I haven’t shilled my band here in quite a long time. We haven’t been doing much this last couple of years to be honest as the singer has a wee baby but we’ll get round to some new bits eventually.
We’re floored to see the support from our community. Thank you! We've published an update on the Kickstarter.
Turns out people like swag, our ts and swag bags are sold out, but we still have totes available. We're brainstorming some other swag options--thinking hats and patches?
We've also had confirmation of three artists on our compilation album, with more to come!
"'It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,' said David Israelite, the NMPA’s president and CEO [...] 'Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move [...] We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022.'"
Music platform @mirlo is raising funds to keep running! They let listeners buy directly from musicians, with only 7% going to the platform. They're owned by a worker co-op and open-source too
I really appreciate what they're doing, especially with the instability at Bandcamp
As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
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@axwax I can't resist plugging this one more time.. my new chillout EP Sea · Sky · Clouds was released this week and you can now get it on #Mirlo as well as #Faircamp:
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We'll be connecting on Zoom at 7:30 pm EST on Wednesday, May 1st. This month's call will be hosted by our artist liaison. Come with your questions about using Mirlo and engaging in our community. Register at the link below.
🧵 …abgesehen auf den oben hingewiesenen Lösungen, für User und Künstler, zusätzliche Daten freundliche Audio streaming im Internet.
Da gibt es noch Faircamp und @mirlo um als Underground Band/Künster*in im Internet sich zu präsentieren und hörber zu sein.
This blog posts on worker ownership in consumer / producer oriented co-ops lays out some of our thoughts and came out of some great conversations on our discord
Canadian dollar sale! Basically all my album prices were left as-is numerically, but switched from USD to CAD, meaning everything is around 25% off right now, just in time for next week's #BandcampFriday . I need to figure out how to switch currencies on #Artcore#Mirlo and #Jamcoop but I might instead do discount codes or something. Anyway here's the #Bandcamp link: https://djomnimaga.bandcamp.com/album/dream-of-omnimaga