From Greg Clow Sent Thu, May 28th 1998, 18:02
A weird coincidence: Just after I finished reading a couple of rants about how clueless record companies and artists are being about getting their shit up for online purchase, I'm surfing around some music news sites and find the following: http://rl.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=250239&pid=251770 I'm not gonna post the whole thing, but here's the first couple of paragraphs. --- Earlier this month, with little fanfare or tearful reminiscences, Twin/Tone Records pressed its last new CD. But mourning around the Minneapolis offices of the indie rock label -- best known as home to early recordings by the Replacements, Soul Asylum, Ween, Babes In Toyland and the Jayhawks -- was nowhere to be seen. To the contrary: Far from bowing out of the music business, Twin/Tone is setting its sights squarely on the future. By the end of this year, in fact, co-founder and managing director Paul Stark hopes that Twin/Tone will be distributing the work of at least 1,000 bands -- entirely over the Internet. --- Greg