Blog: Goings-on in the Sockiverse
Hello! I think it’s been a while since I’ve talked about what’s going on with the band and what sorts of things are happening. So here’s a casual collection of updates along those lines.| sockpuppet.band
Hello! I think it’s been a while since I’ve talked about what’s going on with the band and what sorts of things are happening. So here’s a casual collection of updates along those lines.| sockpuppet.band
My first batch of CDs from Kunaki arrived today, and here’s a brief review of how they turned out.| Sockpuppet
If you’ve poked around this website you probably know that I wrote and use Bandcrash to build the embedded players for the music previews. You might also be aware of it as the tool that I use to publish my albums to my itch.io page as an alternative to Bandcamp. But I also use it as a tool for a bunch of other things in my music — including part of how I publish things to Bandcamp and other storefronts.| Sockpuppet
I’ve finally gone and set up on-demand CD manufacturing for a bunch of my albums. However, because of how CD sales work on both Bandcamp and Mirlo, I can’t easily offer a discount to folks who have already bought the album digitally, and also the shipping rates I have to charge through those sites are not optimal, especially for international customers or people buying multiple albums at a time.| Sockpuppet
I now have 9 of my albums available on CD, and I’m working on adding all the others which folks have voted for in the poll.| Sockpuppet: Blog
I’m finally getting around to putting more of my albums on CD, thanks to the on-demand manufacturing capability afforded by Kunaki. You can see which albums of mine are available via this collection, and on each of them you can buy the album via Bandcamp, Mirlo, or direct from Kunaki.| sockpuppet.band
Today I removed all my music, except The War Machine, from Spotify, for the reasons explained in that song (and also in this lengthy diatribe).| Sockpuppet
Performers who do streaming-based performances on VRChat and other places have a few options for actually providing their stream. Once upon a time it was preetty common for people to use Twitch or YouTube Live, but those are now being locked down due to advertising considerations. So, many people currently use VRCDN, an inexpensive but limited hosted service that you have to pay monthly for. But for folks with a bit more technical acumen, there’s another choice, Owncast, which is basically ...| Sockpuppet
Today I had my first gig with the Internet Archive in their mini concerts series. It was a really good experience (and if you’re a musician, especially one who performs online, I urge you to sign up for it yourself!) and I’d like to share some thoughts with folks in general! (And if anyone from IA is reading this, hello!!!!)| sockpuppet.band
Today was the second day of VRelium Enchanted, which I performed at and had a really good time. I’m going to talk a bit about how VRChat performances work and some thoughts about my most recent one, in particular.| sockpuppet.band
Quite some time ago I posted my recommendations for streaming distributors but things have all changed in a very bad way since then.| sockpuppet.band
People sometimes ask me how they can start making music, or how they can get better at making music when they’ve hit a wall.| Sockpuppet
As an artist I have my music on Spotify, because I feel like I cannot choose not to.| sockpuppet.band
As I talked about previously, there are many different services for getting your music online with the major streaming providers. Here’s my thoughts on a few that I’ve worked with, and a couple that are on my radar and I plan on trying out in the future.| sockpuppet.band
I’ve been looking into physical releases again lately. After my recent vinyl releases, my various polls have found that people are much more interested in buying things on CD than vinyl, because they’re a much easier means of doing a physical collection.| Sockpuppet
After my previous review of elasticStage, a customer service representative reached out to me and told me that they’d improved their cutting process to reduce the surface noise, and asked if I’d be interested in receiving (at no charge) a recut of the two records. I agreed to this, and the replacement records arrived today.| Sockpuppet
10 years ago to this day, on my 37th birthday, I released Refactor, which I still consider to be my definitive album.| sockpuppet.band
Furality is an annual virtual furry conference that takes place entirely in VRChat. I have a dealer’s den booth this year, booth 816 (second level of the 2D Art + Miscellaneous) section, and I’m super excited!| sockpuppet.band
