Willie Nelson’s 80th Birthday Celebration Hosted by Hard Rock Cafe New York on June 6th to Support the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance and Animal Welfare Institute
See Four Generations of The Nelson Family sharing the same stage for the first time ever. Performances to include Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real – Insects vs Robots- Official Paula Nelson Band – Raelyn Nelson Band – Lechuza – Folk Uke with Toad the Wet Sprocket – Robert Randolph – and Special Guests.
This is so exciting, fans can help their favorite bands produce and release new music projects! No longer do artists have to wait for advances and contracts from the Record Companies to create their music for their fans. Now, thanks to the digital age and the internet, artists can give their fans an opportunity to pledge/invest in their favorite band with a small-or-as-big-as-you-want pledge to launch their new project. And it’s not a donation, either — you get the new album, and a whole range of other gifts, depending on your pledge.
Micah Nelson and his band Insects vs. Robots are inviting fans to make a pledge towards their next album. With your pledge (as little as $10.00 or as much as you want), you get download of album, limited edition vinyl recording, books, signed posters, original artwork, and all kinds of other amazing things, such as, for a $1000.00 pledge, you’re basically in the band! You can go to a concert and legitimately say, “I’m with the band.” Other gifts include private concerts, personal animation — or for a $5,000.00 pledge, Micah will move into your house for three days and paint a mural on your wall! Wow. And once you pledge, you get updates about the projects, newsletters, downloads — they keep on giving!
They are close, they are 84% towards their goal. Visit their Pledge site, to read about their project, and see all the cool things you get when you Pledge to the IVR Pledge Music Campaign
The New Album
Join IvR in making their new album! Pre-order the Vinyl, get amazing art & exclusives from the band!
Greetings from the Mothership, dear visitor! IvR is thrilled to have you on board for the making of our new record.
We have some fantastic things in store for you: Original artwork by the band, the pre-order of the album on limited edition vinyl, band photos and videos available exclusively to you on Pledge, epic music download bundles, care packages, handmade books, live shows, and for one super-generous soul, a chance to become the hero in an animated short of our making. Choose your adventure to the right and become a part of the journey!
We will be recording in an analog studio, straight to tape, in the beautiful mountain hideaway of Ojai, California. Producer Matt Linesch, a wizard engineer known for his work with Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes, will be manning the console and helping to steer the ship.
The album will be released as a multimedia music and art package. A Limited Edition Vinyl pressing will feature original artwork by the band-members. The online release will include videos and animation inspired by the music.
10% of the money raised above our goal will go to Sound Art, an amazing non-profit in Los Angeles dedicated to providing Free Music Education to children of all ages. Sound Art offers programs at all grade levels, during and after school, at community centers, and partners with neighborhood organizations.
We love you,
Thank you for your support!
Milo, Nikita, Micah, Maggie, Jeff, Tony
Help them meet their goal! Visit their Pledge site, to read about their project, and see all the cool things you get when you pledge as little as $10.00: Pledge to the IVR Pledge Music Campaign
Janis Tillerson took these great photos of Paula Nelson’s set at the Back Yard on April 28, 2013, as part of the Willie Nelson Birthday Celebration/ West Texas Fire Fighter Fundraiser. Paula and her band were joined by Paula’s brothers and sister, and their adopted sister Cathy Guthrie, and daughter.
Micah Nelson, Cathy Guthrie, Amy Nelson
Paula Nelson, Lukas Nelson
Willie Nelson is joined by family and friends during the gospel set of his show at the Back Yard on April 28, 2013.
David Allen Coe, still recovering from terrible automobile accident, showed up to wish Willie Nelson happy birthday, and support the firefighters of West, Texas.
The country legend makes a smokin’ pitch for Peter Jackson to lose that Ian McKellen guy. More CONAN @ http://teamcoco.com/video
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I think this is my new favorite way to buy music: Make a pledge to support those bands and artists you care about, help them fund their new project, and in return get an album and other goodies form the band. It’s exciting; for as little as $10.00 or as much as you want to give, you can be part of a community that helps bands produce the music they love, that their fans love too.
A couple weeks ago I got a notice about Boston indie/folk/rock artist Will Dailey and his new album project. Will is a big Farm Aid supporter, and I don’t know if he has ever said no to Farm Aid when they’ve asked; his name always comes up on news feeds about Farm Aid and fundraisers in the Boston area. I first heard his music when he performed at a Farm Aid in Massachusetts a few years ago. He performed at the Farm Aid Eve concert, the night before Farm Aid, and I remember his set was great, and also that he hung around and handed out copies of his cds to people who attended the Farm Aid Eve fundraiser. Classy. He explained that because of frustration from working with record company, and dissatisfaction he experienced associated with that, that he was choosing tothe Pl fund his project through Pledge the Music site. So I was happy to buy one of his albums, and yesterday I got a notice from the band that they have raised enough money, are finishing their projects, and that a percentage of additional funds raised for their album pre-sale will go to support Farm Aid. Like I said, classy.
