Christmas Sale: We’re Waking Up in Time for Winter
Hey all,
“Chris, you never call anymore!” I hear you say. OK. Guilty as charged. I know it has been 7 months since the Fear of Heights played a show. And I know the last thing I told you about was my feature on the cover of Arc Magazine way back in June and our cancelled gig in August.
But family medical emergencies are behind us (thanks to the many of you who sent your love, prayers, and healing hippie-vibes our way) and it is time once again to burst boldly into song. So we’re back in practice mode and hope to have a solid concert on the books soon.
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In the meantime, I wanted to let you know 2 things:
1) A brand new Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights album is almost finished. We’re in the penultimate phase of mixing this week and, if all goes according to plan, should get this thing out by early Spring. It, of course, sounds like total radness and I’m psyched for folks to hear it.
2) If there is one thing I stand behind, it is a small deed encouraging Christmas-oriented commerce. To that end, I submit to you Holiday shoppers a fantastic gift-buying opportunity… from now until December 24th, ALL Chris Robley, Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights, and THE SORT OFs albums are available in CD Baby’s $5 Sale. Buy 3 or more different titles from the sales bin and you’ll get them for $5 each (otherwise they remain at their normal selling price).
Chris Robley- the drunken dance of modern man in love
Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights- movie theatre haiku
The Sort OFs- anxiety on parade
Looking for that perfect something for the music aficionado in your life? Don’t just grab some crappy, over-compressed, auto-tuned Billboard smash off of the end-cap at Target. Give the gift of ME! I come with all my shots and can provide references upon request. (Though I suppose I would probably just refer you to the press page on my website since I’m lazy.)
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More soon!
I hope everyone has an above average holiday season full of senseless kindness and all manner of frivolity.
Word,
Chris Robley
http://blog.chrisrobley.com/
I am glad to hear family medical emergencies are behind you. I wish you and yours well, Chris, and the rest of the Fear of Heights in all your various forms. I’m glad I got to see you in San Diego a few times at Lestat’s. Now do a national tour and hit Chicago, as that’s where I live now.
Chris…I read your “diatribe” on CDBaby about radio distribution, which in turn led me to hear your music and I am obliged to thank you for your great musical work–you know, that’s what it’s all about. Also, it is important that what you said about radio distribution become common knowledge, so I thank you for that. One day it will be, because of voices like yours. It seems that in 2010 the extent of corruption in the music promotion world is worse than ever. I worked for a year with the person who is the biggest selling artist in the U.S. today, and I can tell you that what you said is exactly true about her. The payola handouts just got better hidden–her “record label” actually “thanked” the radio stations for “giving her a chance” as part of their homespun-image-crock-of-shit, and I consider her success to be THE low point in the history of art struggling to overcome fraud.
But it is also true that 30 years ago in Seattle, the punk-grunge movement anticipated such corruption’s inevitable presence, and managed to launch a meteor. Obviously we need to create an alternative-to-radio system so that the present “radio” business can be made obsolete. And that takes a lot of word of mouth, like yours, and public demand, and encouragement, and excellent music. I am telling you because you already said what was true about the payola, in public–what I am adding to the picture, for your own edification, is that the situation is even FAR worse than you described. Remember, it is not just that the hand-shaking that goes on is “unfair”–it is illegal, and THAT’S the line that these people are willing to cross that makes them so different. But great music and fine minds like yours end up being listened to without the payback that eventually catches up to people that take great moral risk, so you and your music will win out in the end, in a big way, sooner than you think. The underground movement will succeed again.