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41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music

41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music

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No Tags

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No Tags is a podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea chronicling underground music culture.

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No guest this week, but plenty of meat as we take our
previous episode with Spotify chronicler Liz
Pelly as a jumping off point to talk about the
idea of independence.

We use the word ‘independence’ a lot on No Tags without really
investigating what we mean by it. In a era when the major labels
are all stake-holders in the biggest streaming platform on Earth,
and are hoovering up indie labels and distributors like never
before, how feasible is it to operate as a truly
independent artist – whatever that means? And how can
the term ‘independent’ apply to indie labels with multiple
offices and millions in the bank as well as one-person DIY
operations?

To explain, we think about the important history of independent
distribution, catch up with the latest music biz headlines
affecting independent artists, and ask ourselves… have the major
labels simply won at this point?

It’s a little lighter elsewhere, as we talk
ghosts (4:15) and debrief
Anora’s Oscar sweep (49:52),
followed by some thoughts on The
Brutalist, Nosferatu
and 1971’s The Working Class Goes to
Heaven.

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