That's risky ground you're walking, especially when dealing with major label bands, and especially because this is a popular blog. There are definitely alternatives to putting up an mp3 of the song. For instance, you can listen to the full-length version of this week's song ("The Mary Getaway") for free and legally at purevolume. I'm all about getting lesser-known music out there (it's what I do), I just don't want to see you get in trouble for copyright infringement. So there's a viable option, in case you wanted one (not that you did). :) Have a great day...

Jill

 

Hi Jill, I appreciate your concern and it seems like a valid one. But the reason I took this step is because I've seen way too many blogs that review independent musicians and provide a song to showcase their work. Like http://www.chromewaves.net for example. And these blogs seem to run along smoothly. I mean its usually not more than 1 song from an album (which I'll adopt as a rule, for this site), and the readership of this blog is 100-120 regular readers, which isn't a threatening number for a label. Indie labels usually appreciate that kind of grassroots exposure. But I'm not saying I have it figured out, your post has made me rethink this. The idea of having it in a downloadable mp3 format rather than a little embedded flash player on the blog, is because not many people buy an album after hearing a song once on their computer speakers. To have a significant impact, I think its better to give people the option of listening to it at their own convenience, on their ipods or whatever, and that's when the song grows on the listener and they might check out more by the same artist. Anyway, I'll rethink this. Meanwhile, if anyone else has an opinion on the matter, I'd love to hear it..

thanks Jill.

phil

PS: I don't plan on featuring major label artists.. just indie.

 

and blogs like chromewaves.net are 100x more popular than this site.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3_blog

That's some reading for people. Like Phil said, our goal is to bring exposure to smaller bands making good music. We're doing a service to these guys. I blog regularly at my other blog and I actually have smaller labels/marketing companies e-mail me with music they'd like to see showcased.

It's just that most people aren't familiar with the world of mp3 blogging. Just google mp3 blog, and see the amounts of results you get. It's ridiculous!

Anyways, starting next week (if there is a next week), I will go for even smaller bands. Oh, and there's always links to buy the album if you like the song. So we hope that people listening to this stuff end up buying the albums. So yeah, read that article!

 

Maybe you're right... I guess not everyone listens to as much music online as I do. I don't really care if you put the songs up; it's just been my experience that labels are very protective of their music, even some indie labels. But I do look forward to learning about the new music you write about...

Jill

ps - The Working Title is on a major label (Universal). Just so you know. :)

 

plus, downloading a song is a lot easier for dial-up people. I wouldn't be able to listen to it, otherwise. But I'm only one person, so...

 

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They are on Universal, but that's for namesake. I've interned with another band on Universal and that doesn't mean anything. And that's also why I said that starting next week we'll start posting smaller bands. And again, these will only be up for a week - as soon as the next post is up, the first one will be removed, and so on.

It's up to Phil now :p

 

I don't think the Sony reps are going to be on Switchfeed everyday, so I'm sure it's fine.

No offense, Phil.

 

The verdict is in: this feature will continue to exist. :)

 

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