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  Oct 29, 08:48 AM

  Big News!!!!!!!

   

  Generally, I try and stay away from boring news-oriented updates. But I have a bunch of really exciting stuff happening and I wanted to share it straight away.
  1. I made a video [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102790709876&s=8122&e=001GBOOd5Mmku2pfW30L5Y4j9jDVR5mhBwJxvtyzU-AJgRsTxSlZ_8uekfeSN--43F8VPsjUurTUOpyGzZekUVWNDZSu0xYp-PSFBbZENTPv0CFLKVvpfkuW5hvE8GpQVROpLlzF6FN6AJCDR2r7YgXjQ==for you to say hi. I miss you.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFyrr_kGJjo
  2. I will finally have RELEASE date for my EP (Produced By Mikal Blue: Colbie Caillat, Five for Fighting). It's going to be available in FEBRUARY! I'll keep you posted on when.
  3. I am heading back into the studio next month (With Mikal Blue) to complete an album. The record will be released sometime after the EP. PUMPED!
  4. I am playing a Chicago Homecoming Show with the one and only CURTIS PEOPLES on November 17th. Tickets are going fast, so get them soon!!Todd Carey and Curtis Peoples
  S.P.A.C.E: 11/17
  Evanston, IL
  Doors 7:3pm:

  The last show sold out so get your tickets now by clicking here:

  http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2520504[http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2520504
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  Oct 13, 02:03 PM

  Rapture

  Do you have it? How bad do you want to achieve your goals?
     You know what keeps you young? Refusing to believe that your dreams are out of reach. It's the blind rejection of the notion that what you are trying to do can't be done. It's going after something you want because you won't bother to investigate how far fetched it is.
     And that's how you attain what you are searching for. It's only when you listen to the the voices of doubt around you, and your own insecurities (yes we ALL have them), that you fail.
     Want to stay young forever? Be enamored with what you do. It has to be rapture and hustle. Be stubborn, and most importantly, believe. You just may be crazy enough to succeed.
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  Sep 13, 07:06 AM

  It's Hardwired in You

  Doesn't this time of year make you think you should be back in school or something? We've all grown up with that definitive "new year" mentality that starts around late August, early September.
  I was sitting outside in Brooklyn and overheard a father asking his little daughter what kind of supplies she needed for school and she got SUPER excited. Later, I was shopping for a new printer in Staples and was swept away in stream of back to school shoppers. Needless to say, they were stoked. And I got stoked too. I bought a new notebook.
  I still get to go back to school in a sense with the FALL COLLEGE TOUR (See below) and all, but it doesn't ever quite replace that sense of finality when summer turns to fall. It is hardwired in all of our brains somewhere. Do we miss the homework? Hell no. Do we miss all the drudgery? Of course not. But that's not gonna stop me from getting nostalgic.
  
  
  Speaking of the tour, it's a "Greatest Hits/Golden Classic/Farewell/Reunion" type of tour, so, just think Epic. Lots of pyro, dancers, and backup singers...AND Lots of shows at colleges and major cities like Chicago, LA, Boston, Indianapolis. See below.
  
  
  
  
  Todd Carey
  The "Golden Classics" Tour
  
  
  9.10 Sturgeon Bay, WI: The Hitching Post, 10pm
  9.12 Sturgeon Bay, WI: Nasewaupee Festival, 7pm
  9.25 Boston, Newton, MA: Lasell College, 8pm
  9.26 Nashua, NH: Daniel Webster College, 12pm
  9.29 Middletown, OH: Miami University Middletown, 12pm
  9.30 Hamilton, OH: Miami University Hamilton, 12pm
  10.1 Rensselaer, IN: Saint Joesph's College, 8pm
  10.2 Wheeling, WV: Wheeling Jesuit Univeristy, 10pm
  10.4 Indianpolis, IN: Birdy's, 7:30pm Doors
  10.6 Los Angeles, CA: Hotel Cafe, 930pm
  11.6 Bettendorf, IA: APCA Conference
  11.17 Chicago, (Evanston), IL: SPACE
  Homecoming Show Discount Presale Tickets Here
  Enter the code word "nexttoyou"
  11.30 Bridgewater,MA: Bridgewater State, 8pm
  12.1 Portsmith, NH: Great Bay College, 4pm
  12.1 Henniker, NH: New England College, 8pm
  12.5 Troy, NY: Rensselaer Institute, 8pm
  1.29 Potsdam, NY: Clarkson University, 10pm
  2.10 Sioux City, IA : Briar Cliff University
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  Jul 31, 06:03 AM

