ArtDontSleep

From About ArtDontSleep:

Founded in 2002, ArtDontSleep currently operates as an artist and record label management and event promotion and production company. We manage the careers of Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, in addition to all of the programmatic and concert production for ArtDontSleep and Jazz Is Dead and operator of Linear Labs as a studio and record label.

Our mission at ArtDontSleep is to connect new and old generations of musicians and artists to create opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing. Additionally, we aim to develop new music in the city of Los Angeles and present it to the world, while simultaneously providing the music of the world to Los Angeles. In doing so, we are helping to alter the world’s view of Los Angeles music and the view of world music in Los Angeles.