Archive for June, 2006
Free pirate song by Källargubben
by admin on June 16th, 2006
While recording their second album, Källargubben took a few days to record “Pirates Unite” which you can download for free.
The song isn’t really for (or against) file sharing, but it’s definitely against the music industry.
- Maybe we are at a crossroads. We can either leave music making to artists who are satisfied by making money playing live, or we can find new ways to get paid for recorded music. Most probably a combination of both. But you can hardly make as much money on recorded music in the future as you can today. It will be the end of the million selling artists, says Källargubben and continues:
- Sure you can understand the big record companies frustration. The music has found its way back to its “invisible” origin, its transcendent form. It’s floating there, in front of the record company executives, and they can’t put a price tag on it. Of course they get angry!
Music business is all about business and not at all about music. But what is musicians supposed to do for a living then? - Well, they’ll have to do what musicians have done in all times to support themselves: play. At parties, festivals, celebrations, concerts etc. And what’s so terrible with that?
Alfies long lost last recording found at last, just in time for World Cup!
by admin on June 8th, 2006
Bendi gives away a free football* song:
Alfies “(A lovely day for) Goalkeeping” have been disappeared but was recently found on an old tape cassette, only a couple of days before kick off. Furthermore, it’s exactly 20 years since Alfie was formed! We celebrate all this byt giving away Alfies last recording for free!
“(A lovely day for) Goalkeeping” was recorded in 1992 spelades in 1992 and became the last song they did together. The band had already gone from a quintet to a trio: Stefan Wesley (guitar, keyboards) and Magnus Häglund (drums, programming, keyboards) recorded demos on a four channel Fostex, and now and then called for Mattias Ek to come from Stockholm to add the vocals.
The song is previously unreleased and available for download here:
(A Lovely Day For) Goalkeeping »
*football = soccer.