YES PLEASE
It would be the most sweet loving wonderful thing, if you could share this on your tumblr and with your friends! Merely a gentle encouraging suggestion from your friend and clandestine lover, May.
Our Official Music Video
Thu, 3rd May — 0 notes
Our official music video is finally out! Time to pass it around! Give us a hand? Your Body - May McDonough & Co. (official video) by Brian Wade Scott
We release our Music Video!
-a stop animation video by Brian Wade Scott inspired by (and set to) “Your Body” by May McDonough & CO. We’re throwing an extremely interesting event to premier the video, and (of course), play a show (with all new songs). If you’re local to los angeles, we cordially invite you to join us in a warm, fuzzy (groggy, dizzying) memory for a lifetime. Won’t you join us? It’s free and open to the public. All you gotta do is show up.
We Smaller Artists; Learning to Share Rights
Some days it baffles me that this whole ‘to share or not to share’ debate is still going on in the music industry. Needlesstosay, the whole debacle is utterly past the point of no return. It’s adapt-or-die-trying time, and there is no way to go back and unlearn what our world has come to know as sharing. That point aside, let’s open our eyes to what is really going on.
First and foremost you should understand that when it comes to this issue, we are not talking about top billboard artists. Those guys are not significantly effected by sharing. Their world tours, energy drinks, t-shirts and sponsorships have all ready put their potential children through college many times over (short of the occasional “TLC dilemma”, but that’s a blog for another generation). Those of us being effected, are the smaller artists. We are the majority of the music industry, and we are the artists that should be of concern. Billboard artists are all ready on every radio station once an hour. You see their videos on the pseudo-hip television channels morning and night time. You’ve heard their new music jammed through your ears ten folds before you ever decide to buy their albums. The rest of us don’t have that sort of corporate brain placement to sustain us. I can tell you personally that MTV is not taking my calls, and I have yet to find any distribution company willing to market my ‘Hangover by McDonough’ perfume. We smaller artists can merely put our music up for free streaming, in the hopes that the listener has reason to seek us out. We have availability, not exposure.
The majority of our exposure is still through the people. Word of mouth is our advertisement, our radio stations, our MTV, our VH1. Ninety-nine percent of the time you are going to hear about us through a friend (real or virtual), or through a blog you trust that is willing to risk criminality to land us on a few new ipods. We don’t aim to compete with the top 40′s. We can’t if we wanted to. We only aim to sustain our ability to keep making our art (at least for the time being). That, in one way or another, requires sharing.
Personally, I like to say that our music is “available for purchase” to those that can support us financially, and we have made various avenues available for fans to download our music for free.
The truth is, the BEST way to help an artist is to purchase AND (illegally) share their music. We need the money, and we most certainly need the exposure. If you can’t do one, at least do the other. If you won’t share it, than at least buy it. If you can’t buy it, download it for free and share it with as many people as possible. Either way helps us, but in the end we need both. If the RIAA continues to debilitate our fans from sharing under the guise of ‘protecting the artist’, we suffocate.
I encourage followers of this blog or May McDonough & Co. to read my open letter to the RIAA: http://www.maymcdonoughandcompany.com/open-letter-to-riaa/
–May
Bullyboywithaglasseye and Prostitutes
I’m pretty sure the person in the apartment above mine is a prostitute. That, or the most lubricated couple in Los Angeles history (a title not easily achieved). Trollop or no trollop, I overheard a guitar’s fallen pring in the midst of one of her (or his) ‘clandestine trisks’, so all though I can’t be sure of the legitimacy of her sex life, I can certainly be sure that my neighbor is a musician. And in that case, all bets are off. It would be difficult to run a pound operation in a locked building, but certainly not impossible. (I’ve certainly swung more impossible trapezes with the greatest of eases.) But I will say that whatever female is involved (if any) can not possibly be enjoying herself. The steady pace of two resounding thuds-a-second is a lot to take on for a full half hour or more. Word to the wise, caress a little. Never have I so committedly pitied someone’s bed-life. But I suppose sharing walls has it’s ‘intimacies’, and my neighbor certainly doesn’t seem to put hush on the privacy of her activities. Anyhow……..
Soes. No EP. Instead we’re making our second full length album entitled bullyboywithaglasseye. yup. all one word. Heading off to practice soon. Just two more songs to finish writing (but that all falls on my wide aching shoulders). Oh and the the stop animation video for our last album’s track ‘your body’ is well near done. Just got a look at the dancing puppets of a printer and a computer and they look fantasgreat. Bravo Brian.
Mon, 16th Jan — 1 note
Finally caught my first glimpse of our nearly done stop animation music video for ‘Your Body’ by Brian Wade Scott. And I must say Bravo Brian! Just a few more segments to film including the tap dancing puppet scene with these little guys!!
An Open Letter to the RIAA
Dear RIAA,
Thank you so much for ensuring that no one ever steal our music. We discovered recently that many of our fans have been illegally sharing our music, and evangelizing in our name. Our fans are criminals! We find this deeply disturbing! What heinous dangers might they be imposing on our society as we speak? As an independent band, we shouldn’t be legitimately acknowledged until we have indebted ourselves to the corporate advertising potential of a record label. Record labels know much better than fans when it comes to art. Hopefully, with your help, no one will ever hear our music at all!
Please, do everything in your power to arrest these heathens. If you fail to smite this indecency in due time, we fear that within a year or more these unlawful hoodlums may create a massive uprising in our demographics- perhaps even extend our exposure on such a massive scale that we in turn would be incapable of thwarting our own popularity. If such a case arises, our art wouldn’t be vindicated by traditional commercial success, but rather a thriving testament to the artful intelligence of Americans. As a result, American citizens might begin to think for themselves rather than listen to the select and narrow gamut of music MTV provides them. In time, the world elsewhere might even begin to respect American’s ability to appreciate art, diminishing our well earned cultural stance as ignorant brutes to mere artsy sissies.
Duly, we lean upon you to recognize the utmost urgency of this circumstance as a threat to our national security, and wholeheartedly thank you for refusing to even consider revising our antiquated copyright laws in respect to the present day music industry. Your unwavering stubbornness and commitment to bureaucracy is truly astounding.
Most insistantly,
May McDonough
of May McDonough & Co.
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http://www.maymcdonoughandcompany.com/2011/08/01/dear-riaa/
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