February 2010
1 post
“Headcount: So in a sense you’ve been working on the metrics of fandom....”
– Steve Martocci On Rewarding Fans, Activists
Great stuff from our own @smartocci. If you’re a fan of innovative product pairings also head on down to Planet Anthem to check out the Disco Biscuits unique product mix, another Bandwith project.
November 2009
3 posts
Farewell to the casual music fan →
yvynyl:
tomewing:
A long - but worth it - piece taking quizzical aim at Kevin Kelly’s “1000 True Fans” idea, looking not at the individual economics of it so much as the cultural impact of a world where “casual fandom” is a thing of the past.
(I don’t actually buy all these arguments - mainly because I don’t think casual fandom itself is threatened, just casual fandom as expressed through...
October 2009
18 posts
WatchFlorence & the Machine
This is a great band with an exciting sound and apparently an amazing live show. What’s most interesting to me though is that David Letterman holds up an LP not a CD as the promotional piece.
This is evidence again of how the industry is tackling the ubiquitious and unlimited supply of digital music goods. Florence and The Machine blew up online and are using that...
WatchHave you heard of Washed Out? He’s just a dude from Georgia who started making awesome music from his bedroom and people loved it. He recently played Santos Party House in NYC and then got married. This video is not his music video, it is just some dudes who make beautiful films using his music. The result is stunning and arguably better than some purpose built music video.
This is the new...
“You need music, I dont know why. It’s probably one of those Joseph Campbell...”
– Jerry Garcia (via - who else? - newspeedwayboogie) (via yvynyl)
When EMI Dies, What Else Dies With It?
In the next few weeks the “music industry” is going to have to face down its mortality. By “industry” I refer to 20th Century labels and the universe surrounding them. That moment, as described by others more informed and eloquent than I, is when EMI must pay off ~$4.7 billion in loans, which it cannot service. No one knows what will happen, but what’s clear is EMI...
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post I finally...
WatchWe’re fans. We’re fans of art. That art can take the form of music or it can take the form of photography and pasting. JR’s latest exhibition “Women are Heroes” is a particularly stunning example of the latter.
At Bandwith we want to figure out not only how to connect fans to musicians, but fans to artists like JR so that as fans we can support more of this beautiful...
Buying the Album, the New Concert Ticket? →
Langhorne Slim, hi we’re Bandwith. Awesome job in tying your record to your concert ticket. Super smart way to tie scarce assets to non-scarce assets.
We’ve got the perfect system for you if you want to make this your ongoing model. We’re messing around with this system now and we would love to have you in our alpha group, which is a good crew. We’ll be in touch.
