http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/golden-era-of-online-music/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/golden-era-of-online-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3299 mattbirmingham Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3583#comment-3299 Kent,I was sent to your website by a friend of mine because you mentioned our band, The Calamities, in this post. Another sadness of the MP3.com catastrophe was the fact that many bands (including ours) were hoping a new distribution media would help pay the bills. MP3.com seemed to be a great option, but in the end we never saw a dime from any of the sales.The good news is that the band weathered all of this and we're still working on our music. Feel free to stop by TheCalamities.com (yes, I know it's down; should be up in the next few weeks) to check in on us. Thanks for the support! Kent,I was sent to your website by a friend of mine because you mentioned our band, The Calamities, in this post. Another sadness of the MP3.com catastrophe was the fact that many bands (including ours) were hoping a new distribution media would help pay the bills. MP3.com seemed to be a great option, but in the end we never saw a dime from any of the sales.The good news is that the band weathered all of this and we’re still working on our music. Feel free to stop by TheCalamities.com (yes, I know it’s down; should be up in the next few weeks) to check in on us. Thanks for the support!

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/golden-era-of-online-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3300 trumwill Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3583#comment-3300 I found an unbelievable amount of good music through Napster. I was tracking a lot of local bands and started sifting through the share lists of people whose name I saw on more than one band that I was checking out and as likely as not I liked whatever it was that they liked. After Napster cratered there was AudioGalaxy, which made downloading easier but networking more difficult.What I find helpful these days is Rhapsody. Their collection of unsigned artists is somewhat thin, but even if they don't have an artist they will frequently be able to refer you to an artist they do have that's similar. There are really a surprising number of signed bands with unique sounds. They just don't make it onto the radio. I used to think that the record labels were to blame for all the monotony, but now I think it's more the radio stations.<I>I suppose MySpace is the new direct distribution point for a lot of bands (here's Buckeye's page),</I>MySpace has ruined the art of the band website for the independent musicians where I'm from. They used to have interesting webpages, but most migrated to MySpace and since the MySpace site costed nothing and pretty much ran itself became frustratingly lax about updating it with band news and even tour dates. I found an unbelievable amount of good music through Napster. I was tracking a lot of local bands and started sifting through the share lists of people whose name I saw on more than one band that I was checking out and as likely as not I liked whatever it was that they liked. After Napster cratered there was AudioGalaxy, which made downloading easier but networking more difficult.What I find helpful these days is Rhapsody. Their collection of unsigned artists is somewhat thin, but even if they don’t have an artist they will frequently be able to refer you to an artist they do have that’s similar. There are really a surprising number of signed bands with unique sounds. They just don’t make it onto the radio. I used to think that the record labels were to blame for all the monotony, but now I think it’s more the radio stations.I suppose MySpace is the new direct distribution point for a lot of bands (here’s Buckeye’s page),MySpace has ruined the art of the band website for the independent musicians where I’m from. They used to have interesting webpages, but most migrated to MySpace and since the MySpace site costed nothing and pretty much ran itself became frustratingly lax about updating it with band news and even tour dates.

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