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News, sessions, and oddities from the Indaba community. Written and curated by Streeter Seidell.
About Streeter
Streeter

Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"

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  • Lefsetz Letter
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The Monday Showdown

Monday June 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Good Monday, everyone!  It's the start of the week and you know what that means...argument.  We've been on a negativity kick lately and I have no intention of slowing that down.  Last week we talked about too loud vs. too quiet at a concert.  This week let's argue about two bad situations for a music consumer.  When it comes to bands, they either seem to do one of two awful things when releasing records: taking too long or rushing one out.  So, I want to know, which is worse from your point of view: a band spending years mastering and re-recording an album (a la "Chinese Democracy") or a band rushing a new album out to capitalize on the success of their former album (a la almost every album Britney Spears released).  Let em rip in the comments...

2 Comments:
Matthew Siegel said:
Monday June 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM

Not that it really answers this question, but I'm reminded of the bands that rushed out records just to fulfill the terms of their label deals and be done with their record companies...like when Zappa dumped a ton of material on his label and said "peace"

Mr. Funkymonk said:
Monday June 23, 2008 at 02:19 PM

I have problems by download tracks.If i download one track they are 6 or seven.Help me i will play music.Smile

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