Recent reports of renewed payola in the music industry simply underline a much larger issue. Small record labels are looking for ways to wield power against the major labels, which control concert ...

I am from the bootleg culture. I made my name on a pack of dubstep bootlegs in 2006 that ended up getting spun around the world. I am also from hip-hop culture, where DJ Drama's arrest by federal ...

In terms of catalog, the North Carolina-based Tiny Engines was one of the best indie record labels to emerge in the 2010s, boasting incredible releases from the Hotelier, Mannequin Pussy, Illuminati ...

Tiny Engines, the North Carolina–based record label that gained a following for its indie rock roster in the 2010s, has relaunched under a “new management structure.” After originally going on hiatus ...

"To be clear, the issue is not big labels versus small labels." The vinyl boom simply is not stopping. The format did over $1 billion in sales in the United States alone throughout 2021, though with ...