Paper Plane Pilot Blog

If Nothing Else… For Something Else (1/5) Now Available!

February 19, 2010

I’m proud to announce that If Nothing Else… For Something Else (1/5) is now available for download! The release is the first of five, two-song, mini-ep releases that will eventually make up the next Paper Plane Pilot full-length album. This way, instead of waiting for 10 songs (and for me to go insane trying to write, record, produce and mix 10 songs at once), you get five little mini-installments, instant gratification, and, if my math serves me correctly, a 5x saner host!

Sure, I could sit on these tracks for another year or so and release everything at once, but, clearly, that’s crazy talk! And it goes against the first rule of this album: Do not wait to release songs. Okay, so maybe there are no rules, but it is part of the plan. And, yes, I realize I didn’t use any of the album names from October. Mea culpa!

Be remarkable. Or go home.

February 4, 2010

Bob Lefsetz had a great post yesterday about albums vs singles. About how the old world of selling albums has given way to a new digital age of singles and ‘a la carte’ music consumption. In the old paradigm, artists sold a collection of songs because they could. Records, tapes and CDs all held X amount of music, and they had to give someone a certain amount of listening enjoyment for us to pay $10-$20 for the one song we really wanted. We didn’t mind spending $15 for the rest. To experiment. To find the one or two other tracks that moved us. The ones that weren’t supposed to be good.

But we didn’t have the choice we have today.

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