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The Record is a monthly music magazine in India. It was established in 1998. [1] The magazine covers articles on pop, rock, hip-hop as well as Bollywood music reviews. [2] The magazine is published from Mumbai and published and edited by Sunand Bhojani. [1]
- Music magazine
- Monthly
- 1998
- India
List of music magazines. This is an alphabetical listing of notable printed and online music magazines .
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- History
- Independent Record Labels
- Further Reading
Although "Indie" was first used to described music released on independent record labels, the term grew to describe a specific sound. A defining characteristic of indie music is that artists retain much more creative control over their music as compared to major labels. Indie music generally represents guitar-oriented music which strays away from c...
Origins of independent labels
Independent labels have a long history of promoting developments in popular music, stretching back to the post-war period in the United States, with labels such as Sun Records, King Records, and Stax. In the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s, the major record companies had so much power that independent labels struggled to become established, until the launch of new concepts like Virgin Records.Several British producers and artists launched independent labels as outlets for their work...
Emergence as a style
During the punk rock era, the number of independent labels grew. In the late 1970s, certain UK independent labels (such as Rough Trade, Factory, Fiction, and Mute) contributed to the emergence of a distinct musical style found in indie music, influenced by post-punk and new wave. Important albums that contributed to this style include Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Depeche Mode's Speak & Spell (1981). By the 80s, the indie pop band The Smiths, signed with Rough Trade, "came to ex...
21st century
The internet's ease of spreading information influenced indie music's global spread and popularization in the United States.Music fans no longer relied on publications or magazines to hear about new artists. At the beginning of the 21st century, the term indie came to describe a number of related but distinct subgenres. One example is indie folk, a stripped-back low fidelity approach to folk music, as seen in Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver. Widely popular indie rock bands of this era include Arcade...
Some independent labels distribute their own product while others distribute via a major label. Independents may be owned by a major label who then distribute for them. It can be very difficult for independent bands to sign to a record label that may not be familiar with their specific style. It can take years of dedicated effort, self-promotion, a...
Fonarow, Wendy Cagur. Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music. Wesleyan, 2006. ISBN 0-8195-6811-2
Background See also: The Beatles in India By 1968, the Beatles had achieved commercial and critical success. The group's mid-1967 release, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, until the start of February 1968, having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. Time magazine declared that Sgt. Pepper constituted a "historic departure in the ...
- 30 May – 14 October 1968
- George Martin
- 22 November 1968
The Record was a Canadian music industry magazine that featured record charts, trade news and opinions. History. David Farrell launched the publication in mid-1981, continuing its printed version until August 1999 when The Record continued as a website-based publication.
- David Farrell and Associates
- 13 July 1981
- David Farrell (1981-1991), Martin Melhuish (1991-1993), Steve McLean (1993-2001)
- Weekly
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The Record was a Canadian music industry magazine that featured record charts, trade news and opinions. Contents. History; Closure; References; External links
