Earlier this year, when TikTok and Universal Music Group locked horns over their licensing agreement — and the world’s largest music company removed nearly all of its artists and songwriters’ work ...

Indeed, many of the issues affecting the indie space in 2026 are double-edged. While many bemoaned the flood of content on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We’re not an independent label. We’re a pissed-off startup. That’s what I call it,” says producer Joey Moi, one of the three ...

Five prominent artists on the long and winding roads that led them to independence - and what they learned on the way.

Mark Speer, Laura Lee and DJ Johnson of Khruangbin perform in London, England. Photo: Getty Images At Sunday’s Grammy Awards, a genre-hopping indie rock band from Houston called Khruangbin will go ...

Indie labels, sick of getting a bad rap for all the BS their older siblings at the RIAA are trying to pull, have joined forces to create a “fifth major label.” While each label on their own is pretty ...

We first heard Conner Youngblood back in 2010 with “A Summer Song” and “Monsters.” Since then, he’s released a handful of tracks and a couple longer projects, but with his two recent songs, he shared ...

"We're not an independent label. We're a pissed-off startup. That's what I call it," says producer Joey Moi, one of the three chiefs of Big Loud Records, along with Seth England and Joey Moi. It's ...