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  • Bandcamp Directory For The Stevie-Connected

    Steve 1:34 pm on October 12, 2009 | 35 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bandcamp, , , directory, downloads,

    You may or may not have seen my post this morning about Bandcamp over at stevelawson.net.

    Since posting it, I’ve had lots of tweets from friends whose music is on it, so let’s start a directory of entries – post a link to your bandcamp page in the comments, with a little bit of info about you and your connection to me (just so it doesn’t become a music-spam-fest – there’s no special criteria for being included, other than some kind of link – twitter-friends, gig buddies, blog readers etc… all are fine :) ) and I’ll grab the embed code from your site and add it here, creating a little online shop :)

    here are my 3 bandcamp albums so far:

    <a href="http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/behind-every-word" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/behind-every-word');">Blue Planet by Steve Lawson</a>

    <a href="http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/grace-and-gratitude" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/grace-and-gratitude');">Grace And Gratitude by Steve Lawson</a>

    <a href="http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/not-dancing-for-chicken" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/not-dancing-for-chicken');">No More Us And Them by Steve Lawson</a>

    and here are the first of the embeds from the comments:

    <a href="http://riverblind.bandcamp.com/album/hour-of-the-wolf" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://riverblind.bandcamp.com/album/hour-of-the-wolf');">Mute Signals by Riverblind</a>

    <a href="http://paulbellmusic.bandcamp.com/album/name-in-lights" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://paulbellmusic.bandcamp.com/album/name-in-lights');">Should have learned by Paul Bell</a>

    <a href="http://timeveleigh.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-all-i-have" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://timeveleigh.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-all-i-have');">perfect by Tim Eveleigh</a>

    <a href="http://music.boyatheart.com/album/all-in-a-lifes-work" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://music.boyatheart.com/album/all-in-a-lifes-work');">Boy at Heart by Boy at Heart</a>

    <a href="http://freakshow.bandcamp.com/album/freakshow-demo-2009" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://freakshow.bandcamp.com/album/freakshow-demo-2009');">Under Cover by Freakshow</a>

    <a href="http://stevengbass.bandcamp.com/album/deployment-of-ten-wails" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://stevengbass.bandcamp.com/album/deployment-of-ten-wails');">Gathering String by Steven Guerrero</a>

    <a href="http://mulberryharbour.bandcamp.com/album/the-drift-ep" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://mulberryharbour.bandcamp.com/album/the-drift-ep');">Small Pleasures by Mulberry Harbour</a>

    <a href="http://music.ihatemornings.com/album/this-is-not-an-album" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://music.ihatemornings.com/album/this-is-not-an-album');">Ten by Ben Walker</a>

    <a href="http://music.botched.com/album/metamesmeric" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://music.botched.com/album/metamesmeric');">Cloudlift by Gustaf Fjelstrom</a>

    <a href="http://jasonparkerquartet.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-no-less-2" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://jasonparkerquartet.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-no-less-2');">Bashert by Jason Parker Quartet</a>

    <a href="http://miriamjones.bandcamp.com/album/the-solitary-songs" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://miriamjones.bandcamp.com/album/the-solitary-songs');">Come Clean (April) by Miriam Jones</a>

    <a href="http://howlinhobbit.bandcamp.com/album/buskers-bonus-ep" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://howlinhobbit.bandcamp.com/album/buskers-bonus-ep');">Too Soon Old by Howlin&#8217; Hobbit</a>

    <a href="http://humphreysandkeen.bandcamp.com/album/the-overflow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://humphreysandkeen.bandcamp.com/album/the-overflow');">Bright Shining Star by Humphreys &amp; Keen</a>

    <a href="http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/album/the-kansas-sessions" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/album/the-kansas-sessions');">Bonecrusher by Kirsty McGee</a>

    <a href="http://mennarsins.bandcamp.com/album/menn-rsins" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://mennarsins.bandcamp.com/album/menn-rsins');">Augun opnast by Menn Ársins</a>

    <a href="http://asymptotictaste.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-get-it-either" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://asymptotictaste.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-get-it-either');">Broken Carnival by Asymptotic Taste</a>

    <a href="http://sunnagunnlaugs.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-iceland" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://sunnagunnlaugs.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-iceland');">Upp á himins bláum boga by Sunna Gunnlaugs</a>

    <a href="http://russbass.bandcamp.com/track/what-goes-beneath" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://russbass.bandcamp.com/track/what-goes-beneath');">What Goes Beneath by Russ Sargeant</a>

    (while all this has been going on, I’ve uploaded my first album to bandcamp as well: )

    <a href="http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/and-nothing-but-the-bass" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/and-nothing-but-the-bass');">The Inner Game by Steve Lawson</a>

    <a href="http://shawnfarley.bandcamp.com/album/any-raw-flesh" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://shawnfarley.bandcamp.com/album/any-raw-flesh');">I Have A Very Bad Feeling About This by Shawn Farley</a>

    <a href="http://darrylgregory.bandcamp.com/album/she" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://darrylgregory.bandcamp.com/album/she');">No by Darryl Gregory</a>

    <a href="http://atmosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/atmos-plays-waters" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://atmosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/atmos-plays-waters');">Steve by Atmos Trio</a>

    <a href="http://hopeandsocial.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-bar-of-lost-souls" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://hopeandsocial.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-bar-of-lost-souls');">Animals Dine With Me by Hope and Social</a>

    <a href="http://caipirinha.bandcamp.com/track/the-rhythm" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://caipirinha.bandcamp.com/track/the-rhythm');">The Rhythm by Caipirinha</a>

    <a href="http://farleigh.bandcamp.com/album/jez-coad-sessions" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://farleigh.bandcamp.com/album/jez-coad-sessions');">True Born Miracle by Farleigh</a>

    <a href="http://shemakeswar.bandcamp.com/album/three-two-one" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://shemakeswar.bandcamp.com/album/three-two-one');">Picture Of Us by She Makes War</a>

     

  • Imogen Heap's album, Ellipse. Streaming Here.

