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Industry Chat: A2IM President Rich Bengloff on the State of Indie

Paste recently asked “Is Indie Dead?” with the answer being that it’s so alive that the term lacks meaning. Yet on the business side of the music business, the concept of independence still has currency—and perhaps more meaning than ever. So to unpack how independents are navigating the constantly reinvented music business, we talked to someone who should know: American Association of Independent Music President Rich Bengloff (A2IM). Here’s our conversation....  read more

Industry Chat: Flaming Lips Manager Scott Booker

You'd never guess it, but the guy that manages the Flaming Lips is running an academic program at a public university in, literally, middle America...  read more

Industry Chat: Marc Weinstein, Founder of Amoeba Music

We love record stores. Always have. And we hope we always will have actual, physical stores populated by living, breathing human beings to love/loiter in. That said, the brick and mortar store, like nearly everything else associated with the music industry, is struggling to adapt to a world dominated by pixels rather than atoms. There are signs of life, however, in the record store biz, and this being Paste, naturally, we like to point them out. We’ve been big fans of the first two Record Store Days, and like the energy they generate from both buyers and sellers of...  read more

Industry Chat: Bob Boilen of NPR Music

When Paste Magazine came on the scene back in 2002, we couldn’t honestly say there was anyone else out in the world of music media with sensibilities that seemed in common with our own. Closest might have been the music coverage of NPR’s All Things Considered, where we first noticed the excellent curation that producer Bob Boilen brought to the proceedings—most vividly through All Songs Considered online component of ATC’s music coverage. Later, the NPR music vision reached its full flowering with the November 2007 launch of music destination website NPR Music. So we wanted to go straight to the...  read more

Industry Chat: Terry McBride of Nettwerk - Is Ownership of Music Simply Irrelevant?

Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk (a combo music management company and record label) is known throughout the music industry as...  read more