― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
The band will be offering FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files as well as hi-resolution mp3 files. The band is also encouraging fans to seed BitTorrents and set up CD burning trees to ensure that people without time or technology may also receive the free music.
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.
"So we're sending free recordings off into the world to do their work. If people enjoy these songs and are excited by them, we ask that they share them with others. The music business is about fame and huge profits -- egos and greed -- music itself, is not."
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Kristin's son Dylan finally has a band of his own, too. Good Morning L.A., I think they're called.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.throwingmusic.com/freemusic/FreeMusicPhotos/FreeMusicPhoto2small.jpg
― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
apparently there's a new kristin solo album out in january!
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
It's called "Learn To Sing Like A Star." Cute song title: "Christian Hearse" (actually a short interlude of her son playing guitar or something like that).
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
the grotto has become one of my favourites. i've been playing a lot of the songs myself on my electric w/ distortion and tremolo which makes them sound wonderfully spooky. they're incredible songs for pacing and dynamics, esp. 'deep wilson'
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's a picture I took of KH outside the ICA 13 years ago (at the 13-Year Itch show! Blimey - another decade and a third just went by) - just after she'd dyed her hair for the first time.
http://static.flickr.com/53/133765068_db3e168a92.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
in-studio with new songs
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
i interviewed kristin over the phone a few days ago. she's easily, i mean like far and away, the nicest, funniest and most instantly likeable famous person i have ever encountered. which makes it all the better when you see her walk onstage and start screaming like she's possessed. -- J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, September 4, 2006 7:21 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link
i love that. why is she the nicest ever?
i'm just now listening to 50 Foot Wave, and loving it. I'm not surprised, really, but it's always amazing how much she puts out.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the songs on this are off the hook, but i keep wondering why the vocals aren't louder - i know sometimes she does that, but on this first listen i'm really wishing i could hear some of the words better.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Kristin's son Dylan finally has a band of his own, too.
!??!!? OK Liz Fraser's daughter singing with Mahogany, and now this. Grumble. Olllld.
― Trayce, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
everything this band has ever done is now available for free at http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/ including a pretty spectacular new ep called power+light. /streetteam
― joe, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently not free anymore. A shame that you have to go through this to get the new stuff. When our inevitable 00s poll comes around, I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
what? it's all still there, just click "free music" at the address upthread. or if you just want power + light, right click "mp3".
― joe, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently everything she does is released under a Creative Commons licence these days, downloadable in 128kbp mp3, 256 kbp mp3 or FLAC, with cover and (!!) mix parts, one's work on which can be uploaded to the so-called "rw" (read/write) section... songs for next album made available as they are recorded etc -- this is a pretty awesome way of doing stuff I think!
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh jeez, the night I was so drunk I couldn't download free music.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lol the beautiful struggle
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
yeah, fuckin fantastic record that
― (I don't crap in public toilets) (stevie), Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
She's good value on Twitter btw. One of the few musicians worth following.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
She's the only "celeb" I follow thesedays. And you, obv, Dorian.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 17 December 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
golden Ocean is just like, really good and straightforward. kinda wish the vocals were mixed higher.
her twitter! i need to get on this
― Do you love me now? (surm), Thursday, 17 December 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, her Twitter is awesome. She's DMed me a few times in response to things I've written to her, so assuming I'm not special, she's good about the interaction and not just posting to hear herself talk.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
My personal assesment of Golden Ocean is that it is what Nevermind wished it was.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Or what I wished Nevermind was.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
So I have the very first self-titled EP, which is great, and I sold "Golden Ocean" as it just didn't measure up to the EP. Is there any other 50 Ft Wave material I should consider?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The hell you say Golden Ocean doesn't measure up! Anyway, uh last year I guess they put out Power + Light, which is pretty interesting, but I won't guarantee you'd like it just because you like the older stuff. It's sort of um, Jane's Addiction-influenced or something?
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 July 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone read "Paradoxical Undressing"?
Is there much about mental health/schizophrenia in there?
― djh, Sunday, 16 January 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ordered it from Amazon UK, but it hasn't arrived yet. Intentionally avoided reading anything about it. Want to find out myself. Her writing online and in the "Crooked" book was really good though... I have high hopes.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 16 January 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Love this interview -- particularly the part about when 50FW opened for the Muses and how it's totally cool with her that the respective fans could be different sets of persons. Reminded me of a thing I then had to google up from her website:
Wicked, I thought. I never know what people want to hear. Some seem to only like old Throwing Muses songs, some only like the most recent release, some people only like Sunny Border Blue, some people want unreleased material, some like me to scream real loud, some like me to whisper, some just like Your Ghost over and over and over again.
And she's OK with people only wanting "Your Ghost" over and over and over again. I love that.
Now, if someone only wants to hear "Dizzy"... ;)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
and btw very annoying that there is not a youtube of "Fish", which afaik was on a commercially released videotape ffs, on youtube without it being muffled, distorted, or unsynched+supertitled... :/
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovWgb4MZWI
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 9 April 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody sen her on tour for Rat Girl? I'm going tomorrow (well, later tonight). Read that she does music as well as reads. And I have a few extra tickets, if anyone's in the LA area.
― nickn, Saturday, 9 April 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
saw her do readings with giant sand making soundtracky noise behind her in london last year, it was remarkable. interviewed her in january for a magazine that might not be coming out now, as ever she was wonderful, funny, moving, etc... she just rules, doesn't she?
― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Always a good idea to check out the website every once-in-a-while to see what's new for public consumption.
http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
So obviously there are like 50 years worth of other bands and songs that could have done this for me, but listening to Power + Light pretty much nonstop over the last few weeks just inspired me to my first fuzzbox purchase.
― beachville, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
nice. wat fuzz u get for ur fuzzin' needs?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Just a Little Big Muff. I'm on a pretty tight budget these days. But the fields of fuzz from this album are just impossible to resist and I want to play in them too.
― beachville, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
lbm is a great muff imo. some will say otherwise but it's kept a few pricier boutique muffs off my board. between the tone and sustain knobs there are a lot of great and classic sounds in there. smooth sustainy gilmour lead fuzz, massive wall of pumpkins fuzz, trashy dime store black keys fuzz etc.
there are a few distinct flavors of fuzz and iirc kh used a roland bee-ba a lot on that record. discontinued now and hard to find but if you want to explore more fuzz flavors there are now several good versions available from independent builders.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
According to the guy who recorded them, she primarily used a Quadrafuzz, which is a build-your-own kinda thing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/mudrock5000/CIMG0575.jpg
http://www.kristinhersh.com/forum/topic/just-a-gear-question-for-k
― beachville, Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link