Back in 2019, pop-punk legend Travis Barker launched his own record label DTA records. Initially, the label started after a year of the Blink 182 drummer collaborating with hip-hop stars such as: Lil Nas X, $uicide Boy$, and Lil Peep. The label standing for ‘Don’t Trust Anyone’, was centred around Travis Barker’s extension of his musical talents into other genres. But now it seems that DTA records is taking advantage of the upcoming revival of the pop-punk scene by signing the pop-punk queen, Avril Lavigne.
On Wednesday this week, Avril released an Instagram post detailing the news of the signing. ‘Let’s fuck shit up! Just signed a record contract to Travis Barker’s record label DTA Records!’
She followed up with the hint of a new single being dropped next week. DTA records are jumping on it straight away with Lavigne already releasing new work in the coming week; it’s refreshing to have a new single in sight after not hearing anything new from Lavigne since ‘We are Warriors’ back in 2020, and of course her feature on Mod Sun’s single ‘Flames’.
With the bad rap developed by most record labels, Barker is attempting to break away from that reputation. Knowing the ins and outs of working as a growing artist in the current music world, Travis has stated that ‘as an artist, it’s important to me that an artist’s vision is protected at all costs. It’s crucial that I am able to look an artist in the eye and believe it when I say that we can take them from a basement to an arena’.
Could this be a new era for record labels run by successful pop-punk stars? Could this mean that the artists interests are always protected? We hope so.
For now, though, it’s time to look forward to whatever Avril Lavigne has in store for us next week!
Check out her Instagram post below, as well as her latest single ‘We Are Warriors’.
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