Things I have discovered in three days of selling my album online

1. People are willing to buy online music via PayPal from your website.

2. Not all of these people are my mom. Or actually people I know. This is encouraging.

3. Not having a label or distributor means the music goes directly into my PayPal account. No quarterly reports, no sending my boys to the label accounting [...]

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Ghosts In A Burning City — available now!

My debut album as Red State Soundsytem, Ghosts In A Burning City, is now available for preview/purchase over at Redstatesoundsystem.com. More when my brain is fully functioning.

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The value of music

So apparently a group of musicians in England called the Featured Artists Coalition have voted to support a “three strikes” law against illegal file downloaders: get caught three times and have your bandwidth reduced to a point where you can no longer download big files. It has not met with enthusiasm from the British blogosphere. [...]

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Ghosts In A Burning City video

So I’m thinking about doing a video for “Ghosts In A Burning City”, the title track for my album. The song is about chaos in the global South — in my head, it’s about Uganda, but it could really be applied to any place.

I’d like to do a video for the track. The idea I [...]

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Show Review in CityLife Blog

Las Vegas CityLife writer (and my neighbor and buddy) Dave Surratt dropped a very cool review of last Friday’s RSS show for Neon Reverb at Meet Lounge (aka Meatheads) on the CityLife blog:

Driven by a voice that visits Elvis Costello, Ben Lee, Tom Waits and Anthony Kiedis (and despite Ellis’ apologies for the endearingly slap-dash [...]

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New Red State Soundsystem wallpaper

To celebrate the upcoming release of Red State Soundsystem’s first album, Ghosts In A Burning City, here’s a Red State wallpaper for you. This image will also be available soon as a signed print, or as part of the deluxe album package.

Red State Soundsystem wallpaper, 1280 x 1024

Red State Soundsystem wallpaper, 1440 x [...]

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New Song: “Not In This World (Or The Next One)”

“Not In This World (Or The Next One)”, VBR MP3 (avg. 206kbps)

Not In This World (Or The Next One)

I’m a good soldier, I march like they tell me
My feet fall in time
When I stop moving, I stare at your picture
And I trace the lines

Of your eyes and your mouth and your hair
As it falls in [...]

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New Song — “Every Hour Wounds (The Last One Kills)”

“Every Hour Wounds (The Last One Kills)” — 192 kbps MP3

Every Hour Wounds (The Last One Kills)

Where will you be in ten years?
Still in this bar, chillin’ with these drunks?
Or will you hit the highway
Like we used to back when we were punk?

And watching tempus fugit like a bird
Everybody dies, haven’t you heard?
Waiting till you [...]

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Help me crowd-produce the “Scatterlings + Refugees” video!

There seem to be at least a few fans of Red State Soundsystem out there, right? So I’ve had an idea, and I’m hoping you’ll help me with it.

The song “Scatterlings + Refugees” is maybe my favorite song I’ve ever written, and it’s going to be on the debut RSS album, Ghosts In A Burning [...]

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So I was reading this interview with the lovely and talented Miss Amanda Palmer, and some of what she says made me think of the commentary on the music industry I wrote for Mperia, back in the day — specifically, my little manifesto, “Burning Down The House”. Since Mperia is long gone and the original [...]

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