Indie Music in the News

For me, what’s even most affecting about experimental electronic artist Laurel Halo is her voice.

FIRSTS is a weekly video series in which artists tell us about their first musical experiences. This week St. Vincent shares her secret to malicious karaoke selection: Don McLean.

FIRSTS is a weekly video series in which artists tell us about their first musical experiences. This week St. Vincent shares her secret to malicious karaoke selection Don McLean.

So indie-guitar music in Britain is in the doldrums, is it? Try telling that to The Maccabees. In a world of Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna, the London five-piece are bucking the trend for young white British boys armed with a six-string. Not only is third album "Given to the Wild" their finest by far, but critical platitudes are being matched by commercial success: "Given to the Wild" is a ...

Uncharted is our weekly showcase of rising artists. This week, Jon Pappo profiles Helsinki’s electronic duo Phantom. Helsinki—as the summer settles, the blistering cold enters and the dark nights force the bodies indoors.

Disc Makers recently released 10 Effective Strategies to Get Your Music Noticed by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide. It's a nice free guide that actually shares more tactics than strategies for getting your music noticed and building your fanbase. But let's not quibble over such details when there's good advice to be had and a world to be won...

CD Baby, the world’s largest online distributor of independent music, is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Alliance Entertainment, the largest wholesale distributor of home entertainment audio, video, and software in the United States. CD Baby’s catalog of almost 400k titles from over a quarter million artists around the world will now be available for purchase at all online and brick ...

"10 Effective Promotional Strategies" explores low-cost promotional ideas to help independent musicians get their music noticed.Pennsauken, NJ (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Disc Makers has teamed up with the authors of the acclaimed Indie Band Survival Guide to produce its latest guide entitled: 10 Effective Strategies to Get Your Music Noticed: Promotional strategies for independent musicians. Authors ...

The Portland Cello Project, which comes to Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts on Monday, brings an indie music sensibility to an instrument that is most commonly associated with strait-laced orchestral music. The group's repertoire spans classical masters, modern composers and decidedly non-orchestral music, including tunes by Jay-Z and Brittany Spears.

HOLLYWOOD, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After being nominated in four categories by the Indie Music Channel awards (Best Pop Artist of the Year, Best female Pop Artist, Best Teen Song of the Year, Best ...