In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress

Hey Everyone!

Magneta is back in the grind, yup new music is on the way. We want to update you guys on a number of things that are going on with the band! We've been really busy with a number of things.

FIRST THINGS FIRST...THIS FRIDAY!

Drake Hotel 4/20 SHOW!

ML will be sharing the stage with Low Level Flight at The Drake Hotel April 20th!! We will be playing our new songs off our upcoming EP. Tickets are $10 at the door and doors are at 8pm. We hit the stage at 9pm.

Hope to see you there! The night is young! Nadia created a pretty awesome poster for the show. Check it out below!




Witch Rock EP

Our Ep 'Witch Rock' has been pushed back to the summer. We felt that it sounded more like a summer record. The title Witch Rock was inspired by Rick and James (our producers) during recording. We sat there talking about music genres and how the EP didnt really fit in anywhere (always the black sheep haha) and so they created one for us,just for fun. We thought it perfectly tied in with the theme of our record, the celebration of our most inner villains. Nothing makes us more curious than a witch. The witch is the ultimate villain. The ultimate bad girl. And we celebrate her, in others and in ourselves.

The EP consists of four singles and will come out on Splendor House Records - our new record label. We are currently working on getting a trailer done for the first single, that should be out by the end of may with the official release date. We are also taking new promo pictures this month with the talented Stephanie Luong. Please view her works here :
Stephanie Luong Photography
She rocks! We'll have those for you very soon!


Now for those of you that asked....
The EP tracklisting is as follows:
1. Burn
2. Good For
3. Leave the light on
4. Lucky

We are looking forward to touring over the Summer, but tour dates and plans at the moment are still TBA. However, once we have set dates you all will be the first to know! We are excited to play the new songs live this friday in Toronto for the first time! We have been working really hard getting our shit together. We are so excited for you guys to hear it!

War Child Canada

We wrote and recorded a new acoustic song exclusively this past March for War Child, called 'Three'. It will be released this Spring on their compilation. We will have more details on that in our next blog.

Splendor House Records

We have just launched The Official Twitter account for Splendor House Records! We will have an Official website for you soon, for now check out our splashpage at
Splendor House

Follow us on Twitter:
SHR Twitter


Merch

We will have some cool new merch in the next couple of months with the new official band logo.

Heres the link for our merch site:

ML Merch

look out for some deals on the older inventory in the next couple of weeks!
We are also working on a new website for ML - which will include new artwork. yay!

Thanks guys/ladies! If you have any questions email us at info@magnetalane.com or for more random rants don’t forget to follow us on twitter @magneta_lane :

ML TWITTER


And dont forget to Like our Facebook page:

ML Facebook


xo!

L, F and N

P.S. Sorry for the awful grammar. Typed this uber fast.

"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! "

Hello Bloggers.

So much for the once a week blog? haha I swear i'll get there. Want to talk to you about a bunch of random stuff recently happening in my world. Last time i blogged was right around my birthday.

First of all, Holy October! seriously fall is the best season in the world. I could never live in winter full time or summer, fall is just right. For me anyway.

I like the colours in the trees, the pumpkin spice flavoured everything, apple cider, and the anticipation of halloween. Honestly Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos is my favourite time of year. I'm sure its quite obvious. Ive always had an infatuation with the cultural aspect of it, to me its better than Christmas. Theres just something more spiritual and supernatural around this time of year. My favourite subjects. I'm in the middle of trying to decide what im going to be for halloween, last year i was a nun. I just thought it was hilarious. I mean, i was raised Catholic and I love Catholic art and rituals but i dont take myself very seriously. I believe in a bit of everything when it comes to religion. I think only you can define that for yourself.

Tonight will be a 4th attempt at costume shopping. I find it really hard now adays since everything looks really skimpy. When did halloween turn into a lingerie fashion show??...i think we are missing the fun of it now, the innocence, i wish i could go trick or treating still. What a bummer. Seriously. I do everything i can during this time of year so i feel like im super involved in it, we went to the pumpkin patch last week. We went to a pre-screening of paranormal activity 3 lastnight (which was really good, most decent horror movie franchise now adays, you have to watch the first two though), we'll be carving pumpkins soon, and we are going on a ghost walk out of town the sunday before Halloween. I forgot to mention that they previewed this crazy looking horror film lastnight called The Devil Inside. Holy Shit the trailer itself was AMAZING. Im such a kid. Total Horror movie nerd. I remember in elementary school, i actually use to hangout in the girls bathroom and wait for girls to come in and make them say bloody mary or candy man three times. Most of the time theyd run off crying. What a horror. lol SO MEAN. I would never do that anymore... actually depending on the situation....kidding!

