NAB Radio

Firstly, I’m 100% for artists getting paid for their work. We all need to make a living here, and I’m not in the habit of working for free myself.

However, the RIAA is all about protecting soon-to-be-obsolete distribution networks, and not about the artists. That’s why they want to shut down Internet radio – the indie THREAT to their tired out corporate structures. The major labels are ALL about profit, and NOT about the art form, music, and that’s who the RIAA represent.

NAB radio does not condone illegal sharing of music – it’s taking without paying – it’s stealing. We can see, that some of the reason for such activity, has not jsut been the “free ride” of P2P, but the availability of music which the major labels have stifled.

There is really no such thing as the single anymore. Why? It’s not profitable for the labels anymore, or not as much as they’d want it to be, so it was killed off. Now you have to buy a whole album, or go digital.

On the other hand, the whole indie scene has evolved due to the corporate “Just money” nature of the major labels.

Now, NAB needs and wants to make money. We need to pay for the equipment we use, and for the internet services we use, and for the time of the staff. However, when you have a passion for something, and all of us here at NAB radio have a passion for music, or we’d not be doing it – it’s done with more, much more, than simply money in mind. Once the corporate clowns move in, the passion has gone, and it’s just the profit margin that’s left.

Look at the way most FM radio has gone. The same as the major labels. There are some great artists out there, but many too are stifled by the executives as to what they can produce, and not played on FM radio anyway.

The case of George Michael springs to mind. Now, he might or might not be to your musical taste, but he wanted to get away from the “processed pop” Wham! days, and make a more serious effort, and he was screwed over for some years by Sony, who simply wanted more pop pap to make more profit.

We’ve spoken to a number of Indie artists, who say they’ve had offers to work for major labels, but refuse to do so, as they’ll lose the freedom to develop their own music in their own way.

At NAB radio, we are 100% for the music. Our aim is to put the artists and the listeners together. We see ourselves as a kind of middle man if you like, but only in terms of a connection, not the type of middle man that sucks all the money out of a deal.

The artists produce the music, they send it to us. We play it. The listener hears it, wants more, goes off to investigate, and buys the album. We’re developing this blog site, and our main site too, to have links to the artists we play, and as much as we can, links to the artists music.

By listening to and supporting NAB radio, and stations like us, you’re helping to keep music alive, and this will encorage existing artists to make more great music, and new artists to step forward too.

NAB – Independent Internet Radio for Independent Music