Phantom Scream

Our friends from Five Mile Town is having a CD release show of their own! So, they’ve invited us to rock with them at No Future Cafe this Friday, April 11th, 2008 starting at 8pm. You won’t want to miss this — we’ll pull out the new and old stuff!

• 8pm — Phantom Scream
• 9pm — Five Mile Town
• 10pm — Ashore

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We’re playing at The Airliner this Saturday, March 22nd at 5pm – listen to our new stuff (which isn’t on the CD) and hang out with us! (Shows)

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Bill has some cool news for us tonight – we could play at The Airliner Club on Sunday, February 10th at 5pm 4:45pm. Wicked!

If you come, we guarantee you’ll hear the new stuff. With me on bass. It’ll rock. Plus Doc’s got some longer sustaining screams, and Bill has a new setup. We’ll also bring our latest (and only CD) in case you prefer it over the download.

More details will come in the next few days (i.e. who else will perform, and if it’s all ages), so I’ll update this post as soon as we find that out.

Update 2/1/08 – It’s 18+ only and costs $5 to get in. There’s a bar, and a one drink minimum for those 18-20 years of age for $3.

From Arcadia/Whittier, take I-10 West or CA-60 West to I-5 North. Exit Broadway and turn right. The Airliner is on your left, and there’s parking in rear. (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps)

Update 2/6/08 – Here’s the Upcoming event link to help invite your friends.

Update 2/10/08 10pm – Thanks to everyone who came to our show! We had a blast and felt really confident for our first show of the year. We hope you enjoyed the new songs, too. Have a great week! [Bryan]

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I convinced the others to let me do this. We want more exposure, but Myspace and PureVolume aren’t getting it done. (Not entirely their fault – it doesn’t help when we can’t promote ourselves as much as we’d like.)

We hope that you’ll like us enough that’ll you recommend it to your friends and send us a few bucks. Or, if you really like the feel of a physical CD, you can order that and we’ll send it to you…shrink-wrapped and ready to enjoy.

What’s the logic? Let’s say 10,000 people download and listen to our CD at no cost. If 5,000 people like it and [hopefully] send five bucks our way, that’s $25,000.

We’ll thrive on word-of-mouth. You’ll be our Street Team.

Catch? With the help of Amazon S3, we’re seeding it using Bittorrent. If you’re on Windows, µTorrent rocks. I think Mac users like Transmission, but I’m not sure. Nate Ritter loves Xtorrent.

Please seed our CD as long as you can.

I’ve said too much. I hope I didn’t lose you. Thanks and enjoy!

Note: So we can keep track of hits, please pass on this link as opposed to emailing the torrent file to your friends. Also, notice that the PayPal link isn’t up yet – I’ll put that up ASAP.

Click here to Download Chronology EP [Bittorrent] – Preferred way to help us out

Click here to Download Chronology EP [Direct] – Mooch, but understandable if you don’t do Bittorrents.

CLICK HERE TO SEND US SOME CASH!

Update 2007-12-04 8:50am: I’ve changed my mind. Since I’m discriminating people who don’t use Bittorrent, I’ll put the “direct” download link. (I’m not showing the exact location.) When the bandwidth for the month gets too high for me, I’ll remove the link and file. But, I’ll put it back the next month.

Update 9:27am: Thanks to Fireside Media for donating a lot of bandwidth! I feel blessed.

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Our awesome friend, Logan, gave out 62 copies of Chronology EP (minus a few tracks) to friends and random strangers in Long Beach. If you’re reading this, we hope you loved the music!

Add us at Myspace because we post bulletins for our shows and stuff, or subscribe to this RSS feed (if you know what I’m talking about).

Great, your eyes glazed over.

Anyway, thanks Logan!

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We had a great show last night – it was awesome rocking with alongside Five Mile Town and Six Shooter Mary! Thanks to everyone who came to see us, and a special thanks to Alex Orsburn for manning the table in the back and selling CDs for us.

If you weren’t there, you’ll want the Chronology EP, huh?

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No Future Cafe, September 7^th, 8pm

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A few days after our last show, Prescott and the guys from Five Mile Town asked us if we could play with them on Friday, September 7^th. Last week, it’s finally confirmed – we’re going to play at the No Future Cafe again!

• 8PM – Phantom Scream
• 9PM – Five Mile Town
• 10PM – Six Shooter Mary

Thanks for working that through, Prescott!

Upcoming event link

Update 9/5/07: We’re releasing our CD at this show, too! We’ve only ordered 100 for now, so it’ll be first come, first served once the table is setup. How much? $5 each.

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We’re finished with our first EP! We just have to title it and make CDs to get it out to the world. It came out really good and we’re all proud of it.

Bill got the mastered copy, cut up the songs, faded them in and out, then saved it as a short sample. You can hear it at our Myspace page.

On a quasi-side note, we got Michael Tadman (deviantART) to do artwork for us. His work is tight!

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Bill, James and I are going to jam in the garage in an hour. James is more reluctant because he’s exhausted from intense manual labor these past two weeks. Anyway, it sounds like Bill’s got new material up his sleeve and he wants me to get on bass guitar since Dan’s leaving in two months.

I’m not looking forward to the heat of the garage. (What else is new?)

At 1pm, Bill’s going back to meet with Nacho (from 459 Audio Recreations) to redo one of the guitar parts in one of the songs. James and I might tag along. There’s a few small things we wanted to tweak before Nacho gets it mastered.

How’s your Saturday?

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