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12-19-2009, 12:03 PM | #53 (permalink) |
Music Addict
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I still don't understand what you're saying. Do you mean independent music as in music having nothing to do with major labels? Because you're talking about Rolling Stone, and of course they will have basically nothing like that. The magazine is just out to make money. I could think of several magazines off the top of my head that I think are written more out of love for music than to make a profit that definitely focus on independent artists. And I'm not talking about Pitchfork music.
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12-19-2009, 12:33 PM | #54 (permalink) |
The Sexual Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Somewhere cooler than you
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I'll give an example of what i'm saying..
Say you were going to do a list of the greatest 80s albums. Even the most mainstream of magazines would include genuine independent labels from those times like Rough Trade, SST, 4AD, Beggers Banquest, Mute...and so on and so on. Even the lists back then in mainstream magazines had albums put out by these labels on them. How do I know this? Because that's how I found out about these labels and bands. If you were to do a 90s list you could pretty much say the same thing. But now it's not the case, the fact is the big 4 record companies dominate everything and little else has any chance of getting through, even with the internet at their disposal. And that list is living proof of that.
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