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Another Reason to Love Emperor X

If you have purchased a vinyl copy of The Blythe Archives Vol. 1, then you may have been aware of a geocaching exercise, a game in which Chad has hidden cassette tapes with extra material that become unlocked once the bounty has been uncovered. Each volume of The Blythe Archives contains information which may be used to locate additional musical material cached throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. The data range in form from etched GPS coordinates to lyrical pointers suggesting specific mass transit stations. At present, the approximate location ofeight caches are known, though it is likely that many more exist. Of these known eight caches, one has been found, one has likely been destroyed, and six remain buried. The watertight caches contain original master cassette tapes and miscellaneous documents. These cassette tapes are the only extant physical copies of the music they contain. However, instructions accompanying each cache tell the finder how to unlock MP3 files stored in this online Georepository which contain all audio from the tapes. Once the MP3s are unlocked, the Georepository server will display links to these files in the space below for public download. I’ll direct your attention to the Emperor X site which reveals the…Continue readingAnother Reason to Love Emperor X

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A message from Foxhole: The full-length Foxhole record that was scheduled for release in 2007, then 2008, then some distant point in the future, is finally being recorded. Right now. This very minute. We’ve converged from Texas, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky and Tennessee to put five years’ worth of concepts and structures and visions into a consumable format. We’ve been consumed with a new sense of urgency, and the realization that music not heard is not music at all. Of course, we don’t really tour. And we’re not too good at self-marketing, either. But the songs — we’re biased, obviously, but we think they’re worth something. So we’ve set up a Kickstarter account to help pay for the up-front costs of recording. We’re inviting what fans we may have left to contribute, and in return get not only the album (the minute it’s released), but also a ton of unreleased material, B-sides, outtakes and such — as well as the opportunity to donate “found sounds” that will be used on the record. (There are other perks too, for big spenders, if in fact there are any out there.) We’ll also be keeping a studio blog, with pics and video and the…Continue readingFoxhole News