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Celebration to Give Away Music for Free

1:43 p.m. · March 25, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Baltimore rockers Celebration have announced via their website that they will be giving away all future music for free. The band plan to record new songs every few weeks (there are two up now), and release them on the site, and once they have enough music for a record, they'll release it on vinyl. The band will be leaving long-time label 4AD (the label that released their two LPs, Celebration and The Modern Tribe ).

Here's what Celebration wrote on their site:

We as Celebration, have felt the continual growth of web culture's need for barrier-free exchange. We also feel that the traditional methods of releasing music have put too much distance between us...Our plan and experiment is to post new songs monthly, as we create and record them. Under the creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license, all of our new music will be free to download on our new website. When we have enough music for an album, we will release it on vinyl for those who want to have something to hold. As artists we can only stand for our music, our art, our creation. So here it is--laid bare.

It's kind of a risky move for a band as small as Celebration, but it allows them to have a more one-on-one relationship with their fans than the label-releasing format allows. Not to mention the fact that it gives the band a kind of freedom they've never had before. [ Gorilla vs. Bear ]

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