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Summary: Hustwit's fin de siecle
Review: Having read Gary Hustwit's How To Release... and then having read the reviews previously posted, I have to wonder if the other reviewer's had even read the same book! The writing in Hustwit's guide is cool, crisp, detached, eloquent, engaging, and informative! What more could you ask for in a book about releasing an indie record. Hustwit has more street cred in this field than all of the reviewers combined. Have they ever looked at the entire Hustwit ouevre? Perhaps the problem with the poor reviewers below wasn't with the quality of the book that they read but the quality of the record that they attempted to release. The only possible better source for Independent music guides would be Hustwit's equally poignant "Websites for Musicians" - together they embody a kind of "rememberance of things past of record release guides". I understand the German translation loses some of the earth tone quality of the prose. Unlike other guides for music Hustwit does not allow his book to, as Jean Baudrillard says, "Fall into the abyss of culture."
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Summary: Hustwit's fin de siecle
Review: Having read Gary Hustwit's How To Release... and then having read the reviews previously posted, I have to wonder if the other reviewer's had even read the same book! The writing in Hustwit's guide is cool, crisp, detached, eloquent, engaging, and informative! What more could you ask for in a book about releasing an indie record. Hustwit has more street cred in this field than all of the reviewers combined. Have they ever looked at the entire Hustwit ouevre? Perhaps the problem with the poor reviewers below wasn't with the quality of the book that they read but the quality of the record that they attempted to release. The only possible better source for Independent music guides would be Hustwit's equally poignant "Websites for Musicians" - together they embody a kind of "rememberance of things past of record release guides". I understand the German translation loses some of the earth tone quality of the prose. Unlike other guides for music Hustwit does not allow his book to, as Jean Baudrillard says, "Fall into the abyss of culture."
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Summary: out of date, but still valuable
Review: i'm a big fan of "how-to" books that are on-point and concise.i bought this book in the late 1990's and it was extremely helpful in providing the nuts and bolts of releasing an independent record and/or starting an independent record label. gary himself says "don't buy it" (see his review)- lots of info is outdated. but it's still worth a flip through for anyone looking to release their first record.. the details on replication and promotion are still useful, as is the section on how to start a label. you can supplement the outdated info with the internet and cover your basics with this book.
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Summary: please don't buy this book
Review: when i published this edition of "releasing" back in 1997, it was a must-have for indie bands releasing their own music. because so much has changed in the past five years, this book is now totally out-of-date and out-of-print. please do not buy a used copy of this book! the book is mostly contact info for various independent music-related companies, and all of this info is outdated. the web does a much better job at providing this sort of information, so start searching. good luck! -gary hustwit
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Summary: out of date, but still valuable
Review: when i published this edition of "releasing" back in 1997, it was a must-have for indie bands releasing their own music. because so much has changed in the past five years, this book is now totally out-of-date and out-of-print. please do not buy a used copy of this book! the book is mostly contact info for various independent music-related companies, and all of this info is outdated. the web does a much better job at providing this sort of information, so start searching. good luck! -gary hustwit
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