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Feb 26, 2007 21:04

I'm working on the first installment of my senior thesis for my pop-music and subculture senior seminar class. I decided to write it on the the different aspects of the independent music business. I've been researching indie labels and artists for the last few hours and have found out so many interesting tid-bits of information that I am compelled ( Read more... )

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p0ny_up February 27 2007, 03:31:07 UTC

and those idiots will all one day bow before us and our awesomeness.

p.s. Sony-BMI is right down the street from where I live.

audio_addict February 28 2007, 06:20:35 UTC

This depressed me a little bit. hahaha

robbyxcore February 28 2007, 08:29:23 UTC

theres no way labels like fueled by ramen could afford to have fall out boy and panic at the disco at this point. to a lesser extent, tooth and nail with underoath. i'd imagine the only reason they dont just completely sell their names to the labels is because 'indie labels' have a pretty large consumer base.

robbyxcore February 28 2007, 08:30:31 UTC

now what you should do is research some moderately popular indie labels that have as little ties as possible to majors. then find out why!

fender62p_bass March 7 2007, 07:30:08 UTC

A couple of thoughts I'd like to throw out there.....first, there was once a time when being signed to/associated with a major record label was not only a good thing but also not perceived as bad by the bulk of the record buying public. I think a couple of key things started the trend toward this growing negative sentiments toward the major labels. First was the music scene in the 70s. I won't go into a lot of detail here but suffice it to say that various circumstances (economic, sociological, etc.) made it harder for certain types of music that were developing (in part as a response to this phenomenon) to get booked for live gigs (I mainly speak of what developed into early punk) which in turn was the primary means of getting signed to a label (which most bands needed to do as recording and distribution was much less accessible than it is now). This led to places like CBGB in NYC (and this is an extremely important venue to look into if you haven't already - let me know if you want more info) becoming somewhat of a cultural ( ... )