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I’ve been listening to hundreds of great Indie Music albums for a long time and i enjoy it so much. The genre has been an extremely loved genre of music over the last few decades and it’s not weird to see why it’s become so cherished by older kids and young adults from all over the continent and even over seas. The independent approach to music recording has become outrageously used by artists over the last few years and the style that Indie Music gives off really tells to listeners that this field of music is about being independent from the world and the major industries. Indie Music has been incredibly influential to hundreds of persons and in this article were going to teach you the best indie music albums and also some of the more influential indie music albums that have been published within the last 30 years. The Indie Music Albums are in order of release date.

“Hatful of Hollow”
The Smiths (1984, Rough Trade)

The lords of redoing, The Smiths released this compilation of rarities and other songs just weeks after their debut, self-titled record. “Hatful of Hollow” has many of the well known Smiths’ tracks, including the classics
“Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now,” “Girl Afraid,” and “How Soon Is Now?”

“Let it Be” by The Replacements (1984, Twin/Tone)
The Replacements

The Little Band that Couldn’t, the Replacements were lovable ragtag misfits headed by the musical stud Paul Westerberg. “Let it Be” was a watershed release that greatly captured all that was brilliant about the Minneapolis group of four.

“Surfer Rosa” by the Pixies (1988, 4AD)
Pixies

Nothing else has and ever will sound like it. Cited by Kurt Cobain as a monster influence, and it shows.

“Daydream Nation” by Sonic Youth (1988, Enigma)
Sonic Youth

Post-punk, art rock genius with the incredible indie anti-anthem, “Teenage Riot.”

“Slanted & Enchanted” by Pavement (1992, Matador)
Pavement

Lo-fi, quirky, and imbued with a great sense of humor, “Slanted & Enchanted” set the way for the lo-fi indie revolution soon to begin.

“In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998, Merge)
Neutral Milk Hotel

One writer likened this record to a “marching band on an acid trip.” Apt description, but it’s so much more. The tracks, the singing saws, the horns, the shambling rhythms, and the great poetry all add up to an album of great individuality. One of the best indie music albums of the ’90s.

I definitely suggest that you buy all of these great indie music albums. They will pump you up. These are the earliest and best albums that have been created and they started the independent music loving craze.

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Author: Lyle Measom
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The future of publishing nonfiction ‘How to” eBooks is at a turning point. The industry will drastically change over the next few years. This change will be brought about through the use of better niche finding tools and the ability to monetize the new mini-web site model or so called landing page.

The Old Paradigm

We have all searched the WEB for important information and found a site offering just the information we were looking for in the form of an eBook. The site is a one page landing or pitch page and describes the virtues and benefits the book has to offer. No other pages or additional information is available. The owner of the site uses a pay-per-click program and one of many affiliate programs such as ClickBank to generate traffic to the site. For many publishers this model or paradigm has worked great. For example, the eBook Fat Loss for Idiots generated over 21 million in sales in a 12 month period according to ClickBank. Others have also done very well financially using this model. But, newer tools and technological advances in the eBook publishing arena will add more keyword markets and make it more probable to attain this type of world class financial performance.

The New Paradigm

The new paradigm will open thousands of smaller keyword based markets for eBook publishers. Although these new markets will be smaller in size and not likely to produce 21 million in sales in twelve months, the smaller size will allow the publisher to “own” their keyword space; thereby avoiding the necessity to use expensive pay-per-click services. Consequently, although the total revenue from smaller markets may be less, profitability will be higher since pay-per-click programs will not be needed. In addition, the smaller size markets will necessitate additional eBooks be published to generate world class revenue growth. So, more eBooks sold into smaller markets equals’ higher profitability.

To create a world class financial performance using the old model you needed a “hit” eBook. By definition, hits have a low probability of occurring. The new approach reduces this risk by spreading out the earning potential over many eBooks which are sold into smaller markets improving the possibility of consistent and higher profitability. It is generally accepted, that relevant content on your web site combined with a good linking programs will lead to being placed on the first page of Google’ search results. This is what we mean by owning the keyword. If you can attain first page placement, no need for a pay-per-click program, since your site is already on the first page of the search results. Problem is how much content and how many links do we need to get first page placement? Tools are now available allowing us to make these types of judgment calls.

