Oh, to be home again...

Kelly and I finally made it back home last night after a two month long tour. It feels so nice to be back and to have our own bed again! Ironically, we actually fell asleep on the couch our first night back while watching a movie! Regardless, there was something about using my own soap and towels in the shower that makes me feel cleaner than I have in six weeks! I've had hotels-a-plenty the last four years of my life, though we have a few shows here and there over the next couple months, I plan to absorb home life as much as I can. Thank you to all of you who came out to the shows and supported the tour, bought the merchandise, brought friends and made new fans out of them. We had a great time meetings and playing for you!

"Life As A Song" will be released digitally on iTunes tomorrow, or supposedly. One of the problems as an independent artist is that everything is tentative until it actually happens. I work with smaller companies to get my music released, and though the official release date is October 13th, sometimes digital stores like iTunes and Rhapsody do not post smaller releases until a few days after the major's. It makes things difficult when trying to promote the release of an album, a lot doesn't go as planned. But either way, it SHOULD be up by the end of the week.

I've had a lot of time over the last months of touring to think about the direction of Five Times August and the future of my music career. Road worn and exhausted, over the winter holiday season I plan to stay at home as much as possible and work on new material, and have even thought about a few side projects separate from FTA I'd like to experiment with. I'm excited to see what happens. I do have almost an entire album's worth of material for another FTA release, but since "Life" hasn't even come out yet I plan to take my time on the next album. I am hoping while I am home I can get a music video done for my favorite song on the album, "Break." The video for "Better With You" came out great and I had a wonderful experience making it, so I'm intrigued to see if we can accomplish something even better!

Anyway, I wanted to drop a line and finally get this blog started with a real entry! Since I am actually home now I think I'll have more time to update you guys on what's happening. I also plan to write a few blog articles on the music industry and how I run things as an independent artist, so stay tuned for that.

Hope you are well.

From home,

Brad