MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: It’s not just artists that need a niche. Publishing and licensing companies have to have a strong idea of who they are, as well – a fact that NYC’s Sunflower Entertainment has a firm hold on.
Co-founded in 2002 by Jamar Chess, Juan Carlos Barguil and Marshall Chess, Read more...
FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Picture it, the Internet, 1999. Napster launches out of a college dorm room in Massachusetts, and becomes one of the biggest forces in the music industry to reckon with. Its mechanism of peer-to-peer music file-sharing causes nothing short of a music-technology revolution, and major Read more...
Artist: Lord Huron/Bad Decision
Song: “Into The Sun” (Bad Decision Mix) – Lord Huron (free, legal download available HERE)
Why I Luv It: Ben Schneider absorbed more than the sunlight once he touched down in Los Angeles. The Michigan transplant’s beautiful Caribbean-inflected songwriting is sunshine incarnate as Lord Huron and Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: We are programmed to receive – and do it digitally. But before we can get all receptive, understanding digital music distribution is a must for pros of every stripe.
Originally founded in San Francisco in 2003 by Matt Laszuk and Bryn Boughton before the pair relocated to NYC Read more...
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN: Like so many indie labels before it, True Panther Sounds began on a whim. Founder Dean Bein and his bandmates in a short-lived San Francisco punk band wanted to go on tour, so they pressed 500 copies of a 7”, booked a DIY tour and promptly sold Read more...
