How Spotify – and its playlists – are evolving
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Director of Streaming Strategy for [PIAS], Justin Barker, gives his view
Peter Quicke on 25 years at Ninja Tune
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Kenny Gates talks to the Ninja man about independent successes, cultural identity and… cheesemaking
Meet The Team: Laneway Festival / Lunatic Entertainment
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Australian festival’s key players tell us about the day job
The problem with physical music fulfilment
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Why consolidation in the warehousing world is putting pressure on physical independent releases
‘We sign music we love. We’re not sniffing around to find the new thing all the time’
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You can’t always derive much about a record label’s identity from its name. Matador founder Chris Lombardi, for example, pinched his company’s brand from a Pedro Almodóvar movie in a snap decision spurred on by design deadlines. Yet there are certainly characteristics of the bullfighter which rather suit the history of Matador, which turns 28 this year – […]
‘Independents have no less opportunity on streaming services than the majors’
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Merlin CEO Charles Caldas sits down with [PIAS]’s Kenny Gates
‘We need to believe what we’re working on is making the world better’
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Darius Van Arman of Secretly Group on growing your business while keeping your soul