In this case, later. Much later. I’m a big fan of using Rhapsody on my Sonos, so I’ve been frustrated that my band’s second album seemed to get lost on its way to Rhapsody. For some strange reason, when my band Soul Patch released the album earlier this year, we used CD Baby to handle physical and digital distribution, and the album quickly found its way to iTunes, Amazon and numerous other digital services, but Rhapsody was a serious laggard. Rhapsody told us they had a big backlog and were a bit behind, and promised we’d get up there in June, July, August and October. I had given up and had stopped asking the folks at Rhapsody what the deal was. Finally, sometime in the past week, the album found its way through the clogged tubes of the interweb and is now available for your streaming pleasure:
Sooner or Later by Soul PatchFinally, as an investor in Topspin Media (and in the spirit of distributing Soul Patch’s music as widely as possible), I’ve trying out various different direct-to-fan musician’s publishing platforms, so I decided to put Sooner or Later up on Bandcamp, a very slick system indeed. Kudos to Ethan & Co. for a job well done, and to the fine folks over at True Ventures who invested in Bandcamp. Here’s a nice embed that Bandcamp provides: