I just found out from a comment on YouTube that my Afraid Not Scared video has been mentioned in an online weekly show dedicated to discovering new independent music – it is called Tim’s Week, you should check it out. This particular show is the one I’m being mentioned in by the way.
Also, on a blog called World United Music I have been added to a playlist called “Great Indy Artists On Youtube” . I really appreciate it. I like being mentioned like this.
Anybody else want to make like these nice people and tell people about me, huh?

If you head on over to the Modern Folk genre page at CdBaby, the very first thing you will see there is my album art at the new arrivals tab. This won’t be for very long though – it is however very comforting to have my album shoved into the faces of all those CdBaby visitors who like this genre of music – my album art will be displayed there for only 24 hours. After that it will slowly slip downwards on the New Arrivals tab. What this means is, after this had happened, it will be totally up to me to make it stand out of the clutter. Here’s how you can help me out:

Head on over to the Monsters In Rome album page at CdBaby.com and submit a review of the album. Normally, this is only done by people who have already purchased the record, but anybody visiting my website has had the chance to listen to my entire album, not just song 15 second snippets (like on iTunes or most other digital outlets) so you are more than qualified to review it. I don’t necessarily want you to kiss my talent, it’s totally fine if you write hilariously bad things too – just say something.

I will let you know when the album reaches iTunes, it should happen withing the next 3 weeks or so.

BTW: Have you seen my new video? I’m performing a totally acoustic live version of Down Slow on YouTube. Check it out!

When I first started recording for the Indie Folker project, I haven’t realized this entire thing is going to be this much about videos and filming and stuff like that. I’m not saying that I’m not enjoying it – because I really do – but recently I’ve been spending so much time watching videos, I forgot to finish some of the songs I was going to record next month. I am going to the UK for the summer and I really wanted to lay down some tracks before I went. That is probably not going to happen now, I might record some tunes while I’m there – I did plan on meeting up with a few singers/songwriters in the London area – so who knows?
Anyway, we’ve been talking about a video idea for Monsters In Rome since quite a while now, and as I usually get very anxious about new thins, I neglected most of my musical responsibilities in the video’s favor. I won’t be sharing very much information about this, because the big bad PR fella might decide to eat me for breakfast, but it’s definitely going to feature some of these curiously death-defying things: a cute dancing clown, some confetti, marmalade, a baby elephant, my bowler’s hat, red wine, a kitty, more red wine and a pair of really ugly hiking shoes. Sounds like loads of fun, doesn’t it? Stay tuned for that, I will be uploading the results to my YouTube channel, and will also feature it here on the site.

Amongst the many videos we’ve been hacking and slashing in the past few weeks there was one that quickly became one of our top 2: a short film called Super 8 by Sonja Menting. I’ve contacted Sojna, begging her to let us use her footage, and she was very open about it (of which I am very thankful of). I also found out during our conversations that she will be filming another super 8 film in Beijing this summer – so watch out for that! I will be keeping my eyes on her Vimeo profile just in case…
As much as we loved the film though, after much consideration, we’ve decided upon another concept for the video (the result of which you can see right here). As Sonja pointed out herself, the moped story doesn’t really complement the message of the song, nor vice-versa. The footage montage we’ve used from some amateur home movie from the time of the Great Depression seemed to do a lot better job in this case. Hope you like it! We sure did spend a lot of time on this!