There’s part of me that rejects the very nature of the Faster Than Light/Young Mothers Kickstarter project, since it will take two musicians I really like out of the state I still live in, but I suppose it’s probably better that they chase their dreams, share their music with a larger audience, try to make it big, etc.

Our names are Nate Jasensky (of Faster Than Light) and Zach Toporek (of Young Mothers). We’ve been playing music in Tucson and Phoenix for all of our lives, and now we’ve decided it’s time to take a risk and try something new. Something pretty big. And we wouldn’t be musicians if we didn’t try to make a record out of it.

But not just any type of record.

The idea is to record and film a multimedia album on our tour from Tucson, AZ to New York City. We’re moving from Arizona to New York to play music in the big city, and we’re honing our craft along the way.

We plan on finding a unique, non-traditional performance space in every city we stop in and filming a performance of a new song or a new arrangement of some of our existing material. Upon our arrival in NYC, we’ll be editing the audio and video, interspersing it with footage we film along the way, and creating a document of our voyage and of who we are as musicians at this pivotal point in our lives.

Their Kickstarter runs until May 21st and the promotional incentives include t-shirts, mixtapes (complete with cologne), personalized YouTube videos and other fun stuff. Check it out.

This article appears in Apr 26 – May 2, 2012.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

5 replies on “Help Two Bands With Tucson Ties Leave the State”

  1. FYI, for the person who keeps posting on this thread whose comments I keep deleting: We delete comments with clearly fake email addresses, since that violates our comment section rules. If you’d like to de-anonymize your comments, even slightly, they’re welcome in this thread or any other.

  3. Not true, you only delete posts that you don’t agree with and have fake emails addresses. if you like the comment you don’t bother checking.

  4. @True Dat: Actually, that’s not true, as you can tell from the sheer volume of comments I leave on the site that insult me, people I respect, or the place I work. If I was editorializing with the “delete” button, the comment section would look far different. I look through each comment’s email address without looking at the comment itself and remove thusly.

    I’m fine with largely anonymous or pseudonymous commenting, I just don’t care for people who drop in, say something nasty, and leave without taking even the most basic responsibility for their words. If that doesn’t work for you, so be it, but I think I’m on the right side here.

  5. Seriously, if you can’t even go to the trouble of saying your fake email is @yahoo or @gmail.com, get off the internet.

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