Blip, engineered and launched on Fuzz — an indie label music discovery and management platform — by lead engineer Arin Sarkissian, lets users search for song tracks via music search engines Skreemr ...

If there is one constant in the music business, it is change — and in the past few years, the rate of change has accelerated rapidly, as new technologies, new money, new players and new ideas have ...

King Princess feels like she has finally found her tribe of fellow “artistic nerds” roughly a decade into her professional music career. The Brooklyn-based indie pop star — who will be performing at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Tomas Cookman founded Nacional Records 20 years ago, the label immediately ...

Indie rap isn’t about waiting on a label anymore. Artists fund their music through merch, fans, streaming, and smart business moves that keep them free and paid. Back in the day, being an indie rapper ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “Factory was really inclusive,” Golden says. “It offered a lot of ...

Independent music labels return a third of revenue to artists, according to a new report from global advocacy group ORCA. Global think tank and advocacy group ORCA (Organization for Recorded Culture ...

Chuck Coffey has spent 30 years playing in Front Range bands, from the Boulder ska-punk of Mail Order Children to his current turn in Denver’s nationally known Spells, led by feral singer and stand-up ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

The sleek new revamped Myspace has no problem paying major labels for the right to stream their music. But indie labels — and their bands — aren't seeing any of that kickback, and now they're furious ...

(Elana Marie / For De Los; Photos by Jacobo Parra para La Tuna Group; Inti Javiera Gajardo; Edward Sifuentes; Fran Beaufrand; Maria Jose Govea and courtesy of National Records) When Los Angeles-based ...