The EP is available for download on Amazon.
Word is, it's also up on Napster (I don't have a subscription, so I haven't seen it).
iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic is soon to come.
You should buy it!
That's right ladies and gentlemans. We have the CDs in our hands!
To get one in your hands, either come see us at a show (the show next thursday at the Rutledge should be crazy awesome - and it's free!), or send us a message. They are 5 bucks (plus shipping if you're not in Nashville). We'll get an online store up soon, but we're doing it the old school out of the trunk of the car way.
Should be up on iTunes by the first week of July.
We're almost done.
So.... close...
We're mastering tomorrow. Hope to have new tracks up in the next few days...
You probably can tell by now, we have a new myspace layout. Whoo hoo! We’re still going to tweak here and there, but we didn’t want to wait to get it up any longer!
The album is still in the works. Of course, that’s obvious - if it wasn’t in the works, it would be out of the works, and then it would available. It’s not available.
In the mixing process, we got some great advice from Nathan Dantzler - and thus we decided to get it mixed by someone other than ourselves. Nathan was going to do it, but he’s got another project starting tomorrow, so there was no time. At the moment, we’re trying to firm up who will be mixing the EP, so we’re kind of at a stand still on the album. That’s no fun, but we really want this thing to be top quality - which means it’s worth it to postpone it a couple of weeks. Heck - we never announced a release, so the only expectations we’re slipping on are our own!
We’ve got some shows coming up in April - 2 in Murfreesboro (though they’re private shows, so don’t get too excited, unless you’re among the people that are... private..?) and then Nashville - Elevation and French Quarter. Bring your friends. And acquaintances. And people you don’t even know.
We love you.
-David
We've been going at it for the last 6 hours or so and let me say that the time has flown by. Hopefully with the progress we made today, the following few days will go by a little more smoothly since we've been able to hone in on and bring out a lot of the great tonal qualities of our recordings. Matt, David and Brink are very adept in the technicalities of recording, so it's great to have people with vested interest actually behind the board bringing out the most of each song. Just in the few minutes it's taken me to write this, Matt has done some things that have taken the overall sound of TWISG from a 6 to about a 9. So that's incredibly encouraging.
We're hoping to have all five songs done within the next week and a half. Then it's off to the mastering studio. This is all very exciting considering the fact that we've never really had anything mastered before. The songs, at least in our own opinion, sound pretty great as is. But, getting to master them will take things to whole new level.
We've been discussing EP names and have narrowed things down to three pretty appropriate titles. All five songs are fairly dark, lyrically that is, so the name might be as well. We think we know what we want but as with many things in life, that could change. Sitting here now I realize that this whole ordeal has been a long time coming... quite overdue to say the least.
About two weeks ago we went out with a Nashville based photographer and got some pretty cool press shots. One of those you can see now as our new profile pic. She had us try a bunch of cool things and in the end, we got some pictures that I think we're all pretty proud of. Once the EP drops, we'll put up a new myspace layout and post some of the new pics. Hopefully then we'll be well on our way to doing this full-time. Gotta be honest, trying to make an album AND work 40+ hours a week at a job you can't stand isn't exactly light and fluffy.
I think that's it for now. Keep checking back for updates and new songs. You never know what might pop up. Thanks for all your support. You are why we are here.
Hildee
Thursday, 1/24/08
This is a place to keep up with what's happening in the recording process. So far we've recorded everything but bass and vocals. We know that normally drums and bass are recorded first, but we're doing it a little backwards out of necessity. We recorded the drums at our friend's studio, Sunset Blvd Studios, in Franklin, but the rest is being recorded at home. Tonight, we're working on some vocals and might try to get to a little bass. Check back this weekend for some more updates.
MB
Saturday, 1/26/08
Today Andy and I got together to try to finish the bass. Our EP is going to have five songs and we had finished two songs on bass so far. It seemed to go pretty quick once we got started. The main problem we were facing was the monitor mix, since Andy likes to hear a lot of his bass in the headphones. Also, we were having some trouble getting any punch on the bass, but overall it went well. Andy plays a Warwick bass and we used a D6 on the cab (Eden) and also direct in.
Now that we've finished bass, we still have two songs left to finish on lead vocals, harmonies on all the songs, and some keyboard to record. We also might go back and re-record the guitar on "Betrayer", since it sounds really thin. It's a slow process and we're all ready to get this EP finished and focus completely on booking and playing shows.
MB
If you're interested in joining our street team, send us a message with your Name, City, and Email address so that we can send you more information.
Currently, we're looking for people to help us with...
-Creating & posting flyers around towns that we're playing shows in and online
-Sending announcements on Manic Bloom events to friends
-Spreading the word about Manic Bloom
MB
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