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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Tom Servo on November 14, 2006, 12:31:00 pm
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Throw out some ideas for my last bunch of monthly emusic tracks.
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The new Joanna Newsom is out today...not necessarily my cup of tea, but the album only has 5 tracks. Pretty good use of 5 downloads to get a new full-length album.
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the new mouse on mars
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indie: beach house
jazz: omer avital / the ancient art of giving
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dead milkmen
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dirty on purpose - 'hallelujah sirens'
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The one thing about eMusic these days is there is no lack of albums to download, I have several lists going and keep adding more each week.
local: The Hard Tomorrows
indie: The Music Lovers
power pop: The Sails
and of course the Chumbawuba which is very good.
Plus a ton of early UK punk reissued via Cherry Red and it's imprints.
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Is it safe to say eMusic has the vast majority of new releases each week?
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while eMusic is now making available new releases when they come out, their selection is still limited to indie labels like Merge, Epiteth, V2 Music, Drag City, Matador...
The amount of indie UK singles being made available is mind boggling.
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Originally posted by Tom Servo:
Throw out some ideas for my last bunch of monthly emusic tracks.
so are you quitting emusic, or just trying to burn throught some downloads?
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Originally posted by brennser:
Originally posted by Tom Servo:
Throw out some ideas for my last bunch of monthly emusic tracks.
so are you quitting emusic, or just trying to burn throught some downloads? [/b]
Just finishing off this month's allotment. I've been getting into a bad habit of forgetting about it until right before the end of the month.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I have several lists going and keep adding more each week.
did you pick up the pipettes? thought it would be your alley with the girl-group and power-pop stuff
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yeah i got it... it's growing on me at the moment wasn't the instant oh yeah i thought it would be.
and i forgot that Dischord, Arts and Crafts, XL, 4AD, and Secretly Canadian add new stuff quickly as well. eMusic has partner with several of the indie label digital distributors like IODA, CDBaby, and PIAS in the UK. Subpop is a notable holdout..
and if you act quickly a couple UK labels as they may soon be unavailable to the US are there.
Warp (http://www.emusic.com/label/136/136967.html)
Domino (http://www.emusic.com/label/131/131818.html)
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Subpop is a notable holdout..
very notable, and aggravating
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I've enjoyed your critques of bands here, and I think I know your tastes a bit. If it's available, I'd highly recommend Driveblind's new cd - released about two weeks ago. Power pop/great vocals. Played both Black Cat and 930 club this year and are just as good live as in the studio. One of my top five picks out of 65 bands I heard at SXSW this year.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
and if you act quickly a couple UK labels as they may soon be unavailable to the US are there.
What's happening with these labels? Why will they soon not be available?
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Labels come and go on emusic without notice. Rykodisc, for example. The Frank Zappa albums (30+) disappeared without notice a couple months ago. I'm really surprised that Warp is there now...it could be a mistake?? At any rate, download them quick, hehehe.
Oh, Domino used to have a lot of albums available for UK subscribers...and they quickly disappeared too...but it looks like there are some albums on Domino that just got available for US subscribers...
Originally posted by redsock:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
and if you act quickly a couple UK labels as they may soon be unavailable to the US are there.
What's happening with these labels? Why will they soon not be available? [/b]
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eMusic has had for several years albums which could only be downloaded in the US due to restriction placed by who owned the publishing rights. a couple months ago the service was divided into a US vs European site and a number of albums were available in the UK at that point. However, errors have been known to occur allowing downloading regardless of location, which could have happened in the case of WARP and Domino. The WARP stuff was released in the US via Matador so it's possible that why it's available for download now.
I think the Rykodisc stuff will be available again at some point. Ryko was bought out by a major which lead to speculation it's catalog would disappear and it did. But, the reason given was that Ryko was in the process of changing it's electronic distribution, so it would be back.
Contracts with labels expire and not renewed, but Victory Records went away and returned.
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And its always enjoyable to read folks from outside the US bitching about this in the album review section...
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
eMusic has had for several years albums which could only be downloaded in the US due to restriction placed by who owned the publishing rights.
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The new Aimee Mann holiday cd is also out and the new Evens is really good as well. For anyone interested in joining emusic, the quantity that you get per month is going to drop on the 21st so sign up before that.
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What is it dropping from and to? If you sign up before the 21st, are you grandfathered in at the old level indefinitely?
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Current plan
Music Basic
40 downloads per month
$9.99 per month
becomes to 30 downloads
eMusic Plus
65 downloads per month
$14.99 per month
becomes 50 downloads
eMusic Premium Best Value
90 downloads per month
$19.99 per month
becomes 75 downloads
you get a 20% discount for paying for a years subscription and 25% for two years.
regarding future rollover
If you are happy with your current monthly or annual rollover plan, simply do nothing. Your selected plan will be guaranteed as long as you keep your account active and in good standing. However, if you wish to lock in a new rollover plan, you must do so before November 21st, 2006.
