While accounts of the “death of the music industry” have been ... influence needed to both produce and push a record. In a typical record label contract, the record label pays all of the ...

You can do the Dick Clark thing as head of your own record (or more properly nowadays, CD) label ... You should have a good working knowledge of how the music business operates.

The independent label, founded in 1938 in mid-Manhattan, made its mark on music history by recording Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and other songs by jazz legends such as Lester Young ...

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...