Comments on: PodTech News: Independent Music Business Model = Freedom http://www.podtech.net/home/256/podtech-news-drm-is-not-the-answer-2 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Dell Power Supply Pinout http://www.podtech.net/home/256/podtech-news-drm-is-not-the-answer-2#comment-23079 Dell Power Supply Pinout Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:20:29 +0000 http://www.podtech.net/home/256/podtech-news-drm-is-not-the-answer-2#comment-23079 Thank you, I could not have sead it better my self. Thank you, I could not have sead it better my self.

]]> By: rajbala http://www.podtech.net/home/256/podtech-news-drm-is-not-the-answer-2#comment-183 rajbala Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:45:47 +0000 http://www.podtech.net/home/256/podtech-news-drm-is-not-the-answer-2#comment-183 Your characterization of independent music as being comprised of "a few good artists mixed with a sea of mediocre local bar bands" before the internet is complete conjecture on your part. Independent bands, labels, and distribution have existed long before MP3s and the internet became popular. Can you name any of them? Merge, Matador, Homestead, Sub Pop, Drag City, KRS, Fat Cat, Paper Bag, Secretly Canadian and Domino are some of the labels. Shall I name the artists as well? Plenty of great indie musicians, producers, engineers, and labels have been around before the internet. "But the web has helped to promote some quality." Wrong. It's just made the music more accessible to people who want to hear it created and distributed without the ill intent of the major labels. Not to disrespect the band, but Megaphone is not what I would consider to be quality independent music. Megaphone might be an acceptable gateway to those who've been born and bred on commericial radio or think Staind and Scott Stapp are truly alternative when they've just been co-opted by the major label marketers. Jens Lekman on Secretly Canadian out of Bloomington, Indiana existed well before the internet was made popular with MP3 distribution and the like. Your inclusion of Jens in your piece was your only saving grace, but that you didn't connect the fact that Jens is Swedish, Secretly Canadian from Indiana and his success worldwide says that you really don't get what technology has done for independent music. Raj Your characterization of independent music as being comprised of “a few good artists mixed with a sea of mediocre local bar bands” before the internet is complete conjecture on your part.

Independent bands, labels, and distribution have existed long before MP3s and the internet became popular. Can you name any of them? Merge, Matador, Homestead, Sub Pop, Drag City, KRS, Fat Cat, Paper Bag, Secretly Canadian and Domino are some of the labels. Shall I name the artists as well? Plenty of great indie musicians, producers, engineers, and labels have been around before the internet.

“But the web has helped to promote some quality.” Wrong. It’s just made the music more accessible to people who want to hear it created and distributed without the ill intent of the major labels.

Not to disrespect the band, but Megaphone is not what I would consider to be quality independent music. Megaphone might be an acceptable gateway to those who’ve been born and bred on commericial radio or think Staind and Scott Stapp are truly alternative when they’ve just been co-opted by the major label marketers.

Jens Lekman on Secretly Canadian out of Bloomington, Indiana existed well before the internet was made popular with MP3 distribution and the like.

Your inclusion of Jens in your piece was your only saving grace, but that you didn’t connect the fact that Jens is Swedish, Secretly Canadian from Indiana and his success worldwide says that you really don’t get what technology has done for independent music.

Raj

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