Our Mission
Mothership Studio is committed to giving talented Bay Area musicians from every walk of life a platform to create great music that captures the zeitgeist, hopes, and aspirations of our community. With roots deep in the San Francisco music scene, we want to see the magic return to this great city where generations of musicians have thrived and challenged the world.
We pride ourselves in curating a space where thoughtful creators can take risks and be themselves, unencumbered by commercial considerations. We seek out creators who are dedicated to their craft and equipped with the raw talent to move and inspire us through their art. Everyone involved in the studio, now and in the future, is hand picked by the Founders not just because they are great in their field, but because of the values they carry forward.
Most studios today produce music that fuels the machine and conforms to existing genres. We’ve made a lot of that kind of music ourselves; we don’t judge or dismiss it. Our goal at Mothership, however, is a little different. We want to make music that tugs and pulls at boundaries and that challenges us to be better, smarter, healthier, happier. Our overarching commitment is to offer a pedestal to talented artists who choose to walk a different path and need to be heard.
Musicians are the story-tellers and bards of our time. If your message comes from the heart, we want to hear it and help amplify it.
We hold ourselves to the following principles:
Music should heal and unite. We ourselves have produced a lot of hardcore, angry music along the way, but we won’t be making it at Mothership. There’s enough polarization and me-against-you messaging in the world already; we’re resolved not to add to it further. We seek to make music that celebrates our shared humanity and brings us closer together.
Compassion and justice for all. We will not support music that belittles individuals or groups, celebrates violence, fetishizes materialism, or promotes hate. Our music can and should pack a punch, steer clear of saccharine stupidity, and delve into hard topics.
Radical Self Expression: We want to help you discover and express yourself fully, without fear of being judged or canceled.
Community. We are all here to teach and learn. We hope to bring value to your life the moment you walk through the doors. We hope that your positive energy will reverberate back into the studio and the other people you encounter while you’re with us. If you’re rude or closed-minded, we’ll politely ask you to leave and won’t invite you back.
Originality: We want all of the artists we work with to ask themselves: Are you channeling the purest version of yourself and uncovering something new, or are you rehashing what others have already done because it gets likes on Instagram? If you want to explore the first of those, come to SafeHouse. If you’re all about the second, please stay home.
No Weapons. Need we say more?
Self Care. Maintaining a healthy relationship with your art can be hard sometimes. We don’t encourage overworking, and we actively seek to avoid the burnout that accompanies 72-hour sessions fortified by pharmaceuticals and bad pizza.
Protecting our Earth. All people involved with the studio will be expected to minimize waste and energy consumption.
If you subscribe to these principles, give us a call so we can learn more about what you’re doing and create together.
