channelAPA has my back
6/22/2008 at 8:53 PM
Really awesome post on channelAPA for the "Sublingual" music video, calling it "just what we need for APA Heritage Month." They were also cool enough to include shout-outs to Karen and Chop Suey, as well as mentioning AngryAsianMan.com and AliveNotDead.com:
Check it out hereAccording to their "About" link, channelAPA started up the day AZN Television shut down, and on less than $60. Hey, that's about how much I'm gonna be able to spend on my next album, so ain't nothin wrong with that!
When you're this indie, every show of solidarity counts for a lot... Thanks guys!
"Sublingual" MUSIC VIDEO IS ONLINE
6/22/2008 at 8:52 PM
Just wanted to announce that the music video for "Sublingual" has made its way online. You can watch it on YouTube
here or check out a high quality version on my website
here.
Big thanks to Phil at AngryAsianMan.com, Patrick and Mark at AliveNotDead.com, and my publicist Kim for helping to spread the word about our project!
For those of you who missed the screenings at my release party or at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it closed out the music video program, the video was directed by Karen Lin and shot at a historic Chinese restaurant in downtown called Chop Suey. The video was a big community effort, with costumes and props being donated from East West Players and Little Tokyo Service Center, as well as many generous friends and family members. But, of course, immense credit really remains with Karen, producer Jorge Agraz and the rest of our crew, who blessed the project with more skill, soul and just straight up raw ass-kicking power than I could possibly have imagined.
Be sure to watch for cameos by our editor Vincent Tsu (as a rich businessman) and my good friend, graphic designer and filmmaker Max Medina (making his auspicious screen debut with broom in hand).
If you're curious about the process of making the video, there are a ton of photos from the shoot on both my
Facebook page and my
AliveNotDead.com profile, taken by both Max and photographer Rachel Tejada.
As always, you can purchase "Sublingual" along with 9 other songs off "Radiant," my second full-length release, on iTunes, as well as eMusic, Rhapsody or Napster.


rose petals and runways
1/11/2008 at 6:19 PM
Yes, those are rose petals on the runway. Here are a couple photos from last weekend, when I was playing at the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Fashion Show. I think I was there to provide the male point of view, because I was the only one with a Y chromosome to step foot on the stage that day. At any rate, it was a great show. And I learned that Miss Chinatown contestants have to change really, really fast. Unfortunately, these photos don't give a sense of how huge and beautiful the ballroom was, so you'll have to take my word for it.


