The music industry

Record Labels

Record labels are responsible for managing artists, promoting their new albums or tours and basically making sure the band or artist keep working and make music on time to keep making the label money.

At the moment there are four major record companies:

Sony

Sony is a huge label started in 1929, it is currently the second largest of the "big four" record companies. Under Sony there are other labels as the company was formed by a merger of several smaller companies.

EMI Group

Founded in 1931

Warner Music Group

 

 

 

 

 

Universal Music Group

Directors

Wayne Isham


Wayne Isham is a reputable music video director, who over his 27 year career, has spanned many music genres with his work, from metal videos, working in many motley crue videos including: smokin' in the boys room, home sweet home and girls, girls, girls. Metallica videos like Enter Sandman. To pop videos including: Janet Jackson's 'Black Cat' and N'sync's 'Bye, Bye, Bye'.












Hype Williams

Hype Williams is a New York born video director who has directed videos for artists such as 2PAc, Notorious BIG and Kanye West. He has a very colourful style in his videos which is noticable in Kanye West's - 'Gold Digger' video and more recently Kanye West's - 'All of the Lights' which takes inspiration from the movie 'Enter The Void' (Dir. Gaspar Noe).

Genres - Rock

Rock

Rock music is a genre of music that was developed in the 1960's, but also includes roots from blues and jazz. Many contemporary rock songs contain blues scales to make up guitar riffs and solos.
Rock is a very wide spread genre and has many sub-genres which include:

• Alternative rock - The Cure, The Smiths, Radiohead
• Britpop - Oasis, Pulp
• Emo - Jimmy Eat World, Panic! At The Disco
• Glam rock - David Bowie, New York Dolls
• Grindcore - As I Lay Dying, Carcuss
• Grunge - Nirvana, Puddle of Mud
• Hard rock - Aerosmith, Guns 'N' Roses, AC/DC
• Heavy metal - Black Sabbath, Metallica, Motorhead
• Indie rock - The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks
• Psychedlia rock - Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton
• Punk rock - The Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedy's, The Ramones, The Clash
• Southern rock - Kings of Leon, Nickelback
• Surf - The Beach Boys

Although there are many different subcultures of rock most bands are a combination of more then one subculture such as Red Hot Chili Peppers have hard rock and funk influences similarly Motley Crue have heavy metal, punk and glam rock influences.