  The Goods

  We all have them. What is your secret weapon? We may not all sing like Adam Lambert. But maybe you make kick ass mashed potatoes, or you have REALLY fast reflexes, or you just know when a fight is gonna break out before it does, and you can stop it.
     Do you use your talents? Do people appreciate them? You don't have to throw it in people's faces, but it's always nice to get that extra little kick at excelling at something. What I'm saying is, don't be afraid to rock at doing something.
    And while you're at it, do something different today, even if it is a tiny, insignificant thing. And then try and do something different like that every day. I'm trying to do this right now, and you know what? It's a challenge. As you start you start breaking the mold, the interesting things start happening. And that's what it's about. Keeping things interesting.
     Discover something in yourself you didn't know was there. I can assure you if you try, you will never stop finding unique new things. Talents you didn't know you had. You will.
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  Jul 17, 10:29 AM

  The Grind

   
        So you've got passion. You feel the flame, you have the dreams, and you think big. You see the finish line with the beautiful girl. Or the cheering crowd, or the perfect family, or the big pile of money. Maybe you see it all.       But how hard will you work for it? Will you spend the time on the vision, even when the dividends are out of sight? Will you rejoice in the process, not only when the "process is the journey", but when the process sucks?      That's the grind. Throwing yourself into slowly chipping away at the stone. Refining the painting, finishing the song. It's all about the little victories on the way.                   "Life is what happens to you/                 While you're busy making other plans"                                          -John Lennon
        The grind may not make you rich, or make you a movie star. But it will make you live, I mean really live.  You've got to know how to recognize the moments that make up your life as they happen. It's such a gorgeous thing.        We've been playing one of my new songs I recorded in LA with producer Mikal Blue at the shows in Chicago. It starts with the lines:                                "This is the first day of the rest of your life/                 Your head was in the worst way so you cast it aside/                  Open up your window, breath in the air/                 The present is around you now, will you be there?/"
         Those words, though seemingly brimming with positive energy, came during one of the darkest periods I've been through in a long time. So when I  listened back to the recording of the initial moment when those words and melody were improvised, I was taken aback by my own advice. Now every time I sing them, I'm reminded, and I finally feel like I'm really able to understand.        Are you living in the moment?
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  Sep 28 2008, 11:16 PM

  New Songs

      NYC is everything I thought it would be. The city has the energy and pulse I've craved my entire life.
      I've set up a little studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and have been writing music steadily since I got off the road from the "Sweep the Leg Tour". 
  I want to let you in on the process. So, I'm gonna keep you posted on how it's going.
      Right now, I'm working on a track called "So Many Songs To Sing". The beggining of the song came to me one morning in a hotel room when I was lying in bed. I had the phrase "I've got so many songs to sing before I die" running through my head over and over. I scralled the lyrics down on a notepad and fell back asleep. Unfortunately, when I left the hotel, I also left the lyrics in the room. Typically, that would be the end of a song for me, as it is REALLY hard to get something like that back. But the next evening, it came again and this time I got the entire thing down, and this time I made sure I held on to it.
      I've been playing it live steadily for a few months, and it's been working. The interesting thing with songwriting is that a piece can be great in your bedroom, or on tape, but may fall flat in front of an audience. As soon as I debuted this one at the Living Room in NYC, I knew it was a cut above the other ones I was working on.
  The song is essentially a "Carpe Dium" call to arms. It celebrates the appreciation of every sacred moment we have in our lives. It's simultaneously dark and bright, it addresses our mortality and then invites us to forget about it.
       I'm going to take a break from writing and recording and play "So Many Songs to Sing" and some other new music at an intimate solo show in NYC on Wednesday. I can't wait to feel how this music comes alive :)
  TC
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  Jun 24 2008, 08:19 PM

  MTVU: Ahead of the Curve- Todd Carey

  Todd Carey- MTVU: Ahead of the Curve