About
About Blind Text
Blind Text is an independent music label and catalog archive based in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It exists to keep a specific body of work — four projects and counting — documented, findable, and streaming, without a middleman.
Blind Text is not a company so much as an operating principle: make the work, put the work out, and own it end to end. Every release is written, recorded, and published independently, then distributed through the Blind Text Albums pipeline (DistroKid and CD Baby) to the major streaming platforms. There is no A&R department and no committee. The site you're on is the canonical index for all of it — the place where the catalog is organized, verified, and explained.
The name is deliberate. "Blind text" is the placeholder copy a designer drops into a layout before the real words arrive — text that does its job without asking to be read. That's the posture here: let the music carry the attention, keep the operation quiet behind it.
The Roster
Four projects share this catalog, tied together by geography and approach more than by genre:
- Adam Ian Stratmeyer → Principal artist; two solo albums, Bad Dumb and Subscription. Punk-rooted, country-inflected rock.
- DIVVY up the PANIC → An experimental project spanning instrumental jazz, two-tone/new-wave rock, and experimental rock.
- Strata-Thunder → The heavy arm — high-voltage, cinematic rock.
- Sugar and Grains Mash Band → Punk-bluegrass mash, co-written with Jason Kimmer.
How Distribution Works
All Blind Text material routes through the same backend. Propagation times vary by platform — a record can be live on Apple Music while Boomplay or YouTube Music are still indexing it. When a specific link isn't up yet, it's noted on the relevant artist page rather than faked or hidden. Known gaps as of April 2026: the Boomplay profile is live but still populating, and some hashtag search indexes haven't caught up. Sugar and Grains distributes on YouTube only for now. These fill in over time.
Roots
Everything here comes out of the Black Hills of South Dakota and a long regional habit of making loud, independent music with whatever's on hand. That's the extent of the claim — no scene politics, no gatekeeping. Just the records and where to hear them.
Contact
For press, licensing, or distribution questions, use the contact page. Straightforward inquiries only — no pitch decks required.