Venice is Sinking covers Okay
September 11th, 2009 by Chad Radford in Music news
Athens band Venice is Sinking has a new digital EP due out Sept. 22 via One Percent Press, titled Okay. The title is a nod to the San Francisco one-man band Okay, and it includes two Okay covers, titled “Compass” and “Give Up” which were both recorded with with Jason NeSmith of Casper & the Cookies. To make things even more confusing, the song on the EP, titled “Okay” previously appeared on VIS’s last album, AZAR — Okay?
In other VIS news the group recently raised funds to pay for their upcoming third LP, The Georgia Theatre Album via Kickstarter. As of today (Fri., Sept. 11) their website boasts that they have surpassed their goal and funded “108%” of the album’s pressing costs. “We met our goal a few days ago!” says the group’s vocalist Daniel Lawson. “We’re still encouraging folks to pre-order the album through Kickstarter and/or continue donating since all of the proceeds from the record will be going back to the Georgia Theatre.
Click below the jump to read VIS drummer Lucas Jensen’s explanation of how Kickstarter works.
“Kickstarter was started by writer Yancey Strickler and some other people who wanted to create a site for micro-fundraising of all sorts of projects, creative, charitable, goofy, serious, experimental, whatever,” Jensen explains. “They’ve had people raise money from everything for album releases (like us) to art projects (one guy wanted to do what Girl Talk does to music to comic books… I think he wanted 60 bucks!) to bizarre (some people raised money for a wedding chapel in New York City). The site takes pledges through Amazon and, if the project goes fully funded, you receive all of your money. If you don’t reach your goals, you get nada, so it’s a good incentive to really promote the heck out of it. Any extra money you raise you get to keep. They also have all sorts of helpful widgets and promotional tools built in, and the Kickstarter folks are real boosters of the different projects. It didn’t look like we were going to meet our goal for a while there, and Yancey gave me a big pep talk, and I redoubled my promotional efforts. I’ve funded two projects with them. I helped a video game camp for kids get off the ground this summer with Kickstarter, and then I did the Venice is Sinking project. We tried to do preorders for AZAR to help fund it, but it was hard because we didn’t have a well-managed central location for raising the money. It’s nice to rely on an easy-to-use, safe (payments are through Amazon.com) third party site that only takes a little bit of money (5%) off the top.”
(Photo courtesy Venice Is Sinking)
October 9th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Venice is not sinking, it is falling apart ….