My goodness, I have NOT been a good blogger since Baby Flapjack was born! Whilst you would have thought that a lot of our music would have suffered after having a baby…we managed to do a tour and record a new live album in the process! We played with some of my favourite musicians…such as Todd Reynolds and Neil Alexander and the whole experience of touring with a baby was amazing and difficult and humbling all at the same time. We realised how lucky we are to have a baby who thrives on new people and new situations, and how the help of wonderful friends along they way is indispensable. So please check out Live So Far and Steve’s posting on it is here. It’s pay what you want, or rather what you think it’s worth…and no matter what, we just want you to have a copy of it! Also there is a BEAUTIFUL live video, shot by Brian Wilson using 2 Canon 5D Mark 2’s and and another fixed camera. More news soon, I promise!
Steve has just about put the finishing touches on our Live In Nebraska Album on Bandcamp. This has been just about sold out since we made it (and we did make lots of copies!) but now you’ll be able to pay what you want for this amazing CD. It’s truly one of the best recordings I’ve ever been a part of….partly due to it being the last show on our US tour that year and us playing really well….and partly due to the amazing Dan Kane at Power Base Studio really knowing how to capture live sound. It also doesn’t hurt that his studio is perfect either. (It’s only $500/US per diem, you really should go and record there sometime!) We’ve never played the song Rain like this since. It’s breathtaking.
So download like crazy, share with your friends. Pass it on and let us know what you think! xo Steve and Lo.
Just a bit of interesting yet slightly distressing news today. In a deal that is the first of it’s kind, Emusic has come to an agreement with Sony to include their back catalog that is over 2 years old to be included in emusic’s non DRM a la carte monthly download service.
When I initially heard this news, I was quite pleased. Large record labels have seemed to be quite skeptical in the past about the financial viability of non-DRM download services. But you can’t argue with the numbers. Emusic has over 400,000 subscribers and even at a conservative guestimation are bringing in over 3 million a month. The main complaint that I’ve had with their service ( I was a member for over 2 years) was that after I was finished getting all the cool independent and obscure stuff I wanted, that there were a lot of mainstream things that you couldn’t get on emusic. I’m sure this causes a lot of fluctuation in business, and often people will let their account drop for a few months while new tracks are added. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve put the latest song from the album In up for free download! As with the others, I could really use your help getting the word out about it! Because of all your help, these tracks have gotten out to way more people that I ever anticipated! Thanks so so so much! I’m going to start putting them out every week from now on as I find that two weeks is a little too long in between. Once all the tracks are out, then I hope you’ll all join me to hear them live! x
So welcome to the beginning of week 3 and the new release of the 2nd song from my new album In called I’ve Never Met Anyone Like You. Please download it and send it to as many people as you like. The first track had over 100 downloads in the first 3 days and over 185 total. Combined with my other fan exclusives on RN there have been over 650 downloads! That’s amazing! Hope we can match or exceed that with this track!
You’ll also notice there’s a share button on this widget. It allows you to grab this content and put it on your own site, myspace, facebook, or bebo and very much like being a virtual secret agent for the independent music alliance….uhm or something like that. x