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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It's a losing battle for sure, as rock snobs will admit, but the Hives have done their bit.
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By Jeff Leeds  For all the disquiet the Internet has fostered in the music business, almost every rock star and record-label executive is intrigued with the prospect of marketing to music fans directly instead of wrangling over exposure with radio programmers and retailers.
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The classic American midlife crisis has found a new outlet: garage-band rock ânâ roll.
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Up-and-coming rockers don't need million-dollar videos, A-list publicists, or glowing
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This self-described Brooklyn bar band has toured the country and taken notes.
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The contracting state of the music industry has created untrampled space for the performing and executive Diaspora of the major labels.
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This past year marked the  beginning of a revolutionary experiment to sell and distribute  digital music to and from mobile phones. The stage is only just  being set, with the business models, pricing and marketing  issues still evolving.
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Jens Lekman, the Swedish indie rocker, came to New York, but something seemed odd.
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Nic and Nicole hope to climb the Indi-Pop charts with their first album.
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The music channel is trying to make its way in a multidevice, multiplatform, multichannel world and has suffered a decline in ratings and cultural cachet.
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With the genre's sales plummeting, rap and its entrepreneurial artists are looking for a turnaround strategy
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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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Lebanon's underground music scene sees its own demise in the fading promise of the 'Cedar Revolution'
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The hard-rock band Audioslave arose   from the ashes of two chart-topping groups that broke up at the   peak of their success -- Soundgarden and Rage Against the   Machine.
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True rock &#39;n&#39; roll only lands on mainstream airwaves these days when someone dies. And bop-rock pioneers the Ramones have had their share of radio spurts in recent years.
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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.