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Feeding Fingers announced their second album, Baby Teeth, will be released Jan. 27 in a split-label release between front man Justin Curfman’s company Tephramedia and Stickfigure Records.
In keeping with the current trend of digital downloads, Feeding Fingers is throwing in free downloads of unreleased music and a full-track download of Baby Teeth, promised within 24 hours of your pre-order, for those fans not willing to wait the five month downtime. Plus you’re entered in a drawing to win a slew of Feeding Fingers merchandise. Not a bad deal for the $12 album that’s shaping up to be as addictive as their first full-length Wound in the Wall. Check out 30-second clips from upcoming tracks here.
Nothing goes better with a new album than a U.S. tour. When and where is yet to be decided, but the opening show and official CD release of Baby Teeth is booked for Jan. 29 at the Drunken Unicorn as part of the Stickfigure Records 2009 Showcase.
It’s no denying what happened to the independent record industry when Best Buy hit the market in the early 90s. But whether that happened directly because of Best Buy or from the beginning of the digital revolution in the later 90s/early 2000s, is still a toss up.
So when Best Buy announced it will begin to sell music instruments and gear by the end of the year, what would it be like for independent retailers?
I caught up with some of Atlanta’s indie music stores—Earthshaking Music and Dirt Cheep Music—to get their views on Best Buy invading their turf.
What I thought would be concern turned out to be indifference. Sure, it’s not as though they’re welcoming this surge in competition, but they’re confident that the expertise that strictly instrument retailers offer can’t be matched by a warehouse-like store.
Atlanta’s music stores not worried about Best Buy’s in-store music centers
