Ironworks Music

When they noticed alot of great musicians who weren't getting signed to music labels and record deals, actor Kiefer Sutherland and pop artist, songwriter and producer Jude Cole, pooled their talents, built a recording studio and created Ironworks Music.

Part record label and part studio, the Ironworks Studio is housed in a historic ironworks foundry in the Silver Lake area of LA.

"We don't rent the studio out," Sutherland said. "It's literally for bands that we have developed and that we're finding. It's unbelievable how many fantastic bands there are out there that are just not being heard. We just want to make records and try to figure out how to get them out there."

Jude Cole, himself an incredible songwriter, musician and record producer, takes care of the creative end of the company, while Sutherland built the studio, acquired the building and handles everyday business.

Sutherland and Cole's shared passion for music is building a music label about real artists.


The first Ironworks Music release is Rocco Deluca's "I Trust You To Kill Me" which reminds me of a cross between Train and Led Zeppelin. The twang and flourish of Deluca's acoustic dobro guitar sometimes sounds like Jimmy Page's riffing from Zeppelin's third album or "Houses of the Holy." Listen to "Soul" if you don't believe me. It's on iTunes.

Australian artist Ry Cuming's first single "Life Goes on" was recently featured on MTV's Laguna Beach.

Jude Cole is also the Executive Producer and manager of the band Lifehouse, whose third, self-titled, release debuted on the charts at #10. The first single from the CD, "You and Me," was co-written by Cole.

Sutherland and Cole began collecting vintage guitars in the eighties and amassed an incredible collection over the years. They have over 28 new and vintage Gibson guitars including a '67 ES-335, a '65 SG Special, a '59 Les Paul Reissue and Les Paul Juniors and Specials dating from their first years of introduction ('54 and '55) up to 1959.

Veteran record producer and musician, Jude Cole, joined Warner Brother's "Extra," making it the first entertainment newsmagazine show to feature a music critic. His first assignment was an interview with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Ironworks Records http://www.ironworksmusic.com/

Jude Cole http://www.judecole.com/