A Stinging Rain Reissue Promo Poster

I know I just said we weren't promoting the band anymore, but over the last few weeks I've produced a magazine-sized promo poster for some spurious marketing opportunities which might arise. It doesn't look half bad, if I may say so myself.



Here's what the text says:

In the summer of 1993, the indie rock foursome Stinging Rain ascended into a vacant third floor and recorded their masterpiece, Face of Stephen.

Shortly afterward they disbanded, and their rhythmic brand of hopeful, melodic rock seemed consigned to the twilight of silent memory.

Now — after being out of print for 15 years — their full catalog of original studio tracks is available again via digital download. Visit:

cdbaby.com/all/stingingrain

Not too "over the top", but still attention-getting, I hope. At the bottom of the page I included the phrase "Clear Tears of Light", a line from Grey Shapes, the first song on our first album, then across from it "One Eternal Flame", from Nothing Ever Changes, the last song on our last album. The large text bordering the picture is, of course, from a middle song on our middle album, On Eagle's Wings from the dream, but I didn't really plan that one as much. "Come with me, take this hand, we'll travel far across the sea and land" has always been one of my favorite lines from the pen and the mind of Nathan Depew.

Click on the picture, look at the large photo and tell me I don't look like Harry Potter with the messy hair and the glasses.

Digital Delivery Report from CD Baby

The latest update to our CD Baby status page shows that as of Thursday, 3/13, the Face of Stephen tracks have been submitted to 7 digital distribution companies: iTunes, Napster, Verizon, PayPlay, Amie Street, Tradebit and MusicIsHere. The page predicts 2 or 3 weeks before the tracks show up for download from those services.

Of course, anybody can download Face of Stephen from CD Baby right now, but far more people have iTunes or accounts on other services. I'm a Napster guy myself, and I'll probably buy a $0.99 track or two just for the fun of it when the stuff shows up.

In other news, my dad cut the live tracks from our Crawford show onto CD for me the other day. I'm still not sure I'm going to submit the live stuff; I'm thinking I should have used them as "bonus tracks" on FoS, but too late for that now. I listened to the Violin live track at Nate's house over the weekend. It was with the original bass line, which I'd forgotten, along with the dozens of other things which have fallen through the ever-widening memory hole.

But hearing a tune from that gig brought a smile to my face. I remember receiving an off-stage rebuke from the... uh, "powers that be" because over six hundred people showed up—far more than expected—and there was a stage rush at the beginning of the show. That was a little too wild for GCC; we were such rebels.