D/L Kristen Hersh's Latest EP for Free


Former Throwing Muses muse, Kristen Hersh has made her latest EP available for free download at her site. Get "Free Music!," the latest from her band, 50FOOTWAVE, here:

Throwing Music: The Home of 50FOOTWAVE, Kristin Hersh, and Throwing Muses

Why release the song for free? Here's what they say:

The band states its goal as simply to circumvent the 'money cycle' and get high quality (free) recordings into the hands of a maximum number of people for evaluation at their leisure.

The band's manager, Billy O'Connell, says, "The capacity for reaching new ears with unknown music has become so diminished that we felt we had to try a new approach. It has become prohibitively expensive to reach people via traditional marketing means (radio, press, retail promotion) - lately, CD distribution costs and even touring costs have gone through the roof.

"This project is simply attempting to tap the power of the network -- we're asking individuals for their enthusiasm rather than their money. It's an experiment we're eager to see play out."

The band's founder, Kristin Hersh, explains, "Money has so polluted the music world that my overwhelming urge right now is to divorce money from recorded music. Over the last 2 years we've been relying on standard 'industry' channels to help us educate listeners about 50 Foot Wave and we've met resistance every step of the way -- caused by little other than money -- and to an extent I've never seen before."

My favorite of the new songs? Vena Cava

Posted: Fri - December 23, 2005 at 12:37 AM         |

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