stuff we’re doing. stuff we like. stuff we’re thinking about. stuff like that.
So we’re going to be playing the Silver Dollar tonight with Kinetic Stereokids and Europe In Colour. Doors at 10:30, and we’re going on at 11 sharp.
That said, read i (heart) music’s latest entry. Among many other reasons, this is why we don’t support nor belong to SOCAN. What a bullshit scam of an organization.
So we’ve been asked to join an awesome bill coming up on Saturday May 16th at the Silver Dollar Room. The Kinetic Stereokids are a five piece out of Flint, Michigan, home of Glen Rice (who had one of the prettiest shots in the NBA - back of the rim, straight down), Morris Peterson (of Toronto Raptor & Michigan State Fame), and the United States of America’s largest brownfield in Buick City.
They’ll be another band joining the bill - we’ll keep you posted.
New room for you, two new songs (!!!) for you to hear, new bands, good times.
So Canada is on the copyright blacklist. Really. Seriously? Really!?
Well, we didn’t make NxEW’s Mixtape #1, but we did make it into NxEW’s Mixtape #2! If you’re not familiar with what they’re trying to do, go check out NxEW’s blog for more details. It’s a great attempt to aggregate what’s going on across an impossibly huge Canada.
Justin, a big force behind NxEW, has been a solid supporter of what The Craft Economy has done in the past. You can check out some of his other work at publicbroadcasting.ca.
Some exciting news regarding our remix project.
Pete Nickerson, a Toronto based engineer & producer, and bass player for the Toronto based band Cedar, is also going to take on Menergy!
Mr. Furious, of robodance fame, will be remixing The Tonic (one of our favourite songs to play). Mr. Furious is a seasoned producer/dj/musician who has spent past years djing and producing drum and bass and electro. He’s played shows with Human Kebab (from USS), Golden Girls, and TMDP, to name a few. Terence is currently also playing in Cobra, where he is revisiting his guitar/rock roots.
Lauren Burrows, the very cool radio host from CBC Radio 3, interviewed Andrew about creative commons and our remix project.
You can hear the interview here.
(And if I sound like some heavy breathing perv, it was because I completely out of breath. I was wrestling with my daughter - who actually hung up on Lauren the first time - when she called).
I talked to Jeff Lee of minisystem over the weekend. He’s excited about working on one of remixes, and we’re incredibly excited about having him do something with our songs. His first release on Noise Factory, madingly, is lush, rich and melodic as all hell. Can’t wait to hear what he does.
Like everybody else, we’re on twitter: http://twitter.com/thecrafteconomy.
All of our work is released under a Creative Commons license, but we’d also like to help people creative derivative works. To that end, let us know if you’d like to remix any of our tracks from the new EP.
We’ll send you whatever you want, you remix it in whatever way you want, and license it under the same Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. And if it is good, like really good, maybe we can put it on our next CD single, due for this spring (and even give you a cut of all the millions we’re making doing this music thing). Email us at theband@thecrafteconomy.com if you’d like to remix something.
We’re going to be on CIUT this Friday, sometime around 4:30 - 5:00. Alexandra Simion will be hosting us on ‘Dreaming In Stereo’. We won’t be playing, just talking about ourselves like the megalomaniacs we are.
Then we go on and play Pop Noir at the Boat on Augusta. We’ll be on around 10:15.