After a lot of recording, and then having those recordings mixed and mastered by Tim Greencorn in Canada, we've got all the tracks back and Cassandra Syndrome's first album, "Of Patriots and Tyrants" will be ready for shipping in a couple more weeks (once the CD production place gets them back to us, that is).

We've just uploaded 'Skadi's Touch' from our new album onto our myspace page and our webpage, and you can play it or download it for free.  Additionally, we've got a streaming version of "None But Shadows" also available on our MySpace.

Check it out, and remember--the album is available for sale online now and will be available at our album release party at Brigid's Faire on Saturday, February 7th.

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Enjoy!!!

We have a show in Martinsburg tonight, so come out and drink with us!  Woot!!!

Doors are at 8, first band goes on at 9.

Come out and have an evening of dancing and music with us this Saturday, July 26th.  Directions and all that jazz can be found at http://www.dcmidnight.com .  DJs, cool gothic vendors, and free cake to boot!  We'll be taking the stage at 11pm.  Oh, and please feel free to post the graphic around!  :)

The Cassandra Syndrome show this past weekend at the Brass Monkey in Baltimore went pretty well, especially since it was our first time playing at the venue. irenejericho’s got a good review of the show up in the cassyndromecommunity. I have to plug their sound techs, as we threw them a pretty wicked curveball from what they’re used to, and they adapted and overcame quite admirably. That said, we’ll be making some tweaks to our live sound setup that should make things run a lot more smoothly when we play there again in August. That should be a fun show, as we’ll be playing with at least two other female-fronted heavy acts. :)Now it’s back to the recording schedule until the next show at DC Midnight on July 26^th, so hopefully we’ll be getting a lot accomplished with the album in the interim. My next project is getting a sub-woofer wired into my studio monitor setup.

we've a show this upcoming Saturday at the Brass Monkey Saloon in Baltimore.  We'd love to see a nice crowd out there, as we haven't played out since February and we can't wait for everyone to hear the new sound!



Tix are $5 in advance, $7 at the door.  You can also buy them in advance here. 

 

As Irene mentioned on cassyndrome, we've got the pictures up from the NYC Pagan Pride Day.  You can check 'em out by clicking the pic, or by clicking right here...

In other news, the NSVPA Samhain Ball is coming up in a couple weeks, on October 27th.  It'll be at the UU Church in Stephen's City, VA.  Costumes, music, dancing, all kinds of good stuff.  Keeping the theme from Irene's post, here are the top 10 (or so) reasons to come check it out.  ;)

10. This is our last show until Brigid's Faire in February.  Afterwards, we'll be focusing on recording for a few months.
9. We're adding some new danceable covers to the repertoire.  ;)
8. The debut of our newest tune.  :)
7. I've been threatening to wear spandex as part of my costume.
6. Joe's costume is going to be freakin' hilarious!
5. Irene's lost 15 pounds since August and is planning to be as naked as possible.
4. We're opening the show with 70's porn music. :D
3. Babysitting is available.
2. Irene's going to be as naked as possible.  Have I listed that one already?  Obviously that's a popular one for me.  ;)
1. This is our LAST SHOW TILL FEBRUARY.  Come on out, you know you want to.

Alright, quite the weekend, I must say.  As irenejericho mentioned in cassyndrome, we played the NYC Pagan Pride Day in Battery Park this past weekend, and it was much with the awesome.  Granted, there were some early bumps, like the generator used for power not working, but workarounds were found, like plugging into the little Food Kiosk near the space.

 The show went very well, and we had an excellent audience.  My only regret?  That we didn’t bring more CD’s to sell.  We sold out of every single Cassandra Syndrome CD we brought with us, and had about 10-15 more people come up and ask for a CD after we’d sold out!  Cards with web addy were handed out, and hopefully most of ‘em will go to the webpage and purchase it directly from there.  That’d be very cool.  So, although it started off a bit bumpy, in the end, it was probably one of the best PPD experiences I’ve had playing one as a band, and that’s two years of doing this as CS and the three previous years playing them as Revel Moon.  :)  We should have pictures up sometime early this week!

