ShawnZone Tribute

A Tribute to Shawn Zone The Music, Multimedia of the bands FilmsCrewBand, Method Method, ANNONXN, Abandoned Halos, ShawnZone Walker, Aaron Housos James, Levi D Wall, Andrew Self, Kurt Vogl, Amanda, Predator Band

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FILMSCREWBAND BREAKS SILENCE WITH METHOD METHOD

FILMSCREWBAND BREAKS SILENCE WITH METHOD METHOD

When the lights went out on the world last year, the boyband like progressive metallers FilmsCrewBand shut off the web, sort of.  The website for ShawnZone, Aaron H. James and Levi D Wall’s FilmsCrewBand Collective seemed unreachable, not entirely the case for members.  The booked tour for the 2020 European Festival circuit, as well as Japan and Australia cancelled beforehand, as every other tour…

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FILMSCREWBAND, SHAWNZONE GONE

By Kurt Parker

UPDATE! We have moved to Wordpress http://www.shawnzonetribute.wordpress.com

We will maintain this Tumblr as it has provided us with valuable communication, you can always message us here.

Updated to include July Warner press photo of ShawnZone, updated to reflect new information, and corrections.

Shawnzone Warner press photo 

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FILMS CREW BAND’S AARON READIES SOLO(?) RELEASE PRODUCED BY SHAWNZONE AND A CRYPTIC VIDEO MESSAGE

By Kurt Parker

Leaked from a Warner A&R rep late Thursday, FilmsCrewBand’s adora-drummer deluxe Aaron Housos James has been quietly recording a second solo effort with his former power couple heart throb bandmate Shawn Zone at the helm producing, lending his golden hand in the co-writing and playing with other members of Films Crew.  The chameleon time keeper Aaron shelved all but a single from his first solo effort which wasn’t up to snuff with high standards of his efforts with his bandmates, this time out he takes Films Crew which may make this an official Films Crew Release.  What we know, at a pre-NXNE panel week, the boy we swoon over Shawn Zone along with newbie Andrew Self, when debuting the upcoming Films Crew limited edition in a closed door insider session, the bomb was dropped about Aaron’s solo release and from what we’ve been able to gather it should be a FilmsCrewBand release under a different name.  What we know, Films Crew with Aaron are working under the name Symposis 0 and our Warner source told us that the album is titled Redemption dealing with themes of redemption, and that heart of the controls is sexy shred master Shawn Zone.  With details on Redemption still being sparse, a Warner A&R rep told The Village Voice the album consists of eight lengthy tracks written by Aaron and Shawn and hammered out by all members of Films Crew, the release is expected to drop early 2018 with a limited edition vinyl release to test the waters, note; all Films Crew limited edition releases have always sold out before ship date.

Films Crew Band’s psychedelic progressive post-metal masterpiece Crying To Crisis  from the upcoming Stigmatized vinyl limited edition hit the French and German streaming behemoth Deezer last Tuesday premiering at 19 and 17 respectively garnering over 600,000 streams within 3 days, quite the feat, with no social media promotion for the heavily digitally rights managed network, not in these regions, out of luck for now, though it can be streamed from the band’s site for a brief period.  A Warner managing official hinted the label waging a tug of war with Films Crew over the label’s push for a radio ready single which Films Crew is at odds with.  Crying To Crisis debuted April 10 as a personal message from Shawn to apparently very close and cozy Films Crew mate Cameron Drawmer is set to be a mammoth single for FilmsCrewBand in Eurozone, it defies genre, thanks go out to Cameron Drawmer for being the inspiration for what’s becoming a mainstream hit by the reluctant reclusive Films Crew.  Now if only ShawnZone would reappear on his section of his site, his insight has been missed.  Not to downplay Aaron’s wordplay, he has become a millennial voice, an often talked about must read even for people who don’t listen to Films Crew.  The Village Voice was also told that double kick wordsmith Aaron’s tonsillectomy was a more complicated throat surgery from which he will be on the mend for quite some time, but is working.  

