Danny Ross sat down to chat with Robby Morris, the creative director of indie powerhouse the Secretly Group, which is responsible for the releases of Bon Iver, Angel Olsen, The War On Drugs and others about why image is so important in the streaming age. ______________________________ Guest post by Danny…
Category archives: Indie Labels
Record Stores Follow Black Friday with Small Business Saturday Exclusives, Sales and Events
[UPDATED] The team and growing network of indie stores behind Record Store Day are celebrating both Black Friday and Small Business Saturday this weekend with an extensive array of exclusive releases, special sales, in-store performances, signings and events. Most exclusives (extensive list below) debuted on Black Friday. On Saturday, Record…
Music Orgs. Slam ‘YouTube’s Fact Free Fear-Mongering’
IMPALA, IFPI and three other major music industry organizations have issued a strongly worded joint statement pushing back against Google and YouTube claims that pending EU Article 13 legislation will blunt creativity and cripple the video platform. "YouTube’s campaign against Article 13 of the Copyright Directive shows a lack of…
Grammy Nominees To Be Announced Dec. 5
The Grammy Awards final nominees will be announced on December 5th , starting with the announcement of top categories on CBS This Morning starting at 8:30 a.m. ET. Approximately 15 minutes later, the Recording Academy will reveal the nominees in all 84 categories on grammy.com and social media. The 61st…
BUSINESS OF INDIE: Swift Goes Major • Glassnote Goes AWAL • Recording Academy Changes • More
In this 2nd edition of our continously updated Business Of Indie compendium of independent music news, we share stories on Taylor Swift’s exit from indie Big Machine to UMG, Glassnote’s switch from UMG to AWAL (Do they cancel each other out?), changes in Recording Academy membership to increase diversity and…
Big Radio Payments To Artists, Producers, Labels Are Overdue [A2IM’s Richard James Burgess]
While radio stations have provided compensation to songwriters and music publishers, they have never never paid record labels, artists, or producers, something which, Richard James Burgess of A2IM believes, it’s high time to change. ___________________________ By A2IM CEO Richard James Burgess. This first appeared in Variety I was glued to…
Glassnote Moves Distribution From UMG To Kobalt’s AWAL
Indie label Glassnote Music has shifted its digital and physical distribution to Kobalt’s AWAL, after years at Universal Music Group. Glassnote artists include Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, CHVRCHES, Childish Gambino, The Strumbellas, and Jade Bird. Glassnote will also leverage Kobalt and AWAL’s global marketing, radio promotion and data analytics platform….
11 Musicians You Didn’t Know Were Independent
Conventional wisdom is that an artist has to be on a major label to have major success in the music industry. But these 11 top artists are proving that the major label paradigm has shifted, Indie is in. Some have left major labels; but most have always been strictly independent,…
Latin Music Is Now YouTube’s Dominate Genre
Latin music and artists have become a force to be reckoned with on YouTube. At the start of 2017 there were 5 videos from Latin artists in YouTube’s Billion Views Club, and as of today, there are 41. More than half of the top 100 most-viewed music videos of 2018…
CDs Are Dead! …Or Are They?
Although vinyl has been making a significant comeback in the age of streaming, the CD has largely been thought of as a relic of the past. New data suggests, however, that calling time of death on the CD may have been premature. _____________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music…