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Independent Artists Revive Alternative Formats

Corey Pierce

By Jesse Locke

Fast Forward Weekly | April 23, 2009

Underground music acts and labels are keeping physical music releases alive with cassette tapes, 7-inch records, CD-Rs, 3-inch and business card CDs, 8-tracks, USB strips and countless other object-fetishist curiosities.

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Tags: 8-tracks, David Byrne, Not Not Fun, USB strips, Woodsist/Fuck It Tapes, South by Southwest, cassette tapes

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