So here I am wanting to promote my band and share our music with our fanbase around the world (and after a year-long process finally being able to do so) but I now have concerns about one of the services we chose to use. LBJB is a decidedly values-based and community-oriented band. “I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.” “Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information,” he wrote. In a message on his website on Friday, Young said he “felt better” for leaving Spotify. Young (and others) made this choice due to concerns about Joe Rogan’s podcast. During the week of January 24, Spotify blew up in the worst way with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others pulling their catalogs off of the streaming service as well as an over $2 Billion hit to the service’s stock shares. Then began our initial communications letting our fans (lovingly known as ‘Jugheads’) around the world know we were on Spotify with the request that they follow us and listen to our music. We released our first single, Take On Me, on January 12, 2022. So, I reconsidered the plan and thought ‘ok then, that’s where we’ll put our energy.’ Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon streaming services are where we had to submit. When I shared my plans with friends, the band, and professionals in the music industry, I was consistently told that if I wanted to get our music heard, I should go to where the widest audience is possible. I’ll admit, I still don’t fully understand why people pay a monthly fee to listen to the radio. We weren’t going to make CD’s and I, as a fan, don’t tend to like or use streaming services. I hadn’t considered releasing the album any other way. As a fan, I love BandCamp as they do their very best to support the artists involved.

In the early planning stages of the project, I thought we would just release our EP on. We wanted to share our joy with all the folks who couldn’t get out to hear us perform live.

The primary purpose of our engaging in a recording project was to share some of our quirky music with a larger, farther-reaching audience. We at Little Brown Jug Brass have been stoked to play our Album Release Party at the Ironwood on February 20 th.

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