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Hey everyone.
Welcome to what looks like spring, at least here in beautiful northern Michigan. It’s been a while since my last writing, but a great deal has happened in the last few months.

When i last spoke to you, I mentioned that my metal project Crater Maker was in the works, and I was also working on the launch of a Kickstarter Campaign to fund my long over due solo album entitled “Headspace.” Well, both are now officially live.

The Crater Maker EP launched 2 weeks ago and features yours truly on vocals, keyboardist Damon Fibraio, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Baird. The EP features 7 hard hitting original tunes, and 6 remixes, 5 of which were chosen by us from submissions from folks all over the world. Head on over to http://www.cratermakerband to learn more or pick up the EP in the following digital retailers. We’re available on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, and for those who prefer lossless recordings, we’re also available on Bandcamp. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter, or like our page on Facebook. This is the metal record I’ve always wanted to make since middle school, and it was a pleasure recording these tunes.

Now onto Kickstarter. As of about 10 minutes ago, I launched my campaign to fund the making of my next album entitled Headspace. This will feature 11 new tunes that outlines the story of my journey over the past couple of years. I feel that it illustrates a definite forward progression with my songwriting and vocal ability. The funding will go towards recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, the filming of a documentary, and a brand new website roll out. I have made available some exciting prizes for different levels of giving, and I invite you to check those out and consider helping me reach my goal. If interested, Click Here to watch my brief video. If you haven’t heard my debut album “It’s about time,” there is a free download available right from the kickstarter page. I wanted to put my money where my mouth is and make my first album free to those who are considering funding this new release. Thanks in advance to all who are interested in helping out.

Here’s what’s coming up in the near future. Ian and I have decided to remix The Freefall Effect, a politically charged hard rock project that we released 5 years ago. We felt it was time to dust it off, pick out the 5 best songs and retrack some of the instruments and vocals and give it a sound that was on par with our current production abilities. That album will be available in the next few weeks. When I send out an update to Kickstarter around that time, you’ll find links on where to preview and purchase that EP as well.

Thanks so much guys for lending me your in-box today. I really appreciate it. I invite you to follow me on twitter by following @reevesman or @kevinreevesmusic. The former is my personal account, which features all my music related updates plus my unfiltered mouth, and the latter features just my music updates and links and information for musicians and music lovers alike. I hope you are enjoying this nice weather we are beginning to experience, and I hope you guys have a fantastic rest of the week.

God Bless

Kevin Reeves

Hey Everyone.

Well, as is the usual way, it’s been far too long Since an official update. Things are slowly but steadily moving forward. In June, I graduated from the Louisiana Center for the BLind. I spent the balance of this summer living in Ruston, where I decompressed from an intense 9 months, as well as flying to Orlando for this year’s NFB convention, as well as participating as a camp councilor for blind students in a science, engineering, and math program called Youth Slam. As of August 1st, I flew back to Michigan, where I set up shop back in Traverse City to relaunch my career. Everything’s been on hold for about a year, so it’s good to get it all rolling again.
This whole process has been about rebooting everything for me. In result, expect to see tons of output, both musical and otherwise before year’s end.
My album “Headspace” is officially moving forward. Ian Baird is working on editing the drums that we tracked just under 2 years ago. Geoff Smith has thumped down some awesome bass. In 2 weeks or so, I move to hiring some guitar players. Ian has recommended some great guys, and combined with the guys I already had in mind, I think we’re gonna have an amazing wall of guitars. In the meantime, I am working to secure funding to finish this project. I’m currently drafting up a proposal on Kickstarter, which will be a platform for the project to get funded. I wanted to throw this out to you guys before everything goes live on the kickstarter service so that you all were aware and decide if you were able to help. In short, I am reaching out to you, my friends, to see if you would be willing and interested in helping me fund the remainder of the project. I’ll be putting the project up for roughly $10,000. This will cover drum editing, guitarists, mixing, mastering, artwork, pressing, and a completely new web theme for the kevinreeves.net site, whose rollout will coincide with the release. I will post another message in a few weeks to keep everyone updated on when the project will go live and how you can help. I will be offering incentive programs for different donation amounts, so you can own more than just the album itself. WHen the time comes, any help that any of you will be able to provide will be greatly appreciated.

Now, on to the part of this update that I’m sure has your curiosity peaked. Yes folks, I have indeed gone metal, at least for the side project I’m about to reveal to you.
About 5 years ago, I was commissioned by Damon Fibraio to write a theme song for “No Holds Barred,” the flagship show on the No Holds Barred Radio Network. So, I set to work writing him this really brutal metal tune, playing all the instruments and laying down the vocals. I had Clarence Griffindo a quick mix and master so we could get it ready for air. The success of the song was so overwhelming by the community, that I knew I just might have a minor hit on my hands if I could get some real players to rerecord it. I filed it in the back of my mind as a project to tackle in the future. Also in that mental file was the idea to put a whole album out of heavy tunes like that under the name Crater Maker. But alas, the cards never aligned for that project to get off the ground.
Flash forward to 2 weeks ago. I was once again approached by Damon about rerecording the theme for the relaunch of his show. At the same time, he had peaked the interest of Ian Baird to be involved in the tracking and mixing of thi Project. The last 10 days were spent retracking everything from the ground up: Ian tracking drums, bass, and guitar, Damon tracking the keyboards and some vocals, and yours truly handling the lead vocals. Ian then mixed and mastered the tune and gave it the sheen and shine I was looking for.
In this process, the desire to revisit the concept of Crater Maker came to the forefront of my mind. A week ago, I approached the guys about writing more tunes and putting them out as an official Crater Maker album. They agreed, and the concept began to take shape.
So today, at this very moment, to coincide with the actual airing of the all new No Holds Barred Radio show, we bring you our first official Crater Maker single “No Holds Barred,” Available now for streaming and purchase. You can stream the tune in full quality and purchase it for 99 cents right from the bandcamp site. It’s fast and easy. Also, we’ve rolled out other Crater Maker pages for you to check us out on.
Along with the bandcamp site where you can Listen & Buy, We also have Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube pages where you can interact with us and keep up to date with everything that’s going on. We even have a video featuring the No Holds Barred single with lyrics on the above youtube page. Mad props to Ian for making that happen in such a short time. We hope to have an EP drop before the Christmas holidays. Watch those pages for more updates.

Well, there you have it. Lots of stuff happening around these parts. Stay tuned to this space as more things unfold. Yes. I’ve even got more stuff up my sleeve I haven’t yet posted about. All the more reason to stay subscribed to the blog or email list.

Thanks again for opening your email In Box and taking the time to read this. I really look forward to hearing from all of you. Have a great night.

Kevin Reeves