Sunday, May 24, 2015

Nick Davies - 150524 - Music Manumit Podcast

Gentle Brontosaurus


In this episode:
We talk with musician Nick Davies.





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https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/339127/nick-davies

Zoom

sounds nice and compressed

Tell us about your music and tell us what’s new!
old TLDR: http://www.tldrband.com/

https://tldr.bandcamp.com/album/no-time-for-sleep

TLDR formed through craigslist

playing Gentle Brontosaurus: https://www.facebook.com/GentleBrontosaurus

February Album Writing Month - 14 songs, 28 days

lead singer got - 21 songs

Huan-Hua Chye

http://www.baristacide.com/

Your album?
clicking things on screen for drums

accordion!

TLDR?
interesting formation process

Merged the groups!

Jewbacca

the-brontosaurus-is-back

Glass Astronauts in Milwaukee

Drum machine for first gig!

What kind of music?
retro indie rock!

twee?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee

Where do you record?
self-recording in record space

in TLDR recorded at Datcha

electrical audio with Greg Norman

Greg-Norman

What drew you to Creative Commons?
originally on mp3.com

Spotify

people listen more if it is popular

CDs still easier to monetize

who monetizes in your bands?
lead singer did it for TLDR

"kids these days" still buy CDs

Amazon has a vinyl section: http://amzn.to/1F9ZiST

Did you or do you guys tour?
The Frequency on Thursday

Make Music Madison: http://makemusicmadison.org/

mini is a sponsor

musician-ben-sollee-band-touring-by-bike-drumsets-and-all

closing track: https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/668761/explosion