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From Exile was essentially a studio project through 2009. Our newly finished effort, “Monolith”, has been met with praise from all parts of the world – truly a testament to the era in which we live and the capacity for an independent band to reach far and wide. Thanks to all of you who have stuck around and followed our progress. For a short list of reviews and coverage we have received, click here: fromexile.com/press/

With our record finally finished and available, we are preparing an epic From Exile live show for 2010.

But you knew that. Of course we are bringing this monster recording to life… But there are even bigger plans at work:

We are planning on releasing another recording, an EP, in the first half of 2010… More details to come, but I can divulge that it will be cover songs and it will be given away 100% for free on our website, http://www.fromexile.com . This mailing list will be the first place that the recording is exclusively available, along with behind the scenes studio footage.

Thank you all for your continued support; To quote one of the greatest rock singers of all time, “the show must go on!”

-Eric

The long – awaited new cd, “Monolith” is available here: CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW listen to the record in full here: From Exile on Bandcamp

Monolith is available for digital purchase here:

From Exile Webstore (Bandcamp)

From Exile on iTunes

http://www.fromexile.com

http://www.twitter.com/fromexile

http://fromexile.bandcamp.com

http://www.youtube.com/fromexile

Mary Knight and Jim Campbell are two of my favorite people on earth right now… They really made my day when we ripped right through this stuff. This is NOT the final recording, however. If you’ll notice, we are recording in my ill-equipped home studio (bedroom).

Next is guitar leads and then on to vocals…

Yesterday, Last.fm started paying artist royalties directly to registered accounts for plays on their site. It is supported by ad revenue.

This is a big step, in comparison to Myspace’s method of retaining ALL ad revenue generated by major/independent/DIY artists’ music site.

Please visit http://www.last.fm/music/From+Exile

or just go to Last.fm use their site to stream and listen to new music instead of Myspace. At least you will be helping the artist out with a little money instead of how Myspace ‘helps’ an artist out: hacked song play numbers, auto-spam-adder bulletin bombers, bot-driven profile views…. Myspace is broken; I type more things like ‘hdI84577cn’ because they require so many captchas than I type normal, communicative phrases like, “hello, i like your band”.

The point is; if you really want to support an independent artist like From Exile, listen to their music on last.fm instead of Myspace because it will make the artist money that they can use to continue their enterprise.

There is a great WIRED article about it here: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/07/lastfm-compensa.html

You can learn more about it on the Last.fm site here: http://last.fm/uploadmusic

What do you think?

eric