Our source, Dallas Andrew, a gear tech to the band stated the band has had a stark year and a half with devastating personal losses, grueling schedules, and troubling relationships which caused blond bombshell guitarist to post, “If anything, I’m merely a novelty”, a provocative statement, repeated, and enough to double down, having himself mostly removed from his own site, dealing with his exclusive inner circle.  Dallas was emphatic that guitarist decision to remove himself from his site was not entirely his own, that the guitarist had been threatened by someone online to even remove himself from his quiet social media accounts.  The heavily trafficked website is a labyrinth maze with secret areas.  Dallas stated that the band had been completely honest with Aaron referencing this state of affairs’ complexities in his updates and from his understanding the golden boy Shawn had indeed suffered at the hand of some elaborate game playing on the heels of a devastating family loss.  Dallas confirmed that the blond heart throb’s whereabouts were sometimes only known to his exclusive inner circle.  Dallas also confirmed rumors of ongoing stalking incidents leaving the band on high alert.  The rumor mill placed Shawn at a leukemia fund raiser and other events in Manhattan within the last week, Dallas confirmed this adding that he had been extremely quiet and preoccupied.  Asked about the Daniel Lukas controversy, Dallas said that no one in Films Crew to his knowledge has no contact or dealings with the sometimes viral internet sensation, sometimes social engineer hacker, let alone knows who Lukas is and that it was likely the fault of social media hijinks.  Asked if Daniel Lukas’ alleged epic news he was about to drop would affect Films Crew, Dallas remarked that no one in the band would even be aware of it, the band wouldn’t know who that was, and that the band kept people up to date on their news.  We still think it would be wise for Films Crew Band and Aaron to heed Cameron Reyher’s urgings about dealing with Lukas in a less causal manner.

To put the puzzle pieces together, read Aaron’s last few updates, worthy reading material, voice of a generation.  And a pleading video to ShawnZone ProTip, on the Media tab, tapping on ‘A Sound’ takes you a hidden page of music.

Link to FilmsCrewBand’s and Aaron’s updates with a cryptic video message

Link to Daniel Lukas nonsensical news warnings

Courtesy Village Voice

One of the ShawnZone Poster screens for last year’s Films Crew and Peyrony European tour, yum.

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FILMS CREW BAND’S AARON TAKES ON MORE ISSUES AS SHAWNZONE IS MISSING

By Kurt Parker

While even more rumor and speculation surround the missing blonde bomb shell guitarist ShawnZone, double kick hunk Aaron provides us with yet another massive update with a sense of frustration.  Again delving into the secret sauce of the Films Crew world we never thought we would see, somehow making the enigmatic post metal progressive band all the more mysterious.  Recalling their last performance at CMJ, even the after show being in their presence is a surreal experience as if speaking to a benevolent secret society of benefactors of wisdom, with looks you want to taste.   Aaron finally gives an in depth look at his fascination with the ultra far right extremist hate group the Alt-Right, comparing it to a cult, he gives credit for his talking points to the enigmatic ShawnZone, whom Aaron does more than suggest others get their talking points from, while at the same time Aaron is not pretending he is concerned about ShawnZone’s whereabouts, and you don’t have to read between the lines to find out why as he puts this puzzle together pointing to his last few updates where it all comes together that the heart throb guitarist fell victim to some nefarious plot of an insidious game player, and is now missing, last seen on the panel discussions for NXNE in Toronto.  

Screenshot courtesy NXNE

Films Crew Band’s chameleon time keeper Aaron gives the state of the union on the dark side of social media’s impact on mental issues and something tells us he wants to name names, and shares the mystery of some of the guitars sexy axe wielder ShawnZone shredded with on the upcoming Films Crew double platter release and some new details on different runs of the vinyl only limited editions.  A Warner rep stated the limited availability will be a larger and more varied pressing than previously thought with a single being pushed throughout Europe.  Aaron treats us to two teasers, Syndrome and Stigmatized, showing that Films Crew’s on target to become amongst progressive metal’s most influential.  We can’t help but wonder of the fate the enigmatic and missing ShawnZone with the rumor mill swirling overtime of a tragic end to the beautiful young guitarist, he is truly one of a kind.  The rim shot wordsmith Aaron again addresses the anomaly of Daniel Lukas downplaying the sometimes viral internet sensation and social engineer’s role in the scheme of things as a source has it that Daniel Lukas is about deal up a blast of epic news, we think Aaron should reconsider his casual approach to Daniel Lukas, and take some advice from Films Crew a cohort.  To put Aaron’s puzzle together, go back and read the previous entries and follow the links, there’s a lot to learn.

