Encore Toy Company has launched a Kickstarter for their first project: a vinyl collectible inspired by punk legends, Descendents. The full press release can be found below.
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Rocky Votolato has a Kickstarter up for a new band project.
I started a new band called Suzzallo! Our debut album is called “The Quiet Year” and this record is deeply meaningful to me. I absolutely can’t wait to share these songs with you guys. We are in the final stages of making the album now and could use your support to get it finished and released into the world!
Topshelf Records have launched a Kickstarter to help save the label’s inventory:
while making plans to book last second flights down to Austin to rent trucks and load up our inventory in order to drive it up to Portland and try and figure out what we would do with it all, we learned that Awesome’s US business is in the process of being sold to an acquisitions company and everything that they had within their facility—all equipment, machinery, supplies, and client inventory—is being treated as property of the property management company, sold AS-IS to this new acquisition company. subsequently, access to our own inventory is now being denied to us. we’re being told we don’t have legal grounds to enter the building nor do we have legal grounds to lay claim to anything in the building. we expect we have several costly legal battles in front of us if this logic prevails.
The Stereo have launched a Kickstarter for their first new album in nearly 20 years.
Read More “The Stereo Launch Kickstarter” Ashley Carman, writing at The Verge:
Kickstarter announced in an internal memo today that it’s likely going to lay off employees. CEO Aziz Hasan writes that the crowdfunding company has already seen a significant drop in crowdfunding projects being listed on the site, which is how Kickstarter makes its money. Projects are down by about 35 percent, the memo states, with “no clear sign of rebound.
Kyle Kilday has launched a Kickstarter to create a documentary about the early 2000’s emo and punk scene:
The Last Scene will be the FIRST comprehensive chronicle of what many believe is the LAST underground, DIY music scene. One forged in VFW halls and community recreation centers across the United States in the Late 1990’s/Early 2000’s.
This is the story of the punk and emo kids who gave us the last “new” thing in rock music, during an era of change for the music industry and youth culture at large.
After a 15-year long hiatus from creating anything remotely punk-rock, Dan McLintock and Tim Grisnik (formerly of Jacksonville, FL based band Inspection 12) along with their friend guitarist Eric Denton, are recording a punk EP. They’ve launched a Kickstarter to help fund the project.
Jonah Matranga has launched a Kickstarter for his new Halfway to a Hundred project.
OFF! have launched a Kickstarter for a new film.
Two years ago, Kickstarter acquired Drip, an indie musician crowdfunding platform, on the eve of the service’s untimely demise. After relaunching Drip last year, Kickstarter is again reinventing the Patreon-like artist platform.
The Aquabats have started a Kickstarter:
We hear you loud and clear: It’s time for The Aquabats to get to work, making more music and bringing back the Super Show! But the truth is we can’t make ANYTHING without you… and since we’re doing this for you, we wouldn’t want to do it without you!
With YOUR SUPPORT, we can record The Aquabats’ first NEW ALBUM since 2011, and shoot our first NEW TV SPECIAL since 2014. Not only will you get new music and television, you’ll be helping introduce The Aquabats to a whole new generation of Righteous Comrades and future Aquacadets!
PopMotion Pictures’ Kickstarter campaign for their next project, Pick It Up! Ska in the 90’s, a feature-length documentary film that explores the third-wave ska explosion of the 1990’s, is now the number one music project on Kickstarter.
MxPx have launched a Kickstarter to help record their new album:
With this money, the bulk of it is going to be spent on prep and marketing. We intend to self release this record all around the world, not just North America, and to do that, we’re gonna need to advertise. We also have costs of hiring an engineer to record and mix our record, as well as the costs in fulfilling the perks in this here campaign.
This is the first time the band is working in the same place on an album since the Panic sessions. I’ve heard very good things about the batch of songs they’re working on.
The Pink Spiders have launched a Kickstarter to help fund their first album in almost ten years:
This pre-order campaign allows you to grab limited edition merch and experiences that have never been available before including shirts and other collectibles, hand-written lyric sheets, studio visits, house parties and much more! Take a look around this page at the many unique ways you can participate in the process.
It all started with an insight about how we use notebooks. Even though we spend 8 hours a day doing digital work on a computer, notebooks are an essential analogue tool. We noticed, while sitting at a computer, it would be great to have a notebook directly in front of us. But that would require a different type of notebook, one with more of a panoramic ratio. So that’s what we made.
Panobook works great on a desk, either in front of, behind, or to the side of your keyboard. We wanted to create a notebook that was always open and always within arm’s reach.
I think this is a great idea, but this review sold me.