News from Nowhere

Posted on November 27, 2010

hey folks,

Well it’s been a rough year for me music-wise, mostly I’ve been been working my ass off trying to keep my band from falling apart after two of our members decided to bail and work on a new project together instead. As of right now though things have finally stabilized and we’re playing shows again and making moves. We’re still looking for a drummer and (maybe) an accordionist but there’s no rush. We can rock the house as a quartet just fine and we’d rather take our time and get the right person.

My big project for the week was putting together a database of festivals that I want to apply for in 2011 and re-writing all our press materials. It’s not terribly glamorous but it’s a big part of being an independent artist and at the end of the day I’d rather build my own database and write my own press materials then have a label take over that work and then try to tell me what I can and can’t say on the mic. Yes, I know, I have a problem with authority. I figure that’s a good thing. So if you’re throwing a big event in 2011 and want the Fire to come burn shit down, well there’s no time like the present to hit me up.

In the meantime we’ve been doing a lot of local shows, mostly house parties and benefits and such. We played a couple shows at the Hellarity House in Oakland and did a benefit for Black Mesa Indigenous Support this month and we’ve got a benefit for Food Not Bombs at the Ashkenaz in Berkeley scheduled for mid-december. We’ve also got a gig set up in Alameda for february and I’m working on a couple shows for january in the meantime. More on those as things come together, I promise.

As far as my solo music, it’s been a long time since I released an Emcee Lynx album for the obvious reason that most of my songwriting and energy has been going into the band, but I’ve recently started working on beats for what may well be my first solo album since 2005. Think dark, glitchy, downtempo electronica/trip-hop/industrial… a lot like my first album in fact only with (hopefully) better production values and the benefit of having been writing and performing for 10 more years. I’m not going to promise ya’ll a release date yet but it’s in the works and I’m thinking late 2012~ish. Maybe sooner, maybe not. Don’t know yet.

In the meantime, we’ve put Liberty and Weapon of the Future on sale over at BandCamp so if you’ve been sleeping there’s no time like the present to get my latest work.

solid,
lynx