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Interview with Nadia Dahlawi

London-based singles only label, Young & Lost Club was a University-born project that now, three years later, is thriving in the competitive waters of the music industry. But with the ways we digest music becoming ever more diverse and bands losing money through the digital sector, what’s stopping the independents from going under? Nadia Dahlawi, cofounder of Young & Lost Club with Sara Jade, took time out of trying to balance a record label to talk to E-ndustry about the industry.

Interview with Tommy Comstock

Tommy Comstock is very active in the DIY music scene in the south of England. He writes and plays acoustic songs, going on tours of houses around the UK, as well as playing trombone in The Psyche Out Musikland Big Band. He also puts on acoustic shows in his house, and electric shows in local venues. He has released several offerings on small label Vegetable Massacre Recordings, mostly available on short runs on cassette tape.

This year, he has recorded a full-length album, and is planning to tour houses in the Netherlands and America with his music.

He discusses the tactics of the music industry from a grassroots perspective.

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Canadian freshers Born Ruffians are about to release their new single ‘Hummingbird’ a couple of months prior to their thigh-slapping, folk-pop LP, Red, Yellow & Blue. They’re certainly ones to watch for just about every publication this year, but would they have been this well received in the days before the internet? Steve Hamelin (drums) and Mitch DeRosier (bass) took a break from their busy schedule of photo shoots and promotional meetings with the Skins cast to chat to E-ndustry.

Interview with Craig from Moral Dilemma

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Moral Dilemma are a London 3-piece punk band who started out a few years ago playing in squats around the capital. Last summer they released their debut full-length Right To Remain Silent. The band defied many people by managing to record all eleven tracks in less than a day, as this was all the time they could afford with well-known producer legend Pete Miles. They wanted to do the album justice by releasing it properly, with a full case including artwork. However, they found this increasingly difficult with the climate of labels wanting to take a risk on a smaller band, so eventually they found a way to self-release it.

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Sean Adams speaks at City University

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On 15 February, Sean Adams – founder of DrownedinSound.com (DiS) – came into City University to give a talk on his personal experiences with the internet and music industry, and where he thinks this is going in the future. He also spoke about how the press would change because of these advances.

DiS is a website carrying music reviews and features. It started life as an email fanzine, finally getting its own web space in 2000. It was begun as a way for users to discuss bands they felt were ignored by the mainstream music press at the time, such as Muse and Biffy Clyro.

Still at the relatively young age of 27, Sean has seen things from many different perspectives within the music industry, but has a lot of scope for its transgression in the 21^st century. 

Interview with Davey Puppet

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Davey Puppet sees the industry from two perspectives – both in his pop-punk band Punchpuppet who self-released their EP a couple of years ago, and gave most of the copies of it away, and in his job sorting out royalties for a London-based music publisher. Davey explained the technicalities of the effects of music downloading on the industry side of things, then went on to describe his own personal experiences of free music distribution.

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AIM team up with the LDA to give London a £650,000 boost into the digital sector

The London Development Agency (LDA) announced today that their latest proposal is to throw bags of money at the capital’s music business. Managed by the Association of Independent Music (AIM), the grant is intended to help London’s small music companies in exploiting opportunities and meeting challenges of the digital music sector.

Kicking off in April, and running until September 2009, the scheme will provide a number of opportunities for free or subsidized business advice, access to research, information and work experience and skills training for London’s music corporations.The plan was developed by the AIM general manager, Remi Harris, and board member, Rosie Bryant, and will be made available to eligible minor music businesses in London – from artists to venues, publishers, managers, labels and more. The project also aims to target support at under-represented groups in the industry including companies led by women, black and ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.

Miss Remi said: “It was clear from our research that there is huge untapped potential in the exploitation of digital technologies for London’s small music companies. I hope that this service is able to have a wide-reach into all aspects of the music industry in London, and at all levels of expertise.”

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Is the idea of owning your music now just as outdated as the LP?

With the new year brings new formats, so the Independent’s cyberman Rhodri Marsden has done a critique of the digitial world of music and questioned the relevance of our stacks of cds, cassettes and vinyl.

“There’s always a persistent, low-level chatter across the internet about revolutionary new ways to consume music. Record companies are constantly jockeying for position, anxious not to back an outlet for their material that might quickly be outmanoeuvred by some other groundbreaking idea. But over the past few weeks, many have signed agreements to give tunes away for free under an advertising-supported model…”

Click here to read the rest of the article and check out the links below to compare the best (legal) collections of music to play online, for free:

We7.com
Qtrax.com 
last.fm
iTunes

Interview with Geoff Travis from Rough Trade

Geoff Travis opened his first Rough Trade store in Notting Hill in February 1976 and has been setting music trends throughout the world ever since. Two years after the store launch, Rough Trade Records (RTR) was established and paved the way for greats such as The Smiths, The Fall and The Libertines. But as the internet rapidly expands with an influx of digital downloads, blogs and networking sites, how will the almighty record label cope?