A new model for music?

[thewayne]

Jonathan Coulton started a podcast where he released one new song a week. For a year. He now has a decent fan following and on the scale that goes between starving artist and megastar, he's comfortable. He also sells music through the "pay what you want" scheme and they're finding that fans that really like the music are willing to pay more. Jonathan's also being favorably compared to They Might Be Giants for edginess and humor.

He has this really cool song called Code Monkey which Anyeone recently posted:

Anyway, interesting musician. I definitely need to check out his site.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/coulton

Comments

[deborak]

That's the theme song for a tv show on G4. It's pretty funny:
http://www.g4tv.com/codemonkeys/index.html

And I hate you for mentioning Coulter because now I have his "Eat Your Brains" song stuck in my head again. :/

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.... BRAINS!