Link to Aaron’s latest update

Link to Films Crew’s Stigmatized

Courtesy Village Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND’S AARON TAKES ON ISSUES IN MASSIVE UPDATE

By Kurt Parker

While rumors abound over Films Crew golden god guitarist ShawnZone’s absence, rhythm master Aaron provides us with a massive update touching on bases we never thought he would address.  Aaron kept most of the article beneath the fold, confirming the band has no involvement with black metal musician Daniel Lukas, but not by name giving a shadowy depiction of what they are in the dark about, when they should be keeping their eyes on the situation.  The double kick wordsmith has quite the fascination with the not so psychologically sound far right extremist group known as the Alt-Right coupled with the decaying landscape of social media, he’s not having any of it.  Pointing out that Films Crew has 17 tracks recorded, not hinting at a release date for the limited edition platters of the upcoming Stigmatized, but giving a preview of a different version of Crying To Crisis that reaches further into the soul in a masterclass musician’s fevered dream, it’s a pinnacle.  The 17 tracks Aaron teased by the mention of all being written by ShawnZone and Aaron.  The chameleon time machine goes on to detail ShawnZone’s ‘Exile’ of himself online due to an unresolved “ghosting” indicating ShawnZone was as we suspected may have been involved in an emotional hit and run which the band thinks will be resolved, leaving no doubt, it was a certain someone in ShawnZone’s exclusive inner circle, causing the blonde heartthrob to be at the center of the rumor mill as being missing, with an absence on social media, leaving the enigmatic guitarist at the bevy of hot speculation.  Films Crew’s Aaron really takes for a spin in this no holds barred update only adding to Films Crew’s enigmatic status, definitely a worthy read.

Link to Aaron’s two part update  

Courtesy Village Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND’S AARON CAN’T EXPLAIN IT AWAY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHAWN ZONE

By Kurt Parker

FilmsCrew’s Aaron had scant details on the upcoming Films Crew Band album Stigmatized in an up date on the official website and kind words in a Q & A from listener emails, doing a dance around what we all want to know, where is ShawnZone?  The blonde heartthrob can’t drop off of the face of the earth without notice, and Aaron is more than aware of this in his carefully phrased words.  Aaron raises more questions than he answers, instead the master of the quadruplet dives into the dark side of the political realm criticizing the ultra far right wing extremist Alt-Right, where he himself had been a victim of having nude pics on the fringe cult conspiracy element’s message boards just weeks ago, is he baiting them?  Too many questions.  Not mentioned is Nathan’s return the site or if another war is in the offing between Nathan and FilmsCrew’s Aaron and Levi. Nathan has been known to show up in surprise visits when conflict arises.  Not mentioned is how Danial Corin Lukas’ aka New Borat’s previous mention on the site or his obsession with ShawnZone, can they really be unaware?  Aaron wonders into the weeds trying to explain how the band are not personalities when they have been a swell of the underground rumor mill.  The drumming wordsmith even admitting to the practice of updating his pervious updates creating an air of confusion as to which updates are the latest updates.  Aaron must know mouths are drooling for ShawnZone to return, or is there something more sinister afoot.

Link to Aaron’s Update

Courtesy Vllage Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND’S AARON MAKES IT PERSONAL THIS TIME

By Kurt Parker

Updated

It appears Films Crew’s Aaron has made some major revisions and updates to his latest post, worth the read.  Flying under our radar was the return post of Nathan on his part of the Films Crew website, chilling.

