March 28, 2005
Indie Bit Torrent Releases
Decembrists Release Video Via Bit Torrent
Wired points out that rock band the Decembrists have circumvented the MTV bottleneck by releasing a full-length video, shot for 6,000 dollars at a high school, on Bit Torrent. Some of their fans got the ball rolling by hosting the Torrent tracker. Traffic must be pretty good: my download of the 73MB file shot to over 360kB in seconds. That’s the beauty of Bit Torrent, as opposed to client-server interactions; the more traffic, the faster the transaction. The video is called Sixteen Military Wives, and the download page is here. It’s a lightweight condemnation of U.S. foreign policy.
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February 24, 2005
Indie Music Sites
Here are a variety of Indie Music sources. Each of these sites offer songs that are freely available to download and crank up.
Somesongs.com - Original songs from indie songwriters are graded by peers. Check out the "Top Rated" link on the right.
OddioOverplay.com - a huge index of indie net-labels. Intellegently selected and beautifully presented.
Magnatune - A net label who has assembled a fine roster of artists offering sampling of high-res audio (the whole album, no less) and a pricing model that teases the senses (pay what you like starting at $5 an album).
WebJay.org - public playlist manager, representing a huge variety of music and sounds.
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