It's much easier for people to find us," Ms Bainbridge said. "When we become part of our own cohort in our own communities, we're very visible. They say it will promote local unsigned artists who are "invisible" on major streaming platforms, without the backing of record labels to support them. It's their creativity, it's their heart and soul and they deserve to be paid for it," Ms Deluxe said. "It belongs to them, the music belongs to them. "There's no labels or middlemen, so we're actually cutting out a very big part of that conversation, and it's meaningful to artists because they'll get a much larger percentage of the streaming royalty," Ms Bainbridge said.Īrtists would receive 40 per cent of all revenue generated by The Pack, and the rest would go back into developing the business. Listeners and businesses can subscribe to The Pack as patrons, with the money going straight into the pockets of artists. They are creating a music streaming app called The Pack for unsigned, original local artists. Melanie Bainbridge (left) and Harry Deluxe say they developed The Pack to benefit the creators of music. "Instead of effectively benefiting the people at the top, it benefits the creator.
"All we're doing is turning the business model of streaming on its head," Ms Bainbridge told business leaders at a startup forum on Tuesday. Melanie Bainbridge and Harry Deluxe, who have decades of experience in the music industry - most recently in the band Mama Red and the Dark Blues - have watched the decimation of revenue streams for recording artists and decided to do something about it. Turning the streaming business model on its head She has had enough and is keen to embrace a new music streaming platform designed to give back more to local musicians. You have to gig, you have to sell merch, you have to do a lot of things to support yourself as an artist, otherwise it's really hard to make any money out of streaming services," the Perth-based singer said That's compared to the $8,000 it cost Grace Newton-Wordsworth and her band to record and master one of their recent songs, create a video clip and promote it. In other words, it would take a million streams for an artist to receive about $4,200 from Spotify and $10,000 from Apple Music. In the meantime, check out the two supplemental Longest Night games below.Grace Newton-Wordsworth says it cost the band thousands to record, master and promote a song. After a successful Kickstarter it's being made by Infinite Fall, a teamup of Alec Holowka (Aquaria), Scott Benson (Late Night Work Club), and Bethany Hockenberry.Ĭoming in 2017 to PC/Mac/Linux and PS4. NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world. In 2017 join Mae on a trip through her hometown and into the dark on the other side. Strange things are happening as the light fades. Leaves are falling and the wind is growing colder. Home seems different now and her friends have grown and changed. College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind.