Is Justin over 21?

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  I think Wilco is pretty Indie.

Yeah, Sire and Warner were pretty great indie labels. [/b]

my point exactly

[ggw]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  I think Wilco is pretty Indie, i mean, didnt they BUY their own record back from the label so they could release it on an independant label?  
   thats so indie, its unreal.....they payed like half a million dollars to be indie.

They got their record back from one Warner label and then sold it to another Warner label.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 

They got their record back from one Warner label and then sold it to another Warner label. [/b]

i thought YTF was on Nonesuch Records, are they owned by Warner?   i just remember the article on how Wilco was "suddenly Indie" and how i wished i had like them from the beginning....  haha

[Joymonster]

Nonesuch is distributed by Warner.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Member 656:
  Nonesuch is distributed by Warner.

wilco are liars AND hipsters...piss on them.
 
   oh wait...positivity.......uh, I liked the Wilco show i was at this summer, the music was VERY VERY good.   It was quite catchy and better than I thought it was going to be.  I was thinking "man, i sure am having fun at a Wilco concert!!!"  and then, Fountains of Wayne finished and we left , cause i didnt really wanna stay til WIlco came onstage....

[ggw]

Originally posted by Member 656:
  Nonesuch is distributed by Warner.

Nonesuch is owned by Warner Music Group.

[Joymonster]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Member 656:
  Nonesuch is distributed by Warner.

Nonesuch is owned by Warner Music Group. [/b]

Well.. that too.

[paige]

The beauty of this board...
 we can go from talking about Justin Timberlake's real age to whether or not he is actually talented to being a hippie and spreading positivity to talking about what classifies a band as indie to how wilco sucks at life.
 
 
 i love it.  

[kosmo vinyl]

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[ggw]

The beauty of this board...
 we can go from talking about Justin Timberlake's real age to whether or not he is actually talented to being a hippie and spreading positivity to talking about what classifies a band as indie to how wilco sucks at life.
 
 
 i love it.  

I think its called ADD

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Actually, he is not on Subpop. He has releases his last two album on Ashmont, which is bascially just him and one other person working out of their own little office.
 
    He dropped off of Subpop so that he could have more control and self-release his music..now THAT'S indie.
 
 

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
   

Originally posted by Celeste:
 
 now Joe Pernice...he's indie

yeah, he is on subpop, right? Do you think if he sold a half a million albums he would stay on Subpop? [/b]

[mjnova]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  now THAT'S indie.
 

Can we clear some things up:
 
 White Stripes: Multiple albums on Sympathy an honest to goodness independant label.  Then signed with V2.  I would say they now fall into the vast black hole of "Alternative" which is another can of worms.  But for a good while they were a legitimate indie band.
 
 Strokes : One, maybe 2 eps on indie labels but jumped to a major as fast as humanly possible.  Although they had college radio backing they were never really "indie".  Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins got played on college radio but indie they isn't.  Another "Alternative" band.
 
 BRMC : Uh, they're on what, V2?  Not particularly indie.  I mean, they don't get much play on mainstream radio but, SHOCKING, neither does a lot of stuff on major labels.  Not getting played every hour on HFS when you're on a major =/= indie.  
 
 I'm listening to Green Day right now for the first time in ages.  Are they a "punk" band?  Damned if I know.

[ggw]

Originally posted by mjnova:
 Can we clear some things up:
 
 White Stripes: Multiple albums on Sympathy an honest to goodness independant label.  Then signed with V2.  I would say they now fall into the vast black hole of "Alternative" which is another can of worms.  But for a good while they were a legitimate indie band.
 

By all accounts, they didn't make any royalties while on Sympathy.  V2 offered them a sweetheart deal which included the oft-mentioned "full artistic control" - which is why people sign or stay with indies, isn't it?
 
 So if they still have control over their output, and have somebody who can do more for them than Long Gone John could, isn't that a good thing?
 
 So, if you still play the same style of music, but jump to a major label, do you lose the "indie" title simply because you are actually making money now?

[markie]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  [simply because you are actually making money now?

I am with you on this one GGW....
 
 as for the strokes well they released 4 singles on roughtrade:
 
  http://www.roughtraderecords.com/
 
 if you take b-sides then they must make up over half of their album. So does that make it an indie album afterall?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I say yes, you do lose the "indie" tag. But who said indie=good, majors=bad?
 
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by mjnova:
 Can we clear some things up:
 
 White Stripes: Multiple albums on Sympathy an honest to goodness independant label.  Then signed with V2.  I would say they now fall into the vast black hole of "Alternative" which is another can of worms.  But for a good while they were a legitimate indie band.
 

By all accounts, they didn't make any royalties while on Sympathy.  V2 offered them a sweetheart deal which included the oft-mentioned "full artistic control" - which is why people sign or stay with indies, isn't it?
 
 So if they still have control over their output, and have somebody who can do more for them than Long Gone John could, isn't that a good thing?
 
 So, if you still play the same style of music, but jump to a major label, do you lose the "indie" title simply because you are actually making money now? [/b]