Our latest EP has just gotten done being mastered and CDs are being pressed! If you pre-order the release now, we’ll send you an autographed copy of the matching ‘Sea of Leaves’ poster and a sticker for free! Go to our homepage to purchase!
The ‘Sea of Leaves’ EP, recorded at Riverdog Studios, is The Day Life’s first professional release so you can expect to see it on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, Napster, and the works within the next couple of weeks. In the meantime if you’re feeling antsy and can’t wait to get your hands on some of the new tracks, go to our Share The Day Life page. We’ll give you different free tracks for signing up to our mailing list or adding us on Facebook!
Dana Jensen of Northeastern University wrote up an article about The Day Life’s music distribution strategy in Tastemaker’s Music Magazine! The article is only in print, but here’s a picture of it – check out the sweet use of our artwork for the page layout! We picked up our copy of the magazine at the outdoor Yeasayer show Tastemaker’s put on yesterday.
The article is about our music distribution strategy – in a sentence, we would much rather give you our music free, have you give it to friends, and come to our shows, then make you pay for what we want you to have. The article also focuses on how, as a band, The Day Life is attempting to expand our network of musicians, agents, press folk, and everyone else without necessarily trying to find a record label. If you get a chance, check out Tastemaker’s – they’ve got tons of good reviews and other articles!
The new website is here! It was hard to let go of the old one, but you can always still find it at www.thedaylifemusic.com/old.
Things to check out on the new site:
Check out our share page. It’s got tons of ways for you to help us spread our music – you’ll get free songs and other cool stuff for doing them!
For the first time we have a news and blog page which we actually promise to update regularly. Make sure to check back frequently for updates and you can even subscribe to our RSS feeds for both our news and blog pages.
We have plenty of new pictures of on the media page.
Sign up for our mailing list using that handy sidebar at the left of the page that follows you around when you scroll.
Launch our music player through that same sidebar or at the top of the page. If you click ‘share’ in the music player, you can post the player on your facebook wall, myspace, blogs, websites, etc.
We were lucky enough to get invited to play at the Band in Boston Podcast. Andy did a great job editing all of our tracks and we couldn’t be happier with the results. You can download all the songs at their website
“They say that everyone’s a Beatles person or a Stones person. (For the record: Andy=Beatles, Jen=Stones.) Philadelphia’s The Day Life is clearly on the Beatles side of that demarcation, but not only due to their great cover of Don’t Let Me Down (and possibly band name reference?). From some of the smoothest harmonies we’ve had in the living room to the Jeff Lynne-esque nearly (electric light) orchestral musical hits, they remind us a bit of a less glammy Jellyfish. Honestly I had trouble not going crazy with trying out all of the Abbey Road tricks that every engineer dreams about. Definitely another band giving Philly a great name.”
