Previously: The post Record labels attempt to bankrupt Internet Archive over grandpa's dusty old 78s appeared first on Boing Boing. Congratulations, music industry – you've found a way to make ...

Looking at why record labels second-guess their artists for doing exactly what they signed them to do, via Pink Floyd fighting their label to be weird.

A generation or two of Milwaukeeans might know the melody to that old ... 45 rpm record in Dorobialski’s collection. You can hear the jingle here. The record, on the Universal Recording Corp. la ...

Layoffs earlier this year at the record labels ... when 20 to 45 people are making the decisions that 200 people used to make at radio.” Adds a major-label source: “In the old world, you ...

Country is one of the hottest genres in music, and now labels outside of the old Nashville system have ... Sony’s flagship New York label Columbia Records (home to the country-adjacent Maren ...

The labels promoted the music and got it on the radio. Nowadays, any 12-year-old could make a record in his or her bedroom, put it up on a site,and sell it. Up-and-coming local bands do the same ...

Ever the inception of the music industry, record labels ... his views on how labels have become left behind by the new wave of social media-oriented musicians “[In the old days] the labels ...

A small record label is reissuing what it calls the first ... Let's hear a very, very, very old recording, as in it was first released in 1891 on a wax cylinder. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THOMPSON ...

In this week's Legal Beat, record labels sue over a project to digitize old records, Dua Lipa loses a bid to dismiss a "Levitating" copyright lawsuit & more. By Bill Donahue This is The Legal Beat ...

Speaking at the pre-Grammy Entertainment Law Initiative lunch in Los Angeles, Mills called on the global record industry to adopt practices that could unify the world’s labels and their artists ...

"I now have my own record label called Paw Print records, I signed all my old EP's to myself, so I still own everything," Ed tweeted recently. "The 5 EP's that got me where I am today." ...

Both cases have made the coastal labels ... old Nashville system in the past. One of those artists is Ink, a Black queer songwriter from Georgia who’s signed to Big Loud and Electric Feel, the ...