Films Crew’s Aaron never at a loss for words appears to be out for blood after some unnamed individuals who threw sexy blonde guitar god ShawnZone into an emotionally tortuous turmoil. In a post last week that seemed like emergency damage control called Rollcall, the collab post between Aaron, Levi and newbie Andrew detail stresses outside of the band day to day dynamic of tensions, detailing further ShawnZone having been devastated by the interference of a woman’s interference in a relationship pointing to new FilmsCrew contributor Cameron Drawmer.  Pointing out that ShawnZone had indeed cut the cord between himself and the FilmsCrew part of the franchise for the time being.   The moderator for the post was Aaron’s possible new hubby, (verify) FilmsCrew’s webmaster Jay.  Where it ventured into the weeds involved the band members involvement on Twitter and the ultra far right wing extremist video streaming service Periscope.  The post pointed out a limited edition vinyl release has been almost completed of new material which had been presumably been streaming on the site which will see brand release in another form within the next year, how this might conflict with the re-recording of their debut Narcissus Echoes is unknown.  Not mentioned in Rollcall is the band line up for the new album tentatively titled Stigmatized, according to a Warner label rep Films Crew will feature ShawnZone - guitars, bass, synths, percussion, vocals Aaron - drums, guitar, vocal Levi - bass, visuals Andrew - vocals, guitar, synth Kurt - percussion, vocals, guitar The album titled Stigmatized will have been written completely be ShawnZone and ShawnZone and Aaron from what we have been told with a first limited run of 5,000 which will have collectors chomping at the bit.  The ever enigmatic and mysterious band get more enigmatic and mysterious when they post to their own site.  There is little explanation of ShawnZone’s absence and the blond heartthrob guitarist becomes  more of an enigma wrapped inside a riddle in a Zen poem. Known for his high moral stances, approaches to ethics and decency, we are only left with the triplet master and scantily clad Aaron as spokesperson, enigmatic in his own way provides a clear cut picture of what’s going on in the band’s dynamic.  In his latest post he speaks openly about ShawnZone, his relationship to, and a relationship ShawnZone is involved in which resulted in tortuous pain to the point where he has withdrawn completely, 

A Warner rep mentioned Films Crew Band’s album Socratic had been removed from European streaming services at the request of the band for lack of revenue and royalties due from all streaming services. Deezer, which the label is renegotiating with the French and German streaming dynamo had been the sole source of revenue with other streaming services cutting non-mainstream bands out of play royalties, several bands are removing themselves from streaming services due to lack of payment or royalties.  Films Crew had been very critical over their output on the Socratic which they said was the label’s album not their own, Predator remains on their site available for streaming, with the still frightening but edited due to pornographic concerns video.  Films Crew has always blurred the line between the erotic and the mystical, ShawnZone appearing in hot pic in the buff on the site a couple of months ago.  They are the only band in progressive music that can get away with it and so they should.

Link to Aaron’s latest posts

We were not going to give Daniel Corin Lukas publicity by linking to him at this time, this is under review. Upon review and his recent post which we can't decipher Link to Daniel Corin Lukas website, warning it’s not coherent 

Courtesy Village Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND AARON COMES OUT SHAWN ZONE IN EXILE

By Kurt Parker

With FilmsCrew debuting four massive mastery of progressive post metal tracks last month of mathematically precise heavy time signatures beyond the boundaries of imagination, yesterday they disappeared from the site along with hot blonde guitar god ShawnZone.  A Warner rep stated this evening that the tracks were to be released late this year in a limited edition vinyl package ahead of the re-recording of the enigmatic band’s debut re-issue.  The most requested track Crying For Crisis streamed over 250,000 times since its debut a few weeks ago is now  nowhere to be heard, undoubtedly the most intense tour de force Films Crew masterpiece to date with vocal by new vocalist Andrew Self and ShawnZone. Gone!  ShawnZone’s Exile is now imposed.  An alarming update to the ShawnZone Section of the site Films Crew’s new vocalist/instrumentalist Andrew Self states ShawnZone had all of his content removed and has probably quit his own band over what looks to be identical reasons from the devastating blow the band took during the very public 2014/15 break up over the then power couple ShawnZone and Aaron in which the double kick dynamo became erratic and abusive to his guitarist fiancé who took the blows gracefully taking its toll on ShawnZone who many ever wondered if he would rebound, it was the hot mess of a conversation topic from Manhattan to London, Aaron’s behavior was so bad no one in the NY music scene would touch him.  Films Crew replaced Aaron with the taunt German Kurt Vogl.  Down but not quite out Aaron was asked back into Films Crew while the band kept on Vogl.  It was common knowledge that the then former power couple didn’t even speak to each other while working at which time Aaron revealed through website updates a history of severe child abuse and his connection to ShawnZone’s family who had rescued him.  In those dark times the band became more mysterious, even reclusive taking their activities solely to Europe and The East after the disaster of the spectacle made out of them at the tender age of 18 with their debut Narcissus Echoes.  Talk from a Warner rep in the early evening was that someone in ShawnZone’s inner circle had pushed him too far echoing an Aaron scenario, and one needn’t look too far into ShawnZone’s recent updates and work to figure out who that someone at the hand of that turmoil is. But the sly guitarist had his work removed. Except there is the power of screenshots.  

