News – Page 3 – Paul Melancon

21 December, 201521 December, 2015

Yes, There Is New Music!

A brand new song, all for you, called “Super Rocket X-1,” will be available exclusively on Bandcamp on January 8, 2016! In fact, all that weekend it will be available for download FOR FREE! And for that low, low (nonexistent) price, you’ll also receive 3 extra songs we recorded: Pink Floyd’s “Time,” Radiohead’s “Airbag,” and David Bowie’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide.” Why? Because we love you, that’s why!

After that weekend, the EP will be available for $1.99, and shortly thereafter the single itself will also be available on iTunes, Spotify, and all the other usual suspects.

This song might rock you, it might help to fight intergalactic intrigue, or it might even help you to find dangerous love. But most importantly, it will NOT be part of our upcoming record (more news on which soon), so snap it up while it’s FREE starting on January 8!

2 November, 20151 November, 2015

Clearing the Books

I have this blog.txt file always sitting around on my computer, where I write down things I intend to mention here. It grows and grows and I never seem to get around to making with the words. So, here’s all of the stuff…

There is a new record in the works. Nearly fully written (I’m shy lyrics for 3 songs), I’m hoping to have it out in the early part of 2016. I have elaborate plans surrounding it, lots of moving parts, and I don’t know if I can pull it off. But we’ll see how it goes. Either way, there will be a record. I can’t make a decision regarding how much to share about the process and the plans… is it better to put it out in the world without looking behind the curtains or is that fun? I have no idea.
There is a second side project I am working on with what should end up being a lot of people. If anything, it is even less sensible than the first. Same curiosity on my part about oversharing it before its anywhere close to done.
I am also fast getting to the point where the talking and thinking about these projects are just new methods of not DOING them. It’s about having to trick yourself, but every trick eventually gets figured out and skirted and you have to find another. My brain is like a corporation dumping cancer into a river.
People, if you want to feel energized about being creative and about doing whatever the hell idea you want to do and screw everyone else… watch the film Jodorowsky’s Dune. I can’t tell you this strongly enough.

7 April, 20157 April, 2015

Things are on the way!

Hello earthlings! I like when people give me updates. I fancy that you might feel the same. Please do not let me know if I’m wrong.

A while back (okay, a long while back) I told you we were recording. We were. But being me is a tiring thing, so things sometimes move slowly. At the time I had a few songs and it seemed time to start recording them. But the truth is I had no overall plan for them, and I have always worked better when I have an end goal that is something more than “record the songs that are around.”

That has changed over the past few months and there is an end goal in sight now. A new record takes shape. All the songs exist in some form. Some are just sketches and others are living and breathing. All of them belong to a single (weird) story. It will be very me.

In the meantime, there will be some shows, a single (not part of the record) to tide you over, a kickstarter, recording… and then, supreme overlords willing, a new record in early 2016.

Bit by bit I will tell you more, as much to keep you informed as to commit myself to its completion.