I made a great connect with James Yeager, head of Tactical Response, when I took the “Active Shooter” course in Tennessee a few weeks ago. It seems he has become a Brainclaw music fan! We discovered the song “Strike” from the album Dead Monsters on his latest video from the “Fighting Rifle” class. We’ve supplied him with the rest of our back catalog for future use in his videos for the shooting school.
Tara and I will be returning to Tactical Response to take another class, “Fighting Pistol” very soon. It’s the best training available on the planet. If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you owe it to yourself to get trained. Check out Tactical Response’s class offerings HERE.
• We especially like how the machine gun fire in our music overlaps with the real thing at 02:47-02:55!
We accidentally (as often happens with new web content) stumbled on this cool new video/music mash-up Friday afternoon.
Somebody had taken a snippet of a brand new, unreleased Brainclaw song, “Desperate Measures” from the forthcoming Brainclaw album, and mated it with a particularly chilling piece of film on the bombing of Hiroshima. How they came by the unreleased track was a mystery for awhile…
It was after some digging that we discovered it was our own label, BLC, who perpetrated this madness! The images definitely fit with the song, and we look forward to making actual music videos for the new CD.
Many thanks to Brandon at BLC for his intense and unflagging support of our musical endeavors, as well as his amazingly creative viral marketing mind!
Enjoy your sneak-peek at a new song from the soon-to-be-released Brainclaw CD by clicking on the image of the nuclear weapon:
Brainclaw’s musical collaboration with Japanese Cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori, called “Regenerator P.I.G.” is up for possible use in the Japanese promotional campaign for the brand-new Diehard 4: Live Free or Die Hard movie!
You can view the trailer with the Brainclaw music HERE.
Brainclaw and Kenji Siratori fans can vote for this song on MySpace by clicking HERE.
You will be prompted to fill out a MySpace email. Do it like this:
In the Subject line put: contest vote
In the Body of the email put: http://www.myspace.com/kenjisiratori
Brainclaw & Kenji Siratori
On a completely non-musical note, Brainclaw are featured in a brand-new tabletop photo book by Philadelphia’s Kyle Cassidy. The book is called Armed America, and is a completely non-partisan look at firearms owners across America.
Kyle traveled the entire length and breadth of the USA to gather stunning photos of American gun owners in their homes. It is a surprising and revealing look and an oft-wrongly maligned culture, full of safe and sane legal gun owners. Each person photographed has a quote in the book, describing why they have chosen to own firearms.
We appear in the book, as well as David’s father, Joseph, who even appears on the back of the dust cover! Kyle has done an excellent job with this project, and the publisher has really done it justice with a flawless presentation. They describe the book in this manner:
“Few things generate as much debate as firearms, and behind this often hotly debated topic are real people. Estimates say roughly half of all Americans are gun owners… but why do so many Americans own a firearm?
Photographer Kyle Cassidy took on the challenge of answering this question without a political agenda. Readers will meet some of the faces behind firearm ownership, and discover honest answers to a single question: “Why do you own a gun?”
Armed America offers a powerful, provocative, and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. with portraits of people from different backgrounds, and living in various locations, with the one common connection of firearm ownership. This riveting and revealing collection of photos of people in their own environments will capture every reader’s attention, whatever their stance on gun control.”
The book is now available for pre-order on amazon.com and will also be available in all major bookstores as well, starting July 7. Congratulations to Kyle on his latest published work!
…once he gets that fanboy grin off his face, that is…
David and Tara were lucky enough to get backstage at the Philadelphia show of Electro pioneer Thomas Dolby last week!
Thomas proved to be a gentleman and a scholar, as the trio discussed music, future technology, animal rescues and life on the road. Thomas had just played a fantastic show, encompassing many hits from all of his various releases, including improved and live-created versions of classics like “Airwaves” and “She Blinded Me With Science.”
Ever the thoughtful one, Tara made up a gift of throat spray and healing herbal tea for Thomas, who had a bad cold a few shows before Philadelphia. He was given Brainclaw CD’s, and even signed David’s limited edition vinyl EP of “May The Cube Be With You.” David prompty wet his pants.
There was even talk of a Thomas Dolby remix of a Brainclaw song some time in the future!
Please check out Thomas Dolby’s website and music HERE.
Many thanks to Holly of Jim Balent Studios (who is also a total hottie) for getting Brainclaw backstage and for snapping the pictures!
There is a new section on the Brainclaw website as of now. It is aptly called Free Stuff, and there Brainclaw fans can access some fun new free content.
The first offering up on deck (by constant request) are some Brainclaw desktop images for your Mac or PC. There will be new wallpapers constantly added, and there will eventually be some awesome ‘Signature Series’ wallpapers offered by special photographers and graphic designers who have expressed interest in the project.
In addition, below the desktop images, you can download an ever-growing number of free, full-length Brainclaw covers and remixes, including the Brainclaw-mutated version of “Mad World” as well as the Collinwood 13 re-imagining of “Dead Monsters.”
Feel free to hop on over to Free Stuff and download to your heart’s content! If you have suggestions for new free content that you’d like to see featured on the Brainclaw Website, send your ideas in an email to webmaster@brainclaw.com.
Richard Heene, California producer, director and scientist, approached us about using multiple Brainclaw songs in his next episode of The Science Detective, a television science exploration series geared toward young adults.
He has already selected several songs from both albums for the episode, called “The Tornado Seeking Rocket” including his favorite, the ever-popular When The Dark Rains Come, which has already made appearances on The Matrix and Spiderman DVD releases.
It deals with research using rockets to detect and predict relationships between electromagnetic fields and hurricane physics, with the ultimate goal of being able to give better early warning in the event of catastrophic storms.
“Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2005 – Storm-chasers Richard Heene and Clint Perkins of the Science Detective Research Group flew directly into Hurricane Wilma as it bore down on the Florida coast after battering resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
Heene and Perkins, armed with still and video cameras and a geomagnetometer, were invited to join the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’ Tampa, Fla.,-based Hurricane Hunters on two missions.
Along with the NOAA crew, the storm-chasers strapped into five-point seatbelt harnesses and embarked upon a dramatic, lightning-ridden ride into Hurricane Wilma to photograph and measure the earth’s magnetic field around the storm.”
More info on Brainclaw’s participation in the show as we get it…
Brainclaw music was chosen to accompany a strange new webshow called Our Prisoner. Here is the description of this weird but oddly compelling program from the ourprisoner.com website:
Kieran Vogel will make Internet television history when he becomes the first person to give total control of his life to the Internet. Kieran, age 35, lives at home with his elderly parents and his 54 year old half brother. Kieran has never earned more than $10,000 a year working in pet stores while in pursuit of his lifelong dream of becoming a published writer and cartoonist. Kieran has now decided that almost anyone could do a better job in making his decisions and he is willing to prove it. (more…)