Category: Independent labels
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Music DAO Deep Dives, Pt. 2: Sone’s vision for public music goods
January 25 2022
Sone is a music DAO spun off from the longstanding indie record label Topshelf Records. The ultimate vision for Sone is not necessarily to build a “Web3 label,” but rather to produce public goods for music.
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Music DAO Deep Dives, Pt. 1: Dreams Never Die puts community before tech
January 19 2022
This breakdown is part of an ongoing, members-only interview series focused on artist and label DAOs, as part of Season 1.5 of our ongoing collaborative research on music and Web3.
Artists
Is Bandcamp’s new vinyl pressing service a ripoff?
April 14 2021
A&R
The music industry’s biggest messaging problem
April 07 2021
Independent artists
Indie labels in 2020: A surprising tale of resilience
December 28 2020
Artists
How the labels behind Mitski and Mac DeMarco navigate TikTok
October 20 2020
Artist services
What “Record Deal Simulator” is really telling us
October 01 2020
Artist services
The democratization of record-label advances
March 25 2020
Artists
The economics of 24/7 lo-fi hip-hop YouTube livestreams
January 29 2020
Artist services
Downtown Music Holdings now owns four music distributors. What’s next?
January 23 2020
Business models
What Stem’s upheaval reveals about music distribution’s new “middle tier”
June 02 2019