Iceland’s Smekkleysa Label Celebrates 20 Years
Iceland’s Smekkleysa recording company is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In 1986 the single "ammaeli" was released in Iceland later to become a world wide hit under the name "Birthday". Since. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 11-12-06
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 CALE/CLAPTON|ROAD TO ESCONDIDO 2 PAVEMENT|WOWEE ZOWEE: SORDID S 3 BECK|INFORMATION 4 DEFTONES|SATURDAY NIGHT WRIST 5 FOO FIGHTERS|SKIN AND BONES 6 WHO|ENDLESS WIRE 7 JONES*JIM|HUSTLER’S P.O.M.E.. Continue reading
Victory Sues EMI & Virgin Over Hawthorne Heights
Victory Records has sued Virgin Records and EMI claiming they attempted to poach Victory’s biggest act Hawthorne Heights. Hawthorne had filed suit in August to end their contract with Victory.. Continue reading
eMusic Snags Victory Downloads
Indie label Victory has long been know for it’s aggressive and creative promotion including MySpace, digital street teams and more. But they’ve been slow to embrace digital downloads only recently. Continue reading
Emerging Markets Seen As Next Growth Area For Music Business
As the digital music revolution spreads worldwide emerging markets, particularly China and Russia, have seen increasing start-up and partnership activity. Most emerging markets have been plagued by both physical and. Continue reading
No More Mailed Promos From Matador
Indie Matador has decided to heck with the US Mail and is experimenting with delivering promo and review copies via download. Hypebot knows of some "digital only" labels that have. Continue reading
Barenaked Ladies Score As Indie
The Barenaked Ladies grossed $978,127.99 in revenue from intellectual property in its first week music sales from their new album, Barenaked Ladies Are Free (Desperation Records/Nettwerk Music Group). Understanding this. Continue reading
Yahoo! Offers Another MP3 Download. But Why Not Offer More?
Yahoo!Music chief David Goldberg has been very vocal that downloads should be DRM free mp3’s and he inches that agenda forward with a second major label mp3 offering. Disney’s Hollywood. Continue reading
More Indie Reaction To Tower Bankruptcy & Retail Woes
Part 2 Of A Series: Our friends at world music publicity firm Rock Paper Scissors polled some heads of indie labels on the recent Tower bankruptcy, other cutbacks in the. Continue reading
Film Answers “What Is Indie?”
At a time when independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before, "What is INDIE?" is a documentary film that tries. Continue reading
