Magma Music

Another one of our inspirations

Jonathan Coulton is a singer-songwriter who has more or less blown up in the past couple years, without a record label, and selling music mostly online and mostly digital. His story was a big inspiration for us getting things started here. He had a big NY Times article recently that has pushed him further into the spotlight.

Here’s his blog entry about “how he did it”:   Jonathan Coulton

Some of his ideas that we borrowed/stole/took inspiration from: blog format for a label/band site, using PayLoadz.com for mp3 purchasing, free high-quality flash streaming songs, and his general attitude towards getting his music out there. He wants people to share his music. That’s why we do it. Sure, money is great, but we want people to hear what we’ve put our energies into.

Thanks Jonathan!

Add comment June 15th, 2007

Digital sales overcome physical sales in India

Wow.  Looks like around the world, digital sales are crushing CD sales:  Declan herald.

This topic is being HIGHLY debated at record labels, coffee shops, and water coolers everywhere.  The CD is not going to die anytime soon.  It’s going to be the old uncle of digital music, but people are going to dig something to hold for a while.

Add comment June 12th, 2007

Greetings, earthlings…

So we’ve got all this music hanging around. Great music. It’s sitting out there collecting digital dust. So I had the idea to pull it all together and do something good with it. I want to make it available to people who’ve heard it and miss it, who haven’t heard it and might like, and those who might be able to use it to spruce up their art, whether it be film, television, video games, student projects, model shoot, whatever.

Check out the Music page and read about our Creative Commons license for these songs. We don’t want people to have to jump through hoops to get our music (for their mp3 player, student film, or commercial).

So dive in and check out what we have. It’s all free to listen to in high quality streamed form.

Tally Ho!

Add comment June 1st, 2007