Music industry dances to technology's tune

Why bother forming a band when you can do everything on a laptop? Rosie Swash reports on why the web generation have the music industry at their mercyA decade ago, back when South by Southwest (SXSW) was still more or less a music trade festival, it had its own distinctive sound profile: a band in every bar, beer bottles clinking at the hundreds of parties every day and night, and the bass from the soundsystems on every corner. Those noises are all still to be found in Austin, Texas, of course...

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