Link to ShawnZone’s Page now abandoned to Andrew Self

Hot on the heels of the site scrubbing Aaron posted an update which provided many clues into the mysterious disappearance.  The double kick heartthrob opens an update by coming out?, when he’s been publicly ambiguous since FilmsCrew hit the radar, digging deeper into his update he does make many mentions of duplicitousness, and how some ghoul probably in the band’s inner circle had woven a web of deceit ensnaring an ‘unnamed’ band member, (obviously ShawnZone) and had gone to some great lengths in this psychopathic effort, Aaron’s description is not dramatic it’s downright ice-cold chilling.  As it becomes clear who is involved.

Link to Aaron’s Update 

Aaron and Levi take to Twitter to exchange the rare public but cryptic dialogue.

The Warner rep I spoke to had some much grimmer details to discuss involving a stalker shadowing someone in FilmsCrew and they were on high alert status over the band involving some internet hijinks and threats, as well as some concerns over the band’s political activism. With Newbie Andrew in charge of the band’s Twitter, it’s been silent until today.  While Aaron and Levi normally keep us up to date on the bizarre and have in the past publicly called out people, since last November’s site hack Aaron has been amazingly introspective delving deep into the psyche making him a bonafide writer well worth reading. While Aaron fought a tough road back to forgiveness it sharpened his senses keenly, calling out someone not to be the new Aaron and unfortunately that fell on some deaf ears given the current state of affairs. The site seems at a loss without the blonde bombshell ShawnZone’s insight and music previews.   With Aaron and Levi at the helm of their website, there will be blood, as we all remember they take no prisoners.  Andrew Self promises to keep us updated on ShawnZone however the Warner rep wasn’t on point with that, and was quick to point out that there were many unknowns in the guitarists life over the last year which haven’t been made public, the word traumatic was used.  Whether the break from the band is permanent or not, ShawnZone has always been one of the very few gracious and kind individuals in music, despite never willing to give an interview and walking out on the Village Voice, With that grace it’s only a matter of time before he was taken advantage of again, as it seems to be here.  To whoever would torment that soul, I hope you find your place in your own private hell

Update.  I reached out to the management for Films Crew and was told there was a possibility that someone from Films Crew will speak to me off the record, as long as there is no interview.  Meanwhile I don’t think Aaron and Levi will stay quiet in their discontent.

Courtesy Village Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND LINE UP CHANGES AS SHAWN ZONE’S FINAL WORDS ARE ACOUSTIC?

By Kurt Parker

FilmsCrewBand’s Levi Wall broke his silence with an update stating that Films Crew Band and its several projects were not in any way breaking up, contradicting the bassists mysterious and sparse Twitter feed, where between Levi and Films Crew’s Aaron announced new band member but as this recording has been considered to be an important work We are sure that Cameron Reyher must be highly qualified in those down-tuned polyrhythmic syncopations that are Films Crews trade mark.  Nothing is known of the new hire other than he is not part of the NYC music art scene.  Kurt Vogl had been referenced in Aaron’s last bombastic update, but wait, much earlier by ShawnZone himself as all of the pieces fall into place.  Nik Turner made no announcement of leaving but had announced at CMJ that he would be recording a solo or project album much different in nature than Films Crew or Peyrony.

