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@castlepinesmusic
Happy #bandcampfriday The only place you can buy our last album #PorVida is on @bandcamp We love what this company does to empower and help the #indiemusic landscape. There are a lot more of us than there are the majors. Browse the #bandcamp site and get yourself some new tunes. There are some absolute gems on there. The link to download our album is in our bio #linkinbio #music #newmusic (at Corona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYqRHQlMni/?igshid=ducftqb513
We did a #garage set back in 2016 with @chromalive and the full video of our song The Jetty is up on our #IGTV give it a little looks. Our favorite dude is also the host @909bigman he is hilarious and a rad #emcee #music #indiemusic (at Corona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHykWqcl2UK/?igshid=14dqgrkiy5f82
Lived in a daze as we gazed at our shoes Latch key kids with a case of the blues This is the house and street this band is named after #CastlePines #Corona #CPporVida (at Corona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXJcPiFYQi/?igshid=137eh5232gk6t
Everyone go with wish @stul0 our #drummer a happy birthday! We love you dude https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQeAOOFmA0/?igshid=1xrtutt4s31ju
Happy Quarantine friends. "Por Vida" our last album is out in its entirety. To help you make the most out of days stuck at home we are putting our whole discography on Bandcamp. #linkinbio You can get all of our music, every single one of our albums and singles for $7. Why $7 bucks? I like that number and it seems like a deal. Anyways, Bandcamp is waiving fees for artists today as well, so we wanted to give you a little gift the only way we knew how, exploiting the loopholes. Ironically we are from #Corona 😂 Love you all, thanks for the years of support, stay safe and have yourself a Castle Pines quarantine pizza party tonight. #CPporVida #music #coronavirus #indiemusic #indie (at Corona, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B99lzUdl0e4/?igshid=10hoblie4u4lm
What's your poison?
We spent the better part of a decade making art and music that we felt was pertinent to our time, environment and society. I wouldn’t trade that for the world, and at the time I truly thought that this music would pay my bills and put food on the table. Unfortunately, although we have a phenomenal fanbase that continues to support us in our absence-hiatus, the current model of streaming and music consumption is not in favor of the artist financially. This is a common trope amongst the streaming music consumer, “It’s a scam, it’s unfair”. Well that is a conversation that goes beyond the scope of this post, because although we aren’t paying the bills with our song streams on Spotify and Tidal, we are reaching a vast audience of listeners we would not have been able to achieve on our own. The struggle of creating for the sake of creation while maintaining a full-time job is kind of the engine of much of our music. I believe that this created some of the nuances in our music, this feeling of not being able to attain financial sustainability, living meagerly from paycheck to paycheck, developing habits, these were all the fuel, the ingredients that simmered into what Castle Pines music became. We are products of our environment, but we are not owned by it. Its called an album for reason, a photo album is a temporal snap shot of a time frame in a visual medium, and I truly believe that music is the same, albeit in the sonic realm. I have since given up many of my negative habits, the hopelessness and self pity of commiserating and relying on this feeling that music will pay the bills, and I have greeted music as friend, as something that I must do to communicate and interpret the world around me. And I think that is an important lesson I learned from Castle Pines and learning this business… we have drained the blood and life from the arts, we have made them unattainable commodities where only the extremely gifted and talented moguls can operate. We have prepackaged, industrial farm complexed, made formulaic the very thing that has saved many a life. With the ease of access, the instant gratification of every album in lossy digital format is now an afterthought, the tumult and time and agony and ecstasy to create and share sounds has been reduced to clicks and likes… and no livelihood of payment to the creators
Every corner of every society has some form of sonic expression or communal contribution and we all should, out of the very base-level human necessity of needing music, be involved in its creation. We are innately tied to this tribalistic desire to sing, dance and feel rhythm from our very conception to our end when the internal rhythm of our hearts remind our loved ones that they are not perpetual timpani’s.
