Just got off the air at Transmission FM, Auckland, New Zealand! So exciting! Now I can’t sleep. XD They played a couple of songs – Outbirds and Artefacts – and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE so exciting! I hope I didn’t babble too badly. Thanks for having me on, and welcome anybody who was listening and decided to check us out!

Next up: live show, Thursday, 8pm, Norwescon Science Fiction Convention! See you there, I hope!

I can talk about one of the secrets now!

Tuesday: CRIME and the Forces of Evil, Live interview: Transmission FM (88.3), 9:30pm, Auckland, New Zealand. Yes: I’m getting airplay in New Zealand. And an interview! WOOOOOOOOOO! That’s 2:30am Cascadian Standard Time Tuesday morning! Which is crazytalk! I will be soooooooo drunk sleepy! But it will be awesome. Thanks so much to Daphne Lawless of Vostok Lake for hooking me up, hopefully it’ll be great fun and at least vaguely coherent. XD

Averaging over 100 plays a week for two straight weeks? You guys think of everything. Thanks so much! o/

Relatedly, Dick Tracy Must Die is now on CD Baby! There are currently no reviews; the link went live Thursday. A couple of you have reviewed it elsewhere; any chance you’d copy those over to the CD Baby reviews page? Or if you haven’t, and you have a CD Baby account, and feel like dropping a nice note, it’d be awfully cool. I wish the 30-second excerpts they’d picked were better; I’ve edited them, but they haven’t updated yet. That might happen by the time you read this!

We should be on iTunes in about three weeks; Amazon, in four to six. Scary. And awesome.

Thanks everybody who commented one way or another about genres. I ended up with altfolk and altmetal/punk. Let’s hope that works!

This guy played “Come On Eileen” in acoustic form at the Dubliner last night, a few acts before me. He was followed by somebody who did some really good acoustic Led Zeppelin:

I was going to be up in Snohomish tonight, but this stupid Norwescon project… agh, I bit off too much. I’m never doing this ticket-book thing again. Not without a big enough budget to get it hired out. Seriously, this is stupid.

So that’s my weekend: stapling together fake publicity ticket books. XD What’re you doin’ this weekend?

Given the limited top-level genre options available for my album on CD Baby, which top-level genre category do you think I should set? This is important for browsing and all that. Currently I’ve piked Folk:Power Folk and Avant Garde:Expermental but I’m having second thoughts. Here are some categories:

• Folk : Power Folk
• Folk : Alternative Folk
• Metal/Punk : Alternative Metal
• Avant Garde : Experimental
• Rock : Post-Rock/Experimental
• Something else, but check CD Baby first

I need to approve all this as soon as they make the changes to the short sample clips that I ordered. Click here to listen if you want a refresher.

I hate it when I have shit goin’ on and gettin’ lined up and I can’t talk about it because it’s not final. I hate it so much!

So much.

Secrets are hard. I hate having to keep my big mouth shut.

But I can say this: Seattleites! Sonic Boom Records in Ballard has Dick Tracy Must Die in stock now. YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Pre-orders are all shipped! Most sponsor discs are shipped, or will be Saturday mid-day. (I just need an address from someone who I think moved but I’m not sure.) Discs go to CD Baby tomorrow, too. Yay!

Here, please enjoy someone else’s poetry about supervillains. These are the more conventional type, but I have to say, we have a lot of sympathy. A lot.

In other news, my Nook’s case got here, and! so did! my iPad! And I played here on Thursday, and gave out so many cards I ran out. Time to make more!

Hi from Crossroads!

Got any plans this weekend?

Imagespam! These guys played before me at the Snohomish Thumbnail Theatre:

I was here, last night, at the Stepping Stone in Ballard:

Today I’ve been doing this and this:

and

And tonight I’ll be back with these guys:

…makin’ with th’ session action.

That’s my week. What’ve you been doin’?

After much too much time, I present production run 1, disc 1:

Dick Tracy Must Die

Inside | Back | o/

There are a bunch more too, I just haven’t photographed them yet.

Also, and not to be forgotten, here’s the second review I’ve seen! It’s by Gifted Gear on Livejournal, who gives the album five! stars! o/ and says:

I could say a lot of things about this album, I could talk about how awesome the drums sound, I could talk about how cool the very idea of mandolin thrash metal is, I could talk about how beautiful Let Me Help is or how creepy Artefacts You’ll Never See is (even though I still don’t know what it’s about), but I’m not going to do any of that. Instead, I’m just going to say this: Dick Tracy Must Die rocks like some sort of big rocking thing that rocks. So stop reading this review and go listen to the album.

Fuck yeah! Go do that! XD

If anybody’s in Ballard, I’m planning on hitting the Stepping Stone on tonight. Ja ne!

Recently, we got a request – well, more of a demand, really – to do one particular traditional song, now embedded below. It came from a trio of vocalists you have almost certainly heard, and might well recognise; they’ve been around a while. We’re very excited to have had the unavoidable opportunity to work with them! Give a listen, and see if you don’t recognise the guest performers on this, the new Trad o’ th’ Month:

Whaddya think, sirs?

I miss me some Invader Zim pretty fierce. So original-cast readings of unproduced scripts? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.