Web-Only Album Wins Grammy

blamanj writes "Jazz artist Maria Schneider won a Grammy last night for her album 'Concert in the Garden.' What makes this unusual, according to CNET, is that she might be the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an album distributed solely on the Web. None of the sales were in record stores, and the album was financed through Artist Share."

I think the term is:

[tod_miller]

Wake up call....

Dear RIAA,

PWNED,

Toddy boy

What ?

[JaffaKREE]

This can't be right. The RIAA told me in my latest session, where I get hooked up to this machine.... with electrodes and stuff.... it shocks me :( ... that only mass-marketed artists are successes, and that the internet gives you herpes.

Re:What ?

[Anonymous Coward]

the internet gives you herpes

I tried to explain that to my wife. She didn't buy it.

Re:that's nice

[eclectro]

This would be more exciting if anyone at all cared about the grammys.

Better ceremony: "The Torrents"

Re:The big question...

[homer_ca]

"How will the RIAA remove her from the public eye?"

Two words: Kurt Cobain

The Josie and the Pussycats movie had a spoof of this where they disappeared the goth-punk girl from the record store.

Re:Records Cos on borrowed time

[Tenebrious1]

Come on, when a dead guy nearly sweeps the awards (regardless of the fact that Ray was talented), truly this an industry running out of options.

But he was still alive when it was recorded, which does make a difference. Otherwise I agree with you.

Does it matter?

[GatesGhost]

i didnt think the grammy's were about commercial exposure or success, but rather about the quality of music...(checks online) wait, maroon 5 won a grammy? well, fuck that, i was wrong.

Re:The big question...

[Anonymous Coward]

"How will the RIAA remove her from the public eye?"

Tell /. about her.

Connecting to www.mariaschneider.com[216.130.189.66]:80... failed: Connection refused.

it's coming down

[Knights who say 'INT]

First goes the RIAA, then goes the MPAA, then goes the GNAA! :-D

sad thing is

[kasek]

she will probably have to sell the award on ebay to compensate her webhost for the server that just went down in flames.

Re:I think the term is:

[superpulpsicle]

RIAA boardroom transcript

Exec 1: Oh my god we are toast!

Exec 2: Why?

Exec 1: The grammy awarded a non-CD winner last night!

Exec 2: No problem. We'll just hire more lawyers and sue the grammys.

Exec 1: Brilliant!

Exec 2: We just need a lawyer with morals, only buy CDs and doesn't do P2P.

Exec 1: Ok, we are toast.

The business model is dead...

[bechthros]

...long live the business model.

Great...

[game kid]

...now we're slashdotting Grammy-winners' Web sites.

I guess they had to *ahem*face the music soon, though.

Well... damn

[Quiet_Desperation]

I'm going to start playing with Apple's Garageband and start releasing my own albums.

It'll be the most derivative crap ever created. but, hey, lots of people have become wealthy doing *that*. :)

Progressive jazz metal, maybe. Hmmm. Instrumentals only, because my singing kills cows at fifty paces. I'll sell *that* disc to the farming industry, although PETA might protest it as being more cruel than a pneumatic bolt to the skull.

I hope the RIAA sues the Grammies

[gelfling]

For promoting this kind of crackhead lesbo communism. Next thing ya know people will object, object I tell you, to our crawling up their asses for the sheer fucking thrill of complaining how bad it smells. Got to nip this in the bud.

Steps will be taken.

In related news...

[Anonymous Coward]

She had to sell the clothes off her back to afford the plane ticket to the Grammy's and is now homeless, hungry, and can't afford to get back in the studio.

Two words

[bechthros]

Milli Vanilli. No, it's an industry award, and, like most other industry awards, goes to the people who made the industry the most money.

Oh, but it's on their official website. Well then. I'm sure they woulnd't bend the truth to not look like corporate whores.

Quick review of the Grammys.

[teamhasnoi]

Sucked like every Industry show.

Highlights include:

Animating Ray Charles corpse to sell box sets and tribute albums. Look at the dead guy dance! Reminded me of last year's "Cash in on Johnny Cash".

The most god-awful rendition of 'Across the Universe' ever. Hey, if I wanted wooden performances, I'd hang out with a drugstore Indian. And Slash, you don't need to lean that far back when you're playing a quietly phased 12 string. Save the rock pose for something that isn't being butchered right before your eyes.

The internet-inspired 'mash-up'. You can't tell me that someone didn't get that idea from searching Livejournals, and thinking, "This is super-hot! The kids will eat this up! LOLLERS!"

Industry fuck talking about the usual, "downloading music is illegal". Unless you don't own the rights to it. Great crowd shot during that speech. So many 'fuck you' expressions on the audience that had been screwed by industry contracts. Or boredom, apathy and 'get this over with'. I would have been yelling, "Michael Bolton called, and he wants his hair back!". Or something funny.

The endless 'we care' about the tsunami or fill in the blank tragedy of the moment' blathering. How about you kids spend more time making a listenable record, and less time pandering to your bleeding heart market share?

Once again, the Grammys show that the RIAA is not relevant. When are we getting rid of them again?

