Show tonight.
Good morning dear friends. Ben here. We have a show tonight at Clearwater in West Dundee, and it should be a blast! We’re playing with some cool cats known as The Reverends and also The Paxton Bros. I’m really looking forward to not only playing our songs, but also playing them in an environment that … Continue reading
A medal or a chest to pin it on.
Good afternoon, friends and readers, Ben here again. I’ve realized that I need to just pump out the posts about our songs so that I can just get through the EP. It felt good yesterday to write about Suggestion Box, which is probably one of the most personal songs on the EP (for me, anyway). … Continue reading
Suggestion Box
Hey Gang, Ben here. Just continuing the march through the EP to give you an inside look at our songs. The third track on the EP is called “Suggestion Box”. I had written this song quite a while before N’E had formed, and was playing it intermittently whenever I played solo shows, just me and … Continue reading
EP on iTunes, On Flattery and Frustration
Hey everyone, Ben here. Just writing the promised blog post for the weekend, along with some unexpected news! Our debut EP is already available to purchase on iTunes for $4.95! The EP is 5 songs, clocking in at 27 minutes in length. We’re really excited about how it turned out, and we hope you will … Continue reading
EP packaging
Hey friends, Ben here. We have been working hard on the EP, and we finally have something to show for it! Copies will be available by the end of the week, let us know if you want one. We have a VERY limited number of copies, since they are all handmade, so get them while … Continue reading
album’s done
Well, that was a fun, tiring, educational, mind-numbing, totally awesome experience. Nor’Easter’s finally done in the studio, which means soon we’ll be working on packaging and other things in order to make the EP available for purchase. We’re also working to have digital downloads available through iTunes, Amazon, etc. For now, we’ve got two final-mix … Continue reading
Statistics
So, a few weeks ago Rob suggested to me that I write some blog posts about the songs on our EP, and what they mean, etc. This seems like a really good idea, so I’m just going to start with the first song on the EP Statistics is a song about the divorce rate in … Continue reading
The EP and thoughts
Hey everyone, thanks for keeping up with us as we are on this journey, sorry that there hasn’t been too many updates as far as the blog is concerned. If you missed any of our video updates, you can head over to http://www.vimeo.com/noreastermusic to check out our stuff. (And again, all of the videos on … Continue reading
Nor'easter 