Martin Atkins
Label Owner / Museum Founder / Artist / Entrepreneur / Educator / Producer / Author / Speaker Martin Atkins / Invisible Records / Museum of PPIM Chicago / PiL, Killing Joke, NiN, Pigface
Martin Atkins’s 40+ years in the music business span across genres, borders and industries. He was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke. Martin founded industrial supergroup Pigface, alongside Bill Reiflin, and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails (for which he has a Grammy), Ministry, and many more bands. Martin is the Founder and owner of The Museum of Post Punk and Industrial Music in Chicago, Invisible Records (est. 1988), the author of Tour:Smart, Welcome To The Music Business...You’re F*cked!, Band:Smart, and is the Music Industry Studies Coordinator at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Martin is also a producer, drummer, documentary filmmaker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of the music business is, you can pretty much bet that he’ll be in the middle of it!
