Their efforts represent the most aggressive web marketing campaign by any band to date with MP3 adoption being just one part of their strategy. The Beastie's have taken online music marketing to the extreme in an effort to cultivate their audience. Submissions can be of any length - longer articles will be linked to a page in my site, with a summary in the newsletter. Leighton Watts has kindly donated tapes of his recent albums, which will go to the lucky winners. No one seems to have a pat answer to the question, but I see it as a measure of the human soul that shows through.
Music is more than a bunch of notes and intervals.
That's what computers spit out. Feel is a reflection of the human being who is making the music. Feel is the part that touches and moves the listener. Feel is the part you identify with when you hear a song. Feel is the element which makes people believe the artist, and turn him or her into a household name.