The New Phone Books Are Here!
After over a year of work, we have completed our ( currently untitled) debut effort and are curtrently looking at the options on how to release it.
One model called "Self Determined Transactions" is very interesting and is currently being used by Jane Siberry. It's cool because she is actually "trusting" her fans and not forcing them into some idiotic DRM scheme (I've yet to see ONE that doesn't suck).
I think the very idea of what a "album" is needs to be re-imagined anyway. The traditional album/tour cycle is now so heavily slanted tword the record company interests it has become unyielding and difficult to manage. Seems to me bands need to be more creative in how they distribute their music.
What if the band does not release traditional albums (12 songs etc), but instead puts out digital "packages" that can contain any amount of songs? The band then decides when to tour (or if to ever stop touring) based on their creative output, not on the quarterly constricts imposed by a record label. This model of delivery also creates a revenue flow directly to the band, so their fans are the one ones directly supporting them, not the record label, who act as nothing more than a bank protecting it's bottom line.
Anyway, personally Im all for giving the album away for free on this site.
So we are beginning to figure this out.
The album clocks in at 57 minutes. here's the current line up of songs ("Long Way Home...most likely will not make the final cut)
01. Idiot Jones Will Have His Day
02. Occam's Razor
03. Kicking The Can
04. Your Time To Lose
05. Nerve Pill
06. Spaceman, Time To Go
07. Take The Long Way Home
08. MBO
09. Drowning Not Waving
10. Self Replicating Machine Elves
11. The Chopping Song
The artwork is not complete but when it is I plan on having a digital "booklet" of the liner notes available for download.
One model called "Self Determined Transactions" is very interesting and is currently being used by Jane Siberry. It's cool because she is actually "trusting" her fans and not forcing them into some idiotic DRM scheme (I've yet to see ONE that doesn't suck).
I think the very idea of what a "album" is needs to be re-imagined anyway. The traditional album/tour cycle is now so heavily slanted tword the record company interests it has become unyielding and difficult to manage. Seems to me bands need to be more creative in how they distribute their music.
What if the band does not release traditional albums (12 songs etc), but instead puts out digital "packages" that can contain any amount of songs? The band then decides when to tour (or if to ever stop touring) based on their creative output, not on the quarterly constricts imposed by a record label. This model of delivery also creates a revenue flow directly to the band, so their fans are the one ones directly supporting them, not the record label, who act as nothing more than a bank protecting it's bottom line.
Anyway, personally Im all for giving the album away for free on this site.
So we are beginning to figure this out.
The album clocks in at 57 minutes. here's the current line up of songs ("Long Way Home...most likely will not make the final cut)
01. Idiot Jones Will Have His Day
02. Occam's Razor
03. Kicking The Can
04. Your Time To Lose
05. Nerve Pill
06. Spaceman, Time To Go
07. Take The Long Way Home
08. MBO
09. Drowning Not Waving
10. Self Replicating Machine Elves
11. The Chopping Song
The artwork is not complete but when it is I plan on having a digital "booklet" of the liner notes available for download.
posted by MBO at 4:31 PM
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