Veeps Founder Teams Up With Blink 182 and Fall Out Boy Members To Launch Verswire

Verswire Founding Team L-R: Saeedi, Hoppus, Lippman. Photo: Brian Doherty

Veeps founder Sherry Saeedi, blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, and veteran music manager Nick Lippman have combined minds to create Verswire: a first-of-its-kind artist development incubator for emerging musicians. Verswire is essentially a venture capital fund like Shark Tank, but for musicians. The company views artists as entrepreneurs as well as musicians, allowing a genuine partnership between mentors and artists.

Led by experienced multiplatinum selling artists, all newly established artists receive customized guidance while allowing them to keep majority ownership of their masters. Investments are individualized and tailored to each artist’s needs and include services from A&R, distribution, development, marketing, brand partnerships and more. There is access to top music executives ready to help artists navigate their environment to flourish. Where big label deals often fall short in personalization, Verswire takes precedence. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz will serve as a strategic advisor with Verswire while Myia Ingoldsby will direct A&R and Branding. Prominent industry investors include Warped Tour Founder Kevin Lyman and manager Gus Brandt (Foo Fighters, Mark Hoppus). This new establishment serves as the light at the end of the tunnel for artists who fear the doomsday of getting wrapped up in a bad label deal, or being coerced into something that ultimately just wouldn’t be right for them.

“The countless tech solutions that allow artists to make extra money have merely been a bandaid, while no one has fixed the root of the problem: that unfavorable deals do not allow artists to make money or own their music,” says Verswire CEO & Founder Sherry Saeedi. “In witnessing my closest friends put on the back-burner or trapped within the deals they signed while going bankrupt, I didn’t feel like anyone out there was providing the right solution to artists, but rather an iteration of the same archaic business model we’ve seen fail artists time and time again. I decided to build Verswire with an incredible team to re-envision the industry and provide musicians with an alternative that’s truly created with their well-being and careers as the priority.” Nick Lippman agrees: “The artist and label relationship needs to be a symbiotic partnership in order to garner absolute success. Verswire is the culmination of this ideology and something I’m proud to be a part of.”

Verswire’s debut release is from their first ever signed band called Beauty School Dropout, who have been personally mentored by Hoppus and Wentz. Beauty School Dropout is a seamless mixture of pop, rock, punk, with nods to modern emo and pop punk. The band recently dropped their very catchy new single “Assassin” on May 25th, which is available on all streaming services. Their music video features cameos from Hoppus, Wentz and Paris Jackson. Watch the “Assassin” music video here.

We are certainly looking forward to discovering all of the new artists that will soon emerge with the guidance of Verswire. Mark Hoppus adds: “I am very excited to help build a new way for bands and artists to create music for communities, while retaining ownership of their work.” Cheers to the future of new music and artist inclusivity and freedom!

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