Great way to end the PPD season this year, I must say.  Now it’s a month off before the NSVPA Samhain Ball on October 27^th, which should be a lot of fun.  I just have to figure out what costume I’m going to wear.  ;)

Yeah, I know, I haven't posted in a while.  Just been a bit burnt out on the internet, I guess.  Been keeping busy otherwise, though.  This past weekend, we went up to Salem, Massachusetts to play their Pagan Pride Day event.  The show went very well, we sold quite a few CDs, and it was a lot of fun.  There were some bumps, as outlined by Irene in the update on cassyndrome , namely back problems for Joe, plane problems for BJ, I had some equipment fail at the beginning of the show and had to manually reprogram my setup for each song, and Irene followed up the show by getting very sick this week.  I think Chris came through unscathed, though.  :)

Anyhoo, we've got pics up from the show, which you can get to by clicking here, or clicking on the pic.

In other news, we got some new pics of mine and Irene's Goddess-Daughter, Isadora, sent along this weekend.  I really wished they lived closer than Arizona, I really miss her.  This pic, a "Destroyer of Worlds" pic, is my favorite...

Irene's got a whole bunch more Isadora pics up at her LJ, which you can find by clicking the pic or right here...

Well, had a good Cassandra Syndrome practice last night.  We organized and ran the sets for the Eastern Massachusetts and New York City Pagan Pride Days last night.  Everything ran pretty smoothly.  Afterwards we started screwing around with another new one, “Hell on Earth”, which is going to have quite the heavy industrial feel to it, I must say! 

I’m kind of hoping we get some time in the next few weeks to work on new stuff.  Aside from “Hell on Earth”, we’ve got riffs, concepts, and lyrics for about four more new tunes, ranging from slow, trudgy Type-O Negative sounding stuff to something kind of sexy and earthy, to a cool odd time signature drum riff that I’m dying to incorporate into a tune.  We’ll have to see where it all goes, but I’m really looking forward to hammering on some new music.  :)  Writing and performing are both things that I love, but I think I might like working out new music a little bit more.  ;)

In other news, I just realized I need to update the pictures pages with the new photos from our show at the Ocean Drive Club and Lounge.  Hopefully I'll get that knocked out no later than this weekend.  Ooops!

 

Mmmmm, trail mix.  Maybe that’ll make up for all the beer I drank while Irene and I were visiting my parents’ this past weekend?

Had a great time this past weekend, though.  It’s always nice going up to my parents, as we get to slow down for a couple days, which is always nice.  It’s also nice coming back to a short(er) work week.  :)  Heh, first day back to work today, and already it’s Cassandra Syndrome practice tomorrow night to start getting ready for the Salem, Mass and New York City Pagan Pride Days coming up this month.   

Interesting local news, I must say.  Apparently a local Pagan living up near Baltimore by the name Bunky Bartlett won the Megamillions lottery this past weekend.  Good for him!  I’m a bit surprised he went public about it, as I’m sure tons of people are going to be asking him for money now.  There most certainly is the temptation on my part to do the “hey, support the local Pagan musicians!!!” thing, so I can understand the motivation behind it.  I feel kind of bad for him, though, as I can only imagine how crazy life’s about to get for him.  I think if I won the lottery (which I’d have to buy a ticket first) I’d go the anonymous route.

It’ll be interesting to see how this infusion of money into the local Pagan/New Age community will affect everything.  Hopefully he’ll go and buy up some land, and it’ll result in more cool festivals or something (which we’ll happily play, of course), maybe a cool East Coast Burning Man or something like that, but I worry about the potential drama that might be forthcoming.  Is it wrong that there’s part of me thinking about Star Wars when the thought, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” crosses my mind?  *shrugs*

Still, many congratulations to him, and let’s hope that everyone can keep their temptations in check and let he and his family enjoy their winnings. 

Yeah, I think someone must have said that phrase, “May you live in interesting times,” to me concerning the past couple of days.  It’s been kind of a roller coaster, of sorts, so I think this is going to be a multi-post entry.  ;)  Nothing really bad has happened, mind you, but just some rather interesting events happening.

