http://www.nme.com/news/blur/89126

So it's not really a surprise that Alex James remains an arse; pretty much every band has one. But his notions that Blur and their cohorts represented that last of the spirit of indie; that that spirit is now owned by independent food producers; and that britpop - for that despite all of Coxon's desperation to be a both Stephen Malkmus and Kevin Shields, was what Blur were - represented the zenith in British guitar music, are as absurd and maladjusted as his politics. There's many reasons why he's wrong but here's 4:
(I) you can't stream food on spotify - its income streams are more secure and far less prone to theft than music is!
(ii) the indie spirit is as alive as it's ever been - britpop was indie's equivalent to the success of 80s (soft) metal and the punk explosion in the late 70s, it was a point when it crossed over as a lot of counter-culture invariably does. Once the scenesters had got bored of it they gave up on it and like metal and punk, and it returned to its natural state, which means that if it's your thing and you can be arsed, you'll still find great new bands and records and despite illegal downloads, there's still plenty of bands releasing vinyl/cd singles off their own back as they've always done.
 And that leads me to 
(iii) there's still many decent indie labels - even if the spectres NME mock cover was perhaps a sign that their kicking the arse out of what was a brilliant idea (and tune), It and The Howling Owl and Sonic Cathedral are every bit as brilliant a label as the great labels of yore, and they're doing it in a time when it's far harder to make money out of it than it was in the 80s/90s;
(iv) and the creative forces behind labels like these and Geoff Barrow's Invada label (Alex, if you 're that concerned why not follow Barrow's example?) are natural successors to those at Factory, at Sarah, etc, etc. 
Basically James' piece suggested he's the kind of middle aged things were better in my day bore* that I spent my youth reacting against and I'm still proud to say, that I'll continue to react against, the present is what you make it... (*save for when it comes to talking about modern football)