We recommend that you review and set your rollover plan now to lock in at the lowest price per download available After Nov 21st, if you want to upgrade, you'll no longer be able to upgrade into the older plans. All the more reason to upgrade now!
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and if you need an emusic invite several of us are dying for free downloads... primarily ME!!!!!
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Warp and Domino are GONE. I guess they weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
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Thanks. I was at that black cat gig and enjoyed it. They were polished, both live and on the short EP I picked up. I'll check out the full album.
Good suggestions all.
Originally posted by Bartelby:
I've enjoyed your critques of bands here, and I think I know your tastes a bit. If it's available, I'd highly recommend Driveblind's new cd - released about two weeks ago. Power pop/great vocals. Played both Black Cat and 930 club this year and are just as good live as in the studio. One of my top five picks out of 65 bands I heard at SXSW this year.
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eMusic has just added 35 titles from the Scat Records Catalog w/ Guided by Voices, Cobra Verde, My Dad is Dead, The Styrenes, etc. Sounds like the pre-punk Cleveland music scene was very interesting. It being the scene that spawned DEVO, The Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. Lots of shared influences and sounds, just not widely known outside of the area.
This looks very promising Those Were Different Times - Cleveland 1972-1976 (http://www.emusic.com/album/10976/10976884.html)
Also being added more titles from Sundaze and new titles from Norton Records,two premiere Garage Rock specialists labels.
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Curious if most get their downloads from eMusic?
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Originally posted by El Tee:
Curious if most get their downloads from eMusic?
I get nearly all of my "legal" downloads from eMusic, but I wouldn't say that I get most of my total downloads from eMusic.
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Supplement with iTunes then? (Yep, Santa brought me an iPod. The cost of this thing is what Barbie is for kids.)
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Mary J.Bilge
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Originally posted by El Tee:
Supplement with iTunes then? (Yep, Santa brought me an iPod. The cost of this thing is what Barbie is for kids.)
Good for you. You can do that, although I still find it cheaper to buy used Cd's and rip to iTunes than it is to buy off iTunes, but the used market is a little better where I live.
With an iPod, there is really no other option other than eMusic (MP3) or iTunes (AAC) if you choose to download your music. Most other online stores use Windows Media Audio files that iPods don't support.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
With an iPod, there is really no other option other than eMusic (MP3) or iTunes (AAC) if you choose to download your music.
psst:
http://www.torrentz.com/ (http://www.torrentz.com/)
http://www.indietorrents.com/ (http://www.indietorrents.com/)
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emusic just added a bunch of Felt albums
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everyone but especially kosmo should download this album by The Chalets - brilliant, catchy pop
http://www.emusic.com/album/10893/10893379.html (http://www.emusic.com/album/10893/10893379.html)
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yup the Chalets is fun....
also checkout in similar vein Charlotte Hatherley's new single (http://www.emusic.com/album/10979/10979376.html), ex Ash guitarist continues the solo career with a good but not great single.
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hey kosmo - your PM box is full. Can you please contact me? Thanks.
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In response to El Tee's earlier question, I pretty much only download from eMusic. I rarely go to iTunes (I think I got an early release of an album once, and I filled in a bunch of classic rock singles for a playlist I was doing for a going away party -- didn't have any Allman Brothers or Lynrd Skynrd of my own).
What I love about eMusic is the following:
- Each month, I get a couple albums I may have bought anyway, and a couple completely new bands (to me) just to try -- usually stuff I hear about here (like Chalets, Pipettes, The Sails -- which I'm getting today). At basically $2 an album, that works for me.
- If there's not enough indie/pop for me, I fill in with jazz and classical - they've got oodles of John Coltrane, Miles, Dave Brubeck, etc.
- I can do anything I want with eMusic downloads. Imagine that, I actually own them outright! (Unlike iTunes).
- When SxSW is coming up, lots of the bands I don't already know are available on eMusic.
- They list everything you've downloaded already, and you can download it again. Great if you have a hard drive die, or if, like me, you want to have albums both at work and home (I can't burn CDs on my work computer).
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I know some folks are enjoying The Chalets right now. Just to point out the the label their are on, Setanta has a bunch of great Irish (and some english) bands from the 90s and 00s that are all well worth your emusic downloads A House, Frank and Walters, Brian, Richard Hawley, Edwyn Collins, SUltans of Ping, Into Paradise etc etc
Keith, the label owner has a great ear so you really can;t go wrong with alot of the downloads esp if you are into indie pop
http://www.emusic.com/label/116/116848.html (http://www.emusic.com/label/116/116848.html)
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Originally posted by redsock:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
and if you act quickly a couple UK labels as they may soon be unavailable to the US are there.
What's happening with these labels? Why will they soon not be available? [/b]
Grammar check! "Why will they soon not be available?" English 101 here you come!
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given that Ted Leo is on Touch and Go and Andrew Bird is on Fat Possum do people think their new CDs will be available on emusic?