• Home
  • About
    • About NxEW
    • Joining NxEW
    • Joining NxEW for Organizations
    • Promote NxEW
  • Who We Are
  • Contact Us
  • Podcasts
    • NxEW Mixtape Podcast
    • NxEW Podcast Guidelines
    • Bandwidth Episodes
    • R3TV Episodes
    • Radio 3 Sessions
    • Soundcheck Episodes
    • Sections
      • Reviews
      • Interviews
      • Vinyl
      • Video
      • Tour Dates
      • Free Stuff
      • Podcasts
      • Elsewhere in the Blogosphere
      • Music 2.0
      • Awards
      • Links
      • Feeds

Sunday, February 21, 2010

That's the Spirit Releases Free Download of Ultra-lo-fi E.P., I Like His Older Stuff

Ottawa's That's the Spirit (Ben Wilson) who gained wide critical acclaim last year for the album Staying Places has recorded a new "ultra-lo-fi" EP I Like His Older Stuff and is giving it away for free.

It was recorded using "two ghetto blasters, a broken Radio Shack mic, a cracked classical guitar and an echo pedal that caught fire during recording." Wilson promises that this will only be the first in a series of announcements including a new full length album, a tour and a new Ottawa music and film festival.

Stay tuned and grab the free EP at http://antiqueroom.ca/ilikehisolderstuff.html!

Labels: Free Download, Ottawa, Thats the Spirit

posted by Justin Beach at 11:37 AM 0 Comments





Bookmark and Share
Share on Facebook


Stay in Touch:

Subscribe to North by East West by Email

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Big Music Continues to Kick It's Own Ass

Lately it seems that the big record labels, and their trade organizations are compiling lists of friends, fans and allies and slowly alienating them, individually, one at a time. For example there was SOCAN's attack on I (Heart) Music back in May, Sony's still unexplained attack on Colin Medley last week, and this week's pounding of an Ottawa record store (Legend Records).

An RCMP raid (at the bequest of CRIA) turned up 100 dodgy recordings from a collection of somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million. One of those 100 was a an album by local group the Townsmen that Legend Records owner David Nolan had helped finance the recording of. Nolan said today that he pleaded guilty only because he couldn't afford to fight the charges. (For the full article see the Ottawa Citizen.

For the music industry* in the age of free unlimited downloads, to devote time and resources to attacking someone who makes his living selling legal music to fans, their sense of self loathing and their fetish for self flagellation must be running particularly deep.

What has all of this accomplished? By most accounts file sharing continues to rise globally and by most accounts that's good for artists.

* industry in this case means the old music industry; the big labels and those who "represent" them by burning every possible bridge that could lead to their survival.

Labels: Copyright, CRIA, Ottawa

posted by Justin Beach at 7:40 PM 1 Comments





Bookmark and Share
Share on Facebook


Stay in Touch:

Subscribe to North by East West by Email
Stay in Touch:

Subscribe to North by East West by Email
Banner & Logo By John Teeter | tb3
Search This Site
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT


This Week:
Last Week 2 Weeks Ago
3 Weeks Ago 4 Weeks Ago
See All Spotlight Artists

Creative Commons License
NxEW.ca is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute to the author of the piece and NxEW.ca Please note that this applies to what is written here only. For photoraphy and music files please discuss with their creators.


World Visitor Map



Newstin
North by East West
Top Canadian Blogs - Top Blogs