London-based singles only label, Young & Lost Club was a University-born project that now, three years later, is thriving in the competitive waters of the music industry. But with the ways we digest music becoming ever more diverse and bands losing money through the digital sector, what’s stopping the independents from going under? Nadia Dahlawi, cofounder of Young & Lost Club with Sara Jade, took time out of trying to balance a record label to talk to E-ndustry about the indust... Read Full Story
Tommy Comstock is very active in the DIY music scene in the south of England. He writes and plays acoustic songs, going on tours of houses around the UK, as well as playing trombone in The Psyche Out Musikland Big Band. He also puts on acoustic shows in his house, and electric shows in local venues. He has released several offerings on small label Vegetable Massacre Recordings, mostly available on short runs on cassette tape.
This year, he has recorded a full-length album, and is planning to ... Read Full Story
Moral Dilemma
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Moral Dilemma are a London 3-piece punk band who started out a few years ago playing in squats around the capital. Last summer they released their debut full-length Right To Remain Silent. The band defied many people by managing to record all eleven tracks in less than a day, as this was all the time they could afford with well-known producer legend Pete Miles. They wanted to do the album justice by releasing it properly, with a full case in... Read Full Story
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On 15 February, Sean Adams – founder of DrownedinSound.com (DiS) – came into City University to give a talk on his personal experiences with the internet and music industry, and where he thinks this is going in the future. He also spoke about how the press would change because of these advances.
DiS is a website carrying music reviews and features. It started life as an email fanzine, finally getting its own web space in 2000. It was be... Read Full Story
Punch Puppet
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Davey Puppet sees the industry from two perspectives - both in his pop-punk band Punchpuppet who self-released their EP a couple of years ago, and gave most of the copies of it away, and in his job sorting out royalties for a London-based music publisher. Davey explained the technicalities of the effects of music downloading on the industry side of things, then went on to describe his own personal experiences of free music distribution.
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The London Development Agency (LDA) announced today that their latest proposal is to throw bags of money at the capital’s music business. Managed by the Association of Independent Music (AIM), the grant is intended to help London’s small music companies in exploiting opportunities and meeting challenges of the digital music sector.
Kicking off in April, and running until September 2009, the scheme will provide a number of opportunities for free or subsidized business advice, access to researc... Read Full Story
With the new year brings new formats, so the Independent’s cyberman Rhodri Marsden has done a critique of the digitial world of music and questioned the relevance of our stacks of cds, cassettes and vinyl.
“There’s always a persistent, low-level chatter across the internet about revolutionary new ways to consume music. Record companies are constantly jockeying for position, anxious not to back an outlet for their material that might quickly be outmanoeuvred by some other groundbre... Read Full Story
Geoff Travis opened his first Rough Trade store in Notting Hill in February 1976 and has been setting music trends throughout the world ever since. Two years after the store launch, Rough Trade Records (RTR) was established and paved the way for greats such as The Smiths, The Fall and The Libertines. But as the internet rapidly expands with an influx of digital downloads, blogs and networking sites, how will the almighty record label cope?
They may become redundant but I think we’... Read Full Story
