We've Gone Non-profit

We've heard all manner of the "you shouldn't give your music away" thoughts. But then, we read this article.

We drank the koolaid. We're the few, the chosen, the converted.

So, now all of our stuff is Free as in Bird. Get ye therefore to our Bandcamp site and download away.

Quick. Before we read another article about NOT giving your music away...

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Google Music!

Ever heard of these guys?

They say they're pretty good at what they do.

So they started this neat little music platform. Maybe you've heard about it.

Well, this was the latest bandwagon to roll down on our road. And we've never let a bandwagon go by that we didn't just jump right into.

So now you can get this one on there (click on the image!):

And our very latest is up there too(click on the image!):

Google music. Don't leave home without it.

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Turning Into Ash Available

Turning Into Ash - It's out there, right now.

Composed, recorded, rendered, mixed, mastered, pimped. Finished. Whew. Here it is. Or the CD cover, anyway:

Sad though - Now the producer REALLY has to work. That's OK though, 'cause it's getting through. We found it on iTunes, Amazon. Spotify.

And Bandcamp:

We're Turning Into Ash

Dunno how it's been where you are, but in Austin, it's just one big wave of heat. And no rain since... Can't remember.

It does something to ya, all that heat. Dries up your pores, makes you thirsty. Gives you a new appreciation for rain - You ever have a time when you hated rain?

Isaac and Horace have not been unmoved. More like obsessed. The only thing taking more of their brain's cycles during this phase is Mother, who is never far from their thoughts, though she's been dead and buried for 17 years now.

So with the new obsession comes a new birth - "Turning Into Ash" is the name of the next release. Our first pass art, generated by the producer just so he could have a simplistic image to embed in the MP3s, was this:

Not all that inspiring. After some digging around, consulting, and asking the Internet, the producer came up, well, dry. He turned to Horace for ideas, who remembered that tale of fiery woe from long ago - Pompeii. From there, the producer produced this as the new CD's art:

If this image doesn't convey it, we'll just say it straight out: This is the brothers' darkest, most dramatic work ever.

It will hit 9/30/11. We want you to have it.

Grooveshark!

They say the music industry is changing.  We don't know for sure - Change is one of the few constants the brothers experience - custody battles or privacy hearings or medical examinations or legal wranglings, change, or threat thereof, is their only constant.

But the producer noticed a big shift in the digital music landscape.  Local band Quiet Company is now in cahoots with GrooveShark and Rocket Science - Their next release will be promoted via a new showcase project that will circumvent the big labels.  It's a bold move by new movers and shakers in the new world music order - Read about it here.

The upshot was that the producer took a look at GrooveShark. Got addicted. Moved the brothers' music up, and now you can find "A Work In Progress" on yonder Grooveshark.

Cool. And not just because it's got "shark" in the title.

We made it to the Deli!

The producer was shocked today.  And not in the usual way, either:  

He was making his normal stops along the web.  Paid his regular visit to Deli Magazine - 

And there, in headliner position, was "Hop Skip Jump".  In all it's glory.   

We quickly popped over to Facebook, then Twitter, pouring his good fortune all over the rest of the known universe.

Tell your friends!  Hop Skip Jump!

Hop Skip Jump!

We finished "A Work In Progress", shipped it out.  Sat back, sighed.  Scratched our beards.  


The brothers, bored, got up and wandered back into the studio.  The producer consulted that great holder of all knowledge, Google, for what to do next.  And it responded - Music Video!  


The producer, glad to have something to do, picked up the ball and ran with it.  Metaphorically.  He found Animeeple, fired up After Effects, generated a few backgrounds with Combustion, ran Anime Studio.  Put it all together, producing this video for the hit "Hop Skip Jump":

Enjoy!  Tell your friends!  Hop Skip Jump!