http://americananthems.milwaukees.com Free Music Blog Wed, 14 May 2008 14:54:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to an interview with Thom Yorke in the Hollywood Reporter, Radiohead's much buzzed-about name your own price experiment is over and will not be revisited. Of most interest to me in the story is this line "We are about that direct relationship (now) because we are big enough..." That really ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/radiohead-experiment-over/ Admittedly, we are jumping on the free music band wagon. I read the Long Tail, watched the Radiohead experiment with fascinated eyes, listened excitedly to stories of Jill Sobule using her direct connection to fans to fund her next record, and I jumped on the band wagon. I pitched the ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/really-free-music-lars-really/ We were just getting going during the heyday of Napster, but we definitely experienced an uptick in notoriety due to the file sharing service. I am sure that our album, shared among other known bands gave us cred. It got us high-paying college gigs and a cult following that we ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/the-halcyon-days-of-napster/ Wow. So I had no idea how this whole donation thing was going to work out. However, I sent an email bulletin out about it (which apparently was riddled with typos because I was working on it at 4 am) and this morning I came in to find $190 dollars ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/donation-update/ Back in the heyday of Napster, I took some songs. I exercised a strange kind of arbitrary morality. For instance, I once owned a tape that had Van Halen's "Fair Warning" on one side and "Women and Children First" on the other (Damn that was a good tape!). Tape being ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/whats-it-worth-to-you/ OK, so on days where I don't have a ton to write (which may be frequent... we'll have to see) I am going to list three links to free music stories. I'll be calling this "Three on Free" because an idea is nothing without a clever title, right? So without ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/three-on-free-philly-tonight/ So a mere few hours after launching the donation part of this whole free music initiative and we've got our first donation. Thanks Luke! That's $12 down and $4,988 to go! I'm excited.ShareThis http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/first-donation/ I'm a bit of a perfectionist. It makes me nuts that this site isn't as good as I want it to be yet. It is a work in progress. Bear with me. It will get better.ShareThis http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/a-work-in-progress/ So this is the inaugural post for my Free Music Blog. Unfortunately the first post is going to be anti-climatic as it is after 3 AM and I'm staring another night with less than four hours of sleep straight in the eyes. I've been polishing up this site for the last ... http://americananthems.milwaukees.com/2008/05/hello-world/