Saturday, February 18, 2006
First Real Post
Current mood: excited
Alright.
So this is my first real blog...
It's kind of a weird format to me, so give me a couple of posts till I'm able to loosen up.
Our new album, Pick A Bigger Weapon, is finally coming out on April 25th, 2006. For those of you who have been following along, I'm sorry for the false release dates that came before this. I'm finally working with a real label that understands, more than our previous labels did, about promotion and distribution. We're just making sure we have enough time for publicity and promotion.
XLR8R says it's our "best work to date". It's hard for me to compare our albums in that way, but I definitely feel like we upped our ante on lyrics and production. It also feels a little more concept-oriented as a whole, partly due to a storyline that runs through some of the songs and partly due to me allowing my personal life to invade my work instead of distract me from it. Being that for some people this will be the first album they've heard from The Coup, I'd have to say that I'm proud to have this album represent what our music is about.
Our problems in the past (besides being somewhat shut out of the industry at times for our political beliefs) have been distribution and marketing. I'm so tired of the fact that people have problems finding our albums in the stores. When someone is trying to buy your album
and the store doesn't have it, if they're a fan of your music, they'll look for it somewhere else or come back another day. But, if they have just heard about us or they are just a little interested (which account for many record sales), they'll buy something else and forget about us for a while.
On the marketing side I'll be putting out a call for promotion help to those of you that are interested in helping us get out there more. I'll speak more on that later.
(BTW- A big shot out to the folks that have already been getting the word out about us. It is VERY appreciated. We need all the promo we can get!)
We will also do another headlining tour in May followed up by a very high profile spot on a summer tour which I cannot devulge anymore details about at this time.
We are working on the details of a video for this album. The song hasn't been picked yet, although it will probably be our next single, which is called "We Are The Ones".
There's also a song on the album called "Captain Sterling's Little Problem" which is also the theme song to a great new documentary about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam rebelling against their officers (which was apparently a common occurrence) called "Sir, No Sir" (
www.sirnosir.com).
I plan on posting regularly, so check back...
Peace!
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