Re:OT:The Grammys

[Hasai]

No; that would have required me to watch the Grammys.

Re: that's nice

[CastrTroy]

Yes, it would be more interesting if an internet-only album won a Juno, which is A Canadian Music award. Junos are not based on sales, as Canadian albums do not sell.

no, no, no...

[ed.han]

in AD 2005, war was beginning.

RIAA chairman: "what happen"
RIAA flunky: "somebody set us up the bomb!"
RIAA flunky: "we get signal!"
RIAA chairman: "what?"
RIAA flunky: "main screen turn on!"
RIAA chairman: "it's you!
schneider: "how are you gentlemen. all your sales are belong to us. you are on the way to obsolescence."
RIAA chairman: "what you say!"
maria schneider: "you have no chance to survive. make your time."

ed

Re:in all fairness

[Elminst]

If you can believe MSN http://music.msn.com/grammys/bestworst [msn.com], they admitted this a while ago...

The Welcome to the Machine Award: Also to Green Day. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, to his credit, long ago admitted the band stopped being punk the day it signed with a major label. But releasing an actual concept album, " American Idiot," and seeing it lauded by the music establishment as best rock album, has got to be the most un-punk move in the history of punk. Then they topped it all off with Grammy acceptance speeches that were sweet, mature and genuinely appreciative. It was all so vehemently un-punk it was almost ... punk.

Re:that's nice

[msouth]

um, _I_ care, and my user id is like a tenth of yours.

Re: 3 Rules of winning a Grammy

[JJRRutgers]

Come on, you didn't read the three rules of winning a Grammy!

1. If a Grammy can be awarded post-humously, it will. No disrespect to Ray Charles at all, he is one of my favorites, but did his duet album deserve to win EIGHT Grammies? He won for pretty much every award he was up for. The same thing happened in the past with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and George Harrison. There are much better records by Ray Charles out there that should have deserved more when they came out, but to get all these awards post-humously is pandering to right past wrongs concerning his legacy.

2. Perform at the Grammys, win a Grammy. Come on, how many times have you seen someone win a Grammy RIGHT AFTER THEY PERFORMED? Constantly walking right from backstage to accept the award. What proved this to me was when Gloria Estefan performed an obscure Spanish-language song on the show, then they awarded the Grammy for that same category. In any other circumstance, the award would be given out before the broadcast. You almost wonder if some of the winners know beforehand if they are going to win as incentive to perform on the show: "I'll only show up and perform if I won an award!"

3. The palatable artist usually wins. This year: Maroon 5 for Best New Artist. Which might actually be a good thing considering Best New Artist can be the kiss of death. (Arrested Development and Milli Vanilli anyone?). What triggered this theory? Well, Norah Jones last year. Santana the year before that. But two words come to mind. Jethro. Tull.

Let's face it, the Grammys are all about politics, not quality of product. As pretty much all awards shows are. But the important thing here is that you don't have to pay attention to them. You are your own person, you listen to what you choose to listen to, and no one can tell you otherwise.

RIAA Press Release

[Anonymous Coward]

For immediate release:

The RIAA has today shown further proof that non-conventional Internet Music systems are flawed, and costing the artists money. The recent Grammy success of a relatively unknown artist, Maria Schneider, through an unconventional medium is hurting artists. Sure, her method of direct sales, thereby lowering the overhead of record stores, executives and others in the chain seems innocuous enough.

But it's not.

You see, since her record was not released through the RIAA, we missed out on that chunk of profit. That's money straight from our profit coffers, err, I mean our lower employee payrolls. Now, since she cut our profit on her work off, we have to compensate to meet our annual profit-for-executives margins. So, we had to cut into other artists's payments. Now, Maroon5, Britney Spears, and Metallica will NOT be able to upgrade the toilets in their pet's private jets to a gold plating, versus their current silver plated models.

In addition, the RIAA said that without direct control over what the content of the music was, they couldn't tell people what they wanted to hear. One executive was flabbergasted "How the hell are we going to tell the radio stations we want people to listen to this if we don't control it. It's outrageous! I know people aren't smart enough to think about what they want to hear, so how are we going to tell them about this music. It's just a stupid career-limiting move."

Britney was quoted as saying "All those people buying those records they want are hurting my dog. I hope they can sleep at night, knowing my Poopsie will have to deal with the pain of only a silver toilet seat. They all should die in a tire fire."

They also reported that in addition to not distributing through the RIAA or a major label, she was able to control the content. The RIAA has said that they are considering lobbying Congress to get this "potential for free-radical thought" listed as a terroristic activity. No response yet from Capitol Hill or the White House on these allgations yet.

Re:that's nice

[tolldog]

ditto.
and ditto.

Re:that's nice

[Anonymous Coward]

And ditto:

Great Britain invented post stamps. They do not have any country name on them.

USA invented internet. They do not have any country domain name.

I invented internet in the USA. I do not have any slashdot id but have most posts here (I am kind of a moron so they are not highly moderated).

Yours Al.

Obligatory Jazz Reference

[ReadParse]

All your bass are belong to us

RP

Re:that's nice

[Shaheen]

tripple ditto.