Searched my old emails and found a definitive source for the release of Joe Hawley Joe Hawley

Purchased hand written lyrics from B.B.D, Jon Bates on PledgeMusic 2016

Lyrics to Dreary Moon my personal choice.

Jon is always so gracious and such a humble human being.

10 years ago - my leather jacket was so young back then. It now belongs to one of my Pledge Music supporters in South Africa. 😎🎶 #dregen #michaelmonroe #steveconte #pledgemusic #hornsandhalos #stevecontenyc (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClToMi6ufSX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So I found the archive page for the JHJH PledgeMusic website and this section is now engraved in my head

iamaly: New Merch @pledgemusic .... just in time for winter 💙🙌💙

Filter - "Hey Man Nice Shot" - Live 1996

Filter is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist and programmer Brian Liesegang. The band was formed when Patrick desired to start his own band after leaving Nine Inch Nails as their touring guitarist. Their debut album Short Bus was released in 1995 and ended up going platinum, largely due to the success of the single "Hey Man Nice Shot". After the album, the band would go through the first of many lineup changes, leaving Patrick as the only consistent member across all releases.

After Liesegang's departure in 1997, Patrick recorded a follow up album with the Short Bus touring band members, who became full-time members thereafter. The resulting effort, 1999's Title of Record, also went platinum driven by the success of the song "Take a Picture". A third album, The Amalgamut, was released in 2002 with the same members, though sales stalled with Patrick checking into rehab after years of heavy alcohol and drug abuse just as touring for the album had begun. The band went into hiatus while Patrick went to rehab, and then formed a new band, Army of Anyone, which released one self-titled album. After Army of Anyone went into hiatus, Patrick returned to Filter, releasing Anthems for the Damned in 2008, The Trouble with Angels in 2010, and The Sun Comes Out Tonight in 2013 with a revolving door of different musicians. A seventh studio album, Crazy Eyes, recorded with Patrick and another entirely new lineup, was released on April 8, 2016. In 2018, Brian Liesegang returned to Filter to work on a new album, reBus that was meant to musically be the follow up to Short Bus. Due to the PledgeMusic bankruptcy, reBus was shelved and Patrick has since been working on a new album The Algorithm, scheduled for release in August 2023.

Short Bus (1993–1998)

Richard Patrick played guitar with Nine Inch Nails during the touring for Pretty Hate Machine and in the music videos for Broken; he left the band while Trent Reznor was recording The Downward Spiral and began a new recording project with Brian Liesegang. Dubbing themselves Filter, they signed to Reprise Records in 1994 and recorded their first album, Short Bus, which was released in the following year. The album was commercially successful, and included the hit single "Hey Man Nice Shot". This song was somewhat controversial, as it was seen as capitalizing on the public suicide of Budd Dwyer. Kurt Cobain's suicide was widely rumored to have inspired the song, but the band denied this. The first single "Hey Man Nice Shot" was also included in the soundtrack for the movie Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight in 1995 before Short Bus was released. In need of a live band to tour the album, Patrick and Liesegang recruited Geno Lenardo on guitar, Frank Cavanagh on bass, and Matt Walker on drums. They would all later be featured in the video for the album's second single, "Dose".

Between Filter's first and second albums, the band became known for their soundtrack contributions, The first of these tracks, "Thanks Bro", landed on the Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files album. In 1996, Filter recorded and filmed the video for the song "Jurassitol", for The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack. They also released the home video Phenomenology in 1996, which showcased some of the band's live performances and music videos, as well as an interview with Patrick and Liesegang filmed in New Mexico.

Liesegang left in 1997 shortly after recording the Filter/Crystal Method collaboration "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" for the Spawn movie soundtrack, due to creative differences with Patrick. In 1998, for The X-Files film soundtrack, Patrick decided to keep the Filter name and recorded a cover of Harry Nilsson's "One".

Members

Richard Patrick Brian Liesegang Matt Walker Geno Lenardo Frank Cavanagh

I have been feeling ohGr TrickS so hard the last few days. Halloween spirit I suppose. This has been a supremely special album to me since even before its release, when I was subscribed to the ohGr PledgeMusic page (rot in Hell, PM) and Ogre and Mark would frequently upload little teasers and behind the scene WIPs of the progress, culminating in the album finally being released after a good friend had paid to get my name in the liner notes! Soooo crazy and surreal. As a fun fact, the original release date was actually going to be October 31st 2017, but delays kept it from officially coming out until June the following year. Totally worth the wait.

This was Ogre’s first new release after I had discovered him. I was over the moon excited and it was literally more than I could ever have hoped for. The previews/WIPs were all unfinished and much simpler than the complex layering and sounds happening throughout the final album. Ogre’s lyrics and vocals are superb and the complexity of the sound is just at its best. It’s so fun and surprisingly pop for what it is and I love that. It has a humor and a playfulness to it as it goes into these dark twisted places... It feels like a big bag of Halloween treats with a few tricks nestled amongst ‘em. It’s also such an amazingly cohesive piece, you all know I love semi-conceptual albums and albums where every song is connected thematically and/or musically; TrickS does the thing where each song fades in and out from one to the next more or less seamlessly, and with FreAky opening with “Get ready for the freaky side of nature” as a meta introduction to the album itself and LYe ending with “Now be good / Now be gone” as the final line of the entire album, it just FEELS like a whole journey with these crazy twists and turns, a beginning middle end, where we descend into this demented world with the darker songs like dUetheykNow, ToXicK, and ResoLuTe pulling us downwards and the escape into something slightly lighter and more melancholy with MudDle until we reach the very end. The whining synths of MindmadegoD, the guitar that marks the turning point of SubjecT, it just has so many memorable moments and details... Iconic. Masterpiece.

