Our album is about 80% done, give or take. But we have a sampling for you. Something to download. A taste of new music.

Check out http://arsonacademy.bandcamp.com/

We have 2 songs posted. You can stream them or download them. They aren’t mastered yet. And they aren’t the final mixes. Think of them as an early gift to our fans. We love you all.

We just posted a kickstarter project for production on our album. If you don’t know what kickstarter does, here is a breakdown. It is a place where people can pledge donations for artistic projects. We are looking for 500 dollars for mastering and CD duplication.

There are rewards on the site as well. If you donate 12 dollars, we will send you a CD. So it’s like pre-paying for a disk.

If we don’t get at least $500 dollars in pledges, then no money will switch hands.

Let me put it another way; this is the new way that the music business works. Music fueled by people giving a little bit of money directly to the bands. No record company paying for limos and jets and coke. Money for music. And music for money.

Please help us with our revolution.

$12 gets you a CD
$20 gets you an autographed CD
$50 gets you my cowbell
$120 gets you my china cymbal

We just released the first single from our forthcoming full-length album. It’s called  By the Hour. Check it out here:

http://www.facebook.com/arsonacademy/app_2405167945

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We found this cute little contest where we get to beg you to vote for us so we get a chance to play Warped Tour. So, if you follow the link, then maybe good things will happen. Of course next year we plan on playing the whole tour. But it would be nice to have a warm-up show.

So, please please go vote for us.

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I know it’s old news. But that’s ok. Nick was drummer of the week on the youtube Drummer of the Week channel. Yay

We had an amazing weekend. Two shows. Opening for Dead to Me. Damn good fun. And we met a lot of people. Thanks for coming out, and screaming between songs. We debuted a new song, which was very well received. Drum tracks have been laid down in the studio.

How long it will take to finish, I cannot say. But the journey has begun, and it ends with new music for you.

There are a couple of songs available now on our Myspace page. myspace.com/arsonacademy. That’s loads of good news. I’m going to go back to watching movies. See you soon.

~ Nick