The event took place 9/15/2011.

Scott and Brian continue to make progress on the new album. All we can report at this time is that it will be a thematic/concept album. There is a lot of enthusiasm for the new project. As time allows the boys will wrap up compositions and hope to get into the studio some time in 2012.

Check out the Shows page. Brian will be playing at UBC Unplugged on 9/15/11.

That’s all for now.

They expect to begin recording in the next several months. No word on when the new album will be completed.

We hope to hit you soon with some more video updates.

Cheerz!

Cheers,
BTJ

In other music related news… the boys are pretty excited about upcoming albums and tours from some of their favorites including Ozzy, BLS, Rush, Stryper and Symphony X, to name a few.  Wouldn’t that be neat to open for, the opener for, the opener for, the opener for one of these bands…

…digressing… we’ll try to keep you up to date with occasional pictures and info as the band works on this new project.

Cheers!

–BTJ

Press Release From CDBaby:

The earthquake and its aftermath in Haiti have touched all of our lives. Many in the CD Baby family have already contributed as individuals, but we wanted to do more to help the victims of the horrible earthquake tragedy. By selling your music on CD Baby, you can help raise funds towards those affected by the disaster. Starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, we will donate $1 of our cut from every CD sale through our website, and $1 from every download sale over $8.99 on our site, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti. With your help, we hope to raise tens of thousands of dollars. Since the donation will be taken out of OUR cut of sales, you will still earn the normal amount per CD and download sale. If you’d like to help out as well, consider letting your fan base know that a portion of your sales will go to these fine organizations. Please donate directly I also urge you to make your own direct donation if you haven’t done so yet. Together, we can make a difference. Please click below to make your tax deductible donation right now. – Mercy Corps donation form. – American Red Cross donation form. – Or text “Haiti” to 90999 and a $10 donation will be charged to your phone bill. On behalf of all CD Baby employees, I thank you for helping out during this time of great human tragedy in Haiti. Sincerely,

Brian Felsen CD Baby President

I’ve been making a bit more of a concerted effort to introduce Ameted to more folks in the MySpace community of late.  Thinking about this endeavor too much usually makes me want to shy away from doing it at all.  There are so many bands and artists on MySpace—and so many of them totally rock, MySpace itself seems to suddenly be the un-cool social networking site, and then there’s always the question of what to say, what context to offer potential listeners, and so on.

I’ve read quite a bit lately on the matter, tweaked the band biography to a snappy four point, four paragraph piece (stating who we are, how we got here, what we’re doing and where we’re going), and posted our most compelling attention grabbing song in the number one slot on our play list… or have I?

The song “Change” does carry a bit of pop appeal, is a driving rocker, and conveys one of the main themes of the album well.  But in retrospect I’ve decided to take a shot at placing the title track, so-to-speak, “State of Grace” in the number one slot because this song, more than any other, captures in one single track the myriad sounds we explore on the entirety of the album.

So to those visiting the official Ameted MySpace page, for the first time or the umpteenth time, I offer up our title track as your first impression of our little project we call, Ameted.

Cheers,
BTJ

As with Tales of a Circus, all recording and mixing was done in our home studio. We did all layout design work as well. Disc Makers provides templates for their various layout options. That said, they do provide graphic design services for those so inclined.

We are very pleased with the results and have gotten a lot of positive feedback on the product. We highly recommend Disc Makers.

Check out Disc Makers online.  They have an excellent blog called Echoes and a Twitter account, each of which is always filled with valuable information for musicians.