The Intercollegiate Record Label Association (IRLA) is a consortium of representatives from student-run record labels and other student-run music-related organizations. The IRLA exists to:

• facilitate the sharing of information and best-practices between student leaders and faculty advisors of student-run labels/organizations

• facilitate communication between music industry entities and the leaders and advisors of our member labels and organizations.

 

​​​​We are in the process of updating our list of student-run record labels and related organizations, and will be launching our updated website by the end of September 2025.

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​​To be eligible for membership in the Intercollegiate Record Label Association (IRLA), an organization must meet the following criteria:

• Must be an officially sanctioned student group or organization OR part of an active, credit-bearing course within a college or university.

• Day-to-day operations must be led by currently enrolled students.

• Must have a designated faculty advisor or instructor, currently employed by the college or university, who provides oversight.

• Eligible member organizations may include student-run record labels and other music-related groups focused on sectors such as (but not limited to) recording, artist services, sync licensing, music publishing, promotion, event production, or public relations.

• Member organizations are expected to remain active within their campus communities and contribute to IRLA through regular communication and knowledge-sharing.

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If you are a faculty advisor to a student-run record label or similar organization that meets our eligibility criteria, and want your organization to be a member of the IRLA,

please CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE OUR ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FORM.

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The IRLA is managed by three professors:

• Serona Elton (Professor and Chair, Music Industry - University of Miami Frost School of Music)

• Denise Shackelford (Associate Professor in the Department of Recording Industry - Middle Tennessee State University)

• Monika Julien (Assistant Teaching Professor, Music Industry - Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design)