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In Conversation: Natalia Yanchak of the Dears and Listening Parties

In Conversation: Natalia Yanchak of the Dears and Listening Parties

Posted by Lisa Christiansen on May 20, 2008
A funny thing happened on the way to putting out The Dears next release... it turns out people have a hard time listening to a whole album.

Although Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak originally intended to thwart music thieves by taking their music personally for the first spin, they found that listening isn't so much a skill - it's becoming a forgotten art.

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    What's after the transition?

    Posted on May 20, 2008 by musica
    This whole listening party thing is kind of interesting as a matter of psychology and presentation. I suppose it's a measure of attention span; was there a time when you could listen to a whole album for the first time at one sitting? Maybe.

    Natalia says we're in a great transition time, which is undoubtedly true. What's after the transition? Nobody wants to say it, but no more multi-million-dollar bands. Big labels decry the death of music. I don't think so. Everything that's R3 lives, everything that's Sony BMG dies.

    Lots more part time musicians, and local acts. Only the people that want to do it anyways, because nobody is going to want to sink a million bucks into a prospect if all they can sell are concert tickets and merch.
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