As enigmatic as enigmas can be ShawnZone published an even more mysterious update following eery Op Exile statement with a new acoustic track, the shock waves through the progressive post metal world will be reverberating from that bombshell for some time to come.  While the suspense mounts over the possible departure of the golden guitarist no mention is made for the reason of the personal dilemma that has pushed the young guitarist to the brink.  Several rumblings from band members Aaron and Levi have been made mysteriously on Twitter with Aaron making the most direct statements about it in his last slay of an update where he took no prisoners.  Yet still there is, from even Aaron, about who is behind ShawnZone’s mysterious torment, yet even still Aaron drop clues that all of the puzzle pieces are there to be put together as he pronounces an unnamed antagonist guilty.  Aaron’s update still continues to mystify since he constantly updates his update like he’s fine tuning it to spell out a name.  Yet still ShawnZone is still absent from social media their site stays constantly updated

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New Films Crew Band In The Works With ShawnZone’s Possible Departure

By Kurt Parker

After a success of a FilmsCrewBand European festival summer tour, bits and pieces of snippets of new material started showing up on the Films Crew website.  Today Shawn announced the possibility of his departure from his influential musical post and it’s personal.  This was accompanied by an announcement from Aaron in an unusually clear statement.  This year was the first time we saw Shawn write on the website with his own section and the articles garnered great interest since they weren’t promotional.  Films Crew and associated bands don’t promote themselves on social media.  At the CMJ Music Marathon with their last appearance one of the panels they attended was about Periscope discussing of what merits it could be useful with a producer package that they inquired about on the panel,  Shawn and Aaron have had a presence on the app. Although Aaron’s tweets have vanished from the FilmsCrewBand Twitter account and most of his own mysterious feed vanished too.  Films Crew bests Tool at being enigmatic.  Shawn’s possible departure would be coming at a strange time with upcoming releases. This morning saw much of his content removed from his part of the website, not like the website outage breach they suffered in November, when not to mince words their webmaster named names about that.  According to a Warner music rep, Films Crew has been re-recording their debut album Narcissus Echo to release again replacing the absence of the original which they had removed from the market in a nasty dispute over the final product, and newer recordings have been under way, the snippets premiering on their site have featured jaw dropping guitar work amidst a flurry of multiple time signatures.  And while not at all their first foray into video, the most straightforward and personal featuring clothing, everything else still steeped in Jungian imagery.  In early fall after CMJ ShawnZone was nowhere to be found in the usual haunts in the Manhattan Villages and Brooklyn then the multi-instrumentalist PhD candidate fell off the map, the only sign of life was ShawnZone’s Twitter account then a burst of content on the band’s website.  Aaron as well, Levi had made an announcement he was spending time at Amherst, the three core members all have psychology and music degrees.  Kurt Vogl disappeared from Twitter after stating he would be spending time in Germany, Nik Turner and Logan Harris have haven’t had any presence since the tour.  Post tour wind down or so it was thought.  Shawn’s Twitter reflected a deep disappointment in the elections and in a coalition with Pelican to donate to the ACLU, later joined by Brian Cook of Russian Circles and Sumac and others that came on board, it was clear that Shawn had done the networking.  His end of year Top 10 list gave a moving but blistering editorial of the movement known as Gays for Trump, this was widely circulated and for the moment is still available on his section of the website.  These things aren’t a personal reason for a departure.  Just days ago there was a very strange controversy on Periscope that the young Shawn was caught in the crossfire of that he wasn’t a part of, but became the source of rancor for a 25 minute rant by a middle-aged political live streamer named FrenchGuy1 in his scornful rant gave out some correct and incorrect details of the young musician’s personal life and his entanglements with another Periscope member who is likely referenced on the band’s site.  Shawn was quick to fire back from the website, which is out of character and got immediate notice by music outlets.  Aaron tweeted he had the audio of the event then deleted the tweet from the band’s account.  Films Crew has always had political activism running through their veins since their involvement with Occupy Wall Street.  The last that is known of the event is one of Aaron’s cryptic tweets.

It seems we’ll be getting new Films Crew in some form or other in the next year that will feature the full band, Films Crew without ShawnZone won’t be FilmsCrewBand.  In his statement he said his possible departure had nothing to do with the band but a personal situation which was echoed by Aaron.  His statement is a brief and moving look at the human condition and relationships. He stated that he had been misled by some unnamed individuals not involved in the band as if he had been hurt badly, quickly creating a gasp in part of the music community. He leaves his decision up in the air as if wanting a resolution but has lost hope signing off with the title of a now unavailable Films Crew track, Denial is the betrayal with the broadest shoulders. Hopefully there’s a resolution.  

