“The article is indicative of a common misunderstanding about the many roles performed in an artist’s career. Artists can succeed without a major label, but a decent career is going to be hard to achieve without the other traditional components: manager, lawyer, booking agent, publisher, web designer and maybe indie label. As you can see, an indie artist is independent only of a major label contract, not of agents, consultants, representation or standard expenses that take up their share of the artist’s income.”
Coolfer from the blog post Let’s Re-define the Term “Indie” inspired by the Wall Street Journal article Indie Artists Drum Up Corporate Ties
Defining indie is a challange for a lot of people especially considering all the grey areas there are. For example, being distributed by a major label owned company, or being on a major label in a different country but on an indie label here in the U.S. To me, independent is a band whose bread and butter is controlled in majority by an independent entity like a label not in cahoots by the big 4.
What is indie to you?