Although others are available, BrainStormIt by SightBuildIt is designed to find this type of information. For example, using the BrainStormIt tool, you can rank keyword based market niches by size and the amount of competition likely to be found in the space. The ranking ability is used to estimate the amount of time it will take to build out a mini-site in term of pages to accomplish first page Google placement. However, if you choose a keyword market that is too small you will not make any money selling your eBook since there will be no real market to sell into. So, BrainStormIt provides a profitability rank which will give you the ability to get just the right size market niche. Not so big so that it takes years to get first page placements but just the right size so first page placement is available quickly and profitably.

The New Paradigm Advantages

The smaller market size and first page placements deliver many other advantages. With a mini-web site that contains relevant content, the possibility to sell – in addition to your own eBook – other related information products as an affiliate, significantly improves the profitability of the mini-site. Unlike the old paradigm which only contains a single landing page, the new paradigm uses a mini-web site allowing for other monetizing techniques such as AdSense Ads, affiliate marketing, audio products, video products, membership services, joint ventures, ad space sales and so on. These monetizing techniques lead to higher profitability. This is a powerful new approach for eBook publishers. These tools open up a broad array of new markets for the publishers of eBooks. When these new tools are combined with other changes in the eBook publishing industry such as new eBook readers, eBook popularity on mobile devices such as the iPhone and the significant increase in Amazon eBook sales the growth advantages for the new paradigm is clear and evident.

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin

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Author: Larry Vingelman
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Indie music is short for independent music, and rather than typify a particular musical style, it describes a mindset, philosophy and culture with which diverse musicians align themselves. Indie artists place great emphasis on self-expression and prefer the freedom of being in full control of their own recording and publishing, rather than having the ideas of producers and sound engineers supersede their own. They aren’t all that hung up on commercial success and make music for music’s sake, for the enjoyment of it and to make a basic living from it, not for huge financial gain and international fame. The mere thought of these motivations makes an indie artist want to stick a fork in the nearest electrical outlet.

The artists of the time often go against the prevailing trends. For example, the 80s, as a reaction to all the testosterone filled swaggering rock that shook the windows, indie started the twee-pop movement. The movement was characterised by jangling guitars, fey and innocent lyrics and an idealisation of 60s pop. The culture adopted a childlike innocence and assumed naiveté; clothes were asexual and pastel, they read penguin books, ate sweets, and drank ginger. Their heroes included Christopher Robin and the Undertones.

A “lo-fi” aesthetic has often been associated with the genre. This was the case in the days before the massive advancements in technology, when many artists still used cassette tape recorders to record their music. These days, even with the easy availability of home technology that can do the same work that a music studio can do, a lot of artists still make use of lo-fi. They claim that it has “authentic roughness” and a raw sound, which they treasure in the face of slick, polished recordings, with all missed chords and unique mistakes wiped away.

Some artists, however, have embraced technology and invested in the relatively inexpensive recording devices that allow them to create their own studio quality music from home. The new equipment also allows them to experiment more with sound, enabling them to delve further into their creativity to express themselves. Artists have their own web sites and spaces on other sites like MySpace.com. Music blogs and social networks also play a pivotal role in getting independent music out into the public’s attention. Sites that have been particularly significant in the success of a band are those that allow audience participation, i.e. giving the audience an opportunity to listen to the band and then rate them.

Other sites allow artists to upload their music so that visitors can browse the site, pick their favourite genre and listen to free artist samples. They also have access to artist biographies and may purchase any tracks that they would like. On some sites the tracks have a set price but on others the artists are allowed to sell the tracks at any price that they like.

Indie artists often create their own labels and record companies in order to sell their records and the records of artists with similar sounds to theirs. Occasionally, however, an indie band will move to a major label. These bands are often severely criticised by their fans and by the fans of indie music in general for being sellouts and for giving in to the lure of wealth and fame. It is important to note that a band doesn’t secure its success by merely moving to a major label. Only 1 in 10 cds released by major labels makes any profit for the label. It is often more probable that an indie artist will make more money by producing and promoting his or her own cd than by signing with a major label.

Major labels keep a very close eye on indie labels and the emerging indie music scene. They consider indie labels to be right on top of current trends in the continuously evolving music scene. Indie labels are small and often local to a specific area, and are ideally situated to spot local talent. Because indie is such a diverse genre, they are able to promote a variety of specialised music types.

