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City Showcase Brings On The Indie Cool

2008-05-19 09:56:25 by zestpr in Guest Music Bloggers
 
The City Showcase Festival cranks up the volume this year with a series of delectable rock/indie driven nights, bringing us the future stars of tomorrow, today. Renowned for discovering the best in new music, City Showcase has in the past introduced us to the likes of Hot Chip, Scouting For Girls, Razorlight, Keane, and Newton Faulkner. Back by...
 
Tags: rock, xfm rock night, city showcase, xfm, xfm rock, city showcase daytime, metro, metro club, night
 
 
 
 
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Gimme Indie Rock, or gimme something else

2008-05-02 19:49:02 by zara in Bon Ton
 
Im on semi-hiatus laziness always hits me around this time of year but I just read an excellent and thought-provoking article at Moistworks. Now those lads at MW are always writing great stuff, which most of you know. And this one is about indie, or should I say, indie, and whether its now viewed as an ideology, or an aesthetic. By which I mean,...
 
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Digital Music Creates Royalty Crisis For Major Recording Artists, But Blessing For Indie Artists

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2008-09-01 21:34:48 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
I constantly wonder about the long term legal ramifications of digital music. How will royalties be tracked and paid once everything goes completely online? This is the million dollar question. A recent article in PC Magazine titled Online Music Sales Muddle Royalties, Lawyers Say (featured on Yahoo news) discussed the royalty chaos that digital...
 
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NOW THATS WHAT I CALL GREAT INDIE ROCK!

2008-02-13 10:00:53 by Infonistacrat in The Music Blog of the Infonistacrat!
 
The past few days, Ive been covering a list from NME magazine of what they consider the greatest Indie Anthems of all times. Not a bad list, certainly a rockin list. As I said yesterday, a list I would be glad to play at anytime. But honestly, take a look at the band on that listare they honestly what we think of when we say indie bands? Oasis?...
 
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Cut Out The Middleman Indie Artists

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2008-06-10 15:43:40 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
In my most recent post I, Wal-Mart #1 Music Retailer in US 2007 , I covered Wal-Marts success as the largest US music retailer in 2007. More importantly, I explained that Indie artists can sell their music at Wal-Mart by signing up with CDBaby and opting for their digital distribution package . CDBaby partners with Liquid Digital Media to sell...
 
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Indie Jam Showcase/Music Boat 2008

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2008-01-02 23:00:00 by Editor in Sonicbids Recently Added Opportunities
Indie Jam Showcase/Music Boat 2008 Deadline: Apr 4, 2008 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Tom Jackson has been one of the leading onstage consultant/producers for tours, showcases and shows in the music industry. His passion is to develop an artist's onstage skills, and to produce shows that are unique. Tom Jackson Productions and Premier Christian...
 
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Indie Week Toronto 2008

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2008-01-21 23:00:00 by Editor in Sonicbids Recently Added Opportunities
Indie Week Toronto 2008 Deadline: Jul 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Perform at Toronto's 5th Annual INDIE WEEK and get noticed INDIE WEEK strives on being an artist friendly festival that provides opportunities for networking, exposure, and education by having industry panels and seminars mixed in with artist showcases. The festival...
 
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The Narrowing Gap Between Indie Rock and Rachael Ray

2008-03-13 09:34:10 by admin in blog.mp3adrenalin.com
 
In which I dont totally have a point, but nonetheless talk a little about hipsterdoms relation to appetite, and whether or not a band can sell out anymore My weekend was so oppressively sad I ended up watching Rachael Ray Feeds Your Pets on Saturday night. Part of the show, however, was filmed at the llama farm in Granby, and as a result, a food...
 
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Site Specific: Where Indie Hip-Hop Lives

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2008-03-31 17:45:41 by Evan Serpick in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
Hip-hop singles are top sellers at iTunes, but the genres albums sell poorly online only seven percent of hip-hop full-lengths sold are downloaded, versus ten percent of albums overall. Still, indie-rap fans are a different breed. Theyre buying complete albums they have favorites, they can name the classics, says Jay Andreozzi, general manager...
 
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