Hiding In Horrible Weather

I The Mighty formed in 2007, and released their first EP in 2008. I The Mighty - EP was compiled of acoustic songs. Next up, in 2010 they released the Hearts and Spades - EP, with both “I The Might…

ithemighty:

Album Premiere: I The Mighty, ‘Satori’

Hey, big surprise!

You can now STREAM OUR FULL RECORD over atAlternative Press!!

We put everything we have into this and we sincerely hope you enjoy it. 

Please remember grab it on iTunes if you like what you hear. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/satori/id646218361?uo=4

Love, ITM.

June 4th marked the release of Anarbor’s 6th album (if you include EPs and Mixtape), which is entitled: Burnout. These guys definitely have their own sound, and they have stuck to it with this new release in a lot of the tracks…

Formed in Staten Island, New York in the summer of 2010, Four Nights Gone set out to start a name for themselves. Building a huge local following, and now expanding through social media and regional…

Moneta is requesting our fans and friends to match our contribution to recording a new album.

Help some local Seattle guys out!

Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! talks about her first year as a woman.

What are your thoughts on the book vs. movie?

Featuring Ryan and Derek from Take Cover.

Need some new Christmas songs for your playlist?

Features: Go Radio, Anarbor, Sparks the Rescue, Anberlin, Relient K, and more!

withthepunchesny:

National Diabetes Awareness Month

Hey Everyone,
This is Dustin, I play guitar in With The Punches, and tomorrow (November 21st) I will be participating in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s “Be Type-1 Diabetic For A Day” campaign, and would like to invite you all to join me by texting T1D4ADAY to 63566 or by clicking here . While this is not going to be anything close to know what it is actually like to be living with diabetes, this is an opportunity to get some idea of what a person with Type-1 Diabetes goes through every day to keep themselves alive. I will be live tweeting throughout the day the status of my blood sugar and the scenarios that a person living with diabetes always has to be thinking about and preparing for.

As some of you know, my girlfriend Sara is a Type-1 diabetic and when we started dating it terrified me a little bit, I knew almost nothing about diabetes outside of what I had picked up from TV or movies (which, as it turns out are not always the most accurate souces of information…who knew). Over the last year I have learned from living with Sara that managing diabetes is an art, not really a science. How the body reacts to the food that gets put in it is not a universal thing, and sometimes how the body reacts makes almost no sense at all. Sara lives with two tools: her meter (you prick your finger, put some blood on a test strip, and it tells you what your blood sugar is at) and her insulin pump. Before and after every meal, any physical activity, and several times throughout the day she has to check herself to make sure she is within safe levels, too high and things get dangerous, too low and the result is the same. The pump helps and certainly makes life a little easier because it is capable of delivering a steady stream of insulin into her body, but that has to be set manually and closely monitored as well. She has to be careful of what her blood sugar is before bed and how much insulin she is getting from her pump because if she goes too low or too high but she’s asleep, she may not wake up. The above is about 1/1000th of what it is like to have diabetes, and it doesn’t keep Sara from doing anything, she works, goes to the gym, goes to shows, eats junk food, tries to make me eat vegetables, moshes harder than you, and is basically just awesome all the time. Diabetes is just part of her life, and now it is part of mine.

That being the case, I was thrilled that when I told the rest of WTP about “Be Type-1 Diabetic For A Day” everyone offered to participate in the hopes of drawing more attention to diabetes awareness, it rules to know that my friends are so supportive. Also With The Punches (with help from our amazing family at American Icon Merch) have put together a special benefit shirt for the Harrisburg Diabetic Youth Camp where Sara volunteers every summer designed by our friend Justin Graziano of tinthreads.com based on the insulin pump Sara wears 24/7. All proceeds from the sale of the shirt below will go towards helping a young person(s) with diabetes attend a week-long camp where they will be surrounded by other kids living with the same challenges that they face, while learning better ways to manage their diabetes, and enjoying themselves in an environment where everyone knows what to do in case of an emergency.

The shirt can be purchased directly at the following link
http://tinyurl.com/autzyto
http://tinyurl.com/autzyto
http://tinyurl.com/autzyto

or through our merch store americaniconmerch.com/withthepunches.html

The shirt is already available for pre-order and will begin shipping December 20th. Please help us spread awareness by blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and otherwise posting about this anywhere you can.

For more info about the Harrisburg Diabetic Youth Camp please go to http://setebaidservices.org/

Thank You,
DustinWTP

immutableinscrutable:

I had a long call with people I work with, and I had ideas about finding my way to new listeners. Having this excellent second-act career, as a middle-aged artist, making singer-songwriter music that some Soul Coughing fans don’t like—and, pointedly, vice-versa—I want to get in front of the audiences of other artists with listeners in their late 30s, 40s, early 50s; to generally find older people that would like the songs. I’d like to widen my audience.

