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Whats up party people!!!?? I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been coming out to Magnoliablack shows and supporting us and our friends in fellow other bands. Looks like our June mini tour got canceled due to a couple clubs switching around shows and such. Its time for us to start making contracts for clubs to sign so that they still have to pay us even if they cancel our show. Who knows? It might make them think twice before fucking with us. Its cool for now though. It gives us all time to do some more work on the new album and for our stimulus checks to roll in :)

On another note, I have been reading lately. I just finished a book called, Love Is A Mix Tape, by Rob Sheffield. Its a great love story which ends tragically and leaves you hopeful and wanting more the way any good read should. Its a true story and told through the beautiful art of mix tapes. Its only 220 pages so its not a difficult read. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys music and/or making mix tapes.

I have recently gotten into the band, Strata, lately. They are a band from Campbell, Ca. Eventhough the singer has left due to personal reasons, the music and lyrics have captured me. Its really hard these days to find good music, especially as a musician, which gives you goosebumps or that you fall into passionately. This is one of those bands for me. The album I just got is Strata Presents the End of the World. Fitting title, huh? I recommend this album to people who enjoy music by Dredg and other such types of artsy rock. There is nothing really over the top here. Great solid beats and fills, spacey guitar riffs, interesting basslines, and soaring vocals with strong lyrics to think about. I feel this is how we, Magnoliablack, try to get our music across. Hopefully, when we get some new music up soon, you will see what I mean. Its a very exciting time, and scary time.

This will be our first full length album and will have everyone's blood, sweat, and tears put into it. We are recording and mixing it ourselves, just as we did with the last CD, but this time we will send it out to get mastered. We hope people will like it as much as we do and the album will take off enough so that we don't have to have day jobs anymore and do what we truly love to do. Make music.

I also bought Portishead's new album, Third. I have not however, listened to this whole album through yet. As with all other Portishead albums, I have to be in the right mood to listen to it, dark and depressed.

If anyone has a book they think I should read or let me borrow, let me know.
Thanks all!!
Much love,
Ian