U.K band Steadman releases entire library online

Thanks to Canadian blog Louder Than 10 for this hot info. Show some love and check out his website. Louder Than 10 features a cacophony of information about the music biz and sheds a little insight on our friends north of the border.

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It just warms my little heart to see more and more artists breaking away from that outdated major label business model of greed and payola and embracing new models of distribution that benefit both the musicians and the music fans.

U.K. band Steadman is a shining example that you don’t need the dinosaurs to “make it” in the music biz. These five British blokes were on major label Elektra before the label folded and they got passed on to Atlantic like a case of the herp. Instead of working with a whole new unfamiliar set of suits, they decided to leave and go the indie route instead.

Now they are releasing their entire music catalogue for free from their website, which amounts to about 150 songs. All they ask is a for little donation love if you enjoy what you hear. A very ballsy and respectable move for any artist to make. Cheers.

In related news, Tim from the Donewaiting Message Board discovered a Nada Surf fansite that dropped da bomb of Nada Surf bootlegs and radio appearances.

These two massive collections of free music should keep someone busy for awhile.