And now, I learned that Micah Nelson and his band Insects and Robots are working on their new album project, and are using Pledge the Mission to get the word out and let fans be a part of it. You can pre-order a copy of album for as little as $10.00, or spend a $1,000.00
t is using the Pledge website, to help raise funds for their project, and fans can be a part of it. Micah Nelson, and his band Insects and Robots are working on their new album project, and asking fans to be a part of it and pre-order an album, or make contributions and receive lots of cool things, including stickers, ringtones, photographs, videos original art, or even a private performance in your home, or they will even sing your favorite tune. The band is also donating a proceed of funds from pre-sale of album.
Follow this link to support the band with a small (or large) pledge to help Insects v Robots with their new album project! This is the wave of the future. You feel good, youg get swag, and you get their new album.
Greetings from the Mothership, dear visitor! IvR is thrilled to have you on board for the making of our new record.
We have some fantastic things in store for you: Original artwork by the band, the pre-order of the album on limited edition vinyl, band photos and videos available exclusively to you on Pledge, epic music download bundles, care packages, handmade books, live shows, and for one super-generous soul, a chance to become the hero in an animated short of our making. Choose your adventure to the right and become a part of the journey!
We will be recording in an analog studio, straight to tape, in the beautiful mountain hideaway of Ojai, California. Producer Matt Linesch, a wizard engineer known for his work with Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes, will be manning the console and helping to steer the ship.
The album will be released as a multimedia music and art package. A Limited Edition Vinyl pressing will feature original artwork by the band-members. The online release will include videos and animation inspired by the music.
10% of the money raised above our goal will go to Sound Art, an amazing non-profit in Los Angeles dedicated to providing Free Music Education to children of all ages. Sound Art offers programs at all grade levels, during and after school, at community
This is where our gratitude turns into love. You get an invitation to hang out with us in the studio. We’ll call you on holidays to see how you and your family are doing. If you get a flat tire in Los Angeles, we’ll come to your rescue. Oh, and Micah Nelson will paint a portrait of you.
You’ll get all the beautiful things mentioned. Come hang out with us in the studio. If you can’t, it’s ok, your name will be in the album liner notes. Come play music with us. If we play a show in your town, we’ll play a set at your place. What’s your favorite song? We’ll learn it and play it for you. Lead singer Maggie Lally will teach you how to hula hoop.
Legendary singer song-writer Willie Nelson attended Global Green’s 10th annual pre-Oscar party. Nelson not only came out to support the cause, but also performed with his two sons to help raise money for Global Green’s efforts to build greener, more resilient homes, schools, and communities in areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
Ken Spector from LivingEco.com had the chance to talk to the country star and his family and ask them about the upcoming line-up for the Farm Aid concert, how the Nelsons go green in their daily life and why the small farmer is so important to the USA.
Micah Nelson has announced that his band Insects vs Robots has a new album in the works, and that they will go into the studios in April to record.
Once, as well as many times, in space, there are humans.
In similar space-time as humans is the concept of numbers.
The numbers are needed deep within the humans.
Humans do amazing things and terrible things with their numbers. Within time some numbers begin to disappear from sight, while others begin to ring in human ears,
numbers that are untouchable by calculatory hands. It is the sound of the heart beat, the earth, and of the sub-psychotic magnetic fields that lead the marches
of insects and robots!” —Folklore
“IVR is a psychotropicturesque quasi-nomadic music tribe roaming the jungles of Los Angeles. They employ violin, charango, guitar, drums, bass, voice, harp, banjo, kazoo, harmonium, saran wrap, sitar, megaphone, and other sonic confibulations to weave landscapes of otherworldly, folksy, and volcanic rock music. Their performance causes audiences to enter a state of frenzied joyous dancing, leaping, frothing, singing, moshing, and bewilderment. Having entered into their world, I have peered into the strange polyphonic canyons of their realm, and have no choice but to remain and chronicle their journey. I will not be returning to civilization.”
—From the recovered Field Notebook of missing Anthropologist Dr. Theophrastus Bombastus III.
IVR
Milo Gonzalez
Maggie Lally
Tony Peluso
Micah Nelson
Jeff Smith
Nikita Sorokin
Micah Nelson (guitar/vocals/charango/morgan freeman) Jake Bloch (drums/baby carrots/ranch dressing) Jeff Smith (bass/P-funk/ear-gasms) David Wexler (ableton/beats/textural dopescapes/transcen-dental hygiene/visuals)Come experience some folk-a-delic pårticle-jams with
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The Virgil
4519 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90029
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Janis Tillerson took this photo, in Luck, Texas
