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So, you may or may not know that I have written more than a few tragic holiday songs…

Once I wrote a song about being drunk/sad/pissed off/eating guacamole on New Year’s Eve. Last year, I set it up for free/set your own price download all night on account of the holiday.

Anyway, I decided to make it a yearly tradition!!!!! Only this time, you can download it all week before the new year.  Download “New Year’s Eve” Here for free/set your own price anytime in the next five days.

To learning from your mistakes. To a sober New Year’s. Or not having a New Year’s. Or getting shitfaced and eating all the guac yourself and writing a punk song and making it through another year ready for a better one to start.

Plz re-blog if you know anyone who might appreciate a 7 minute song about drinking too much and having lots of feelings and crying in your car. Hypothetically.

Added bonus: here’s the For Making Art EP for free til Jan 1st too.

Love you, happy holidays

Lyrics after the break:

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So once I wrote this song about being drunk/sad on New Year’s Eve. Then I ate guacamole, played it for my friends and felt a little better. Now, two years later, it’s one of my favorite songs on the new album.

I am not planning on being drunk and sad tonight, but I am setting the track for free/set your own price download all day/night on account of the holiday.

Download “New Year’s Eve” Here

Plz re-blog if you like it, or know any people planning on being drunk and/or sad tonight who might like a 7 minute song about drinking too much and eating guacamole and crying in your car. Metaphorically.

My new album is officially out on Bandcamp and Itunes!

Listening Guide (these are not exclusive suggestions, just some things I think each of these songs is good for):

Track 1- For traveling home from far away
Track 2- For feeling heartbroken when you want to feel heartbroken
Track 3- For traveling far away from home
Track 4- For when your New Year’s sucks
Track 5- For feeling heartbroken when you want to feel better
Track 6- For people that like Casiotone for The Painfully Alone and Ben Folds and wonder what it would sound like if I sounded like them.
Track 7 & 8- I’m not sure what Circus Heart is good for,
Track 9-For the day after or the night before binge drinking.
Track 10- For rough times. And loving your friends.

BUY EVERY TIME YOU GO SOMEWHERE AT BANDCAMP (all of the proceeds go directly to me)

  BUY EVERY TIME YOU GO SOMEWHERE ON ITUNES (some of the proceeds go to Steve Jobs)

Read the full blog post I wrote about it with pics & more about the process here:

http://malblum.blogspot.com/2010/07/comprehensive-introduction-to-my-new.html#comments

Friday night ruled. Cd release shows make my heart go pitter patter. Videos and live tracks coming soon! And a big blog post about the new album (digital release even sooner!). Also, we covered Lady Gaga. There is proof but I don’t have it yet.

With the band at practice after the video shoot today

Picked up covers from Eva & James (they’re super nice/billing me later). They’re turned over, so this shot is just the back cover. Going to write a blog post in the near future about the whole process of pressing them and everything coming together because it’s magical. This album had such an interesting life, I can’t waiiiiiit.

Goodbye master cd! Go forth into the mail and come back as little baby cds on spindles!

Screenshot of the 3rd party website I use to release stuff on itunes…Marveling at the “it’s been zero days since your last release!”…Usually it says “it’s been 74893748574856 days since your last release, get on your shit, Mal!”

 So now that everything is uploaded it will be live in a few weeks! I made the digital release date my b-day (July 7)!

Handful of dates confirmed for Mal Blum/Man & Dog late July tour! Still waiting on Burlington/Washington, DC…Still looking in NH/ME/MA/CT/NC

^Working on this today. Also formatting one-sheets for the new record (a sheet with all the press info and blurb about the project). My friend Courtney wrote the description, thank goodness because if I had to write a one-sheet about my own record it would say:

“My new record is called Every Time You Go Somewhere…

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