Today Jim Santora published his latest Rockcast, two hours of interviews and rock music, and for us this show was a extra special since a whole hour was about Killer Clan of F.U.N. and “The World of Voodoo”!

It was Maniac who got to talk to Jim about the origins of the band, the ideas behind the music and the songwriting and much more. A real honour for the band to be a part of this, and big salute for one hell of a radio host in Jim Santora.

You can listen directly to the show in the player below, and furthermore, the show is also aired on a number of podshows and webb radio stations you can check out below.

The show is also played on these stations:

Maximum Threshold
Blaze-Radio
WWPM Medianet
K-IRB
Hot Rocks Radio

Here’s another take from the acoustic set on the release party. “Trip Trip” in quite a different version from what you’ve heard before, I’m sure.

If you’d like to compare you can listen to the original song on the debut album.

Today it’s August 27th which means graduation day for our naughty child “The World of Voodoo”. Ten tracks we hope will take you on a rock n’ roll adventure  you want to experience again and again.

We hope to see you at tonight’s release party where the band will play the album from the start to the end. There will also be an acoustic session earlier in the evening and more surprises. And everyone will get a “The World of Voodoo”-CD.

For those of you who can’t make it, we’ve made the album available everywhere (well almost…):
On our music page you can see the options if you’d like to download it, order a CD or maybe a beautiful T-shirt.

It’s also available on Spotify, on Itunes, on Amazon, on Soundcloud and a bunch of other places. Your choice. If you want it any other way just tell us and we’ll do our best. We’ll even mail you the album if need be.

Let’s start the journey:

If you like to read press releases, here’s one in Swedish and one in English.

We’re steaming it up a bit with a new free song from “The World of Voodoo” to listen to. You can download it too by right-clicking the link. Later tonight we’ll add another song. Here’s “The New Stone Age”:

The New Stone Age

The atmosphere was thunderous today in the rehearsal room, as I met the band a couple of hours ago. They had just received a letter (you know, a snail mail), where the label threatened to postpone the release of “The World of Voodoo”!

The reason for this seemed to be that the band is handing out CD:s to everyone at the release party on Saturday, for free. And the label want their share.

- They can have their share alright!!!, Maniac boomed.
- 80% right? And they will have their 80%…out of nothing, he said with a grim smile on his face.

He got more and more agitated, walking around the room, shouting some sentences I don’t really want to translate here. Suddenly he stopped and said slowly:

- I can tell you. NOTHING comes between us and our fans! NOTHING! Get that?

He picked up a bunch of papers that was lying on a chair and held them up in the air:

- This is the contract with the label. I think you should give it back to them…

And he started to tear the pages apart. Since it was 200 pages or so, he was quickly joined by the others, giving him a hand with the tearing and tossing. Especially 3B seemed to be enjoying the drill, as he said it reminded him of the good days in school.

5 minutes later, the contract was in shreds. Maniac shoved most of the thousands of small pieces of paper in a bucket, opened a can of beer and poured the contents in the bucket.

- Here, take it to the label, he said. There will be a release party, no matter what. It’s all in our own hands, hahaha.

As usual I had to try to fix things, so I went over to the record label, and met with one of the executives (he wanted to be anonymous, if I were to write the story).

- Well, I can tell you that the contract is quite clear about this. I know it by heart and on page 143, paragraph 246d it clearly says….

I stopped him, muttered something about the contract and pointed at the bucket.

- Haha, do they really think it’s that easy, he said calmly. We do live in a digital age, and ripping some signed papers apart won’t help you. We have a special department for this and with their modern methods they glue this contract to one piece again, in no time.

- And how long will that take?

- Well, normally I’d say a couple of weeks, as with normal bands. But normal bands don’t pour beer over their shredded contracts, so let’s say a month.

- But then the release party is over?

- Yes I know, but then they will have to undo it.

- Undo it? How?

-We have our methods. For example, we can confiscate all images, video clips and sound recordings from the party. And if there’s no evidence left, it didn’t happen. Hahaha…

After this last statement I left the building, leaving the executive laughing behind me. I’m sure we will hear more about this later on, but for now I’m satisfied that the party on Saturday is on, no matter what.

/a tired manager

Well, to get in the mood for Saturday, we’d better serve you something more from the album. Here’s the third song from “The World of Voodoo”: “In Touch With My Demons”.

Enjoy!

In Touch With My Demons

(Right-click to download the mp3)

Here’s the fifth part, presenting “Liquor”.
You can watch part 1-4 on our video page.

And the fourth part is ready, ie. the ramblings about the fourth song on the album; “Say Hello to My Bullet”.

The other parts in the series you can find on our video page.

The release date and the release gig on August 27th is coming closer and closer so I’d better hurry on to introduce the songs for you. Here’s track nr three on the album, “In Touch With My Demons”.

And now we’re back with the second part of the “The World of Voodoo”-intro. Logically it’s about the second song on the album, “The New Stone Age“:

If you missed part one, “Cocaine On the Brain”, or would like to read the track-list again, you can find the post here.