Indies celebrate Independence Day

Published Friday 4th July 2008 15:57 GMT Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, September 24 2008. Interview Did anyone, I wonder, ever buy just one Motown single? Or just one 2-Tone single? And while you're pondering... can you even remember what major label your favourite artist is on? Unigram, perhaps. Or Polycorpse. The received wisdom today is that the record label is doomed. Not surprisingly, since the Big Five (now Four) labels have done everything they can to persuade us that the label is doomed, too, over the past ten years. But the indies would like to disagree. Today marks the culmination of a series of fundraising events by the independent music companies around the world to remind us there's a lot of life outside the Big Four. Independence Day 08 today... [read full story]