Indie Music

Intimate Lower East Side venue Rockwood Music Hall is at risk of shutting down. They've launched the Preserve Rockwood campaign to stay open, with a GoFundMe and a series of benefit shows with Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile and Michael Daves, Amy Helm, Elle King, The Lone Bellow, Ingrid Michaelson, and more.

We spoke to Price, Hannibal Burress, The Aces and more on the red carpet of the American Association of Independent Music's Libera Awards

SAN FRANCISCO (CelebrityAccess) - EMPIRE, the SF-area-based record label, publisher and distributor, has appointed Alexandra Moore as its new Chief Business Officer (CBO). With her new position, Moore will lead business and revenue-driving initiatives, overseeing

Across every genre, these are the executives at labels and distributors driving the growing success of the independent music industry.

Cassette tapes are enjoying a bit of a resurgence. But is it because young people actually want to listen to them, or just collect them?

A2IM’s Indie Week 2023 conference will be held from Tuesday, June 13 to Thursday, June 15 at the InterContinental Times Square with over 60+ panels, workshops, and topics from, AI, metadata, publis…

Piracy settlement firm Rightscorp hopes that after success via the major labels, the Indie sector will help reinvigorate its fortunes.

ADA Worldwide, the independent label and artist services division of Warner Music Group, has forged a strategic partnership with Rostrum Records, an independent record label based in Los Angeles.

Under the deal, ADA Worldwide will be responsible for worldwide distribution services for Rostrum’s entire label catalog and new releases, according to a press release shared with MBW on Tuesday (June 6).

Los Angeles-based Rostrum was founded in 2003 by CEO Benjy Grinberg, while he was working at Arista Records, a record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment.

Superstar songwriter Justin Tranter's record label has promised to give its songwriters a share of its recordings royalties.

Florida-headquartered distributor and wholesaler of physical media Alliance Entertainment has published its fiscal Q3 (calendar Q1) results for the three months ending March 31.

Net revenues for the quarter were $227.7 million, compared to $320.4 million in the same period of 2022, a decline of 29% (see below).

The company said this revenue decline was “due mainly to conservative inventory positions by our business-to-business (B2B) customer base and direct to consumer (DTC) sales channels caused by macroeconomic uncertainty.”

IMPALA, the European indie label trade association, announced IMPALA Strategic Primers, a new project launched through a partnership with the UK-based music consultancy Music Ally. Commissioned by Dan Waite, Chair of IMPALA’s Digital Committee with Angel

Just around 3% of U.S. record stores have Black owners. The F.A.M.S. coalition wants to get them more support from the music industry.

A2IM is proud to announce the 2023 Libera Awards winners! Announced live on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at the historic Town Hall in New York City!

Music industry veteran Will Ward has officially launched Fourward Records in Nashville.

The company has already completed a number of signings, which include 18-year old folk pop-artist, Brenn!, in partnership with Justin Lubliner’s Darkroom, as well as indie-rock group Sarah and the Sundays in partnership with AWAL.

After being acquired by SESAC Music Group in March of this year, New York-based content management, analytics, delivery and distribution tech provider AudioSalad has teamed up with Redeye Worldwide, a North Carolina-based distribution and music services company.

Under their partnership, AudioSalad will help enhance Redeye’s global digital delivery and technical services by leveraging AudioSalad’s digital delivery and analytics services, while integrating Redeye’s proprietary platforms.

Marc Geiger has been sued by venue owners over a COVID-19 pandemic deal they made with SaveLive that they say doomed their Palm Springs business.

Chicago’s Bloodshot Records was a powerful and pioneering force in the alt-country movement of the 1990s and beyond, defining the genre with a roster of breakthrough artists including the Robbie Fulks, Old 97s, Alejandro Escovedo, the Waco Brothers, Neko Case, Justin Townes Earle, and the Bottle Rockets. In 2021, 27 years after its first release, label co-founders Nan Warshaw and Rob Miller sold Bloodshot to Exceleration Music, a global investment group that either owns the catalogs of or has strategic partnerships with other legacy labels like Alligator Records and Kill Rock Stars.

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) -- British musician, label executive and president of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) Richard James Burgess, MBE, has written an open letter calling on the Copyright Royalty Board to implement

This week, the company launched its second product, IC Full Service, which it is describing as “a remote royalties department for hire”.

It’s essentially offering owners of music catalogues not just the software to manage their royalties, but a remote team to do it for them.

The new service has a sliding scale of pricing, starting at $100 a month for catalogues with up to $10k of monthly income, then $200 for those with $10k-$20k, and $300 for those with $20k-$50k. Anything above that is a bespoke quote, but in all cases the software pricing is additional.

Local artists are popping up all the time, starting labels, artist collectives and other groups. But why follow the independent road? Why not just do it the old-fashioned way, send your demos to a major label and go from there? For decades, bands have been moving into the market share of the music business by […]

Renowned UK label, Moving Shadow has released its full back catalogue to Spotify, work spanning over 200 EPs and over 30 albums.

The breakbeat hardcore, jungle and drum ‘n’ bass label has been running since 1990, with its catalogue of artists including E-Z Rollers, Dom & Roland, Foul Play, Future Prophecies and Corrupt Souls.