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Have the Kings of Leon sold out?
Now that they are playing arena tours and have changed their once ragged indie rock sound to a more radio friendly modern rock sound.
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The very notion of a band "selling out" is childish and irrelevant.
If you have heard of a band and they do not perform only in your local area, they have sold out. The only way to make a living and/or afford to tour is to create a sellable product that venues are willing to buy. That requires making small adjustments here and there to your stage setup, your music, your merchandising, etc. Is that selling out?
Is simply spending the extra time and money to master your album after mixing "selling out"?
In fact, the only way you've heard of a non-local band is because they have a good enough agent that got them on board with the record label(s) and got their music on the radio/tv/etc to begin with. You can pluck just about any band from a city that plays a few times a month, record their best song(s), clean them up in the studio, and then play them 300 times a day on the top40 radio stations and have them be just as successful as pretty much all of the current bands getting airplay right now.
It's all just business, unfortunately. The internet is slowly changing this but we're a long way away from being able to have all bands with the ability to record a song be on a generally even playing field and float to the top simply on merit alone.
I think the more important question would be why anyone cares in the first place.
If you have heard of a band and they do not perform only in your local area, they have sold out. The only way to make a living and/or afford to tour is to create a sellable product that venues are willing to buy. That requires making small adjustments here and there to your stage setup, your music, your merchandising, etc. Is that selling out?
Is simply spending the extra time and money to master your album after mixing "selling out"?
In fact, the only way you've heard of a non-local band is because they have a good enough agent that got them on board with the record label(s) and got their music on the radio/tv/etc to begin with. You can pluck just about any band from a city that plays a few times a month, record their best song(s), clean them up in the studio, and then play them 300 times a day on the top40 radio stations and have them be just as successful as pretty much all of the current bands getting airplay right now.
It's all just business, unfortunately. The internet is slowly changing this but we're a long way away from being able to have all bands with the ability to record a song be on a generally even playing field and float to the top simply on merit alone.
I think the more important question would be why anyone cares in the first place.
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