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When I was living in Bristol (England), and the furthest away from reality that I had ever been, I discovered that the landlord was selling the flat, and I had to move. I was furious… not that I had to move… but that the landlord was being very ignorant in his communications.


In a fit of rage, I threw drinking glasses at the wall, which left tiny pieces of glass stuck in the wall and shards that seemed to stretch from one end of the flat to the other. I left the glass lying on the floor for days… well over a week if I remember correctly. I refused to clean it up, because it was the most real thing in my life. There was no doubt that broken glass was all over the carpet, as I walked over it with bare feet repeatedly everyday.


I eventually cleaned up the glass and repaired the pitted walls to a state better than when I moved in. I did write a song though, before I cleaned up the mess, and that song is called “Shards.”


I will be performing “Shards” for the first time at The Star of Bethnal Green on July 15th in London. Re-creationist that I am… I will be smashing bottles and grinding broken glass as a musical implement... while I play keyboard and sing.


It’s either going to be like watching a train wreck or the coolest thing that has ever happened onstage… either way… you shouldn’t miss it!

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Star of Bethnal Green
7:00 PM
359 Bethnal Green
London E2 6LG
UK
Price: £6, £5 w/ flyer

Print the flyer!

A few days ago, I made 7 signed copies of When All Else Fails (EP) available for purchase. Why only 7? ... because that's all the more copies that I physically have in my possession. The rest are in another country, on another continent, across the ocean, and tied up in distribution.

With the signed CD... you also get a promotional copy of Between 10 and 2.

I feel compelled to tell you that this is an incredible value for the money, because you are getting two albums for the price of one, as the promotional copy of Between 10 and 2 is the full album, minus the packaging.

The cost is:
£5 + £1 Shipping.

This is the best method to buy both albums if you live in the UK or Europe... cheaper than ordering from CD Baby.

That being said, once they are gone, they are gone, and orders will have to go through CD Baby until I make another journey home, which is unlikely to be for a long, long time.

Sorry.... SOLD OUT!

Please order the album directly through CD Baby.

What was formerly known as TyLean.com Memberships has now been repackaged and retitled as "The Unveiled," a one-year members-only project where subscribers receive weekly, unreleased mp3s, pdfs, and the like.

To celebrate the re-packaging of the newly re-titled Unveiled, I am offering the first two weeks of the subscription free!

If you sign up before Saturday, 25 June, you will receive The Unveiling No. 8: the "Corner of My Eye" chapter of my autobiography: Inside the Mirror

Get an autographed copy of When All Else Fails (EP). A promotional copy of Between 10 and 2 will be included.

£5 + £1 Shipping.

Orders ship internationally from the United Kingdom.

Sorry.... SOLD OUT!

Please order the album directly through CD Baby.

I am feeling very shallow, as I look at my own blog - my own posts - my own words, and see repeatedly "links to buy."

This is NOT what it's supposed to be about! I mean, for Christ sake, "Distractions" is a completely anti-consumer, anti-shallow song about how we have lost sight of what is important in life and how finding fault in others is a means to keep us from finding fault within ourselves!

In the last few months, I have gotten very excited about projects that I want to do, albums I want to release.... and the problem is not that these things have yet to be created, but that they need an investment in order to be released into the world. I have three completed albums that I would release this very summer... if I had the funds to do so. Creating music and art is what I live for. It's what gives me a reason to live and allows and/or maintains my happiness. And I'm fucking great at it.... it just tears me apart to have to ask people to buy my music... even if it is for the greater good of releasing more music and keeping me from starving and sleeping under trucks (been there, done that).

I don't need an expensive car or luxury vacations or shopping sprees.... all I want to do is create music and art. I can do that from a shack in the woods with a banjo! I do go through this periodically.... questioning why I try to "reach people" with my music, when the very act of "reaching people" requires that I buy into the consumer/marketing system that I despise so very much.

I feel like a hypocrite... and I am so very sorry for that.... to everyone as well as to myself.

I have recently been enlightened as to the extreme awesomeness of ReverbNation! As a musician... I must say... it's probably the best thing to come along since... well... social networking! Join me on ReverbNation, and you will be entitled to download the EXCLUSIVE track "The Monster I've Become" FREE, which is available nowhere else!

In the next edition of TyLean.com, Members will be receiving the "Corner of My Eye" chapter of my autobiography, Inside the Mirror (working title), where I recount the 18 months of my life when I was completely insane and suffered horrific hallucinations... which also happens to be the period of time when Between 10 and 2 was written, recorded, and released.

How do you get this incredibly revealing piece of reading material? It's quite simple really... become a TyLean.com Member!
TyLean.com Membership is a premium service that provides weekly emails with attachments of goodies... such as unreleased mp3s.

Become a TyLean.com Member today!

This week's TyLean.com Members received an mp3 of a song called "October," originally intended to be track 3 of When All Else Fails (EP). It was later replaced by "Do Nyanono." Once upon a time, I would open my performances with this creepy little a'cappella.

Become a TyLean.com Member and receive exclusive tracks weekly!

My music is now being played on Jango.com... visit my profile, become a fan, and give me a nice, happy rating to help me get into regular rotation!

Rate TyLean on Jango

I have just read a review of Between 10 and 2 that - I think - is my best review EVER! As I have bitched about in the past, everyone is always fucking up the meanings of my songs and misunderstanding my music - which is okay. It's not important that everyone understands every note and word of my songs and why I do what I do.

That being said... I have never read someone describe my music so accurately!

Read the review

Okay.... so I started a Facebook page sometime ago, but that was about the extent of my efforts. Since then, everyone has a Facebook page, and it seems to have surpassed MySpace as the fastest medium for show and event info.


