The San Francisco Bay Guardian featured stories this week focused on the state of labels in 2009. In the piece, “The Name Game- Labelmania: What does a record label mean in 2009? Label owners sound off”, label owners such as Light in the Attic’s Matt Sullivan, Slumberland’s Mike Shulman, Kemado’s Andres Santo Domingo and others throw in their two cents. Here’s an excerpt:
“I think labels are as important as ever,” maintains Mike Schulman of the Bay Area indie pop shrine Slumberland, which is currently experiencing a new burst of recognition thanks to bands such as Crystal Stilts and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. “With the increasing fragmentation and atomization of genres and scenes and markets, customers rely on labels as a curatorial enterprise, a shorthand signifier for what they’re into, and a useful tool to help sort through the mountain of new music.”
Read the full article at sfbg.com and also check out the article, “Great Expectations?- Labelmania: Indie labels ride the ups and downs of buzz and bluster”.
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