Rise of Saturn Saves Mohawk Bomb Records with a Little Help from 89 Friends!
Rise of Saturn Recording Pledge Infomercial
Rise of Saturn is trying to use the Internet to raise $5,000 to record their full length album. This is not a charity thing though. There are rewards for people that invest. To help them explain the rewards, they have made the following infomercial. Thanks to Kevin O’Dunn for making it happen.
Help Save Mohawk Bomb Records!
As you all know, times are tough. Since we started cranking out music in 2008, it has been an uphill battle against low music sales, the tanking economy and the ballooning of music creation costs. It is because of all this that Mohawk Bomb Records is in dire straits. But you can help.
Rise of Saturn has teamed up with Kickstarter to help them raise money to record an album and revive the label.
Essentially, Kickstarter helps people find backers for their creative projects. In return, the fundees (the band) promise to deliver on certain promises. From getting a free CD to getting a custom song written, backers definitely get their money’s worth and help a struggling artist in the process. See the entire list of rewards or click on the widget. You can donate any amount over $1!
If this project fails, we may have to close our doors. Of course, you can also help by purchasing any of our releases too. Regardless, it’s been a fun ride. We hope to stick around for a long time. It’s really… up to you.
Mohawk Bomb Parts Ways with Ascending to Avalon
Mohawk Bomb is sad to announce that we have parted ways, amicably, with Ascending to Avalon. The guys are excersing the “self-release” clause in their contract and releasing Behold the Wicked on their own. Having only months left on their term, we have mutually agreed that it would be the best course of action to part ways.
We are still cool and there are no hard feelings. We wish them the best.
Rise of Saturn – Double Drummer Solo [Video] from Gas Alley Show, 03.13.2010
UK’s The Overflow Plays 2 Tracks from No Lip Vol. 3
2 tracks from No Lip Vol. 3 have been recently featured on our favorite indie Alternative radio show in the UK. Garry Lee recently spun 900 Pound Gorilla’s “Roller Derby Girl” and Dead Sea Surfer’s “Already Home“.
The Overflow Radio Show is a weekly 3 hour radio show, featuring a selection of brand new and pre-releases. The programme is split into three parts. Hour 1 – The heaviest of the new releases, featuring all the latest Hard-rock & Metal etc. Hour 2 – New releases from the world of Indie, Rock & the various cross-overs. Hour 3 – The latest avant-garde & more unusual alternative releases. This programme can be heard Saturday evenings between 5-8pm on River Gibbs FM and on Holland’s finest : Radio Seagull 1602AM, between 8-11pm (UK Time).
“Flesh and Bone” New Ascending to Avalon Track Posted on Band’s MySpace
Palm Harbor’s Ascending to Avalon have been hard at work on their follow up full-length, Behold the Wicked, at various locations in Pinellas County. To show their progress, the band has posted the first track, “Flesh and Bone”, on their MySpace page.
Singer/guitarist/writer Ryen Gerson shares on the band’s blog:
“‘Behold the Wicked’ is an exercise in being a hard rock band. it takes the heavier sounds we touched on in the EP and magnifies them, it really gets that out of our system. It also touches on sounds we have not explored as a group. I guess in short this record is part heavy rock record and part art rock record, i won’t say any more though
I’ll leave that a surprise for the ones who come to the shows and pick up the record.”
Behold the Wicked is due in April/May 2010.
