$4,500 in our Kickstarter! In appreciation thereof, we now present to you our liberal interpretation of Ini Kamoze’s Here Comes the Hotstepper. We’re flexing our metal muscle.

Here Comes the Hotstepper

Thank you, everyone who pledged or promoted. Keep it going!

It’s great that we’ve had 22 requests to play a show via Eventful in the past week. It’s less great that they’ve been in 20 different cities, which would have us flying all over the place, playing to audiences of 1.1 persons at each venue, and while I do value our deep, personal relationship, I just can’t afford to do that. But fret not, lovers; I have solutions.

Solution 1)

Eventful works best when you request a show in the nearest large city within driving distance for you. If you’ve already requested your home town, get in there and request a large city nearby.

Solution 2)

Coordinate with other fans on our messageboard to figure out which cities might actually work, or to rally for us to play at your local nerd or music (or nerd music) type convention event festival. I’ve added a Shows forum to our messageboard, just for organizing shows.

Oh, hey! Did I mention our Kickstarter? Well, Kickstarter. We’re well on our way towards paying for our new album’s physical production and distribution with $4,389 banked, and to thank you, we’ll release another free song at $4,500. We’ll also thank you by sending you the special three-disc version of the album exclusive to Kickstarter pledges and letting you in on our Kickstarter-pledges-only messageboard, but you already knew that, didn’t you? If you didn’t, you have just a little over two weeks left to get the three-disc version of the album or commision a cover song. Deets on the Kickstarter page. Kickstarter. Kickstarter.

-S

We did a cover of One Headlight by the Wallflowers to celibate our Kickstarter reaching $4,000. It’s been up since Saturday but, if you missed it, you should catch it:

One Headlight.

Hope you like! We’ll release another track at $4,500.

The good people of our forums have been echoing the sentiment of many messages I get on Facebook, asking if and when we can play near them and, sympathetic to the plight that must be being geographically distant from myself, I’ve setup an Eventful profile. Eventful is a service used to gauge demand for performers by location. Now, I’ll be able to survey demand in a given area, crunch them numbers, and figure out if it makes financial sense–that is, if we’d not be losing money–to play there.

So, if you’d like us to play near you, go to our Eventful profile and demand us in your city. Just add your zip code and click the button. Demanding is much easier than it used to be in the dial-up days.

For some places, it will not take a lot of demand to make feasible a performance. In others, it will, and I’m sorry if you live in others; the best thing you can do is get a lot of your friends from Others to also demand us. I want to play everywhere, but, sadly, I don’t yet teleport.

<3,

-S

And welcome to our new website. Through our Kickstarter, fans have pledged an incredible $4,100+ towards the completion of our new album, in just two weeks, so I thought maybe I should give this place a little sprucing up, for them. You know, maybe not use Notepad to write my HTML so much anymore.

There’s a music section, housing a ton of mp3s from my various undertakings, past and present. Thought this website is focused on Double Ice Backfire, I’ve granted an often received request to make many previously-hard-to-find songs from my earlier projects available in one place. So, take a look and I bet you’ll find something you didn’t know about.

There’s a forum, with one public board for everybody, and one board just for people who’ve pledged to our Kickstarter. I feel like a lot of my listenership exists in isolated pockets that don’t know about one another but could do great things for Me and the DIB if they met and coordinated something, like a West Coast show, or buying me–oh, I don’t know–retail space I could turn into a ball pit. See, it would be a night club, and a ball pit. Both at the same time. We’ll call it The Pit. You could be in a ball pit, with me, swilling alcohol, but I need your help on this one, people. I can’t get us knee-deep in dirty red plastic and cheap martinis alone.

There’s an Info section, which serves as a primer for things you already know, but future visitors may not. It also lists contact info and instructions for requesting a press kit, if you’re all serious business.

The remix section doesn’t have any remixes yet, but it does have remix kits. Now you, or anyone, can do your own remixes of three tracks from our 2009 EP Songs From The Pit. Thrill to your own dirty drums and bass version of Publishing Rights! Excite your girlfriend with a karaoke rendition of How to Fire a Gun! Upset your roommates by playing Jam Legend to tip eht fo mottob really, really loud! All this is yours, under a Creative Commons license.

There’re shows! Wait. No. There are not shows. But get on the forums and tell use where to play, and we’ll go there and there will be shows!

And last, but not least, there is a store, where you can buy, among other sordid items, our very sexy band T-shirt, as modeled here by the very sexy Mark Schaffer.

And here by the equally but differently sexy Kristin Barron , as well as the fine young man to her right is John Chambers. You’re still my homeboy, John Chambers.

There’s also a mailing list, RSS feed, Twitter icon, Facebook Like button, and link to our Kickstarter to the right. The web is, like, all integrated with itself now. It’s pretty cool.

You know what else is pretty cool?

You are.

<3

-S