Recommended Sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_(music)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo-fi_music

Sandra wrote this article for the online marketers Indy Music News independent music news [http://www.indy-music-news.info] one of the leading site indexes when it comes to indie music news

Author: Sandy Cosser
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With the emergence of the internet, there are now many services that will let you publish your work online, some of them even publishing the material for free.

There are many categories in which someone can publish something online. The most obvious are books, which you can now write and put up for sale at a number of online publishing websites without needing any professional services. This also includes photo books, which can include pictures you have of celebrities, animals, flowers, or whatever you want your photo book to include. Self publishing can now make your photo book available to the online world. One of the most popular forms of publishing self written material online is in the form of an e-book. Ebooks can be downloaded immediately giving the reader the chance to get the material instantly without having to wait or pay for shipping or traveling to pick it up from a local bookstore. Publishing books on poetry or cookbooks or a wide variety of topics are now done easily without having to wait for approval from another source, and these types of books can easily be turned into ebooks, giving the publisher another way to distribute their work and make more money from it.

Music has moved to the forefront of the online publishing industry. While artists are still looking for that big contract from a major label, there are many websites that will publish your songs for no cost at all, giving bands and solo artists exposure which was not possible years ago. Publishing songs online has become one of the most popular forms of online publishing, especially in various social networking communities.

The type of online publishing one chooses is a matter of preference, as even though there are many sites where you can publish your media for free, there are advantages to dealing with companies that charge a fee as well. Self publishing most times also means self promotion. Someone without the proper marketing skills may find that even though they can now get their work published, they still are not getting any exposure for their work. There are publishing companies online that will promote your material as well as publish it for you. There are various fees depending on the type of service you want, but many of these companies not only will publish and promote your work online, but also can offer newspaper, radio, and TV exposure as well. Sometimes this comes in the form of advertising your work, while other times they can set up interviews with various media outlets which can allow someone not only to promote their work, but also promote themselves which could help with future projects.

The world of publishing has taken on a whole different look with the emergence of the internet. The trial and tribulations many artists and writers had to deal with years ago are now a thing of the past and being able to get your work published online has opened a door for many people that could not have been opened so easily before. Online publishing could be the wave of the future for many writers and artists.

Martin Alan enjoys writing on subjects such as literature, online publishing, online magazine and self publishing. He also enjoys keeping up-to-date with the latest developments and innovations in technology and online marketing.

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Author: Martin Alan
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Ten years or so ago, noted comic book writer Robert Kirkman left a nice job writing stories for Marvel, one of the leading corporations that publish comic book titles in America, to go after a career exclusively in creator-owned books. Back then, this was seen as a huge gamble. This is because independent comics creators have all of the risk that their titles will not sell enough, but working on corporate characters at Marvel and DC offers a solid, if not spectacular, rate. Kirkman has preached the gospel of independent comics for years now, his pitch carrying a lot more weight now that The Walking Dead, a title he had a hand in creating, has ended up being such a considerable ratings draw on television. And as digital comics market share develops, deciding to go independent might become even less of a gamble.

For many years, the hardest challenge for an indie comics creator was simply getting noticed by neighborhood comic book stores. The industry is strange in that one company has a monopoly on distribution, so retail shop owners normally get their new stock from one order form. To make matters worse, just two publishers are responsible for at least 75 percent of the market for print books, so you can imagine that the order book gives the primary focus to DC and Marvel. Sellers have to spend a lot of time to find independent titles in the order book. The average independent comics creator struggles to get the work in front of shop owners, let alone fans.

But that could be evolving as more and more comics are being sold for computers and tablets. On the web, independent writers and artists do not have to face the disadvantage of paying higher per-book print prices on smaller print runs. And there are many storefronts and sales tools sellers can utilize to sell their original work at favorable prices. Needless to say, the better known platforms will continue to cater to the big publishers, but the digital store is not as limited as the space in a physical store.

Nor is independent comics just for novices. Longtime creators including Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera have all in the past year announced their plan to start working on creator-owned titles, though not all of them will do independent work exclusively. The independent world allows all creators the option to profit or fail from their characters. Robert Kirkman believes the future lies in a world where comic book creators use the Big Two as a professional step, a learning center to practice their talent before switching to the (possibly) more profitable opportunities in the field of independent comics owned by creators. As the indie market grows, we can find out if his vision becomes the industry standard.

To learn more about being an indie comics creator, or to read independent digital comics, check out Longboat Comics, a micro publisher.

Author: Eddy Albans
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