Reason to Rhyme Music was founded on a simple but powerful idea: that original music is one of the most powerful tools a storyteller has — and that it should be accessible to every kind of storyteller. We are a music publishing company, record label, A&R firm and national talent agency. We're building a home for musicians, taking care of them so they can do what they do best - create and perform the music that inspires us and transforms our world. Reason 2 Rhyme Music was seeded in 1997 when musicians Bryan Wagstaff and Reid Miller began playing together while students at U.S.C. in Los Angeles, California. They founded the band Jonas and toured all over the West Coast. Theirs was the classic life-on-the-road musician experience - schlepping gear to disorganized venues with poor lighting and sound systems where they played for little or no pay, often tired, hungry and rundown. They saw many exhausted an broke musicians take the stage, and though they rallied, these musicians gave less than their ideal performance. And the struggling artist often didn't know how to navigate the complicated world of copyrights and music ownership - many signed away their best works for inadequate pay. This was a prolific time for Jonas - they wrote hundreds of songs, and the band was committed to creating an amazing sound and protecting their assets. Wagstaff came to understand what Abraham Maslow so famously described in his Hierarchy of Needs - if you take great care of the artists, the music flourished. Fast forward twenty years and Reason 2 Rhyme Music is doing just that - providing the ultimate environment for artists to create and perform their best work.
- With Reason 2 Rhyme Music, musicians retain the rights to their work to play, publish, and promote, with no radius clause and no exclusion limitations.
- Reason 2 Rhyme Music provides artists access to the best venues so they can perform their music, their way.
- Reason 2 Rhyme Music provides a Dream Team for performances to shuffle artists' gear, assist sound checks, cater the green room, set up an amazing high-definition lighting production and ensure our artists are happy and relaxed.