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Myspace Weirdness

I went to my myspace page just now and all my original recordings were missing and there was some kind of weird generic country song there instead. So I put a bunch more songs up there. Go and check it out if you like 60's and 70's influenced, over-produced Power-Pop (with a slight hint of "alt-country"). Anybody else experience this myspace weirdness?
Previously on Bedazzled!
There's No Sound In Flutes!
More Spike Priggen stuff on Bedazzled!
Spike Priggen "Hideaway".mp3
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide
Buy "There's No Sound In Flutes! on iTunes 
Listen and Buy From CD Baby
Buy From Amazon 

Spike Priggen & Band at the Lakeside Lounge NYC Saturday

Please come on down to the Lakeside Lounge and see me and my band: Jay Sherman-Godfrey and Chris Erikson on guitars, Nancy Polstein on the drums, Tom "Tater" Andrukevich (of the Zambonis) filling in on bass and "Eddy" Zweiback on percussion. There's no cover. We'll  be performing songs from all of my solo CDs.
October 28, 2006 at Lakeside Lounge
162 Avenue B (between 10th & 11th Streets),
New York, New York, NY 10009
Cost: Free
Spike Priggen "Hideaway".mp3
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide

"There's No Sound In Flutes!" on iTunes

So my new CD is finally up on iTunes. Click here to sample and or buy "There's No Sound In Flutes!" and my previous CDs "Stars After Stars After Stars" and "The Very Thing That You Treasure"
Spike Priggen "Hideaway".mp3
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide 

Spike Priggen & Band at the Lakeside Lounge NYC Tonight!

Please come down to the Lakeside Lounge and see me and this weeks band: Jay Sherman- Godfrey & Chris Erikson on Guitars, Nancy Polstein on Drums, Greg Beshers on Bass, and me, Spike Priggen on riddim guitar and vocals. Hope to see you there.
LAKESIDE LOUNGE
Sat Sep 30 2006 11:00 Sharp
162 Avenue B (between 10th & 11th Streets)
New York, New York (212.529.8463)
Photo by Ian Churchill

"There's No Sound In Flutes!" Cover Art by Peter Bagge

I had the great pleasure of working with illustrator/comic artist Peter Bagge on the cover art for my new CD "There's No Sound In Flutes". I've loved his work for years since Comical Funnies, through Neat Stuff and Hate. I especially love his online cartoon series "Murry Wilson Rock & Roll Dad". He seemed like the perfect guy to illustrate the infamous Buddy Rich tapes which the title was taken from.

Luckily, he was my "friend" on Myspace already so making contact was easy. He was familiar with the Buddy Rich tapes but hadn't heard them in a while, so I sent him some mp3s.

He sent me the first sketch (on the left there) which was great. I asked for a few changes (flip the title and my name, make the musicians less jazzbo-ish & more 60's looking, make Buddy a little less intense, put a Carol Kaye type bass player in there) and he made them and sent over this second sketch.

There's No Sound In Flutes! Review Roundup

Here's what some reviewers have to say about my new CD.

Tim Den at TransformOnline wrote "Catchy songs that are packed with sophisticated hooks, reeking of timeless relevance." and then "Spike Priggen doesn’t use dance beats, wear mascara, rip off Joy Division, or rape synthesizers like useless electroclash fuckfaces". The Onion AV Club especially liked ""Little Star," a '70s AM-ballad exercise with a winning heart-on-the- sleeve lyric, and "Everyone Loves Me But You," a nasty bit of twangy power-pop." Pat Ferrucci of the New Haven Register says "Let me just say that this disc will more than likely make it on my best-of 2006 list at the end of the year." The New Haven Advocate's Christopher Arnott wrote "Michael “Spike” Priggen’s guitar-hooked pop songs are so catchy, you’re not sure what the titles are because every single lyric is so quotable". So check it out already. :)
Spike Priggen "Hideaway".mp3
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen "I Know Everything" Video.mov
Spike Priggen "I Know Everything" Video.m4v
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide
Listen and Buy From CD Baby
Buy From Amazon
Buy From Spike Priggen

Spike Priggen Record Release Show @ Lakeside Lounge NYC- TONIGHT!

If you're in the New York City area, please come down and help me celebrate the release of my new CD "There's No Sound In Flutes!" (Download "Hideaway".mp3)

My band will include Brian Doherty (XTC, They Might Be Giants) on Drums, Chris Erikson (Matt Keating) on Guitar, Adam Roth (The Del Fuegos/Jim Carroll) on Guitar, CP Roth (Ozzy Osbourne/Rick Derringer) on Bass and Eddy Zweiback (Cerveris/Loser's Lounge) on percussion. Hope to see you there.
LAKESIDE LOUNGE
Sep 8 2006 10:30
162 Avenue B (between 10th & 11th Streets)
New York, New York
212.529.8463
Spike Photo By Ted Barron
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide 

Download "There's No Sound In Flutes" on Zuzula

I just got an email today about a new Digital Download site called Zuzula. Musicians can upload any music they own to it (up to a 50 meg limit-they need to make that bigger), Zuzula then sells the tracks for .99 cents a download (9.99 for the whole CD) and splits the money with the artist. It's run by a couple of musicians.

It took me about 15 minutes to upload my whole new CD "There's No Sound In Flutes" and was very easy to do. I'll be waiting months for it to show up on iTunes so it's pretty cool to be able to upload your stuff and have it be for sale almost immediately. Sample and Buy tracks from "There's No Sound In Flutes" at Zuzula

Spike Priggen Live In New Haven Saturday Night

I'll be playing the New Haven version of my Record Release Party for "There's No Sound In Flutes" this Saturday August 26th (The NY one is on September 8 @ The Lakeside Lounge) at the very pleasant Cafe Nine. My last gig there (just about a year ago) was one of my funnest in years. I'm expecting some special musical guests and some faces I haven't seen in about 25 years. Should be interesting. Hope to see you there.

Download Spike Priggen @ Myspace

I added some different songs to my mypace page again and made them all available for download from there. There's "Hideaway" from the forthcoming "There's No Sound In Flutes". "She Used to Be My Baby" from "The Very Thing That You Treasure", 'When You Looked At Me" (written By Jenifer Jackson) from my all-covers CD "Stars After Stars After Stars" and "If And When" (written by Chris Stamey) from the dB's Tribute LP "Stand-ins For Decibels".
SpikePriggen.com
Spike Priggen Myspace page
Spike Priggen @ Allmusic Guide
Spike Priggen "The Very Thing That You Treasure" on iTunes
Spike Priggen "Stars After Stars After Stars" on iTunes