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Peyrony, Films Crew, ANNONXN Return For Tribute at NYU

By Kurt Parker

NYU Concert Hall, the venue, Peyrony, the project band of Films Crew, ANNONXN, Abandoned Halos, and Predator returns for a tribute to founding member Shawn Zone, who was the victim of some strange outbursts after a family loss. That bombshell was dropped at CMJ Music Seminar, it got more bizarre when it was revealed that it was by the family of his obsessed want to be husband Nathan Nevitt. With ShawnZone and Aaron Housos James having been the solid as a rock NYC power couple splintering apart after some unusually eratic behavior from Aaron, we’re here.  The Hall has sold out, with all revenue going to the Purple Ribbon foundation to prevent gay bullying.  Films Crew and Peyrony drummer, Chris M has been active on the bands website, leaving some cryptic messages, not unusual for the creative genius crowd that are part of that collective, the exception being poet Riots Cytanovic.  Levi Wall's Predator Band appeared at CMJ with a sonic assault of angst noir, with back drops of a disembodied redneck voice quite comically going on about a love of Glenn Beck, the Bible, while at the same time describing his murderous intentions towards homosexuals, the message wasn't lost on the 4000 plus crowd that it wasn't irony, it was someone real named Danny.  As for Peyrony's tribute performance, no cameras, cell phone check, no Abercrombie.  That will be rewarded by a re-release of Films Crew's Narcissus Echo CD.  It appeared as if Levi was not going to be part of the line up due to an misunderstanding.  ANNONXN is ShawnZone’s new math core project band.  A Tribute to one of the true musical geniuses seems fitting.

From FilmsCrewBand ShawnZone Website

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FILMS CREW BAND’S STIGMATIZED MAY MEAN SOMETHING’S AFOOT

By Kurt Parker

Films Crew Band may hunkering down as the hunks work on their upcoming release Stigmatized but something else is afoot.  As we noted previously, in covering black metal musician Daniel Lukas’ presence, a Warner label rep has stated on the record that Lukas is an unknown entity to the band and the label taking us back to out original claims of Lukas’ past of alleged hacking and social engineering, including possible attempts on the band’s website due to an obsessive crush on FilmsCrewBand’s ShawnZone.  While Lukas may have some disjointed proprietary intel on the band, it will not have been gained through proper channels.  We may regret linking to his website, only opting for official word from label reps or the band, should they grant us access, Daniel Lukas has an elaborate puzzle that isn’t easy to decipher, but something is there.  Films Crew’s chameleon hunky drummer Aaron had made reference to the name, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused readers or the band.   Still at issue are Aaron’s dances with words over the lack of ShawnZone’s presence.  The triplet master wordsmith’s indication that the blonde bombshell guitarist’s taking leave from the band was due to well founded emotion turmoil from someone in  his ultra private inner circle, defending but pointing a finger.  Stigmatized is due to be released in limited edition vinyl runs exclusively, likely being sold out before it is ever pressed.  No summer tour dates have been announced at this time, though don’t count Films Crew out for surprise appearances.

Courtesy Village Voice

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FILMS CREW BAND’S NEWEST MEMBER ANNOUNCES HIMSELF

By Kurt Parker

Hot on the heels of Aaron providing two lengthy updates within a few days, the latest being a salacious expose of explanations within hours guitarist Andrew Self announced his new role in FilmsCrewBand with dive into politics taking a dig at anti-gay Trump supporters.  Andrew had been spotted with FilmsCrewBand members Shawn Zone and Kurt Vogl several times within the last year even appearing with Films Crew at pre-tour rehearsal shows to disappear from the NYC arts scene.  Andrew introduces himself as being temporary when there has rarely been temporary personnel in FilmsCrewBand with its revolving members.  Could it be that axe wielder Shawn Zone picked his own replacement. Shawn’s presence on his part of the site has all but disappeared.  Aaron’s updates indicated a certain frustration with social media, politics, and an extortion attempt made on him, making no mention of Andrew or any definitive departure of ShawnZone but Aaron outlining the reason. All of these details combined leaving the music community stunned over post metal’s best behaved golden boys.  Whether Films Crew can sustain itself creatively without Shawn Zone hangs in the balance with a looming question mark. Courtesy Village Voice

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SCANDAL FILMS CREW BAND MEMBER NUDE PHOTO LEAK ON RIGHT WING POLITICAL FORUM