They were all ears—as was I, to their ideas. My agents (at High Road) and my management (Hornblow) are samurais. Unfortunately, our business is utterly focused on strategies to get music in front of people in their teens and 20s. Other than pushing what worked on younger people, and complaining that those avenues are ineffective with those same fans as adults, the bulk of our business isn’t TRYING to reach older listeners. However skilled, there’s only so much rain my peeps can make, without a wider culture built to help.

You get told that adults aren’t interested in music. That’s bunk. People who like art don’t stop liking art. They go to movies. The film industry makes a lot of money on blockbusters that young people love, but they also make money on subtler, artier stuff, that adults like, in a way that the music business hasn’t figured out.

Right now, a big artist like Bon Iver breaks through to older listeners because it gets big with younger listeners first—they can’t miss it. This means that if there’s a middle-aged artist that adults would love, but young people can’t identify with, they won’t get to their audience. If you put an awesome rock record, singer/songwriter record, 80s/90s-style hip-hop record on, they will dig it.

There’s great radio for adults out there. WXPN, the Current, WFUV, KCRW, WXRT—that’s just a few, off the top of my sleepy head. Dang, there really are a lot of stations doing it right. They can’t carry the entire over-35 world. Artists need to work town-to-town, get in front of audiences. If adults went to see music, those stations would be a bigger cultural force in their towns.

If shows were at 7:30 pm sharp, adults might go.

If everybody got chairs, adults might go.

If drunk talkers got shut up, and the story wasn’t “I went to see ______, but some asshole was jabbering away, ruined the music, why go back?”, adults might go.

The talking people in the bar are 5 out of 50. Bars, there’s more money in the 50 than the 5. Do you want those 50 to come back to your bar?

If everybody got treated with unceasing respect, and didn’t have to feel like they were uncooler than some snooty-kid hand-stamper, they might go.

If seated music clubs had a drink minimum , they’d make money off an adult audience, and it’d be worth their while. (I hate saying this, because I hate spending obligatory money)

If shows were shorter—two hours, from sit-down to paying the check, adults might go. (I hate saying this, because I love to play song after song after song)

If the headliner’s ACTUAL stage time were posted, more people might not feel going out was a dice-roll on how long they’d have to sit there waiting. I think, if opening acts were three songs long, people might actually become interested in opening acts, but it’s a terrible that people adjust to the fact that they’re usually being conned into sitting in a bar longer.

Dear music industry: there are amazing middle-aged artists. There’s loads of genuinely NEW artists who are in their 40s, not necessarily, ahem, some dude who used to be in a different band! They would be loved by people with money to spend, and, oh, ps, you guys really, really need money right now. Doubtless, there’s a cannier strategy, to be discovered, for getting the music in front of adults, via media, but I don’t work in that department.

I can absolutely tell you, there’s a sit-down comedy club—or two, or three—in every town. Go there. It’s filled with adults.

You know who still might buy physical copies of albums? People who grew up buying them.

Seriously, who out there is trying to crack this nut? Nobody wants this money?

meganpicturetaker:

Hey guys. Last night I had an incredibly long conversation/debate with my friend Curran about the state of the music scene that we call home, make our livings from, and try to leave better than we found it. We talked about everything from the bands that don’t actually play live on stage, to the…

Please read this whole thing! Some great points about the music scene are made. And I completely agree.

People (women especially) seemed to so easily forgive Chris Brown and gobble up his new music after the incident with Rhianna. It’s sad to think women in the rock scene are put down so easily for coming forward about abuse.

steviemusic:

There’s something that happens to an older Italian woman’s voice when she’s upset. It’s hard to describe but you know it when you hear it because it almost frightens you. Last week while watching the news of Hurricane Sandy’s decimation of Staten Island, I heard such a voice from a woman who was…

steviemusic:

File sharing, iPods, Twitter, Facebook, record labels, Youtube, technology, digital media, physical media, basement hits, Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, auto-tune…

What does it all mean for the music business?
That’s what my two dear friends, Adam Russell & Ryan Phillips, explore in their new…

Definitely feel like this is a great cause to support!

alternativepressmag:

In what can only be described as a cruel twist of fate, AP’s associate editor spoke with Suicide Silence’s Mitch Lucker about a month ago for an article in an upcoming issue of AP. The topic was musicians who ride Harley-Davidsons.

In the interview, Lucker discussed his love for motorcycles and riding the roads of his home state, California. You can read part of the interview here. 

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AP regrets to report the vocalist’s sudden and tragic death. Click through to read the endless responses coming in from the music community and more.

Bringing back this article from last year. Any songs you guys think we should add?

thevenetiafair:

Hey guys, our Kickstarter has been active for about 20 hours now and we’re well on our way to reaching our goal. If you haven’t checked it out yet, we’re offering a bunch of really cool things and if you HAVE seen it and already donated, sharing this post would be extremely helpful, too! Blast this thing around the internet real quick for me, will ya?