Amsterdam - Set up by two Dutch businessmen, the website Sellaband.com provides a link between unknown musicians and fans ready to invest their money in a system that promises to benefit bands, fans ...

This might be a golden age for artists in terms of the likelihood they can make a living from their music, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t tough out there: According to recent stats, Apple Music, ...

It's been called crowdfunding, micropatronage, microlending, and micro-VC. But it's the new way to invest and to receive capital: customers and investors willing to pay small amounts of money to ...

Joseph Arthur's new album The Ballad of Boogie Christ is full of his trademark searching lyrics, upbeat and catchy, clever and deep. Like a big label release it's slick and tightly produced, full of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

You know Kickstarter, you dig Kickstarter. You’ve maybe even pledged to support a hyper-connected watch, a new video game console, or an earnest long-form journalism project. Kickstarter has drawn on ...

Public Enemy have raised enough money from fan-investment to record a new album. The rap collective have secured £51,000 through fan-funding site Sellaband. As previously reported, the group had ...

When we first learned that Public Enemy were hoping to raise $250,000 worth of fan donations to pay for their new album, we were skeptical. These doubts seemed to be confirmed when the fundraising ...

WIKIPEDIA, a giant online encyclopedia compiled by volunteers, is the product of the aggregation of lots of people's spare time. An example of “crowdsourcing”, it demonstrates that on the internet, as ...

Rise Against, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and others will be collaborating with legendary hip hop pioneers Public Enemy on their next album. The group is raising funds independently to ...

How's this for salesmanship: The Smashing Pumpkins have already given away the songs on their new CD for free online, so to encourage fans to buy it, they're bundling each with a stone obelisk.