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I finally joined Twitter:

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I was recently in Belfast again, which made me think of an interview that I did with a Canadian radio show, Hart of the Music, which was conducted over the phone while I was living in Belfast. Unfortunately, the host of the show went to another station, and the interview never aired.

HOWEVER... I do have mp3s of the interview, which are being sent to TyLean.com Members.

Over the last few years, you may have caught wind of this project called 22 Morbid and the album that I keep saying is coming out called Thus Far. I know, I know... at this point, you are probably doubting it's existence! Well, believe it or not, it DOES exist.

This week, TyLean.com membership holders received an mp3 from the mythical album: Thus Far, a demo of the track called "Unspoken Thing."

For the first edition of the TyLean.com membership, I carefully selected a very special track to share called "Cookie Cutter Beauty."

"Cookie Cutter Beauty" was originally intended to be on Between 10 and 2,
but when it came time to master the album, it just didn't seem to fit
anymore. All members received a full mp3, emailed directly to them.

The Unveiling of the TyLean.com Membership

Over and over again, I get requests for “more TyLean,” from fans across the world. People are amazed to learn that I have 100s of compositions and songs, and yet only have two albums (13 tracks total) released. Releasing an album takes time and money, and as an independent recording artist with loads or material to share – and fans who want that material – it can be incredibly frustrating.

HOWEVER… I believe I have found the solution! Starting the 1st of May, 2009, I will be offering one-year Memberships to TyLean.com. Fans can now receive a subscription of TyLean, weekly, in their inbox.

How is this different from a newsletter or a blog post? The difference is in the attachment! Each week, I will email TyLean.com members an exclusive, unreleased track, photo, or chapter to my work-in-progress autobiography (which is revealing to say the very least). Being a member of TyLean.com will not only keep you up to date with where I am in the world and what I am up to, but also provide a special insight to how I am evolving artistically and musically.

A one-year membership to TyLean.com can be purchased through Paypal for $50. That’s less than $1/week for guaranteed, hassle-free TyLean artistry delivered to your inbox every week!

Purchase your One-year TyLean.com Membership for $50.

So... I'm sure you are all curious as to what the hell is going on with me. I can't stay in the same place for longer than 5 seconds, one minute I'm working on albums, the next I'm not, I'm in England, then I'm in the US, then I'm in Northern Ireland, then I'm back in the US, then I'm in Northern Ireland again, now I'm in England, I'm auditioning for bands, I'm saying "fuck you" to the world... I can hardly keep up with myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be able to.

In short... I have been allowing my personal life to dictate my career and, perhaps for the first time ever, putting people I love and care about ahead of my music. That sounds sweet... but it all backfired miserably, and I have thus learned my lesson.

I am making a resolution to never let some silly human come between myself and music again. I am a recording artist, and if you strip that away from me, there is nothing left but the hollow shell of person with a meaningless existence.

I have such a varied pallet of musical interests that it's pretty hard to answer the question: "what type of music do you listen to?" Once upon a time, I would list bands and songs that I listen to, but since there were bands and songs in virtually every genre I started to reply with, "the best of every genre."

No more. When asked what music I listen to or what my influences are... I am going to reply, "the music that possesses my soul," because the music I listen to all have a common thread: my ability to get lost in the music.

This is what I strive for in my own writing... for the listener to get lost in the experience of the song. To experience what I have experienced.

Hmmmmm.... it's the Dead Fag's birthday. May he continue to burn in hell... not that I believe in hell.

In England... again.

Nashville is going to have to wait a bit, because I moved back to Northern Ireland last week. It was something that was decided and acted upon very hastily based on technicalities in immigration laws. I am living in a little town called Carrickfergus, just North of Belfast, and although it is lovely, there is not much here to be offered to someone in my field. I have no idea how long I will be here.

Instrumentless and located in a pit of nothingness, I don't foresee much music making happening until I leave. The two albums I am working on - once of which is SO near completion - are just going to have to wait. While I am here, I will be working on writing from the written-word perspective.

It's been decided... I'm moving to Nashville! (In March). I'm speechless over the number of people contacting me offering everything you can imagine to assist in getting established down there. If you are a musician, music industry professional, journalist, DJ, or a fan, I would love to hear from you: tylean@tylean.com.

I love Southern hospitality!

Well.... after a year in England, a few months in Belfast, and some time gallivanting in the American South... I am now back home in Pennsylvania, planning for a show in Allentown on January 29th.

I'm in Belfast!

Whoa Baby... has The Unforgivable, the Unforgettable mutated DRAMATICALLY in the last few weeks! Only a handful of the songs originally selected for the album have remained. This album - which could possibly become an EP and not a full album - is going to be very different from the previous albums. Each song will address a particular person or event that forever changed my life. I am capturing as much of the album as I can in live performance style recording - sans audience. I've never record (myself) this way, and I am finding the intimacy and passion levels oozing through the tracks!

Any of you fortunate enough to have caught some of those live performances a few years ago might recall the creepy a'cappella that I opened with - "October." Well... that track was recorded and intended for When All Else Fails in lieu of "Do Nyanono." It will - undoubtedly - appear on The Unforgivable.

I have exchanged one song for another on The Unforgivable, the Unforgettable: "13 Mirrors" for "The Monster I've Become." With that one change, I am considering dramatically changing the entire project. The songs on this album are supposed to be themed and focused on unforgivable/unforgettable people/events and reflection. I feel now that many of the songs originally selected for this album were done only for the sake of their presence on an album, and having them in this collection would be a bastardization of the other songs that clearly belong there. Some songs must be left off for the better of the album, and The Unforgivable, the Unforgettable may become an EP.