Just to let everyone know......

Indistr has partnered with Ultimate Ears. This partnership is here to benefit the artists involved with Indistr. We are very proud to have partnered with the best earphone company in the world.

How it works:
1. Ultimate Ears picks an Indistr artist at random once a month to be put on their "artist to watch" page. (Hint: You have a much larger chance to win if you are actively utilizing the tools we provide such as our embed player or links on Myspace, etc.)
2. UE then notifies us, and tells us which artist has been chosen that month.
3. We contact the artist to tell them they've been chosen and receive the proper information we need from them to provide UE.
4. UE sends the artist 1 FREE set of Super fi. 5 pro in-ear monitors. After the first set is sent to the artist, they are offered a discount code for any other products for 40% off retail price. Learn more about the Super fi. 5 pro here



We started this partnership this month (April), and the first artist chosen was Elijah Emanuel

Congrats to Elijah, and I'll be making a post next week based on the artist that is chosen for May. Best of luck!!!

New Jaws Attacks Release!! Death & Taxes: Volume One

The long awaited release of Jaws Attacks full-length album, Death & Taxes: Volume One is now available for purchase here at Indistr.com We're excited to have this release available through Indistr, being that frontman Carter Benson (formerly of the Mad Caddies) has a great vision on innovating the whole music consumption experience, plus we dig his music.

13 songs for $10, it's a steal if you ask me.

We're sponsoring a Contest!

I just want to inform everyone that we're sponsoring a contest through a site called Kompoz. Kompoz is a great site for people looking to make music with other people located in far away places. Titled as an "Online Music Collaboration" site, we really dig what they're doing for artists, so who better to sponsor a contest for. The contest is being endorsed by Glen Phillips, and we'll be giving away some schwag for the winners. Some other prizes include a guitar, a Stealthplug USB audio interface, along with some other prizes. The contest starts today, April 2nd, and ends on May 30th. Best of luck to all of you!

Ticket purchase = free download = Dave Matthews

Just days after I post about Elvis Costello being innovative in getting people to purchase his music, Dave Matthews jumps to it, with a new concept (not that new, Prince has done this in the past) of giving away his new album digitally for free with the purchase of a ticket to any of his concerts.

I personally feel that Dave Matthews fans are Dave Matthews fans, and their going to buy a concert ticket regardless, however I think this is a pretty cool bonus for the cult following of fans that Mr. Matthews has, and I'm sure they will much appreciate it.

Will this make him sell more tickets? Probably not, but what's the loss when you're selling out venues of 30,000 + capacities and selling thousands of t-shirts every night for $25.

Congrats to Dave Matthews for thinking outside of the box.

Trivia:
What will Best Buy do with all of the CD aisles they have in their stores in the near future? More washers/dryers? Vinyl?