Best Buy has decided to stock their shelves and online store with regional & local artists thanks to a partnership with Regional CD, an indie distributor which will allow bands to sell music directly without their own distribution or even a label. nice.
but how do you reach the hardcore music-loving fans who refuse to shop [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 25, 2008
peddle your merch
July 22, 2008
flower-sniffin’ corporate rock whores
plant a CD (insert), grow a wildflower.
Wal-Mart and Universal Music Group have teamed up to release an eco-friendly CD insert that, when properly planted, will actually bloom into wildflowers. yes, the corporate giant wants to save the earth.
July 21, 2008
the end of No Depression?
received bad news in the mail. usually it’s a bill, but this time it was from one of my bi-monthly magazine subscriptions: No Depression.
July 21, 2008
Billy Bob breeds hillbilly brouhaha
who wouldn’t love being taken back to a time when the Rat Pack ruled the boob tube, dressed to the nines in matching suits & skinny ties, set to the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Animals, fused with Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Roy Acuff and Hank Williams?
July 18, 2008
the legend of Luke the Drifter
the real Hiram “Hank” Williams, who got his start on the Grand Ole Opry, was a man who liked his booze & his women & never apologized for it. true – heartache, rebellion and alcohol plagued him until his dying days, but that’s exactly the kind of mix that makes William’s discography a true testament [...]
July 15, 2008
freedom of bad religion
i know, i know, Bad Religion just released New Maps of Hell not more than a year ago, but THIS reissue has it’s very own DVD and never before heard acoustic tracks. (well, you might have heard them on some really BAD bootleg or some LO-FI video)
July 15, 2008
Seuss meets Zimmerman
how did i ever miss Bob Dylan (incognito) doing Dr. Seuss?!
the original website has vanished, but seven songs by an undisclosed artist impersonating the untouchable Dylan in the Highway ‘61 vain are a RIOT!!
green eggs & ham
July 14, 2008
how starving musicians eat on the road
if you’ve ever toured the country peddling your music night after night, this might sound familiar.
imagine, if you will, five guys sharing two bench seats in a beat up van and nobody can really sleep. everyone’s hoping they’ll make it to the Philly gig before sundown with 300 miles left to go and it’s already [...]
