Comments on: Spotify Label Search Feature – WTF?

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:08:23 +0000

Obviously you don’t know … about music. If you listen to bands who release their stuff on EMI and Sony you listen to mostly crap. I listen to electronic music and labels are very important. Every label has it’s own style, it’s the overall image of a bunch of artists.

By: Tom Clarke

Tom Clarke — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:46:37 +0000

Some labels are more than just marketing companies, and some definitely maintain a particular aesthetic which – if it’s your kind of thing – can make a label just as reliable as any social app for finding music.

Case in point: Drag City, mentioned by Alan above. A great label with plenty of acts on its roster, many of which I discovered through the label. None of their music is on Spotify (where I too have a premium account), but because I have such faith in the label, I’m willing to buy vinyl, CD or iTunes downloads on spec: I know it’ll be good music. I don’t really get that from anywhere else.

By: siker

siker — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:38:47 +0000

Alan,

On the contrary, forgoing the labels is about being open minded. Most labels today are marketing companies and what use is that to me? I try not to rely on marketing for picking music but rather social like services such as Last.fm, or technical utilities like Pandora.

At the end I bought a Spotify subscription so no more complaints from me regarding the advertising.

By: TakenTooYoung

TakenTooYoung — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:37:20 +0000

What are you saying? It’s very useful if you know a label that releases mostly music you like? WTF?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:59:14 +0000

You might not care, but some people do. I use the label search all the time, as I know that certain labels (such as 4AD, Drag City, Bella Union, Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Merge, Track & Field, Elephant 6 &c.) are pretty reliable at finding the more interesting bands. Also, people may well be curious about the other artists on a label.

Don’t assume everyone approaches music in the same closed-minded way you do.

By: Janne

Janne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:08:18 +0000

Hi. Hmm, in some context you are right, labels is more
or less going to dissapear, or atleast turn to something
else, maybe societies and a “cheaper” kind of puplisher/
management, because not all musicians want to deal with
all the stuff besides the music.
But I still think that
a label-search could be somewhat useful, (ironically not
for me, not my cup of tea), and don’t forget that we
have 50 years of music behind us, and some labels
where surprisingly good of finding artist. So
hurray for label search, and hopefully hurray for better
genre based radio feature in the future.