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No matter how tuned in I am to the music scene, I’ve never been able to track upcoming releases that I care about with any degree of success.
Until now that is.
If you’re a Last.fm user, go to soundamus and simply type in your username to get a RSS feed of upcoming album releases, based entirely on your evolving Last.fm playlist.
Here’s what the release feed looks like in Google Reader:
Very cool stuff.
Q-Tip - Gettin’ Up from Q-Tip on Vimeo.
I’ve been waiting years for the Kamaal album to drop. Apparently it’s been streaming online for 3 years now.
A taste of the bands:
Project Tritium: Affectus Incognitus
The Raving Knaves: Big Empty Detroit
Poster by Justin Reich.
Dawn Chorus: Oh Please from Sean Coon on Vimeo.
Dawn Chorus has a music video! A big shout of thanks to Aaron Aadland and Justin Sale for shooting and Jason Pierce for shooting, directing and editing the video. Apparently, it got a bit tricky with the overdubbing, but the final product looks great.
(extra thanks to Andy for framing the open/closing sequences at the last minute)
We at DMP are happy to announce that Tom Beardslee Live at the dotmatrix project is now available at Amie Street… for FREE. Get in quick, because the price will be rising soon.
For those of you without Amie Street accounts, here’s a way to get free money in your new account.
Enjoy!
original photo by macaddict (mashed up w/ permission)
Amie Street has been a big supporter of our efforts out here to document live performances by local artists. They’ve already included one of our music videos in their Amie Street TV feature and are planning on writing a spotlight post about what we’re doing down here.
Now they’ve upped the ante by giving away FREE MUSIC.
If you don’t already have an Amie Street account, but would like to try out our local artist’s music, the staff at AS has made it ridiculously easy to do so.
Here’s what you do:
Once you finish those three simple steps, your account will have $5 worth of credit and 3 Recs to its name.
Some context about Amie Street’s pricing model: As of this very moment, you could purchase & download three DMP albums for less than $5.
So what do you have to lose?
You can purchase tickets now for the September 12th show.
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the new David Byrne / Brian Eno collaboration dropping on Monday, August 18th. And as exciting as that is for fans of the tandem, the release is only a small part of the news.
Ian Rogers‘ Topspin Media has developed a web platform for independent musicians to manage their music distribution, which has apparently standardized on a greater set of distribution features than what they provided Trent Reznor for his Ghosts I-IV and The Slip releases.
For this particular release, Byrne / Eno are providing a free track from the album — Strange Overtones — for the cost of my email address. Since I’m a fan, I’m more than happy to engage in such a transaction. And after listening to the single, I’m all over the album come Monday.
Strange Overtones
So how will I be able to get my hands on the full release? David Byrne explains:
[...] the music will be available on this Web site on August 18th, free for streaming and available for purchase as both a download and in physical formats. [...]
The NIN releases were so damn fair — both free and pay download options, a range of physical products at decent prices — and since the music was distributed directly by the artist, there was a tangible sense that I wasn’t stuffing the pockets of fat cat major label middle-men.
I’m not sure what Topspin’s business model is, but I highly doubt they’ll be making coin by taking > 50% of the gross.
With DMP’s current pace to release ~25 albums per year — all by local musicians with limited resources and online distribution know how — I’ve sent Topspin a note to see if our project might make for an useful and interesting scenario addition to their current platform development plans.
Crossing my fingers.
UPDATE: The full album, streaming:
A few videos from the other night:
Will Ridenour: The Kora from Sean Coon on Vimeo.
Invisible: Binary from Sean Coon on Vimeo.
If you’re a fan of Southern Rock, you’re going to love Possum Jenkins.
The live album, free download, is now up on Last.fm. And if you’d like to directly support the band once you try out their sound — my favorite tunes are Carrborro Nights and Someday — head on over to Amie Street and buy the album for a lot less than you might expect.