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# Manager & Indie Label Founder Jeff Catalez Speaks Out
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/jeff_catalez_da/
- Published: 2006-05-03T04:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2006-05-03T04:10:00.000Z
- Description: "As the music business has contorted and shifted, there’s an amazing new playing field, where anyone with indicting music, a budget to hire the incredibly skilled and passionate former major. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/05/jeff_catalez_da.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

**"As the music business has contorted and shifted, there’s an amazing new playing field, where anyone with indicting music, a budget to hire the incredibly skilled and passionate former major label employees who are now operating as freelancers, and the skill to manage the process can make a real difference. You no longer have to be a major label to compete. In fact, lots of bands no longer want to be with a major. They won’t drink the Kool-Aid any more, either from personal experience, or the nightmares of their friends in other bands."** 

– Jeff Catalez of Cast Management and Dangerbird Records in[ onMilwaukee.com](http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/castelaz.html?8535&ref=hypebot.com) via [Coolfer](http://www.coolfer.com/?ref=hypebot.com).

Watch for our exclusive inteview with Jeff in the coming days.