The awesome thing about the internet for an independent artist is that you instantly have access to millions of people from around the world as your audience. The future of music is independent artists, and unless you can embrace the online world and learn to use it to your advantage, you won’t be able to [...]

Colin Meloy of the Decemberists just released a live recording of their songs under the highly creative title Colin Meloy Sings Live!  Brian Howe at Pitchfork compares Meloy’s new release to the previously released Sings albums (where he covered Morrissey and Shirley Collins): ”His Sings albums sound more like a fan’s love letters to his idols [...]