We met Susan in New York about 4 years ago as she was starting to record her debut album. Several years later the album has finally been released and even though it is a cliche – it was worth the wait! Susan’s songs have featured in everything from the US TV show Bones to more recently Paste magazine. We dropped her a line to hear more about the route she took to working as an independent musician in NYC and her outlook on recording and releasing her music.

There are many positives to signing with a ‘good’ label. Notice that the emphasis here is on a ‘good’ label! A good label in our book is one that loves your music and is working with you because they want…

One of the things that we’ve touched upon on Indielab is how to finance your album project. We saw recently how some bands are really getting creative about finding money for recording and marketing themselves. Hamfatter hit…