.” He also introduced me to a community, the Only the Host Community. There I met Above the Snow Line, Mario Marino, John Woodson and many others who became my friends, collaborators and, when I needed it, people to talk me off the ledge.
After Signal, came Coil, a collaborative production between myself and Above the Snow Line. It solidified the thought I had that we can achieve huge things if we work together… Hitting above our weight class. The creative co-operative was born. We kept being friends, and we kept being collaborators. The natural evolution of a group of artists that come together to promote and produce together is a record label. More importantly, an independent record label. There are no suits. No one telling us what to do, what to think, how to be. The Abrasive Monologues roster represents unique individuals, with vastly differing styles, and thoughts. That’s how I want it to stay.
