Support This.

quick shout my lovely peoples...from Brooklyn, NY. I got an email yesterday from a sweet gal in Memphis, TN who politely asked me where she could find my albums out on the web to download for free. She said, "I'm bummed because I can't find the whole albums on lime wire anymore." That was a quote. Seriously. She asked me if I had a different suggestion than lime wire.


I was quite perplexed by this note, though I appreciated her interest in the getting the music so immediately. As many of you guys know and understand, being an artist today in the collapsing music industry is not easy. Touring, promotion, and recording all cost enormous amounts of money that I can't even begin to explain...One Month U.S.
Tour = 10 times my NYC monthly rent

So, I love you guys like crazy and you all keep me afloat by coming out to the shows everywhere I've been lucky enough to tour in the world (literally the world). But, please I beg you, for the love of what I do as an artist and someone trying to be relevant in your world: support me, support the music, support what we as artists do. The work and time we put in can suck the life out of an artist sometimes. If you love the music you're hearing and want me to have the power to continue, please purchase the albums with money. I want you to have them and play them. Just remember how much went into it all before it reached your ears.

If you haven't already, go to these links to the store.

ONLINE STORE LINK::
{www.cdbaby.com/all/anackman}

So many great things are coming...the studio has been electric.

Much Love,
-Alex

POSTED FROM BROOKLYN, NY AT 11:51 AM

Bowery Ballroom - 8.15.08 - NYC

Sorry this has taken so stupidly long. It's almost bordering on non-relevance. I sort of kind of got pre-occupied, then remembered, then forgot, then got emails from you guys asking for the setlist.

It was bloody awesome to be back home in New York at the Bowery Ballroom. We had a total blast with Kill the Alarm and the show was just electric on many levels (not literally because we played acoustic). But, you get the idea. Thanks to so many of you all for making it a hell of a show. The balcony was especially impressive.

Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St.
New York, NY
Fri. August 15, 2008

SETLIST:

WAIT FOR ME
HOLIDAY
PROXIMITY
POLAROID FACE
ALOUD
AMSTERDAM AVENUE
SUNRISE FALLS
DIONYSUS

~Alex




*[photography at bowery ballroom courtesy of cory schwartz photography nyc]

POSTED FROM NEW YORK, NY AT 12:47 AM

The Yanks

i had the pleasure of going to a Yankees game in the final week of Yankee Stadium. I've been a huge Yankee fan from birth and even pursued baseball pretty damn seriously until music stripped me of my baseball ambitions. So, getting to go back to the Bronx and see my Yanks play this last year at the Stadium was pretty stellar. My darling friend Phoebe invited me along. I thoroughly enjoyed field level seats, $11 beers, and an $8 hot dog. I actually really did enjoy all of those things. I did think that my car was going to be chopped and sold for parts in the shady lot off 158th Street I found. Fortunately "Jimmy," my trustworthy and steadfast parking lot guardian man said he only had to drive the car around the block twice while I was inside the stadium at the game.

"Well, thanks Jimmy, you really are swell."

-Alex

POSTED FROM NEW YORK, NY AT 12:40 AM

...Transition

Hey Guys:

In response to a handfull of emails I've received in the last week: yes, the new music is coming shortly. I apologize for the delay. I'm just trying to get it right. I should have a preview by early Fall (even though it is sort of early Fall right now). It's been a very busy summer with a ton of traveling to Asia, Portland, Seattle, and L.A., a huge show back home at Bowery Ballroom in NYC, and now nothing but recording. Rest assured that all these things have brought about some serious inspiration. There is just this new tone and this new headspace to the songs that I haven't charted yet until now. It's exciting. The songs are revealing. My vocals seem very emphatic and deliberate. I like that.

In the meantime, here are some films and books (old and new) that have me thoroughly enthralled in the last couple months while at home in New York and on the road:

FILMS:
-Lila Says
-Band Of Outsiders
-The Counterfeiters
-24 Hour Party People
-Wonderland (UK movie, not the U.S. one)
-Lost in Translation (again)
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (saw it again and really am obsessed)
-Last of the High Kings


BOOKS:
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger

It may seem that I like some depressing stuff here, but that's not really it. I just like it when books or films challenge my ability to stay composed. Reflecting is not a bad thing...so I've learned.

Songs coming soon.

Love to you all.

~Alex