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I wanted to take a photo of Tessa buried in Modernity Leaves to announce its release, but she wouldn’t let me tonight. Now there’s just a bunch of cat hair all over my CDs. So I’ll just have to use words:

MODERNITY LEAVE IS OUT!!!

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And by out I mean let me know if you want it and I’ll send/give you one. It’s free at the moment. I’ll probably add it to CD Baby/iTunes pretty soon, but for now you have to get it from the source.

It’s official, my furry crustaceans: Modernity Leave is coming out NEXT MONTH! In just the past couple of weeks, I finished up the recording of a record total 40 songs on my shabby old Fostex XR-7 four-track contraption. Then just two days ago I mixed and mastered it in a day. Today I designed the cover. I love this album. It’s totally different from anything I’ve done so far. Not that it’s all crazy and innovative or anything. It’s just unpolished and rough as a rasp, which is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. And I figured, to make it worth your while, I’d fill up an entire CD. While I recorded 40 songs, not all of them will fit, so there’s “only” going to be 36 songs. I’ll have the final running order up here soon!

PREPARE.

Also, don’t forget about my show on Sept. 3 at the Ash St.! Shove it into your temporal lobe!

Two shows coming up! July 2 at the Twilight and an acoustic set at August 16 at the Hawthorne Theater Lounge. I might have another coming up soon as well. Please come to all of them. You probably haven’t seen me play since last year, because I haven’t played since last year (except for that last-minute Fantasia 26 show).

Modernity Leave is fairly close to being done (29 songs!), but I’m not sure what I want to do with it. My opinion of it changes every day. It’s a heart breaker. Just like Mike Campbell.

I have also been working on two new Public Domain Rainbow songs. One is “Nuke Song II,” which was originally written and recorded for Modernity Leave. I decided it was too good to merely languish in lo-fi land, so I started recording it properly for PDR. It features a LinnDrum and gated reverb. You do the math.

I’m also working on a song for Alyssa to sing the lead vocals on. The song came from a dream I had and I didn’t want to disobey my subconscious, so I wrote it for real the next day. It’s called “Breathe In The Air,” which is a boring title and sounds like a Bette Midler song, but that’s what it was called in my dream, so I’m keeping it. Alyssa also sang it in my dream, which is why I’ve been bugging her to learn it for the past couple weeks. She actually doesn’t even like it that much. She says it’s boring and not a very good song. But she’s wrong you know! When y’all hear the finished version, y’all will be blazed.

I’ve also been working on finishing up the Tiger House album, Geodyssey. I’m very proud of how it turned out. It’s a great little indie pop/rock truffle. You’ll been hearing more of it very soon.

Also, this website is still very much under construction. It’s a big mess right now. But that will change pretty soon. The buffet is still being prepped.

Public Domain Rainbow update: I haven’t been recording much PDR stuff lately because 1) I’ve been busy with the Tiger House album and 2) I’ve been recording a new four-track album! It’s tentatively called Modernity Leave. I can’t gaurantee that it will ever actually come out. It’s going to be pretty nuts. I will decide when it’s done if it’s any good at all. Some days I love what I’ve recorded so far and some days I hate it. I’ll try to decide on a day that I love it. It’s definitely more Meat Grinder-esque, but with some pop songs thrown in to keep things grounded. But that’s what I’ve been up to, recording-wise.

Upcoming shows: I have none at the moment! I haven’t played since New Year’s Eve! If you can provide me with a show, then I’ll give you bag of chips.

I also updated my licensing page with a link to license my music at Pump Audio. If you’re John Stamos looking for a theme to your new hit show that will be canceled after six episodes, please check out that link.

I’ll try to be more frequent with the updates here. Once a month is kind of weak, isn’t it?

Barely,
Alex