Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer On Spotify

The new album, Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer, is on Spotify, so presumably it's now available everywhere else digital music is found.  If you give it a listen, you might double my monthly listeners.  I like the album; it's fun.  Based on the Spotify Wred Fright radio, which always amuses me, if you like musical artists such as Pavement, Modest Mouse, The Weirdos, Joy Division, Spacemen 3, Swell Maps, Nobunny, Flipper, and other obscure indie rockers (all of which sounds about right, so not bad for a computer algorithm), then you'll enjoy the album.  I didn't use artificial intelligence since human intelligence was messy enough, thank you.  Presumably, the reason it took so long to get uploaded was that the distributor is increasingly having to sort through artificial intelligence generated releases, but that's just a guess.  I've heard some interesting mashups from AI such as Minor Threat being played in soul style, so the technology shows promise, but I'd rather stick to playing the old-fashioned way at the moment as it is more fun.  It's kind of funny though that when I started playing solo as Wred Fright, coming out of the GoGoBots, I had some fun pretending to be a robot musician, a musical machine friend or something, and now the musical machine friends are really here.

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Music Video: Political Party B.Y.O.B.

 

This video was fun to make!  Spent some time on the last weekend of summer in downtown Cleveland, Ohio USA and found some appropriate footage for this politically-themed tune from What's Your Flow Setting, Baby?  I went down to see the nifty new Superman statue but saw lots of other nifty things as well such as The Green Bay Packers arriving under police escort and a pickle festival.  We ate at the Michael Symon restaurant and had some leftovers which I gave to a homeless dude digging through the trash.  If you're hungry enough to have to dig through a trashcan for food in downtown Cleveland, then you need the remaining pulled pork more than me.  The joke was that a block later, the guy yelled, "Dammit!  I wanted the beef brisket!"  Maybe so, but I was too busy walking back to my free parking, as usual a hike, to know for sure.  In any case, I hope the guy enjoyed the leftovers, and I hope you enjoy this video!

 

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Music Video: AM Radio Song

 

Here's a music video for "AM Radio Song".  I used footage from downtown Cleveland, Ohio USA that I filmed last fall.  The smashed keyboard might imply a storyline wherein a disgruntled office worker left the office one day in search of the soothing outdoors, but mainly it's just stuff I thought was cool looking.  I'll probably finish the videos for What's Your Flow Setting, Baby? (four more to go!), but since I'm several albums behind now, I'll probably only do a video or two from each of the later albums.  We'll see.  Making the videos is kind of fun.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

New Single!: Partying By Myself

wredfright · Partying By Myself

While I'm waiting for the distributor to get Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer out to Spotify and the rest (apparently, there's a 22-working day leadtime currently--and that's assuming they don't tell me it needs to be remastered, and I have to remind them it's not K-Pop; if it ever gets out, I'll let you know, though it's not like you can't listen to it on Bandcamp or Soundcloud already), here's a new single to tide us over.  This one's an ode to having fun by yourself, though I suppose it could also be interpreted as being sad.  The singer sounds a bit happy though in this version though; maybe someone can cover it with a downer arrangement sometime.  It's the usual vocals, guitar, fake bass, and drums, though I had fun playing around with a drum machine instead of playing drums live, so programming or whatever they call it when Ministry or somebody uses a drum machine on a recording?  Lyrics are below:

Have another drink.
It's always nice to see you.
I tell the mirror.
There's no one else here.

'Cause I'm partying by myself.

Put on some tunes.
It's a good time.
If the rest of the world wants to be miserable,
then I don't mind.

And if there's any melancholy,
I'll drown it in my drink.

The problem with bars is any jerk can walk in.
That's why a party is better,
and this is an exclusive party.
If you aren't me, you aren't invited.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer On Bandcamp!

 

The new album's on Bandcamp now.  Give it a spin please.  It's the mastered version, so you likely won't have to lunge at the volume control to turn your volume down (unless you like it loud, then turn it up!).  Working on Spotify and the others next, but after earning like $4 for something like 350,000 plays, I'm not going to jump through too many hoops for those.  We'll see.

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Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer On SoundCloud

wredfright · Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer

There you go!  My new album is out on SoundCloud:  https://soundcloud.com/wredfright/sets/fallout-shelter-ran-out-of  This likely will be the only place to listen to it in its full needle into the red glory.  The other streaming sites will likely get a mastered version of the album that'll sound like the ghost of Tommy Ramone working on Tim by The Replacements.  It'll be a fun listen for the three adventuresome listeners who bother to listen to it, especially these days when a lot of new music is formulaic (the other day I saw an ad by a punk band looking for a guitarist--um, you're a punk band, maybe you don't get it, but you find a friend and convince him to learn guitar; you don't run an ad like you're forming Kiss or a yacht rock cover band) and boring (and wait until artificial intelligence starts getting used for everything--this boring era will seem golden by comparison).  Anyway, no artificial intelligence used here, just plenty of weird instruments and not so weird instruments played by a human.  You should be able to download MP3s from SoundCloud, which I recommend because one never knows when these music sites go under.  I'll be working on Bandcamp next, but why wait?  Have some fun and rock out now!

For more Wred Fright music, give his other albums a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!  

Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer Liner Notes

  

The liner notes for my new album are done.  They can be found here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivcMeG_6DhosdcgGE_BNxfaUGmesJmoH/view?usp=sharing  The album is Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer.  The album will start popping up on various listening services in the next few weeks, but for now you can read about it at least.

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Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer Track List

  

The track list for the new Wred Fright album, Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer, is currently set as follows: 

1. Pep In Your Step
2. All Roads Lead To Death
3. All The Onions In The World
4. My Heart Is An Occupied Territory
5. Put Me On Your Shopping List
6. Having Fun In The Former USA
7. Courtesy Flush
8. Hank Rose And The Rank Hos
9. Black Walnut Season
10. Kaurismaki
11. Stop Communication
12. Forget Me Fondly
13. Scatological Scat
14. Childhood Friend

Basically, I kept all the new songs from 2023 and 2024 in the order of composition/release (though "Childhood Friend" wouldn't be released until 2025, it was written and recorded in 2024).  There seemed to be a natural order there that was worth keeping, so I didn't mess with it.  The whole of the parts add up to something new when grouped together.  The album clocks in at about 36 minutes, which is a good length for an album.  You can hear the tracks now at https://soundcloud.com/wredfright though I have not created the official album/playlist yet.  Look for the next post to feature the liner notes for the album.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer Cover

Here's the cover for the new album.  Laugh if you must, but when compared with the covers on new albums I see at the library, this one is more interesting than most of them.  Alas, I couldn't afford a Roger Dean painting (he's the guy who did the Yes and Asia album cover paintings), so it's just a photo of a fallout shelter sign and some beer cans.  But look how much work I did making generic beer cans!  Ha!  I'll share the track listing in the next post.  If you are excited for the new album, then you can warm up by listening to the first four albums (links to them are below in the blurb).

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!