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Project Shout Outs: Performer Mag AND KoreAm Journal
Author: Joanna
Performer Magazine, the nation’s largest musicians’ trade magazine, just printed a story about Mia’s fan-funding project.
Journalist Tripp Underwood writes, “For many indie artists, the concept of fan funding is more than just collecting donations and making albums, it’s a real connection between performers and an audience that is truly passionate about music.”
Amen to that! The Sukey Rose Project has been successful through the participation of people like you, whether you’re keeping up with the blog, voting in our polls, or spreading the word by putting up a banner on Facebook. We want to hear your opinions about the music and the ideas that are floating around in the independent music scene.
KoreAm Journal also caught Mia for a few questions in their August issue. You can find the interview with her on page 13 in the Spotlight section. And speaking of how independent musicians rely on the relationships with their fans, independent magazines rely on the support of their readers.
KoreAm Journal’s senior editor Julie Ha wrote a provocative open letter asking readers what they would do if they could help sustain the magazine if it could. The media is changing, newspapers have falling circulation numbers, and KoreAm is wondering what is necessary to keep the magazine thriving. If you have thoughts about this, you can join the conversation at www.savekoream.wordpress.com.
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Road Bump
Author: mia
Hello All! I hope you’re enjoying the last breaths of summer… I spent last week with my brother, sis in law and my two most amazing adorable nephews who were visiting from the East Coast. Let go of my worries for a bit, enjoyed the beach and also babysitting! But now it’s back onto the saddle…You may have noticed there’s been a bit of a silence on my side regarding the album… it’s cause, well, recording the new album has been put on pause. Yeah, it sucks, but I’m determined to make this into a positive thing. Some of the reasons I made the decision to put things on hold are due to funding and scheduling issues. At first I was really down about a perceived setback, but now I’m determined, hopeful and driven. I’m going to take this opportunity to try to do a bit more fan-funding and pray for a sponsor to help me finish the album. I’ll fill everyone in with more details soon. Just wanted to let you know that the project is still going, we’ve just hit a bit of a bump on the road, BUT! nothing’s gonna stop me… onward I go!
Project Shout Out: Audrey Magazine Features Indie Musicians
Author: Joanna
Audrey, an Asian American women’s lifestyle magazine, just released their Indie Music Issue. No, that’s not Mia on the cover. It’s Priscilla Ahn, another great singer of melodies. In this special issue, Mia is included in their list of up-and-coming Asian American musicians. Other musicians include Mylin, Shugo Tokumaru, Sue Jin, Renee Sebastian and Malea McGuinness. They should have also included The Sweet Hurt, led by AA lead singer Wendy Wang (yes, I’m namedropping).
Pick up an issue at your nearest Borders! Or whatever bookstore nearest you that might carry this fab mag.
Project & Studio Update
Author: mia
Hello All!
I’m happy to say we’ve reached one of our Project goals! On Thursday July 31st, we reached 100 (ONE HUNDRED!) project members! It means so much and I’m so very grateful. There are also people praying for me and rooting for me, and I can tell you, an artist is strengthened and becomes even bolder when they have people supporting them. So thank you! We also passed the $7,000 mark in our fan-funding this past weekend. Our original hope was to hit $10,000 by August 1st which was the deadline to cover a majority of studio costs, but I won’t get discouraged and will keep forging on to the final goal of 15K! In all this I keep reminding myself that the glass is half full, 7K raised by 100 people is an AMAZING accomplishment!!! I take no credit! It’s everyone coming together to make something bigger than us all, it’s so exciting, almost surreal!
As for recording, we are still in the process of building layers of instrumentation for the bigger songs (War, Safe.) Here’s a snippet of “Safe” below. More updates coming soon!
-Mia 
Project Shout Out: LapTopRockers Interview Mia
Author: Joanna
Laptoprockers is not about fat rockers with fat long hair and fat leather jackets. Hey, that’s what they said. Ever heard of them? Laptoprockers is a site that’s just starting out, but they’ve definitely got it going on, and we’re glad that we get to be part of their beginnings.
Laptoprockers is a site that covers interesting aspects of the music industry and they’re also from the Netherlands. Please check out their site, as well as the interview they did with Mia.
By the way, just in case you didn’t notice, we have 100 project members AND we’ve raised more than $7,000. Not bad, not bad. And you have minutes before it hits the 12:00 mark to be part of this pre-sale. After that…well, I can’t tell you here.
Trials and Tribulations
Author: mia
This week is off from recording, Tim has a conference! I’m catching up on some housekeeping, errands, promo for the Project, etc. So a couple weeks ago I almost gave up. Scrapped everything. “Tim, we’ve got to shelf it.” Artist=swept away by emotion I guess. I was feeling stressed about raising funds, doubting my worth, wanting to just quit and give up the album and music. It was like a storm of discouragement and negative thoughts came and battered me for a week. The biggest frustration was feeling insignificant. Insignificant musically, to the world, etc. But my faith got me through, and I read my trusty bible and the storm passed. But, truthfully if there were no project managers/support team and project members to keep me accountable, I would have run away and hid in a cave. Thankfully, I’m not alone! What causes stress? Well for one, feeling as if every note is final, down for posterity. Trusting another human being to bring the songs to fruition (still working on this one Tim, but I’m getting better, no?). Wondering if my stuff is really good or just ‘good’, though I know I don’t suck. Fearing that I’m wasting everyone’s money and time. Though the technical process or recording itself hasn’t been stressful, it’s these general questions about my identity and future as a musician that press upon me. It’s times like these I wish I was a driven, ambitious, slightly obnoxious but well-meaning diva. I’d get so much done! I know we all go through these times. It’s part of being human. Thanks for reading.
NEW POLL: Final Song Shoot-Out!
Author: admin
Head on over to the “Have Your Say” page for the final Song Shoot-Out. Vote for which song you think should make it onto the album!
Layers and layers
Author: admin
Songs Mapped Out, Tempos Chosen= DONE!
Scratch Tracks (Vocals and Guitar)=DONE!
Record Drums (over scratch tracks)= DONE!
What next? Now we get into the meat of recording! Right now as I type, Tim is recording RAD electric guitar parts, layers and layers of them, onto “War”. Looks like we’ll take it song by song, add instrumentation, and flesh them all out musically. Then we tackle vocals and I’ll get to sing to amazing instrumentation. (Karaoke to my own songs? Fun!)
Video Blog #4, Drums Drums Drums
Author: mia
A Quick Hello!
Author: mia
I’m still here! And the Sukey Rose Project is still alive and kickin’! Last weekend I stole away to the mountains. I had a couple songwriting breakthroughs, wrote a new song last night (another haunting slow song) and we pretty much settled the track list today. Thank you to those who voted in the “hear your say” section to help me decide about which songs should go and which should stay. Adam the drummer is coming in on Thursday to track drums all day. Then it’s build build build. Will explain more in detail in a soon-to-come video blog!
-Mia
p.s. please spread the word to anyone you may know who would be interested in supporting indie music. Thanks!