Shannon Garlandis Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research draws on economic anthropology, social reproduction theory and Marxism to examine the transnational indie music industry across the US and Latin America. She has published on music venues & social media; Spotify playlists; sociality, aesthetics and politics;and labor, value and commodification.Pedro Belchior Nunesis an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET-md), New University of Lisbon and a Guest Lecturer with Lisbon's Open University. He has researched and published several articles on topics such as music journalism and criticism, the recording industry in Portugal and questions of sustainability in independent labels and musicians.Pedro Roxois Assistant Professor on graduate and postgraduate courses focusing on Ethnomusicology, Jazz, and Popular Music Studies and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is co-editor ofCurrent Issues in Music Research: Copyright, Power and Transnational Music Processes(2012).