daryn's tumblelog

Justin Vernon gets love from blogs but needs to give it too.

bijan wrote this post about how even though Bon Iver can credit blogs for much of their success, the band’s label, jagjaguwar, sent him a takedown notice for a song he posted on his blog awhile back.

The social blogging community is a huge gift to fans and artists alike. I know i would discover less music and buy less music if it wasn’t for the rich community that I’m part of online. Fred called it a song circle awhile back. And I also know that my music posts are getting others to buy more music too.

So we need more artists to believe in blogging and support the new music scene online. It’s gonna happen anyway.

Likewise, earlier today, Fred tweeted:

@jeffjarvis i’m reblogging some quotes from your book http://bit.ly/kMYA hope that’s cool with your publisher

I buy a lot of music, most of which I discover through music blogs and my friends who post their latest finds online. I also pre-ordered Jeff’s book thanks to Fred.

Social validation is the strongest endorsement one can get, and to do anything other than encourage and embrace this fully is a huge mistake.