May 2, 2005
Cake Talks Tours, Downloads & New Albums
(Filed under: Industry)Alt-rock favorite Cake is enjoying the buzz from their latest album, Pressure Chief, touring the country twice and releasing a country-fueled EP on iTunes.
Some have wondered about the sponsorship deal on Cake's current tour, but frontman Josh McCrea dismisses it as part of doing business and points the finger at illegal downloaders, theorizing about the direction of the music industry:
"I think more and more with the way the music industry is, bands are gonna start taking cues from NASCAR racers and wear ads on their outfits. That's given the fact that people want music for free, yet they might not realize in order for it to be made that artists have to pay for studio time, food and rent. It's basically a case of spoiled children wanting free candy, and though it's easy to want things for free, it's hard for musicians to convince landlords that rent should be free."
McCrea goes on to talk about Cake on tour and how they rarely use a set list, often playing what they feel like:
"We're not a fancy jukebox or the dancing bears at Chucky Cheese, so sometimes we forget to play something people want to hear. But we're definitely very comfortable with the concept that we’re in a service occupation where we have to balance wanting to do the right thing musically with being there to entertain people and give them what they want."
Posted by kevin at May 2, 2005 10:24 AM
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