Music: Rockâs Balkanized Route to the Indies
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With bouzoukis and pipas in hand, indie rock goes global. Buzz ensues.
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For all of the talk of him playing weird music, Peel played Status Quo&#39;s &quot;Whatever you want&quot; the other week. He played music as it actually is: an unholy mess, a mixture of old and new, some bands having sold
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It is a dark time for record labels  and mainstream radio, but the people who pick music for video  games say there has never been a better time to be an aspiring  rock star.
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The transformation of my musical life happened slowly. I used to bring an envelope of CDs to work and play them through my computer&#39;s CD-ROM drive.
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By Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 15--These are inspirational times for indie-rock bands, who are combining grass-roots efforts with technology to get their music heard without help from record labels.
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Blog: New entrant into the online music scene is a potential haven for indie musicians--but how will it do in an already crowded online music market?
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It is mood music conforming to the sentimental nature of the story that sets the album apart.
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Armed with stacks of vinyl, high-speed Internet and a shared conviction, a far-flung contingent of musicians and aficionados is bringing lost jazz back using the WebÂs electronic airwaves.
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This interesting documentary focuses on the sad state of the music business.
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More than 50 years ago, rock and roll music developed in African-American communities as a hybrid of rhythm and blues and gospel styles.
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Revisiting the best online music store for indie fans.
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If you haven't noticed yet, (which means you haven't been turning on the radio or flipping on your MTV for a few months) there is an explosion at modern rock stations across the country with a new popular sound. It's best described as a testosterone driven hybrid of rap, rock, and funk.
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For many of us, it seems like a long time since the battle of the bands was waged on the front pages of the media. It started with Napster, an illegal file sharing service that made it possible
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The past few years have been  bittersweet for music retail in Los Angeles. The opening of  Amoeba Records in 2001 gave the city one of the stronger music  outlets in America, but was followed soon by the closings of  Aron&#39;s Records and Rhino Records.
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A new-music group spreads its roots while keeping its indie-band identity.
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Collectively, independent record labels are a sleeping giant waking up and demanding its due. Think many Davids versus a few Goliaths. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Technology is taking the middleman out of the music business, giving artists a bigger array of tools to get their songs in the MP3 players of potential fans around the world.