Introducing my new podcast, Drumber.
This past week, the service that I had been using (Bandcamp) to publish my music for purchase was sold to a video game company with strong ties to the Chinese government.
It wasn’t a hard decision to decide to move on. What is difficult is where to go next? There are very few uncorrupted venues to offer music for sale these days. Music is being devalued at an alarming rate, used as a loss-leader for advertising and tech, and generally a race to the bottom with respect to the economic viability of making music professionally.
Furthermore, the majority of music is listened to on portable, digital devices, and the prevailing method upon those devices is a streaming service. This results in almost zero revenue for all but a fraction of a percent of recording artists. I do have content on those services, but no where near the amount of content I had published for sale on Bandcamp. My view of the releases that are available for streaming are that they are advertising; my hope is that it may pique someone’s interest to Google me and then dig deeper (and pay for) my catalogue.
So, I am using the podcast format to share some of my music, starting with “side A” of my latest release, Brooklyn 2018.
I hope you like it. If you do, consider donating!
Or better yet, consider becoming a Substack subscriber, and gain perks like my COMPLETE music download catalog.
TO DONATE:
via Square Donate $1 Donate $3 Donate $10
Share this post