Tag Archive for the term: indie news

Speech Debelle took top honours last night for her album Speech Therapy, featuring arrangements by Lotek HiFi for double bass, live drums, clarinet and more, released on indie label group Big Dada / Ninja Tune.
www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
http://www.ninjatune.net/home/
http://www.myspace.com/lotekhifi

Salut friends from Montreal and afar,
Hope this note finds you healthy and happy wherever you may be! Just a little email to let you know that I’m alive and kicking. I’ve been on the road this summer touring my latest record “Accidental Railway,” resurrecting Lederhosen Lucil (it had been almost 3 years!), and visiting friends [...]

Jumping out ahead of the legal indie music videos online pack of scrambling websites, is the valiant Irish music video start up Muzu.tv!
Muzu this week signed a deal with Merlin, the European based group with an international overview which unites indie labels and artists for collective bargaining purposes.
When you are content creator you have [...]

Like the Sex Pistols’ January ‘78 tour of the Deep South, The Black Lips recent expedition to India was marked by a series of fairly seismic culture shocks. Everything from bottle-throwing fans at a gig in Pune, to livid show promoters in Chennai, all in response to a bunch of full-frontal punk rock provocateurs from [...]

Epic fail, sounds like, and classic miss on the logic of the new network economy:
Death Cab For Cutie’s record label is Atlantic, which is a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. When you go to the DCFC website you can’t watch any of the band’s videos. This is failure and irony on several levels.
It [...]

“We’re excited to bring Paper Garden Records on board and lend a helping hand to a fellow blossoming label. PGR has a sincere love and passion for music and artists that we find inspiring.”
– Rebecca Laurie, Team Love

Check out Peasant’s “Exposure” mp3 here
Check out Darla Farmer’s “Big Accident” mp3 here
Check out Emanuel [...]

At last the death knell begins to sound for the relatively ridiculous idea of DRM or Digital Rights Management, and Itunes gets to take another leap forward, for better or worse, according to this article from the Wired blog:
After years of fits, starts, threats and ultimatums, Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to [...]

New data suggests what many indie musicians have come to discover, the Long Tail effect does not necessarily mean they will sell records:
The internet was supposed to bring vast choice for customers, access to obscure and forgotten products – and a fortune for sellers who focused on niche markets.
But a study of digital music sales [...]

Hi All – Just wanted to pass on this quick and inexpensive rallying call for CKUT radio station. There are very good reasons to send some bones to radio below, but I tell you, in my experience, CKUT is an incredibly welcoming and supportive media experience. People are learning on the spot and making mistakes [...]

Interesting…
Lionsgate will exclusively use music from Wind-up Records for its VH1 reality show “Scream Queens,” and prominently features Wind-up acts such as Seether in the upcoming action thriller PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, premiering December 5th, with the soundtrack dropping on November 26th.
Lionsgate Music President Jay Faires said, “Wind-up is the most influential rock-leaning independent label in [...]