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Anoop, Steve and I were out last night talking about a Bandwith product pathway and enjoying a beer at Black Door. We’ve got a firm idea of where we’re headed and what needs to be done in short order to get there. We’re looking forward to taking the wraps off the tool that folks have been clamoring for, so stay tuned. Also stay tuned to our post on the meaning of EMI’s looming bankruptcy to the music industry.

While at the Black Door, Passion Pit’s “Little Secrets” came on…it’s a nasty song. This is a great version performed live at Bonnaroo (where our partner Chewy created the most amazing VIP experience ever conceived for a live event).

Here at Bandwith we’re always interested in the unique ways that musicians take their art from an audience of 1 to an audience of 1,000s. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová of Swell Season have a particularly unique story. Glen and Markéta were the stars of indie film sensation Once and are the winners of an academy award for the music from that movie.

While I think the idea of an artist focusing on a film release as a distribution strategy is crazy, I don’t think it’s crazy for an artist to use the narrative of video to tell their story and gain an audience. This goes beyond a music video. This is about a band telling a story of their founding and their production; engaging their fans in the input as much as they engage in the output.

If you’re doing this come and talk to us about how Bandwith can help you harness the data of your followers, watchers and distributers. With this data you can reward your fans for taking you to the next level.

Enjoy the weekend and this duo’s beautiful music.

We’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 work.

This is Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man”, it’s a great song and if you’re in NYC 10/22 you can check them out at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. However, what I want to talk about is their No.1 most popular song on Hype Machine today. How did this happen? and what will the impact be?

Let’s start with me. I happened across these dudes in late September on the advice of Tsururadio, who blogged about them based on the fact that they came up in his random shuffle. This random happenstance makes sense as the album started leaking way back in 2008, but at the time nothing caught. That’s all changed and with 1191 loved votes you can expect this song to continue to sit near the top. Not for nothing, I blogged about these guys on my personal blog about a week ago.

My guess is that this concert will sell out by the end of the week. Now what I want to get into is how does Mumford & Sons value the fans that are making this happen. Bandwith is working on that problem, and we probably ought to look closer at Hypem data. In the meantime here’s another great track by this band.

Looking forward to seeing Rural Alberta Advantage tomorrow night at Bowery. My schedule and apathy prevented me from seeing their earlier shows in NYC. Not this time.

Waking up this morning to the our weatherman telling me it was 39 in Newburgh, reminded me that summertime is over. This song is a bit of escapism. That said Fall in NYC is the best time to be here and a great time to see live music.

Found this on the We Are Listening Blog and really liked it. April’s pitch is probably pretty familiar to you if you’ve been keeping your eye on the work that Jill Sobule has done innovating around funding her records. What I like is that April has been able to take advantage of a platform explicity built around Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans theory. That platform is Kickstarter.

At Bandwith we’re always looking for new data sources that indicate fandom and there is a pretty rich data stream that would run out of Kickstarter. We’ll be keeping tabs on April and as we mature our own product on Kickstarter.

The Drums - “Let’s Go Surfing” Music Video (via grammapolice)

Just heard these dudes on HypeMachine Radio’s latest installment. They’re on my list when they get back to NYC. Great stuff.

While the blogosphere is abuzz about David Letterman’s remarkable extortion dialogue last night (it is a statement of our age of transparency), we were taken by this incredible video of the great Jimmy Hendrix. Thanks to Andy at New Speedway Boogie for unearthing this gem.

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Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun

Ben Chasny of Six Organs/Comets on Fire calls this the greatest guitar solo ever.  This dude says “Jimi Hendrix’s tone during the song “Machine Gun,” recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York in 1970, is one of the shining moments in the history of the electric guitar”

This is an awesome video from Miike Snow who has been all over Hype Machine of late and for good reason. The music rules. The first taste we had of Miike came out of a RCRDLBL exclusive remix of Vampire Weekend. Looking forward to seeing Miike in NYC. Enjoy the video and song.