After surviving an impressive thirty years in a decidedly volatile music industry, Cooking Vinyl owner Martin Goldschmidt sat down with the people at PledgeMusic to discuss both the history, and projected future of his label moving forward. _______________________ Guest Post on PledgeMusic News Martin Goldschmidt is proud to have just…
Category archives: Indie Labels
Memphis Industries On Running An Independent Label
Topspin’s Jim Wallis talks with Matt and Ollie Jacob, brothers and co-founders of London-based indie label Memphis Industries about running a label and how direct-to-fan plays work as an aspect of their business model. _________________________ Guest Post by Jim Wallis on Topspin Memphis Industries is a London-based independent record label,…
Independent Music Store Chart Week Ending 10.28.16
[UPDATED] This weekly chart comes from The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), a collective of 50 independently owned record stores in 25 states throughout the U.S. CIMS Weekly Chart Week Ending 10/28/2016 Related articles Today Is Record Store Day. Get Off Your Ass And Go Buy Something Record Store…
Ditto Music Adds 7th Global Office In Sweden
Ditto Music is opening their seventh worldwide office in Stockholm Sweden. Ditto serves as the digital distribution and label services arm of 100,000 artists globally. _________________________________ On November 11th, digital distributor and label services firm Ditto Music is opening their seventh worldwide office in Stockholm Sweden Founded in 2006, Ditto…
Indie Band Teams With Brewery To Release Album On A Beer Can [VIDEO]
Beer and music have a long history collaboration. Furthering the relationship, indie rockers The Lights Out and Aeronaut Brewing Co. have collaborated to create T.R.I.P., a sci-fi album on a beer can. I’ll admit that when I read the press release headline, I was hoping that the beer can turned…
Non-Discretionary Pricing: Why Spotify Costs 63% More In UK Than US [Mark Mulligan]
The price of streaming music subscriptions is a contentious ongoing debate within the industry. Is $10 per month too much or too little. Would twice as many people pay if a subscription were half the price? It’s a complex question that the industry has answered badly with pricing that means…
Shunned By Radio, Hard Rock Is Still Alive And Well In America
In this piece Glenn Peoples looks at hard rock and metal’s roll in the industry, for although the style of music has little to no prevalence on commercial radio, new tracks are gaining popularity on streaming services like Pandora. ____________________________ Guest post by Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at…
Are The Record Labels Of The Future Already Here?
As advancements in technology continues to shift the music business landscape, the role of record labels has become uncertain. Here Cherie Hu examines what future record labels might look like, and if they might already be here. __________________________ Guest post by Cherie Hu For record labels, technological change has created…
This Is How Spotify Could Become A Next Generation Record Label [Mark Mulligan]
"Spotify’s future is going to be much more than being the future of music retail," says industry analyst Mark Mulligan, who expects "Spotify to lay the foundations for a bold platform strategy that has the potential to change the face of the recorded music business as we know it." __________________________________________…
Chuck Berry To Celebrate 90th Birthday With Release Of First Album In 38 Years On Dualtone
Rock icon Chuck Berry had a surprise for his fans on his 90th birthday when he announced that he was releasing his first album in 38 years. _______________________________ Set to be released on Nashville’s Dualtone label next year, details about the album are few, but a statement released by the…