Posts Tagged ‘album’
Aux.78: Sun and Shadow Past the Border
If a hurricane strikes the office of your record label on the day of your album’s release, what do you call the album? The Sun Decays Them. The new album from Aux. 78, a.k.a. Nicholas Matta, is a beam of muted sunshine, as light as a snowflake and weighty as a gale-force wind. While Wampus…
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Album & Audience: Q&A with Kowtow Popof
As a contemporary songwriter, are you focused on making albums? Or just singles? Or are you emphasizing your live show, where you can reach your audience more regularly, with greater immediacy? Is creating “proper” albums still a part of your artistic plan? While the album has undergone dramatic change in recent years — the “devaluation” of…
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Kickstarter vs. NEA: Paths to Indie Funding
Have an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM) reported this week that Kickstarter, the popular crowdsourcing platform, will likely distribute more funds to creators this year than the National Endowment for the Arts…
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