Yes, that title is a really lame Samhain reference. But, it is Halloween today, so I guess I can maybe sort of get away with it.
Anyway, I just wanted to officially mention our two upcoming shows here on the blog. I should have done this sooner, but I’ve been overwhelmed lately with the amount of places I end up posting our shows (our site, Myspace, Purevolume, Upcoming, etc.) so some of them slip through the cracks.
The first one is this Friday night (Nov 2) at the Moose lodge in Doylestown, PA.
And then after that we’ll be playing our first ALL AGES show in a really long time (Nov 24, to be exact) at Siren Records, also in Doylestown, PA.
As always, you can grab the code on our Myspace page it you want to repost these flyers or send them to your friends.
The internet tubes have been a-buzz for the past few days with the news that Radiohead’s forthcoming new album, In Rainbows, is available for pre-order directly from the band. They are not currently under contract with any major label, so you’re actually buying this album from the artists themselves. What’s more, the digital download version is available for the fan-friendly price of “whatever you feel like paying,” although there seems to be an upper limit of around $200. Those of you feeling super generous will have to just send them a check for the difference.
A few other artists have experimented with this flexible pricing approach, but none as high-profile as Radiohead. And while they’re still likely to sign with a label at some point, this is definitely an interesting step towards shortening the gap between major artists and their fans.
In a related story, Trent Reznor just announced Nine Inch Nails‘ departure from Universal/Interscope:
Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.
From NIN Hotline
Not much in the way of details, but I’m sure those announcements he mentioned will be very interesting. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
And on a more Sinch-related note, all of our future releases are likely to be available directly from us (in case you didn’t know that already). We’ve felt this is the way to go for a while now and it’s good to see some major artists going down a similar path.
This is the best photo I’ve seen in a while:
photo by Alex Brown