To begin with, the Good!  On Tuesday night we had a Cassandra Syndrome show at the Ocean Drive Club and Lounge.  First off, the downside…it was a Tuesday evening at a relatively new venue for live acts such as us, so it was a bit on the rough side concerning attendance.  That was kind of expected, though, and it was awesome to see those who came out anyway, even if they did have to get up early the next morning.  You guys rock!  :)

The upside?  Well, the venue is much with the awesome, very clean, big, high ceilings, nice décor and atmosphere, and a hell of a light system, as well as a nice spacious stage.  On top of that, we had an excellent show, the sound was very solid, and we had a great time.  The owner of Ocean Drive was very impressed with us, and repeatedly told us that this “wasn’t going to be the only time we played here,” as well as mentioning a bunch of times that the Ocean Drive could be our new “home” as a regular venue.  Of course, I’m not counting my chickens and all that, so we’ll see what comes of that.  Nevertheless, it was probably one of our better shows of the past season.  I really hope we get to play there again!  :)

Just a quick reminder about tomorrow night’s Cassandra Syndrome show at the Ocean Drive Club and Lounge in Silver Spring/Wheaton, MD, sponsored by DC-SOAR.  Hope to see you there!

p.s. Here’s the link to the webflyer if anyone’s interested x-posting it anywhere!  http://www.cassandrasyndrome.com/misc/DCSOAR.jpg

As mentioned in cassyndrome, Cassandra Syndrome has got a show coming up on Tuesday, August 28th at the Ocean Drive Club & Lounge, and we'd love to see as many people as can make it out.  Two sets, excellent performance space, nice decor and lighting, and in a later post, I'll give you my top ten reasons to come out.  ;)  The show is 18+, 21+ to consume alcamaholic beverages, of course.


Please feel free to circulate and x-post the web-flyer at will.  :)

So, we went to the Ocean Drive Club & Lounge last night to check out the Groaning and Conscious Structure, sponsored by DC-SOAR, and I was really impressed, both with the bands, and with the venue.  The Groaning is this gothic/Celtic rock band, featuring excellent female vocals, bass, drums, guitar, vox, keys/flute, and amazingly wicked riffing on violin.  Conscious Structure also featured excellent female vocals, as well as keys, guitar, drums, and a couple of cellos to boot.  Both groups put on excellent shows, and I’m really glad we were able to make it out and see them.

The venue was really nice, and it’ll be a fun place to play when we’re there on Tuesday, August 28^th.  It’s a rather spacious club, with a big stage area as well, which is much with the awesome.  The high ceilings mean that it’s a bit echoey, but that just means that you tone down the reverb a touch.  :) I’m really looking forward to playing this place in a couple weeks.

Funny thought, though, as I was thinking about this upcoming show.  This is going to be our last “local” show for about two months!  We’ve got PPD shows in September in New York City and Salem, Massachusetts, but the next local show, which is the NSVPA’s Samhain Ball, won’t be until October 27^th!  0_o

Good weekend, I must say.  Friday I stayed home from work, and irenejericho and I went to see Stardust at the theater, which was quite good.  I imagine we’ll end up with a copy of it on DVD once it comes out.

Saturday, Cassandra Syndrome played the NSVPA’s Toga Festival, which was a lot of fun.  The turnout was pretty small, but the show itself went very, very well.  Matthew Buchannan opened, and he pulled off a great, and incredibly funny, show.  I highly suggest checking him out to those who haven’t seen him.

Then we went on and, even despite Irene still having a bit of a scratchy throat from being sick all last week, had one of our best shows in a long time.  Of course, having a complete and well-run sound system contributed immensely to that, with many of the kudos going to scorpionrose for doing such an excellent job.  After the last couple of shows, it was an immense relief to be able to actually hear ourselves on stage.  Being able to hear yourself, and your band mates, makes such a huge difference, I must say.

We also debuted PTSD, which went over really well.  We actually broke out the old headset mic I used back in Revel Moon, so I could throw in some vocals on that one as well.  I’m sure everyone will appreciate my Britney Spears impersonation once we get the pictures up from the show.  ;)

More news in a bit about some of our upcoming shows, particularly our DC-SOAR show on August 28th at the Ocean Drive Club & Lounge.  :)

First off, as mentioned in cassyndrome, a couple of the newest mixes from the second run of ‘Dissent into Heresy’ were uploaded last night.  The new tracks are ‘Mirror Mirror’ and ‘Phoenix’, and you can find them at our webpage here, as well as our MySpace page here…

Speaking of Phoenixes, I’ve been trying to figure out whether I was going to read any Harry Potter spoilers or not.  Usually I just don’t have the patience, and I’ve actually read online the endings of several of the movies I’ve gone to recently, including Transformers and the new Pirates movie.  *shrugs*  Knowing the ending generally doesn’t keep me from enjoying something, ya know?  Meh, guess we’ll see about that one.

Last but not least, the meme stolen from irenejericho.  Post here and I will describe you in one word.  Feel free to x-post, but only if you feel like it.  :D