By Kurt Parker

Fresh on the heels of announcement of the possible departure of Films Crew Band’s Shawn Zone scandal has arisen in the the form of a leaked photo trying to laughably suggest Films Crew Band drummer Aaron James was a straight male escort servicing left leaning political functions.  the photo appeared on the Daily Stormer forum by a poster named Ben Salt trying to identify the nude musician.  This comes hot on the heels of a flurry of a Tweet-storm between FilmsCrewBand’s Aaron and Levi Wall and unidentified others over the possible departure of guitar master Shawn Zone, suggesting far more was afoot than were mysterious circumstances surrounding the bereft announcement of departure.  As mysterious as the Tweet-storm was it could reference tension between Aaron and French Sludge Metallers AmenRa with whom FilmCrewBand appeared with during many tour dates.  This isn’t the first time the Films Crew double kick extraordinaire has appeared in the buff having been featured in photo spreads and the band’s now censored videos just the latest time and how he was featured on an extremist right wing political forum is as mysterious as it is humorous.  Details of shred master guitarist Shawn Zone’s possible departure are still unknown but may be darker than imagined.  

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Peyrony, ANNONXN, Films Crew, The Music Lives On

Posted by Kurt Parker I've been closely following the elitist experimental post rock, of music genius Shawn Zone's Projects for awhile, The Films Productions umbrella to Chappell is now a shared ownership with an unknown, Nathan Nevitt, (as officially stated Nathan Nevitt proposed to and married Shawn, so Nathan Nevitt is no longer an unknown).  We can only wonder what super drummer Aaron Housos James must be thinking, being the duo of the NYC power couple of Shawn and Aaron.  Being an outsider, their Official Website has only been updated by Ensign Tom Morris, (one of their spokespersons), and Levi Wall for his interesting side project Predator Band. who, Nevitt seems to have pushed out of the picture for his own interests.  Peyrony (Band), the latest from Shawn, Nevitt, Nik, and Chris, was a mysterious marketing ploy from Abercrombie which met with the project members turning the musical tables on Abercrombie, (who is distributing music without payment, as well as cutting their hair and dressing them at the Terminal and Tonic Shows in December, so they would look more natural (?), from Prada to Abercrombie (?) according to the only Official Wiki, this became an issue of previous contractual obligations, and in an e-mail to Kenneth Cole Productions has not been solved. Seeing Shawn as brunette in order to look natural and what I can only imagine was the destruction of a very pricey custom silver Dillon Firebird guitar due to an A&F logo emblazoned on it. The downtempo post-ambient dance music seemed quickly out of the picture for Peyrony, the performances were anything but, melding post-electronic, acoustic, and post-metal into blend of APC from the future meets up with Jesu, something a little to intellectualized for the Abercrombie Raver crowd, but the small percentage of them were in tranced, the larger percentage, (the NYC club and music elites) were completely swept up in the Peyrony sound.  Peyrony covered 3 reinterpretations of APC songs, 1 available for download on their site.  Tom (?) and Nik (Peyrony,former Isis live) announced that the post-electronic offerings of Peyrony were available for download free, since Abercrombie were playing it in store and distributing with no authority, bringing the future of Peyrony a huge question mark, Nik saying "That Hell" was brought about by Nevitt at the Terminal Show.  Absent was Levi Wall, the official word is at Nathan Nevitt's request. Present, Howerdel, joining them on an encore, and Nik Turner's brother Aaron, (there for Shawn and that was made clear).  Chris Sweeney (former ANNONXN) on drums, Nik Turner on bass and keyboards, and it was not announced if Nathan Nevitt was the second guitarist.  Levi posted the Predator video from the ANNONXN song, although no release date has been given for the DVD.  A WMG rep stated Films Crew had been given the green light for release early 2016, but thought that was too ambitious since the current line up was insisting on re-recording a large part of it, along with remixing and remastering, which would be difficult without Shawn's presence, in fact the musical and artistic empire of all the Films Productions roster would collapse without his vision,  where that is, is a question no one wants to answer, not far from Nevitt obviously, where all fingers are pointing.  The innuendo of a Shawn suicide from other sources shouldn't be encouraged, it is disrespectful, let the music live on.