Mission
One story looks
like an exception
When the same experience turns up again, and again, and again, it stops looking like one.
Most of what goes wrong in music never becomes a story. It stays in a conversation — artist to artist, producer to producer, songwriter to songwriter, one touring professional to the next. Those conversations are useful, but only to the people in the room, and only on the day they happen.
Artists Against exists so that knowledge does not stop there. People who work in music, in any role, can put what happened to them on the record without putting their name on it.
What we do
We collect first-person experiences from inside the industry. We read every submission before it is published. We organise what gets published into The Record, where it can be searched and filtered by category, role, country and year. Over time, that makes recurring experiences visible in a way a single story never can be.
What we do not do
Artists Against does not decide who is guilty. We are not a court, we make no legal findings, and we do not determine whether anyone committed a crime. Publishing a story is not a ruling that it is true — it means a person read it, judged it to be a genuine first-hand account, and found nothing that required it to be withheld.
That distinction matters. A record that claimed to prove things would be easier to dismiss, and far more dangerous to the people contributing to it.
Principles
Your story, your choice
You decide how much to say and how you appear: anonymous, anonymous with your role, or under a pseudonym you choose. You are not required to display your legal name to contribute.
Nothing publishes itself
Every submission is read by a person before anything appears publicly. Submitting is not publishing, and we would rather hold a story than get it wrong.
First-person experiences first
Write about what happened to you, or what you were directly part of. Not what you heard about someone else. Second-hand accounts are the fastest way to turn a record into a rumour mill.
Numbers are participation, not proof
Story totals and reaction counts describe activity on this platform. They are not a survey of the music industry, and they do not establish that any particular account is true.
Privacy before virality
A story does not become more valuable because it names someone. Identifying details may be removed, and a story that reaches fewer people intact is better than one that exposes the person who wrote it.
The Record can change
Stories can be corrected, redacted, or taken down. Contributors can ask for their own story to be removed. A record that cannot be changed is a record that cannot be fixed.
The first goal is simple
Build The Record. Everything else — what it shows, what it changes, what it makes impossible to keep calling an isolated incident — depends on how many people are willing to describe what happened to them.