The resistance to the music corporations is multifaceted. There is the record industry's sour-faced approach to illegal file-sharing and downloading; the deadening routine of Pop Idolatry and over-hype; the stadium rock with their "let them eat cake" and "where are the groupies?" attitudes that have dominated popular music for the past three decades; the empty carefully arranged interview that says nothing; the music by numbers produced by the music factory; the nostalgia or rock radio

The internet has allowed bands to record and promote their own music, and fans to enjoy it, pass it on and share their tastes ----without the aid of major label backing, stylist and towering billboard advertisements associated with the conservative tendencies of a mass art.

This is a grassroots movement based on a strong fan base that is disruptive of the world of corporate music industry; a movement that is more concerned about identity and the expression of emotion than the autonomous musical value and disinterested pleasure of high art.

An earlier version? The early Ramones sought a mass audience, worked within a musical tradition, had a fan base that identified with their punk rebellion and teenage subject matter. The Ramones were the New York personification of punk rock.