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Last week the New York Times ran an article about an interesting new model for musicians to sell their work directly to the public. The piece focused on Rabbit Rabbit Radio, a cool online subscription service launched by singer, violinist, and composer Carla Kihlstedt and her husband, the drummer and composer Matthias Bossi—who recently rolled through town playing songs that first emerged through the website. For two to five dollars each month (it’s up to the user how much to pay) subscribers get new songs by the couple and occasional collaborators available only through the site; Rabbit Rabbit Radio also posts videos and photos and offers an archive of older songs. Their latest selection is a song called “Before the Sun,” a section of a longer improvisation done with Chicago’s own Cheer-Accident.
The band plays a rare show Saturday afternoon at the final installment of Experimental Sound Studio‘s Summersonic series. Implodes will open. Next month the band will head to Europe for a tour and Saturday’s concert will feature the same lineup, with Jones on drums, trumpet, vocals, and piano, Jeff Libersher on guitar, trumpet, and vocals, Evelyn Davis on vocals and keyboards, Dante Kester on bass, and Charles Dudley Bayne III on keyboards. Below you can check out the song “Sleep” from the band’s most recent album, No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs (Cuneiform), from 2011.