In October 2018 I had moved out of my parents’ house for the first time less than a month prior and was on my own in my dream city, and I went to a Halloween party that was my first foray into the local goth scene there; I had such an amazing time and I befriended someone who would be a friend for years to come, and when SubjecT came on we both jumped up and down and sang along so loud. It was so magical. I got Ogre’s signature and the puppy he drew me tattooed that same month, after having met him in September while he was touring for this album and he drew me a picture and signed it. So even though TrickS never truly got to be an October release, it still holds a lot of special October magic in my heart. I also met Ogre for the first time ever in October 2017, for the tour with KMFDM that was supposed to lead up to the original Halloween release of TrickS, and that was one of the most life changing, special, best days of my life.

This Halloween give ohGr TrickS a few listens, ok? And consider buying it for yourself on Bandcamp. 👻🖤

Buzzcocks The Way 2014 PledgeMusic ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Keep On Believing 02. People Are Strange Machines 03. The Way 04. In the Back05. Virtually Real 06. Third Dimension 07. Out of the Blue 08. Chasing Rainbows • Modern Times 09. It’s Not You 10. Saving Yourself 11. Disappointment 12. Generation Suicide 13. Happen 14. Dream on Baby —————————————————

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Elizabeth and the catapult

#Elizabeth and the catapult movie

#Elizabeth and the catapult tv

#Elizabeth and the catapult tv

H81R: On a related note, you have had songs featured in TV commercials (Google, Amazon and Sky TV).

#Elizabeth and the catapult movie

When I hear of a musician that gets signed and quit their day jobs, I think that’s a total joke (laughs).ĮZ: I do film scoring and scored “Knuckleball!” and “Alias Ruby Blade.” I’m doing some fun work musically, but I really believe if someone asks you to play a part in a movie or something, you have to try it all out. That’s the reality, and there as to be other ways. We’re in a world where Spotify and videos are the thing, and playing shows are the thing. Amazing people, and I’m a big fan of a lot of the records they put out this year. Now we’re doing a distribution deal with Thirty Tigers, and I love the people at Thirty Tigers. We raised the money for the record pretty darn quickly. The new exiting way is the way I just did it with PledgeMusic. You have to work on how you are going to get your music out there. I just think the infrastructure of the industry is so different right now. So I don’t have a big “fuck them man” stance on record labels. Everyone I was working with just ended up not working there anymore. Can you compare those experiences for me?ĮZ: I think that Universal, Verve, they did a great job with my record and they were really supportive. H81R: You have released and produced your own material as well as working with labels and producers. The music is the easy part, so it’s kind of the last step in the process. They write music first and then fill in the blanks with the lyrics, so I don’t think there’s one way to do it.įor me, I am always thinking of a story and a feeling. Vincent when I as in college, and Esperanza Spalding was my bass player in my first band. I don’t think there is one right way to do it. Did you have those sounds in mind while writing?ĮZ: Yeah, I think that’s. H81R: There are a lot of sounds on the album. It’s going to affect all of the instruments and you’ll be better at all of them. I think if you are a lyricist and a melodic person you should play more than one instrument. Except for the fact that I play accordion, I play piano, I play guitar, I play drums in Kishi Bashi’s band. I don’t think that it really matters what you write on. H81R: Was writing on a guitar a big difference for you compared to writing on piano?ĮZ: I think it’s an interesting question and a lot of people are asking me about it. 24, about the new record, her busking experience and why she thinks musicians should think long and hard before saying no to an opportunity. We recently chatted with Ziman, who plays World Café Live on Friday, Jan. Ziman’s new record – which Paste featured in a pre-release stream – is the latest in a career that has featured tours with the likes of Sarah Bareilles, Greg Laswell and Lenka and singing backup for The Shins. I just wanted to go down there and learn the guitar pretty well – I’m a pretty good guitarist now – and I wrote an album.” In Little India, once in a while someone will bless me. “It’s a really fun way to be in public in an anonymous way. I was singing with an accordion, and she said ‘It’s a choir of angels here.’ I ended up getting a part in an Anne Hathaway movie as a busker. There’s a stop, the Church Avenue stop (in Brooklyn), where it really sounds like a church. I was really inspired basically by the acoustics. “And some of my friends had been busking in the subway. “I decide to kind of make a change and learn a new instrument and get my chops back together and learn a bajillion covers,” said Ziman, who is primarily a piano player. It’s a fitting opening considering Ziman, after being jettisoned from Universal Records imprint Verve, literally went underground to regroup. “I’ve been playing on a platform at Church Avenue and nobody,” Elizabeth Ziman sings at the opening of “Happy Pop,” making them the first words on “Like It Never Happened,” Elizabeth & The Catapult’s third full-length, out this week.

