Editorial: How to Support Independent Music in a Changing Industry

The music industry is changing, major labels have been losing money since file-sharing started cutting into their profits. Maybe we shouldn’t care, for most major label artists are heavily publicized, pre-packaged for the masses, and generally worse than our favorite indie bands. But how is the shift in industry affecting independent labels? Common sense says that indie labels suffer alongside the big players, but the change in the industry is shifting towards a diversification of music, with more and more people listening to what they really want to hear, instead of what is imposed by the mass media. How you can support indie music in our changing times, after the jump: Continue reading...