Infuze Magazine has a great interview with Randall Goodgame that you should check out. In it Randall talks about how he got his start as a musician, what he plans on recording after the children’s record releases, and the writing project he wants to embark on this summer. good stuff.
Don’t forget about tonight’s Katy Bowser chat!
My site logger tells me that a lof of you have been checking out our still-being-built Square Peg Discography, but I do want to point all of you to it. It’s designed to be a jumping off point for you to get to know more about the Square Pegs. Chances are that you know some but not all of the Pegs, and all this hullabaloo about the Pegs has you wanting to know more about some of the rest of the guys. [I know that this has even been the case with me, and I had seen most all of the pegs play live prior to us starting SPA.net.]
Understand that, whenever we can, we try to point you to places endorsed by the artists themselves for purchasing the album. We don’t get cuts off of the sales—Ron, Bryan, and I were very clear in the formation of SquarePegAlliance.net that we want no part of the business side of the Pegs. That’s totally their thing—we’re just here to support them in any way we know.
So keep an eye out on that Square Peg Discography: It’s always growing and changing. And big ups to Chris Hubbs for all the hard work he’s been doing on it. He’s a warrior: after all, he’s not above driving from Iowa to Nashville to see some Pegs play.
Andy Osenga let us know that SquarePegAlliance.com would be up and running soon…
It’s good to see that one of the main links is to this very site.
In case you missed it, the new SandraMcCracken.com is alive and well. It’s awful pretty.
The release date for Gravity|Love has been confirmed for September 12th. We’ll let you know about pre-orders. Sandra’s MySpace has a preview of the lead track, “Head Over Heel”.
I’ve uploaded a small set of photos where I unwrapped my copy of Katy’s All of My Friends.
The cover art is pretty cool: I wasn’t what I was originally expecting it to be, but when I figured out how Katy had done the packaging, I found it to be really, really awesome. This is do-it-yourself CD packaging with flair, folks.
We at [squarepegalliance.net] are pleased to announce the first in a series of chats with Square Peg Alliance artists! Our first chat will be with the wonderful Katy Bowser, who is, as you know, releasing All of My Friends on the 30th. [In fact, if you're smart and pre-ordered it, you might already have your hands on one already: Brandi says that she already has hers.]
Here’s the low-down on the chat:
When: Thu 29 Jun 2006, 8:00 p.m. Central [0100 GMT]
IRC Network: Undernet.org
Channel: #katybowser
If you need some advice on how to hook up to IRC, we have a page dedicated as a how-to on [squarepegalliance.net] chats all lined up for you.
Hope to see you there! The more, the merrier.
Richard pointed us to RELEVANT‘s interview with the one and only nine-toed member of the Square Peg Alliance, Andy Osenga. Andy describes the musical departure that The Morning represents for his solo work:
Musically, I’ve been such a big part of the folk circuit—a singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar—and sometimes I just hate that. It can be really boring. Don’t get me wrong … there are guys like Andy Peterson and Randall Goodgame who can get up with an acoustic guitar and blow your mind. But Nashville’s got a lot of this three-chord acoustic stuff, and I really wanted not to do that. On Christian radio, especially, an acoustic guitar is usually the biggest thing in the mix and it takes up all the space. But I’d listen to old Peter Gabriel records, and old U2 and Pink Floyd records, and they’re so huge-sounding, because there’s not something in there that takes up the whole range of your hearing. So I intentionally started every song with a drum loop—which I suck at—and keyboards—which I suck at—and built around those. The guitars were the last thing to go on, even after the vocals.
Andrew Peterson and Randall Goodgame updated us last night on the status of their upcoming combined effort kids CD. It was to have been finished in time to get in the mail today to get mixed.
According to an update on Andy’s web site, it’s being mixed by Josh Davis (The Far Country, Photographs) and Portland Studios will be doing the art for the project.
There’s no set release date yet, but the release date and ordering information will be posted here as soon as we get that info from Andrew or Randall.
If you spent time with Infuze Magazine’s interview with a bunch of the Pegs, you know that the Square Peg Alliance is all about community. So are we. Not only do we have our Peg Board and our Upcoming.org group, but we also have a SquarePegAlliance.net group on Last.FM. If you haven’t ever given Last.FM a shot, we encourage you to do so: Last.FM will help you to find new music by looking at what it is that you listen to. With plugins for every PC- and Mac-based music player that you can think of, as well as Last.FM streaming audio, not only will you be able to share your playlist with everyone but then use that information to find new artists.
Why a SPA.net group? Two-fold: 1) again, we’re about community; 2) more of us listening to more of the Pegs = more exposure for the Pegs. That’s got to be a good thing.
Sign up for Last.FM today if you haven’t already, and join the SquarePegAlliance.net group.
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