Okay so on to grown up stuff haha...the record writing is coming together. We played indie week in Toronto this last weekend. WHAT A GOOD TIME. We met a band from overseas called the Suburbians, really down to earth nice guys and another band from here called the The Reason. We played two shows in total this past week. The first was at the Gibson Showroom Rocksmith Launch event. Very cool new guitar video game, check it out if you havent! We got to play it for a bit. Its so funny cause i was soooo horrible at it haha We ended up covering two songs which were part of the game...The Cure: Boys Dont Cry and Blur: Song 2. The guys from the other bands were gracious and kind enough to sing the woohoos on the song! it was so much fun, i felt like such a shrimp on stage cause im really short and the guys were all like 6ft something so funny. Then on the Saturday night we played at the Horseshoe for the Epiphone/ Monster Cable night. Definately my fave live venue in the city. Everything is so loud! love it! but the crowd was great, it was nice to see some old friends and make new ones. Thank you to all who came out! That'll probably be the last Toronto show for a little while since we'll have to focus on the record in the next couple of months. When the new record comes out, we will be focusing on touring south of the border, we really want to get down as far as LA! im so sorry after all these years we've really stuck to the north east side but trust me when i tell you, this record will take us down there. Be patient. Thank you for all your support for so long, I know we've made you wait long enough.

On the subject- We will be heading into the studio in November to start recording the album singles.
We'll have one ready for you in the new year. I'm also preparing for the launch of my label Splendor House Records. I've recieved some really great emails from people. Thanks for your support! I'll keep you guys in the loop when i have the site up and running, for now im just trying to concentrate on getting back to some writing notes before we head into recording. It's been so busy these last couple of weeks.

Also at the end of the month Im going to be taking part in the ShowUp Vaughan Benefit Event. I'll be one of the talent judges. Its October 27th at the RH Performing Arts Centre. Proceeds from the show will go to the Shining Through Centre for Children with Autism. Go here and see how you can take part: http://www.showup-on.ca/about.php

Anyway on that note, Happy October everyone!

I'm going to leave you (especially young ladies running the world) a trailer to a really awesome doc that's airing tmrw i believe on the OWN network. Its called Miss Representation and it was passed down to me by Mo Sandoval on facebook. Check it out here, it looks awesome!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY&sns=em&noredirect=1

Happy Harvest.
-Lex

First blog. REAL BLOG.

Hey everyone,

Okay so i decided to start a blog. A REAL blog. I've been told a hundred times that I need to be a little more personal with all you. There's something I can't stand about reading blogs or posts with people over publicising their life. I really do think that some things should be kept personal and it absolutely makes me nervous at the thought of being emotionally exposed. If i'm going to do this blog thing i want to use it for some sort of good. Blogs should be for sharing positive things. Music, books, travel, memories, life lessons, quotes and things that keep you up. And even if at times the content is a bit dark it should be to inspire not to bring down.Dont you all know that misery loves company? I have an absolute fascination with human dignity and when you over expose yourself i feel like their is none left.Or maybe its just scary to me. Talking about myself and my thoughts right now is making me extremely anxious. haha


For starters: I have a rather dark sense of humour so i hope you guys will take me with an absolute grain of salt. I wanted to stay away from blogs for a long time, cause im extremely opinionated and perhaps wanted to save you all the headache haha. I'm very hard headed.

Okay well I guess I should probably tell you what i'm up to these days and how i feel about it right?

haha okay here goes....

I'm at work right now listening to Slow Show - The National, such a great song. Nada Surf is also on the playlist as well. I really do admire that band alot. Great pop hooks but always themselves. I'm not gonna lie i could REALLY use another coffee. I fear i may be a coffee junkie though so i'm sticking to water for the rest of the day. 2 cups is enough. for now.

I'm currently writing and demoing the new Magneta Lane record with France and Nads. If you've been reading our online communities we also were super pleased to announce our new production team. Rick and James of Finger 11. Great and creative, humble guys. I'm so impressed with how they've taught me to look at things in a different way in a studio. If you listen to our two bands seperately, we are completely different... but the one thing that brought us together and made us join forces for the record was the fact that we are fans of the same music. 90's music. Demoing with them has been a blast. It's like we share the same brain when it comes to the new songs. I'm excited to get into the big house studio and of course, get the record out to all of you. Getting to know them i've learned that its always the guys that are the most kind, humble and real that have the most successful music careers. I think that says alot about the way life works. Always be thankful and kind and humble with others and life has a funny way of rewarding you. Just some food for thought.

In the meantime, i've been trying to find ways to take over the world LOL joking! A friend of mine always jokes and calls me the Brain, like in Pinky and the Brain...do you guys remember that cartoon? haha classic. I dont know whether to take that as a compliment but he's pretty funny. Anyway...I decided to use my spare time wisely and start my own record label. I was gonna put it off till after this record was released but i figured i have all the tools, i learned alot in the last 8 years and felt like why the hell not!

It's called : Splendor House Records. I'm looking for 3 acts to take on right now, as i wont be able to take on more with everything thats going on with the record and home life. It's gotta be something different. Acoustic,piano, indie rock, electro, whatever as long as it makes me want to put the work into it. If you think you have something special, email me here. I'm working on getting the site up for it. I wanna hear tunes! : splendorhouserecords@gmail.com

At the label, we want to also show artists how to run their own shit and teach them about how the music industry works. For those that are young especially, you can't let people take you for a ride. I want to prepare the artists with how they handle the business side of things as well. I can't stress this enough...you have to be well informed about your craft on stage and off stage.

Anyway i have to go back to work and stop procrastinating. I'm laughing cause this is the second time I'm typing the same blog, last attempt erased everything. haha

Hope everyone is enjoying the warmth. I apologize for the run on sentances, and AWFUL grammer. Have you seen how long this thing is? if it really bothers you, then YOU correct it. kidding.
love to you all,

L