Music Industry Meets Its Future

Saturday, 12. 20. 2008  –  Category: Enversa Companies

Ever since the MP3 format was widely adopted, the major recording labels have been scrambling to get a piece of the action online.

While the major labels have done battle with the digital music terrorists, musicians from around the world have appropriated new technology and created avenues of distribution and marketing.

Be it the ability to sell records through Amazon.com or a simple Web site to promote upcoming shows, artists have been empowered like never before. Their reliance on the traditional industry players and managers, lawyers and booking agents is no longer a given.

What is a given, however, is that there hasn’t been a breakout artist who has risen from the routers, switches and fiber optics of the online world. But this may soon change.

Jonah Smith has…