This isn’t me throwing the cards in and calling it quits, this is me discerning the current situation and adjusting my behavior to meet my own desires, not some unattainable pipe dream, but something real, something tangible, a feeling of wholeness. I recently rediscovered why I fell in love with music to begin with, why I went into debt getting a piece of paper that says my name on in it next to the words “Music industry” from a university. Much like seeing an old friend or family member after years apart, I was thrilled to pick up my guitar again without the expectation of producing something, but rather content in the act of simply creating without the preconceptions of what it should or should not be. Being consumed with an idealization of success can hurt the craft, it can make you a bitter and cold curmudgeon scoffing at the achievements of others. And I am done with that, I want to live fully with gratitude, I want to always create and hear music as a first timer.
Life is notoriously hard, and we have it so good, so much better than so many. And what makes the good moments great? When we can experience art in the moment that greatly enriches and crystallizes events into unforgettable memories. The system in which we use to consume the goods provided by these artists should fairly compensate them, and that is where we are now. Part of our interaction with music is being actively aware and conscious of how we consume it. I was recently contacted by some of the staff over at Consumer Advocate, an organization whose sole purpose is educating the general public consumer on the any options available. I wanted to share their study on music consumption and streaming below, because it helps to know where our dollars go and how we shape the world in which we interact with.
Our friends over at Consumer Advocacy did an extensive study on music consumption via streaming services in 2019. Kind of like locally sourced food for your soul, here is a great breakdown we wanted to share with you all on the best options for consuming music: https://www.consumersadvocate.org/music-streaming-services
And one more article we wanted to share regarding music streams and how much independent artists truly receive in monetary compensation for their works and how one artist, who self released their work must attain a total of 1,000,000 streams a month to pay for a normal mortgage. You can read that article on Alex Leonard
Here: THE “COST OF LIVING” IN SPOTIFY STREAMS
As always remember that CP is for life.
#CPporVida
@stul0 #drummer appreciation Been through everything with this gent. #CPporVida https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw2P-yWFZI4/?igshid=z1s231fy2jws
5 years ago we started a residency @rockefellas.bar in #CoronaCA for the release of our full length album Summer Blood. We got to spend the spring and summer of that year playing a ton of shows with our friends, in a thriving #musicscene , went on our first tour and did everything we set out do as #musicians We look back at that time fondly and send you all some good vibes and a big thank you #music #indiemusic #CPporVida https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwul_b5F4Jm/?igshid=ghob0grrfwun
Found the tape I tracked keyboards on for our song Scenester #CPporVida #music https://www.instagram.com/p/BwH-DRsl61w/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=799a270jzvs9
In a band? Take pictures on train tracks, or near skyline in #Corona It’s mandatory. Haha back@in the #MySpace days this was all you saw. #indierock #CPporVida https://www.instagram.com/p/BvwyATVhK-t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4w71u2tjj2gq
If you know... you know #CPporVida #music (at The Showcase Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvuDmnuFBJ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=45eorcyred5p
Our dear friend @londonplease sent us this from our #Fender center shows circa 2013 and it brought back a lot of memories. #music #CPporVida https://www.instagram.com/p/BvrnIQBgmov/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ga5p069wqwwg
#tbt 5 years since we released our first full length album #SummerBlood Who has an original copy of the CD? #music https://www.instagram.com/p/BvA2-POF1EG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mlyzfxnjwfck
Our friend @thealto_nator made is in the process of making this rad band quilt. Much different than the one that Frank Zappa made. An honor to share a spot amongst these legends. Can you find us? #music #indierock #CPPorVida https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwHsaClKfa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5hnqjmwee8tm
Bleak Hills, climbing up just to get outside Soft kills, no air to breathe in a mountain sky. #music #CPporVida https://www.instagram.com/p/BuWi1QNlx4N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d5slviio99do
@mullenwoodworks is cool. #remember https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8C9d-FkrZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dgf6j20p4ejr
Who has listened to our new music ? Stream it where you consume #music #indierock #indiemusic #musicians #castlepines https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt0DD7cFyqZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pk3ssvyti7gi