Aaaand, we’re back! To make up for eating lots of great food last week (or hearing about it), we’ve put together a collection of awesome music and visuals to go with it.
That’s right — you’ll notice we’ve got a slew of music videos for you, and they’re all exceptional and unique in their own way. First, we start with Local Natives‘ “Breakers.” You already caught a preview of the track in a previous Freeloader Friday, and now you get the full visual experience. Travis Barker and Yelawolf, Matthew E. White and Sophie Auster are also on board the music video train with some fresh content from their newly released albums. All that makes this single stream from Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson a special treat to be savored, a break from the explosion between your eyes and your brain that you can enjoy with your lids closed or in the dark… that is, if you haven’t already turned out the lights after Menahan Street Band‘s “Lights Out” or Hey Sholay‘s “Dreamboat…”
To the listening board!
Local Natives: “Breakers” music video premiere via Pitchfork
Hummingbird out January 29 on Frenchkiss Records
Menahan Street Band: “Lights Out” music video premiere via Noisey
The Crossing out now on Daptone Records
Travis Barker & Yelawolf: “6 Feet Underground” (feat. Tim Armstrong) music video via YouTube
Psycho White out now on Lasalle Records
Hey Sholay: “Dreamboat” music video via YouTube
((O)) out now on Fierce Panda Records
Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson: “Nasty” (feat. Planet Asia) via Mello Music Group
Dice Game out now on Mello Music Group
Matthew E. White: “Will You Love Me” music video premiere via Pitchfork
Big Inner out now on Hometapes/Spacebomb Records
Sophie Auster: “Run Run Run” music video via PaperMag
Red Weather out now on Lost Colony Music
Have you ever read a business book? If you have, you know that the first thing you learn is that you need to start by answering some very basic questions like:
It seems really simple but I hear people in the music industry asking very different questions like:
The music industry needs to go back to basics and answer some fundamental questions. We have always been in the business of solving problems for our customers – fans of music. We probably just didn’t realize it at the time.
We sold them sound recordings so they could listen to music in their homes whenever they wanted. We made music portable so they could listen to their collections on the go. Cassettes were great. Then we made it even better with CDs. Fans weren’t really buying music (and the music industry was never even selling it in the first place. Consumers don’t “own” the music they buy.). They were paying to have problems solved. Their lives were made better thanks to innovation.
There is a lot of money to be made in the music business if you focus on the customer instead of protecting your core business. Consumers don’t have a problem getting an abundance of cheap or free music. That problem has been solved whether you like it or not. But they do have problems discovering new music they may like, getting closer to their favorite artists, listening to their collections on any device, sharing with their friends and the list goes on and on. They will happily pay for these things and currently do. But there are still so many opportunities and unfilled market demands.
This is the best time to be in a band or be in the music business. Who doesn’t love music? Start asking the right questions. A little tip… “How do we compete with free?” is not one of them. Don’t compete with free. Delight consumers and they will come back for more.
Yay, it’s Friday all over again! And what does that mean? Yes, we get to give away FREE music! So plug in your favorite headphones, sit back, relax, and let these artists take you on a ride:
The Black Angels: “Yellow Elevator #2″ via MP3.com
Phosphene Dream out now on Blue Horizon Records
Ganglians: “Drop The Act” via Stereogum
Still Living out August 23rd on Lefse Records
Whirr: “Junebouvier” via Brooklyn Vegan
Distressor out now on Tee Pee Records
Young Man: “Boy” EP via Noise Trade
Boy out August 31st on Frenchkiss
As new digital music services open their doors, they’re not only trying to find ways to differentiate themselves, but to also draw new users to their sites. This rocks because it allows you to try some of these services for FREE NINETY NINE.
MOG has set themselves apart and have gotten creative with a promotion we haven’t seen other retailers do thus far. The US based streaming service is running a program for a FREE month of access if you spend a measly 90 seconds watching an Xbox Kinect trailer for the game “Dance Central”.
Additionally, the MOG app is free on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Android (sorry Blackberry users). Like Rdio and other streaming services, this app allows you to cache albums on your phone during your free month. If you’re not familiar, the capability to cache lets you ‘”download” or “borrow” the music to use on your mobile device without streaming. You don’t need an internet or network connection.
So run, don’t walk, to your nearest computer and get your free month at MOG today. Your ears (and your wallet) will thank you.
Earlier this year, Austin, Texas quintet What Made Milwaukee Famous bowed with their sophomore effort for Barsuk, What Doesn’t Kill Us . Polished, energetic, forceful and impassioned, Spin rightly called the album “positively exuberant.” But if dropping coin on convincing cominglings of indie, 70s power pop and modern rock radio isn’t your thing, we have a felling WMMF have something else to convince you up their sleeves: FREE MUSIC! Nothing better, right? Last week, the band’s SugarHill Sessions EP was made vailable via eMusic and Barsuk.com , where its 100% free to download.
Called “the Abbey Road of the South”, SugarHill is the oldest continually operating studio in Texas. Having played host to the likes of Lightnin’ Hopkins, Johnny Bush, and Willie Nelson, SugarHill has been quietly contributing to the musical legacy of Texas for the past 67 years. Not a bad list, eh? The SugarHill Sessions EP offers listeners a chance to hear the pure heart of the music of What Made Milwaukee Famous — just 5 guys in a classic Texas studio with guitars, piano and simple percussion, performing their songs in one take. No bells, no whistles, no overdubs. And best of all, NO MONEY!
FREE EP : What Made Milwaukee Famous – SugarHill Sessions EP
But you gotta act now, cause it’s only available until November 17th, at which point that whole coin-dropage thing becomes neccesary again. eMusic will have it from then on. What Made Milwaukee Famous are about to take off on the road for a short run of West Coast dates. All of ‘em after the jump.
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