I decided that we don’t have enough songs up on the website, as a matter of fact the last one was recorded about nine months ago. But it’s not like I haven’t been writing songs, I just haven’t been recording them. I have a ton of songs written, but I think I’ve just been waiting for us to find a drummer to really record them. Well, I think instead I’m just going to record what I have with DrumTrack and Hydrogen, and when we do find a drummer, then we’ll just re-record them, because actually I’m still learning mixing techniques so the quality of these recordings compared to others aren’t the best anyway. Mostly they’re just something to show what we sound like, and the direction we’re headed musically. So I’ve decided that to keep myself motivated with this, I’m going to record at least one of the songs I’ve written every month and upload it to the site. Perhaps I’ll get to the point of doing it more often, but at least nobody will have to wait nine frikin’ months just to hear a new song from us. So in that spirit (and because October is almost over with), I’ve uploaded a new song called Break It, you can listen to or download it in the audio section.
Oh yeah, before I forget, I also decided to get rid of the ogg vorbis format in favor of the lossless FLAC format. If you have no idea what ogg or FLAC is don’t worry, just download the mp3’s and be happy. But for those who actually do use oggs you probably also know what FLAC is and how to convert FLAC to ogg if you need to, so really nothing’s been lost. But if for some strange reason you do know what ogg is but not FLAC, you can use BonkEnc to convert FLAC to ogg. And for those of you who’s curiosity has been peaked, FLAC is an audio format that has no loss in quality like a wav file, but is compressed so it’s a lot smaller than a wav file. Mp3 and ogg music files are lossy, meaning they are of lesser quality because of the compression method used to make them much smaller than FLACs and wavs. But anyway, enjoy the new and upcoming music.

We went and saw Lipstick Homicide last night, and a punk band called Baby Guts opened the show. Afterwards I got their latest CD, The Kissing Disease, while Billy got that and their EP, Gasoline (I didn’t have enough money for both but I did get a free button ) Anyway you should definitely check them out, they also have a website at www.babyguts.com
I hope they play more shows near us, I wouldn’t mind seeing them again, they were pretty fuckin’ cool. If they’re playing a show near you go see them, they’re awesome.

Oddly enough just a little while after posting my article about using advertisements to pay for music on this site I came across this while trying to figure out how to download songs on that damn new myspace music player (it seems you can’t anymore). Looks like the majors are trying to screw the indies again, and myspace plans on helping them. Like I was saying before, if we had ads on the site it wouldn’t be nearly as bad knowing that you’re helping support the band by visiting the site and referring friends which would result in more ad clicks to help us pay for our musical expenditures. Well it looks like the Majors plan on doing this and more through myspace and completely excluding the unsigned and indie artist from joining their little circle. As the article states this is going to make myspace turn into what MTV is now, nothing worth spending any time on anymore. What’s really sad is that most people probably wont even know, or even care for that matter. It’s kind of unfortunate that myspace had to become the popular one. Sites like reverbnation, last.fm, and Earn It Yourself are much better for bands than myspace is anyway.
UPDATE: last.fm kinda just screwed over independent artists, they only allow people from the US, England, and Germany to listen songs for free now. Anyone from any other countries (Canada, Mexico, South America, etc.) have to pay a membership fee now which really sucks because our play count was actually quite high on list.fm, but since they did this our play count now is practically nil. So they fucked over their users because they can’t try to find cool indie artists to listen to anymore, and they fucked over indie artists because they don’t get exposure to anyone from those countries anymore.
Reverbnation actually shares their ad revenue with the artists (I think it’s 50%) plus provides a ton of tools to help artists with promotion and stuff. Last.fm pays artist royalties whenever anyone listens to their song on their website and internet radio. While Earn It Yourself encourages bands to take the DIY approach, helps find and trade gigs, and provides a number of articles that would be useful to any musician. It’s really sucks that myspace is turning out this way, since the whole reason I liked it when I first found out about it was the fact that I could look up local underground music in my area easily. It’s the reason I know of and listen to all the bands listed in our links section. I never gave a shit for the social networking aspect of it all, but the fact that I could look up bands in my area and listen to their songs to see if I liked them, then see if they were playing any shows in the my area that I could go to was just too cool.
Though this shouldn’t be too surprising, myspace never seemed to show any interest in indie bands at all anyway. Take a look at the reverbnation site, they have a little section on the front page showing local artist in your area to check out. When was the last time you remember myspace putting a little thing on their front page like that for local indie musicians? Yep, that’s what I thought, never. Though I remember seeing all kinds of crap about major label musicians that I could care less for. Oh well, I’ve always found myspace quite limiting anyway, which is the reason I created this site in the first place. Hopefully anyone who stumbles across our myspace page and likes our music will also click the links to this website that I put on it. I’m thinking that myspace should only be used as a promotional tool for us indie musicians if this is the way things are going to be. If myspace and the majors don’t wanna share then screw ‘em, I’ll tell our fans to come here for updates instead of myspace.