HAPPY RELEASE DAY to Murmuration Nation, released 5 years ago today (8.11.17)! Emily’s much anticipated solo effort finally came into being with a little help from friends like Lyris Hung, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Jennifer Nettles and fans who supported her via Pledgemusic. I was fortunate to see four Murmuration shows, and they were wonderful. Emily had a top notch backing band and the songs are inventive, interesting and totally Emily!! #emilysaliers #indigogirls #murmurationnation #soloalbum #debut #releaseday #singersongwriter #indieartist #americanavoice #womeninmusic #bestof2017 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChHCmnVOzPc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

PledgeMusic WTTA Update

For those who pledged to Window to the Abbey and are thirsting for an update, I have one. It’s not much but it’s better than the usual radio silence.

Basically, from what I was told by them, they are waiting at this time to see if Pledge is going to give them the money to ship the items out or if it will have to come out of pocket. I made them aware of the PledgeMusic issues and scandal going on, but this is where we are at this time. 

Sorry I don’t have more to tell you, but this was more than even I’VE been able to get out of them lately, so I’ll take this morsel for all it’s worth. And as usual, the guys appreciate our patience and all that. 

Ladytron

Por Briseida Alcalá

Ladytron regresa para prender fuego a un mundo caótico y desahuciado en su inesperado sexto álbum de estudio.

Percusiones robustas se manifiestan como la mano firme que guía su sonido característico, que se mantiene reconocible y fresco, caracterizado por las vocales inconfundibles de Helen Marnie. 

El disco, su primer homónimo se construye alrededor de un necesario cataclismo, ramificada en dos direcciones distintas, primero la ignición que significa el fin, tras el escape llegá el ascenso y la reconstrucción y un viraje melódico que densifica su sonido. 

Until the Fire sienta el tono de admonición del disco, con la melodía inscrita en su musicalidad característica, funcionando a la perfección como reconocimiento y bienvenida, mostrando con un largo bridge instrumental la capacidad de la melodía para sostenerse a si misma.

The Island se distingue con un synth brillante y vocales tersas que conforman un tema vibrante, sensual e hipnótico, en el que se asumen sibilas de la hecatombe. 

We are sirens of, of the apocalypse

Tower of Glass se eleva desde su programación convertida en loop que le brinda brillo y fuerza, para desde arriba advertirnos de la inminente caída.

I'm your favourite apparition Which makes your ears and fingers burn

Far from Home mantiene el memento, variando la orientación hacia lo raudo y energético, mientras la narrativa los sumerge en la espesura y los aleja de la civilización en un contagioso tercer sencillo. Paper Highways vira en sentido contrario, con vocales orientada a los graves, el sintetizador es ahora una voz que se pierde en la espesura, mientras la visión de a poco se aclara al aferrar la duermevela.

Weightless you were dreaming When you wake don't forget This world keeps turning If the sun sets to the west

The Animals surge entre versos entrecortados que niegan para afirmar con una lírica pesimista y cínica a la que reviste la melodía de un órgano sofisticado. Temazo 

We are more like you Than the ones that you knew

Todo synth Run araña su melodía con una sensación de imperiosa inmediatez incorporando la gracia del piano a un tema extraño, inquietante y propositivo melódica y temáticamente

Una programación de cualidades acuáticas compone Deadzone enlazándose de manera perfecta con vocales y percusiones en temazo de alcances existenciales, donde morir es también volver a nacer. 

For better, for worse, I'm forever changed

La melodía de Figurine fortalece la musicalidad con resonancias envolventes que significan el paso circular del tiempo, mientras retumbante, You've Changed reclama la afectación que confunde la apariencia de la felicidad son la felicidad misma. 

Horrorscope retoma este retumbe en una vocalización amenazante, con la batería casi marcial reforzando el efecto atemorizante de los adagios que confirman no lo que viene, lo que ya está aquí. 

The Mountain sostiene con el trabajo en armonías vocales la visión clara después de la huída, desde el simbolismo primitivo que reviste importancia con el promontorio primigenio. Temazo.

Tomorrow Is Another Day cierra el disco rechazando la enajenación para un encuentro cara a cara que busca respuestas y reconciliación pero no redención con el creador. No lo dejen ir. 

I never asked you all the damn things I wanted to

Track list

Until the Fire

The Island

Tower of Glass

Far from Home

Paper Highways

The Animals

Run

Deadzone

Figurine

You've Changed

Horrorscope

The Mountain

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Another screenshot from the JHJH PledgeMusic page. Quick, I need 12k and a time travel machine

iamaly: @alyandaj Tshirts up on our @pledgemusic page 💥

im so frustrated like seriously fuck pledgemusic!!!!! people i know have been using pledgemusic for crowdfunding for actual years and the one time i get involved in one is the time that they decide to say fuck everybody and steal everybodys money... like i was jus tryna help a band that i like and now i gotta file a fuckin fraud dispute I COULD PUNCH SOMEBODY