I just figured out recently that music albums are now being released on Friday’s instead of the usual Tuesdays. Why? Simply because the industry feels that we live in a digital world and they don’t want to keep people waiting for the album to come out. I have noticed that music albums has been getting released earlier and now I just figured out why.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6487289/friday-global-record-release-day-ifpi

Lamb of God and Joe Satriani both released new albums today and I plan on listening to both sometime today. Probably later tonight.

Kev

So music streaming services is gonna be the next big thing in the music industry. I think it’s a pretty good idea. Why?

Streaming services will give you the opportunity to listen to your favorite bands & artists entire catalog. I know some of you out there love some bands & artists that you support greatly and I’m sure you try to hear all of their albums as much as you can but collecting albums from your favorite band & artist their entire discography can take a long time and can be a lot of money. Especially if your favorite band & artist has a large catalog of albums. Streaming services will give you the opportunity to listen to all their work easier and quicker… and most importantly much cheaper too.

I know I used to complain about streaming services and I used to be against it but not anymore. I now think streaming music is a pretty good idea. I’ve gotten to listen to so much music through Spotify and Apple Music.

I listened to every studio albums by Opeth, Dream Theater, Joe Satriani, Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart and the Grateful Dead… thanks to streaming services.

Lately, I just started listening to Motorhead albums. I’ve also been listening to albums by Jefferson Airplane and the Pixies.

I love Jefferson Airplane and I love Grace Slick so I finally get to start listening to their records. I think their albums, “Surrealistic Pillow” and “Long John Silver” are masterpieces.

Listening to music is one of my favorite things to do. I’ve been a lifelong music lover ever since I was a little kid. The way we listen to music changes over the years for sure. Streaming services give you the opportunity to listen to albums that you always wanted to hear and stuff. There’s so much music out there that you can’t buy everything you know? I just support the music that I like. I can’t support everything although I would like to. Once again though, the way people listen to music these days is that they would only listen to single songs rather than the full album. I listen to “albums”. I like to listen to a record from start to finish. It’s just how I am, ya know?

I still got a lot more music to listen to ’cause my Apple Music library is pretty big. Streaming services is pretty awesome and I have nothing against it. Its’ also a good way to promote artists and it gets their music out there faster.

I’m listening to the Pixies album, “Bosssanova” as I type this ’cause I always dug that band.

I’m actually starting to believe that digital music is a good idea ’cause having a large collection of CD’s in your home can take up so much room, ya know? Admittedly, the Compact Disc can be pretty annoying. You can break those things easily and you can lose them too but with digital albums, you’ll have those forever.

Kev