Indie Music

Long-time ONErpm employee Casey Childers has been promoted to lead the new Digital Strategy department at the company.

Nashville-based Childers was most recently Senior Project Manager at ONErpm, where she was the central marketing strategist for artists including Chri$tian Gate$, Jordi, PLVTINUM, Taylor Acorn, Elohim and Against the Current. She will report to ONErpm’s Head of US Marketing Jenna LoMonaco.

For the past decade, vinyls have made a comeback for the ages for the music industry and fans alike. What once was considered an acquired taste has become

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) - Better Noise Music (BNM), a leading rock indie music label founded in 2006 by industry veteran and independent trailblazer Allen Kovac, continues its evolution with three changes at the executive level,

Onesheet was acquired by Chartmetric in October 2022…

Pew's survey of U.S. adults reports that a majority of U.S. adult Twitter users, or 60%, said they have taken a break from Twitter for "several weeks or more" over the past year.

Exclusives from 4AD, Because, Fire and more.

Independent Label Market has shared exclusives available from participating labels at its Spring mark in Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross.

In March, as part of our coverage of Utopia Music’s troubles, we wondered aloud what its plans were for its physical distribution subsidiaries: Proper Music Group and Cinram Novum.

Reports had suggested that Utopia might be looking to sell them, but now it has doubled down on that side of its business instead.

This morning, the company has announced a warehousing and logistics contract with DP World, one of the big companies in that sector, with the contract including plans for a 25,000-square-metre warehouse housing stock from Utopia’s Distribution Services division.

openplay inc. , provider of the music industry's leading platform for asset and catalog management, announced today the rollout of their new Video Delivery feature. Designed as an extension of their Direct Delivery product, the new feature lets OpenPlay users who have secured their own licensing deals with DSPs, either directly or through a third party such as Merlin, to quickly and seamlessly deliver their video assets and corresponding metadata to all major music services (DSPs) with the push of a button

Hosted by Hannibal Buress featuring Margo Price, Shemekia Copeland, Gaby Moreno, Richard + Spencer Zahn, Sudan Archives, Seratones, Tamtam; honoring Marshall Allen and The Sun Ra Arkestra and Martha Reeves of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas!

TuneCore, a DIY music distribution company owned by Believe, has teamed up with The Beatport Group, a portfolio of music companies for DJs and producers, to provide a new platform for TuneCore artists.

The alliance will allow TuneCore artists to distribute their songs to Beatport users, expanding their reach to an audience of electronic music fans, tastemakers, professional DJs and the platform’s in-house curation team.

A2IM Board members offer their expertise to represent the membership at large, and assist in setting the priorities and overall direction for the organization.

 A2IM Board of Directors’ terms run for three years. Each board seat term is limited to one full three-year term. Any board member and member company serving a full three-year term must sit out one year at the conclusion of their term before being eligible to run for election again.

Live Nation will offer $99 all-in day passes to participating festivals during its upcoming Festival Weekend. Learn more here.

Beats launches $169 Studio Buds + with a transparent option. There are some nice tweaks, but mostly people will care about color.

raveWords.com is excited to announce the formation of BraveWords Records Ltd. BraveWords Records launch with global PR and distribution networks set to not only be fully competitive with the current label marketplace but to exceed it, we want to work with both established and exciting new artists as they plan the next stage of their careers. 

From Creation to Factory, we take a look at the fiercely independent record labels that have meant the most over the years.

The Americana Music Association has revealed the nominees for its 22nd annual Americana Honors & Awards. Gina Miller, SVP and GM of MNRK Music Group and member of the Americana Music Association’s Board of Directors, served as the host for today’s (May 9) announcement event, which was held at the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) and featured performances from S.G. Goodman, The McCrary Sisters and Margo Price.

Indie licensing agency Merlin has announced a global licensing deal that lets Merlin members and their artists participate in FPR on SoundCloud.

Just over two years ago, European indies body Impala published a 10-point plan for reforming the streaming economy. Now it’s revisited and reworked those ideas for a new plan.

The lead now is a call to “grow overall streaming revenues and end dilution” which includes raising the prices of music subscriptions in line with inflation, as well as tackling ‘value gaps’.