BY Arthur Smid
The Decemberists’ first album is on HUSH. Chad Crouch, purveyor of the record label, says, “I’m really interested in how technology dovetails with the music industry. I started, kinda, at the very beginning of the digital revolution, and by that I mean, we started with a CD burner before people really knew about CD burners – and it’s amazing to think that was only ten years ago. In that time we’ve gone from … okay, I’d invite people over to record them and we’d cut a CD right in that same room, to having people, or recording myself for example, and releasing that song within minutes of finishing it to an audience of thousands … that’s nuts, and that’s really interesting to me.” HUSH Radio streams the abridged albums – segments of songs cross-faded in a rich introduction to the artists and their songcraft.
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