DownTown September Newsletter
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September is here and that usually means summer is over and it’s time to go back to school. But in 2020 things are not the same as in past years. Depending where you live, here in the USA, the Coronavirus Pandemic has made going back to school a real challenge. It really isn’t all that safe in most parts and that is a growing cause for concern. Add to that the upcoming Flu season and who knows how bad things are going to get. One thing is for sure, until the government gets a handle on it and comes up with a coherent plan we are going to continue to be on our own. Meanwhile…the month starts out with a Full Moon. Use this energy to manifest new opportunities in the coming weeks!
NEW NEWS…The 80s rock again! The new 3-Way Heartbreak Single will be released on September 18 as DownTown Mystic goes back to the future. It seems the 80s have been making a comeback in popular music, so this might be a good time for this release. The only difference being is that this track is really from 1985 and not recorded now to sound like back then. The 3-Way Heartbreak Single is being released as a preview of the DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985 album that comes out on November 6. This is an album of previously unreleased pre-DownTown Mystic material. You can read all about it in the press release below.
24-7PressRelease/ -- Sha-La Music, Inc. announces the worldwide release of the new two-song 3-Way Heartbreak single by US Rocker DownTown Mystic on September 18. The single is being released in conjunction with the DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985 album, which is scheduled for release on November 6. Both releases will be digitally distributed worldwide via The Orchard/Sony Music, with the single now available for pre-order. The single will go to Worldwide Radio on September 14 via the iPluggers online platform.
DownTown Mystic's latest album, Better Day, was released in January and has been a critical success, yielding 5 singles with consistent radio airplay on over 300 stations in 27 countries. Sha-La Music is releasing the DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985 album to tie-in with 2 other projects that DownTown Mystic has been involved with. The 1st project, The Discontent Specialty Shows album, was released on July 24 and co-produced by DownTown Mystic writer/producer Robert Allen. The album marks the 20th anniversary of the band making Rock Radio's Specialty Charts and gaining national recognition. The 2nd release will be the Used Records History album in November and the 3rd will be the One More Chance featuring DownTown Mystic album by longtime collaborator Bruce Engler in 2021.
The 3-Way Heartbreak single also includes the track Same Old Lover, recorded in 1983. With its use of synths and drum machines, 3-Way Heartbreak fits in nicely with the current comeback of 80s music. Stranger Things Music Supervisor Nora Felder loved the song and wanted to put it in the 2nd season of the show until she found out that the song wasn't a hit in the 80s because it hadn't been released. Another track from the same recording sessions, Fly Like The Wind (also on the album), was selected by Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas for her TV show The Carrie Diaries because it was recorded in the 80s when the show takes place. Fly Like The Wind has become one of DownTown Mystic's top sync-licensing tracks and will be in the upcoming Disney movie Flora and Ulysses. Overall, DownTown Mystic has sync-licensed music on over 200 TV shows.
The idea for releasing an album of previously unreleased pre-DownTown Mystic material came from an unlikely source. In 2017 Robert received a letter in the mail from renowned British rock journalist Nik Cohn, who had been living in Asbury Park, NJ doing research for a book on the late 70s-early 80s music scene there. He had come across a band called The Tupelos that had made an impression during that time and had traced the band back to Robert. At first, Robert thought he was being "punked", but after contacting Cohn (considered by many to be the father of rock criticism), he provided Cohn with the information he was seeking.
It got Robert to go back into his musical archives, listening to tracks by The Tupelos, as well as the solo material he made after leaving the band. Much of that material would form the basis for DownTown Mystic and includes the original version of the current single Modern Ways. Robert explains, "It wasn't until this pandemic stopped everything that I had the time to go back to that material and think about releasing it. With the Better Day release winding down it seemed like the right time to tie-in a release of the early material, along with the other projects that I've been involved with". The full story of how DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985 came to be can be found in a new blog post on the DownTown Blog.
3-Way Heartbreak Single: https://promo.theorchard.com/UrJ1v4vyODctbpYAArzn
3-Way Heartbreak Single is available on
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y47bfupk
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/y2jtob6l
Listen to The Discontent: The Specialty Shows: https://tinyurl.com/y9e79mel
Available on:
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y9qp8p6t
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/y958jkt6
Better Day CD on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/ry3aphb
Better Day Digital Album on:
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/yeolv577
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yg7u2l3u
Bandcamp: https://downtownmystic.bandcamp.com/
RADIO…The 3-Way Heartbreak single goes out to Worldwide Radio on Sept. 14 via the iPluggers online platform. It follows Modern Ways, which became DownTown Mystic’s most played single in the UK overtaking Better Day. Thanks to Jim Garrett at The Sound Lab for doing such a great job with promoting it!
SYNC & STREAMING…Sometimes you win and sometimes…The music supervisor for Stranger Things loved 3-Way Heartbreak and wanted to use it in Season 2 of the show until she found out that the track hadn’t been a hit in the 80s because it was never released! Meanwhile… Fly Like The Wind (also recorded in 1985), has become one of our top sync-licensing tracks and appears on the upcoming DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985. The track has also been sync-licensed in Disney’s new Flora & Ulysses movie due to come out later this year.
3-Way Heartbreak Single: https://promo.theorchard.com/UrJ1v4vyODctbpYAArzn
Modern Ways Single on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y3ukyzcs
Better Day album on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/udtnhyt
DOWNTOWN BLOG…As we mentioned in last month’s newsletter, we’ve got a new blog post about the new 3-Way Heartbreak single and the forthcoming DownTown Mystic: Used Records History 1979-1985 album. This is the 1st of a 2-part post about how a letter in the mail sparked a look back at the music that would form the basis for DownTown Mystic and led to the release of the new single and album. Read the blog here: https://downtownmystic.net/blog/
VIDEO…Check out the video for the new 3-Way Heartbreak single on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1fDDUMyf4CE
Also check out:
Modern Ways: https://youtu.be/U0Y1WDrU24M
History: https://youtu.be/hHGW7-Sego4
Better Day: https://youtu.be/c4SOHq7WOUk
SOCIAL MEDIA…Stay up to date with DownTown Mystic via Social Media. Hook up with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shalaman and https://twitter.com/DTMysticBand
As always, until next month…Keep it ROCKIN’ and STAY SAFE!!
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