Is the Net an Independent Artist's New Radio?

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Menta from MP3 Newswire recently posted an article that describes how the Net has shifted his tastes from main stream radio artists to indie acts he discovered online. Slashdot has run a number of articles dealing with the struggles of independent artists and how the net is helping them. Between the recent payola scandal and the incursion of Big Radio into podcasting the major labels are pushing hard to monopolize what they can. The good news is that Big Music is much slower adjusting to the changes brought about by technology than Little Music and the sky is looking rosier for the independent artist. In a July article, CNET also discussed how things are looking much better for the independents."

Comments

No

[tonsofpcs]

It's quite hard to get the internet in my car when driving any distance over a few meters. Radio however works well for many hundreds or thousands of miles [ad infinitum, barring interference]

Re:No

[xedd]

"Radio however works well for many hundreds or thousands of miles"

Yeah.
Thousands of miles of frikin COMMERICALS.

Oldstyle, corporate/corrupt, Milli Vanilli crapola infested "Radio" can suck my quivering antenna.

Missing Link?

[jtbauki]

All we need left is something to connect the layman (a.k.a. non-/.) with the indie artists. Something like napster for internet radio. Whoever can create the link will be forever immortalized like that one dude who created napster.

silly editors.

[Madd Scientist]

Is the Net an Independent Artist's New Radio?

Is this question about 4 years late?

Re:Last FM

[humankind]

I typed in "Radiohead" and it recommended "Coldplay".

NO THANKS!