{"id":5514,"date":"2014-04-28T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2014-05-10T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T20:33:35","slug":"no-mo-hackify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/28\/no-mo-hackify\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mo&#8217; Hackify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/spotify-sleepify-vulfpeck-silent-album-hack-response\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from SPIN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #000000;\">Spotify Shoots Down Band&#8217;s Silent Album Fundraising Hack<\/h1>\n<p><em>Vulfpeck would&#8217;ve used &#8216;Sleepify&#8217; royalties to fund a free tour<\/em><br \/>\nWRITTEN BY\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/writers\/john-surico\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Surico<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXvncV79LXk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/vulfpeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vulfpeck<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0wanted to go on tour this fall, but didn&#8217;t want to charge their fans admission. So\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/vulfpeck-sleepify-spotify-tour-hack-silent-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">the funk group released<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #262626;\">Sleepify<\/em><span style=\"color: #262626;\">, a Spotify exclusive comprising 10 tracks filled with absolutely no sound (alternately, as band leader Jack Stratton describes it above: &#8220;the most silent album ever recorded&#8221;). The March LP was an ingenious back door into the streaming service&#8217;s royalty system, designed to gather all of those precious\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/spotify-details-royalty-payouts-cents\/\" target=\"_blank\">half-cents<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0into a pot large enough to send the Ann Arbor, Michigan crew on the road. But that won&#8217;t be happening now. According to\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2014\/04\/spotify-pulls-vulpecks-silent-sleepifyalbum-band-issues-response.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hypebot<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">, Spotify has removed\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #262626;\">Sleepify\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #262626;\">from its registry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #262626;\">The quartet was supposedly on track to raise $20,000 via the quiet release. Very early on,<\/span><em style=\"color: #262626;\">Rolling Stone<\/em><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/dont-enjoy-the-silence-spotify-pulls-silent-publicity-stunt-album-20140425\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0that 120,000 streams had already been recorded \u2014 presumably many fans heeded Stratton&#8217;s advice of putting the album on repeat while they slept at night. Back then, Spotify seemed fine with it, and even hit back with a playful dash of criticism. &#8220;This is a clever stunt, but we prefer Vulfpeck&#8217;s earlier albums.\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #262626;\">Sleepify<\/em><span style=\"color: #262626;\">\u00a0seems derivative of John Cage&#8217;s work,&#8221; a spokesperson had told\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/digiday.com\/platforms\/band-hacking-band-creates-silent-spotify-album-fund-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digiday<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626;\">, referencing the revered experimental composer behind the music-less song\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #e41c39;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;4&#8217;33.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/spotify-sleepify-vulfpeck-silent-album-hack-response\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SPIN.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPIN Spotify Shoots Down Band&#8217;s Silent Album Fundraising Hack Vulfpeck would&#8217;ve used &#8216;Sleepify&#8217; royalties to fund a free tour WRITTEN BY\u00a0John Surico Vulfpeck\u00a0wanted to go on tour this fall, but didn&#8217;t want to charge their fans admission. So\u00a0the funk group released\u00a0Sleepify, a Spotify exclusive comprising 10 tracks filled with absolutely no sound (alternately, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}