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High Water Media is proud to announce the at-long-last release of Flaming Tusk’s first full-length album: Old, Blackened Century.

HWM is offering this album as a pay-what-you-will download to acknowledge that digital music has become an essentially uncontrolled, infinitely available commodity, and to highlight that this is an entirely independent production financed solely by the band. Supporters of independent music know what they must do; support it.

This widget will allow the curious to stream the album in its entirety:

Catch Flaming Tusk at any number of live shows coming up over the remainder of this winter and into the spring.

Flaming Tusk have survived eight brutal days in the studio at Nuthouse Recording under the whip of Tom Beaujour.

The as-yet untilted full length album will probably be released in late fall or early winter, 2009, following mastering, the finishing of artwork and laying down the infrastructure necessary for worldwide dissemination.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:

Keith Putnam

High Water Media LLC

1819 25^th Road

First Floor

Astoria, NY 11102

keith@highwatermedia.com

917-886-2056

NYC INDIE BAND SEIZE THEM! RELEASES EP UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

April 25, 2008, New York City, NY – Queens-based indie rockers Seize Them! have chosen to forego the traditional protection of copyrighting their music in favor of enabling the widest possible exposure for their work. All of the five songs comprising their debut EP have been released to the public under a Creative Commons license, allowing and encouraging fans to reuse, remix, and repurpose the tunes with very few restrictions.

Seize Them!’s producer Don Red, who has worked with such east-coast musical luminaries as Cyclub, The Thungs, Mr. Dang Dang, Prince Büd and OUCH explained the band’s motivations by saying “Creative Commons gives artists maximum control over their work without sacrificing connection to the audience, and that connection is the reason we’re in this business in the first place. It’s for people who believe that music is free, but artists should get paid for their labor.” Creative Commons was developed in 2001 by intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, and public domain Web publisher Eric Eldred to facilitate sharing of creative works by creating a structure for content creators to retain certain intellectual property rights while giving up others.

The band will sell the disc via their website, as well as in digital download form at the iTunes Music Store and other outlets. They also offer full recordings of most of their live shows to fans for free.

About The Band: Seize Them! is a four-piece rock ensemble from New York City who have been gigging steadily around the metropolis for nearly a year to wide acclaim. Their debut EP is also the first release on the High Water Media label.

For further information, contact Keith Putnam at (917) 886-2056

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High Water Media’s affiliate, the excellent band Seize Them!, have made their 9.8.07 performance available for free download, in both .mp3 and FLAC formats, at the downloads section of seizethem.com. Recorded and performed live at the Jam Factory, High Water Media’s recording facility.

The band encourages you to share their music far and wide, in accordance with their taping and trading policy.

photo by QXZ

High Water Media has begun the stickering campaign for the excellent rock band Seize Them!. Folks all over Astoria, Queens will begin to feel subtly drawn toward the internet, their nameless craving satisfied only by discovering Seize Them!’s music.

The band took over the High Water Media music studio today for several hours of practice ahead of next weekend’s house party performance. New songs are coming together, and we hope they’ll be able to get several of the new things onto the EP-in-progress.

Tomorrow High Water Media is going to take advantage of the probable Labor Day sale at the local Guitar Center to pick up a more powerful PA for the studio and perhaps some speakers as well.

It’s all coming together. Sandbags are filling.

photo by QXZ