GRAMMY Magazine – November 27, 2002   Searching The Web’s Haystack Is the Internet’s ability to help find and incubate talent coming of age?   Nick Krewen Grammy.com When talking about the music business, Grant Dexter isn’t above using a few hockey analogies. And when it comes to artist development, the puck stops here, at the spacious Toronto headquarters of his Internet-driven record label, MapleMusicRecordings.com (www.maplemusicrecordings.com).  Dexter says his record…

Survival Of The Fittest Nick Krewen Grammy.com July 2002   It’s one thing if you’re an established artist like Prince, who sold 40 million records during his Warner years and wants to forego the major label route in favor of his own Internet venture www.npgmusicclub.com. It’s another, however, if you’re an artist that was perfectly happy to be nestled in the bosom of a major record company, only to have…