{"id":479483,"date":"2018-12-08T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-control-on-everything\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:23:00","slug":"dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-control-on-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-control-on-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallon Weekes On iDKHOW Signing With Fearless: \u201cThey Offered 100% Creative Control On Everything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know why iDKHOW ended up signing with Fearless Records, we have the answer.<\/p>\n<p>After building a band in secret and selling out tours off the back of only three songs being released, it&#8217;s no wonder iDKHOW have won The Real Alternative at the Rock Sound Awards! Pick up your commemorative iDKHOW Rock Sound Awards cover now from AWARDS.ROCKSOUND.TV<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Rock Sound for their cover feature, frontman Dallon Weekes shared the reasoning behind signing with Fearless Records, even though they were fielding offers from so many major labels.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how important signing to an independent record label was to their ethos, Dallon shared \u201cIt was absolutely central to our decision-making, because fans had picked up on what we were doing and we were getting this momentum building, we started getting this attention focused from them, that also brought with it a lot of industry attention. We had a lot of offers coming our way, but ultimately we went with Fearless because they offered 100% creative control on everything we&#8217;d do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued &#8220;That was the most central, most important part of the choice we were going to make, because we&#8217;d both seen different scenarios where you might start with an idea, and then a parade of suits come in and say, \u2018Oh, well maybe you should change this,&#8217; they get to have a say because they&#8217;re a radio rep, a money guy or whoever. So your idea changes, and it ends up being this other thing that you don&#8217;t really like as much. It might work, it might go on to sell a whole bunch of copies, which is great and everything \u2013 the people who work that way obviously know what they&#8217;re doing. You can be successful in doing things that way. But for me, it&#8217;s always been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-con\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-con\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Dallon Weekes On iDKHOW Signing With Fearless: \u201cThey Offered 100% Creative Control On Everything\u201d\">Rock Sound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know why iDKHOW ended up signing with Fearless Records, we have the answer.<\/p>\n<p>After building a band in secret and selling out tours off the back of only three songs being released, it&#8217;s no wonder iDKHOW have won The Real Alternative at the Rock Sound Awards! Pick up your commemorative iDKHOW Rock Sound Awards cover now from AWARDS.ROCKSOUND.TV<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Rock Sound for their cover feature, frontman Dallon Weekes shared the reasoning behind signing with Fearless Records, even though they were fielding offers from so many major labels.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how important signing to an independent record label was to their ethos, Dallon shared \u201cIt was absolutely central to our decision-making, because fans had picked up on what we were doing and we were getting this momentum building, we started getting this attention focused from them, that also brought with it a lot of industry attention. We had a lot of offers coming our way, but ultimately we went with Fearless because they offered 100% creative control on everything we&#8217;d do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued &#8220;That was the most central, most important part of the choice we were going to make, because we&#8217;d both seen different scenarios where you might start with an idea, and then a parade of suits come in and say, \u2018Oh, well maybe you should change this,&#8217; they get to have a say because they&#8217;re a radio rep, a money guy or whoever. So your idea changes, and it ends up being this other thing that you don&#8217;t really like as much. It might work, it might go on to sell a whole bunch of copies, which is great and everything \u2013 the people who work that way obviously know what they&#8217;re doing. You can be successful in doing things that way. But for me, it&#8217;s always been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/dallon-weekes-on-idkhow-signing-with-fearless-they-offered-100-creative-con\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 02:12:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}