There is SO much to fit in here.  Here’s the “nutshell” version first; feel free to skip ahead as it pleases you.  :)

There is SO much to fit in here.  Here’s the “nutshell” version first; feel free to skip ahead as it pleases you.  :)

-Garageband.com loves “Letter to the Editor”

-Many were confused, but *Clang & Chime* IS an actual CD, and you can order that CD without using Paypal now!

-The video I took during the making of *Clang & Chime* is now available for public consumption!

-I’m going ballistic trying to get *Clang & Chime* heard everywhere I can, and I need your help.  In a big way.

-No more tour dates for the rest of the year, but if you help me build it for 2010, I will come.  :)



“Letter to the Editor” takes home the motherload...    of cyber-awards from GarageBand.com this week.  

Aside from being the website’s featured Track Of The Day in the Pop Rock category this Wednesday, this week the users of GarageBand.com voted to bestow all the following honors on the song:

Best Male Vocals in Pop Rock,
Best Guitars in Pop Rock,
Best Bass in Pop Rock,
Best Production in Pop Rock,
Best Beat in Pop Rock, and
Grooviest Rhythm in Pop Rock

If that wasn’t enough, “Editor” got these OVERALL awards, meaning it beat out not only the other songs in the Pop/Rock category, but in ALL categories:

Grooviest Rhythm Overall

and my favorite, which should also make at least 69 other people on this list very happy:
 
Best Production Overall

:)

If you haven’t gotten your FREE download of this song yet, what are you waiting for?  It's front and center on my iLike page.


*Clang & Chime* is now available to order off of CD BABY!    I’m so happy about this. :)

I’ve had the album up for everyone to preview on the Bandcamp website for just over a week, but that, for the time being at least, is no longer accessible.  There are a few reasons for this.

First of all, it seems many folks are confused by the fact that the order form for a physical CD wasn’t in the same place where the download was available.   People didn’t  read/didn’t notice that the CDs are available on another page.  Some people actually wrote to ask why I wouldn’t have an actual CD for sale.  With CD Baby, whether you want an actual disc or just a download, it’s all in the same place; no more confusion.  However you want the music, it’s there for you.

The other problem is that the stats don’t lie:  a LOT of you were just loading up the Bandcamp page to listen to the album over and over again without buying it, and if I’d left the page up, who knows how long that would have gone on.  
Now that you’ve had some time with it, it’s not a risk anymore, is it? Time to pony up and get a copy for yourself. :)
(You can, of course, still listen to song previews on CD Baby; just not the entire song.)

Here’s the brand new page:   http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/horan5

For those of you who already own the record, please stop by anyway and leave a review of the album!


CLANG & CHIME - THE MAKING OF...  SORT OF.     It wouldn’t make a good name for a movie.

But the videos I posted earlier this year while recording the album (previously only available to those who helped produce the album), have now been made public!

I’m only just beginning to use my YouTube page to its full potential, and now that I’m spending the rest of the year in one place (read more on that in a minute), it’s going to be a bigger part of my web presence.

What I’m saying is, if you’re on YouTube...   I’M on YouTube.  We should totally be on YouTube together.

So subscribe to my videos, or “friend” me, or whatever it is the kids are doing these days...  but let’s get together; here:   

http://www.youtube.com/user/sethsbase


CALL TO ARMS -- I NEED EVERYONE’S HELP -- NOW OR NEVER -- DO OR DIE.

I put out “Conduit” back in 2004, and that was the last time I did what they call a promotional “push” for my music.  In 2005 I finally got off the road full-time.  In 2006 I started traveling around the world instead of around America.  In 2007 I released the “Happenstance” EP, but cancelled all my promotion efforts when my appendix suddenly burst, very nearly killing me. (Twice).  In 2008 I released “Between Two Oceans”, but that’s a DVD retrospective, and I thought it was best suited for people who were already acquainted with my music, so I didn’t try to do any over-the-top marketing for it.

But it’s still 2009 for a bit longer.  It’s time to DO this.  It’s time to get people excited about the music on a CD one last time before people stop being excited about CDs altogether.  It wasn’t time to do it for an album that was really only half-an-album, or when I was near-death, or for a DVD, but it is definitely time to do it now.

In the half-a-decade since I released Conduit, I have had hundreds of exchanges with people who have offered ideas and opportunities concerning my music and how to get it heard.  People work at radio stations or have friends and family who do; they know the person in charge of an annual festival; a colleague runs an after-school music program; their brother works for a huge booking agency or music publisher; their best friend is a journalist for the city paper... or they just “know a guy”.... 

Many of you reading this are “those people” I’m talking about.  At some point we talked about doing something, but the time wasn’t right, and then life happened, and it was forgotten.

I want as many opportunities as I can get for this album, so if we ever talked about something like this, casually or not, please reconnect with me, and let’s make it happen.

For the many folks who don’t fall into this category, there’s still so much you can do to help get the word out...

I’m looking for people to help update my listing on Wikipedia  (I’m not allowed to do it myself)...

I’m looking for users of internet music sites like Last.fm, Pandora.com, iLike.com, etc. to put this album in their libraries, play it in high rotation and recommend it to their friends with similar tastes....

I’m looking for people who like to post on various forums that talk about music and musicians, who’d like to post the various widgets and players I use to play my songs for music-hungry web-surfers....

I’m looking for public and college radio DJs and college newspaper reporters and fledgling music bloggers and aspiring Twitter gurus...

...I’m looking for people who think *Clang & Chime* is music worth listening to, and I’m looking for those people to tell that to the world.

Because I can do it...

...but who’ll believe ME?  


My House Concert Report Card came in.

This is the first time in years that I have not done at least a few short bursts of fall touring.  

I considered it, but when it became clear how long the album was going to take to put out, I canned it...  no sense in traveling around, playing and promoting the new album for everyone if the album doesn’t exist yet. :)

I kept only three gigs on the calendar, and all of them were house concerts.

I wrote about them in my latest BLOG:  http://sethhoran.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/we-would-have-such-a-very-good-time-such-a-fine-time-such-a-happy-time/

Suffice to say, they were some of my most favorite gigs ever, and it is now my mission to do as many house concerts as I can, wherever I go.

And I will be GO-ing again starting in 2010!   I will start the year off like I always do, in January at the NAMM show in Southern California, and from there I will stay out as long as it takes.

So it doesn’t matter where you live -- if you get in touch with enough advance notice, we can make it happen.

If you’d like to see my live show (it must be pretty okay if I’ve made my living off it this long, right? ;)   ....now is the time to get in touch!   I’ve had to turn down folks in the past who wanted to set something up with only 2 weeks notice...  I can’t work with that, but if you can look ahead to early 2010, the world is our oyster.  :)

Thanks for reading this far, folks.  And thanks, as always, for listening...

Seth