Why did you start a label?
I started Workerbee Records (under a different name) back in 2000, because it felt like I was hyping up all these bands around me, just as much (if not more) than my own music. So I decided to do the first Low Fidelity Living. Consisting nearly entirely of the bands I was working with at a pizza place around that time, as well as any band I could beg, borrow or steal from.

Why do you keep doing it?
I don’t know, most of the time I feel more like a carnival barker, or Flava Flav than someone who’s trying to run a legit business. I’m just trying to get people to listen to these bands. 90% of the time it’s disappointment and failure, but if I can get even one person to listen to a band like electric needle room, The Swansea Recreation Centre, Jordan Mayland or even getting one more person turned onto Jad Fair with the next Low Fidelity Living. i feel like I contributed something.

About 5 years ago I even had to sell the label’s original name just to help pay for a vehicle to get back and forth to work with.  I still regret it, but I had to do it to survive.  I guess I still owe my label something.

Name 5 bands you’d love to release.
Jad Fair
Man Man
NoBunny
Jandek
the Poison Control Center.

Do you accept demos, if so where?
Of course
vicarelm@gmail.com

or

Prints Copy Center
c/o Edward Bignar
118 S Sherman
Ames, IA 50010