    Steve 12:42 am on August 18, 2009 | 11 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , downloads,

    Here, my friends, is Imogen Heap’s amazing new album, Ellipse. Embedded for your streaming pleasure.

    Why? Because she asked us to. :)

    (*spoiler-alert* – it’s effing amazing)

    And now you can pre-order the CD or download here – http://www.imogenheap.com/preorder/

    go buy her album, OK?

    "go buy her album, OK?"

     

  • Free Albums - Screw The RIAA

    Steve 12:22 am on August 1, 2009 | 12 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: downloads, evil, fat-cats, joel tenenbaum, , , , riaa

    Having just read the story of Joel Tenenbaum, who has just been fined over $600,000 dollars for downloading 30 songs, I’m incensed by the insanity of the RIAA – the Record Industry Association of America.

    While it claims to be “the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members’ creative and financial vitality” the reality is – as is clear from its list of directors – that it represents the interests of a handful of millionaire corporate executives who are, frankly, shitting themselves at the collapse of the industry they’ve built around the distribution of physical music product.

    So the RIAA – rather than looking at new models for distribution, or acknowledging the benefits of downloading for artists getting the word out – now prosecutes college kids to the tune of $22 THOUSAND… per track!

    Since when was a single MP3 worth £22K? What percentage of single songs online have made $22K total, let alone can be proven to have LOST that much through downloading? Had Joel made anything from this? nope. Has anyone been damaged? Nope.

    It’s pure greedy, nasty, anti-music legislative BS.

    So, I’m making 3 of my albums available for free on last.fm. I was going to make them all available over the weekend, but CDBaby administers a few of my albums on there, thanks to last.fm being one of their ‘digital partners’ – maybe I’ll find some other way of giving away more music.

    Whatever, the RIAA are scum. Filth. Pondlife. If I was signed to record label that were represented by them, I’d be turning up at their offices with a NOT IN MY NAME banner.

    The major labels are dying. They age of charging $15 for a CD, paying 50c of it to the musicians, and keeping them in debt are over. It’s the age of the indie. So fuck the RIAA. Give some music away this weekend.

    Here’ s the links to the 3 albums:

    Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline Pt 1
    Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline Pt 2
    Lessons Learned From The Fairly Aged Felines.

    Q: How nuts is that? $600,000 for downloading? Is there a single comparable area of legislation where the punishment is so insanely out of proportion to any impact the action may have had?

     

  • 'Green Shoots' in the Music Industry, or Just Thriving Trees?

    Steve 10:12 am on July 16, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bbc, , downloads, , ,

    This article by Rory Cellan-Jones on the BBC site says that some new survey has told us that it’s not all bad for music…

    I’m not sure it’s ever been ‘bad’ at all, to be honest… CD sales are declining, but digital music costs so much less to manufacture and distribute that the crossover point between lower sales but increased profits will hit eventually. Hard copies are still a desired way of ’showing allegiance’ to a band, over just downloading. Merch is doing well, gigs are doing well, and the potential for new acts finding an audience without gambling a fortune is marvellous.

    It also seems to me that the decline in bit torrent traffic for music may actually be that a lot of the early adoptors have filled in their catalogue with all the stuff they wanted to start with… Anyone wanting to ‘replace’ their vinyl collection may well have downloaded gigabytes if not terabytes of music to get all the Led Zep, Queen, MJ, Abba and Beatles they ever need – check out last.fm’s charts for more on how much music listening is ‘legacy’ based…

    So, there are a whole range of ways that people find music, replace music, download music, pay for music things. They’re all happening, it’s mostly good news, and we can stop worrying, yes? :)

     

  • Indie MP3 Sale!

    Steve 3:34 pm on June 17, 2009 | 13 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: downloads, , , ,

    Amazon.co.uk today have had a massive MP3 sale, with lots of albums going for 29p. Some great stuff, much of which I’ve bought.

    But, there’s no indie stuff there, largely because none of us manage our own catalogues on there, so can’t change prices at will – CDBaby or ReverbNation or whoever did the deal, and we don’t get the vary it, generally.

    However, we do on bandcamp, on cdbaby itself or on our own self-hosted MP3 sites.

    SO!

    This thread is for the posting of links to indie MP3 albums, which have to be under £3 UK or $5 US.

    Here are the rules – read them or I’ll delete it. This is not a thread for FREE DOWNLOADS. It’s a sale-bin. If you’re on bandcamp and have pay-what-you-like or whatever, that’s fine, but if it’s just free, it doesn’t qualify… for now.

    Add the link, a small description, then go and pimp the thread, so we all benefit. Hurrah!

    I’ll kick things off with my 2004 album, Grace And Gratitude – it’s lots of people’s favourite album of mine, and is currently only $3.50 on CDbaby.

    Click here to head over there and download Grace And Gratitude for £3.50.

    Now it’s your turn… (after you’ve bought G+G ;) )

     

  • ISPs & those troublesome downloaders - A possible solution

    Dancing Monk 12:43 pm on June 17, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , downloads, , ,

    The BBC news reported that

    “Virgin and Universal have signed a deal that will give the ISP’s customers access to “unlimited” music.

    For a monthly fee, Virgin’s broadband customers will be able to download or stream as many MP3 files as they want. (More …)

     

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