I didn't sell too many of my CDs, even though they were super limited-edition (from having been burned on my Mac at home and then sharpied on). Maybe Office Depot and charity fashion shows don't have the save target market.
Radiant soda
1/2/2008 at 12:53 AM
Definitely one of the coolest things anyone gave me this holiday season. My pal Max always has something quirky up his sleeve... Thanks buddy.
Make Your Holidays Radiant
12/19/2007 at 10:22 PM
Hey everyone,
In celebration of the holidays, I'm rolling out a little promotion for my friends and fans.
If you buy the entire album, "Radiant," on iTunes anytime between now and the end of December, I'll send you a link to download the complete production demos (in MP3 format) for the record, including a never-released song that I've never played or performed.
These are the raw, unmixed and unmastered demos with placeholder instrumental tracks, loops and keyboard sounds filling in for the real band. My bassist and drummer played along to these demos as scratch tracks during the recording of the album. Essentially, they're the "Radiant" worktapes. And like I said, you'll also get an eleventh song that wasn't included on the finished album.
As an extra bonus, I'm also including one of the unreleased versions of the album art to go along with the production demos that you can throw into iTunes. This was part of the original batch of album covers done by my graphic designer/creative cohort Max Medina.
Just email me at scott@scotttang.com with the date you purchased "Radiant" on iTunes (so I can verify it with my digital distribution accounting), and I'll send you the link to download the demos.
If you've already bought the album, just email me, and I'll send you the link.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Scott
fashion for charity
12/8/2007 at 1:54 AM
The 2008 Annual Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Pageant is coming up right after the holidays, and along with that, the Charity Fashion Show, on Saturday, January 5. This year, I'll be doing my part to help out during the charity show by performing. Supposedly, a bunch of songs from "Radiant" are also being worked into the show somehow.
Here's the important part, though: the fashion show is to benefit two really great charities: Project Cuddle (www.projectcuddle.org), organized to stop the abandonment of babies (statistics indicate that nationwide, 57 babies are abandoned every day), and Living Grace (www.lgrace.org), a counseling organization for Chinese American families, communities and churches.
If you would like to help out, too, you can do so in one of these ways:
-monetary donations and sponsorships
-donations for the silent auction held just before the show
-support by placing an ad in the program book
-attend the show by purchasing a ticket
All this information and more can be found on a .PDF file I've uploaded to my server at:
www.scotttang.com/2008fashionshow.pdf
Isn't love always remixed anyway
12/5/2007 at 3:47 PM
Got word from my man Giles Li over at Boston Progress Radio that one of their staff reviewed "Radiant" as part of their Featured Artist series. What I dig about this review is that the writer clearly isn't a pop music listener, yet she still connected with the songs.
Anyway, reviews can be hard to come by for an indie artist (it's like finding money in your couch, except it's a $20 bill), so please leave a comment at the bottom of their page to show some love right back. Something like "Buy this album NOOOW!" will do, but, you know, feel free to improvise.
The full review can be found at http://www.bprlive.org/2007/12/03/featured-artist-scott-tang/ but here's an excerpt:
"This album may make you want to get into your car, blast the tracks and reminisce about past love or fantasize about new ones. It also reminds me of parts in old TVB Chinese television episodes where either a couple finally gets together after torturous years of keeping their love from each other (this is where a Scott Tang track would start playing), or the part when the couple breaks up but you know they still love each other so it makes you want to jump into the TV to tell them that there is still hope. Although pop albums are not my music of choice, I found "Radiant" to be refreshing at times and perhaps renews my hope that real love exists. Aside from the sometimes very cheesy (or maybe I'm just too jaded) lyrics that yearn for true love, listen to the awesome piano composition in the background. Some tracks to listen for on the album include "Olvera Street," "Sublingual," "Life With You," and "For The Record." But personally I would love to hear "Olvera Street" flipped into a hip-hop remix (Isn't love always remixed anyway?)."
Music dream (dreamnopodie?) No. 1
12/1/2007 at 3:46 AM
OK, last night I had a dream. Well, I have dreams all the time, but this one was about music, so I'll share it.
I dreamt I was walking around in a forest with my brother Jeff. It was the future. There were all these pianos everywhere. But - I guess, being the future - pianos were different than we think of them now: they were all sort of DJ pianos, electronic hybrid things with turntables on top and few working keys, if any. No one played real instruments anymore.
It was fall, and leaves were blowing around, and in the middle of the clearing, my brother and I saw the one piano that was different from all the rest. It was a huge, old black grand piano, and sitting at the bench was a man wrapped in what looked like black bandages. Even his mouth was covered. When he got up and left, Jeff and I looked at each other and walked over to the piano. He helped me prop the cover up - it seemed to unfold like some ancient secret - and I muttered, "let's take the top off this baby and see what she can do." (did I watch Top Gun last night or something?)
I started playing an old song. I didn't recognize the make of the piano - it wasn't a Steinway, like the ones I grew up on, but the keys looked like ivory: cracked and discolored, like those old pianos. Unbelievably, it was in tune, though the sound it gave off was kind of brittle and raspy. When I started singing, my voice was older, too, and full of little cracks, just like the keys.
As I was playing, the scenery changed (you know how dreams do that) and suddenly it was night, and we were in the parking lot of this strip mall, like the ones that are everywhere here. But we were still with the piano; it was like it had transported us. There was a homeless guy with suspenders holding a sign up nearby. I think when the Writer's Strike ended years and years ago, he had just never gone back to work. More and more people started coming around, old friends who hadn't heard a real piano played in ages. One of them somehow got talked into buying dinner for the homeless writer.
Even though it was like the middle of the night, this sort of budget Japanese restaurant was still open and we all shuffled in. The kid working there held up his fingers, like, "three?" I nodded. Wait, no. I shook my head. "four?" I nodded. No, wait. How many damn people were with us again? That's when I woke up. I guess my brain sensed I was trying to make it do math, and went, "zzz... *snort* what?? Math?!"
Theeee END.
overpriced
11/27/2007 at 2:08 AM
So apparently there are a few used copies of my last album, "Late Night Drives," floating around on Amazon.com. One person is selling it for $4.95. That's cool; they bought it, they didn't like it or whatever, they're selling it for half off (or the story I prefer: someone's girlfriend bought it at a show, they had a big fight and in a jealous fit, the boyfriend stole it and threw it up on Amazon to make a quick few bucks). But what is with this person who is selling it for $39.98??

I wanna tell this guy, "Hey man, it's hard enough to sell my records for $10, good luck selling it for $40!"
Alive Not Dead Official Artist Profile
11/21/2007 at 11:02 PM

They just gave me an "official artist profile" on the totally kick-ass Chinese social networking site AliveNotDead.com. This site was started by some filmmakers in Hong Kong along with a couple guys I used to train in wushu (Chinese martial arts) with. The awesome thing about it is that it was started by Chinese entertainment folks, and they've stayed truly artist-friendly by continuing to feature the blogs of people like Jet Li, Daniel Wu, Van Ness Wu, etc, while also supporting indie Asian-American artists, filmmakers, athletes and designers. I don't know where else you can find a place like that. Check out my profile at:
www.alivenotdead.com/?scotttang and make your own while you're at it!
first "official" review of "Radiant" and new Facebook Page
11/12/2007 at 9:32 PM
The first review of "Radiant" is up on FR*A, courtesy of their senior editor (and apparently, resident air drummer), Eugene Kim. You can check it out at
FutureRockstarsOfAmerica.com or just go straight to the review
here.
I also wanted to let you guys know I have a
new artist page on Facebook for my music. They just started this thing called Facebook Pages, which is great for musicians, because it lets me put all my music stuff in one organized space and use my personal one more for things like throwing sheep at people. I haven't totally figured it out yet, but it does appear you can become by "fan" and add me to "your music." I don't know exactly what will happen if you do those things, but let's
do it!

Finally, thanks a lot to Phil at
AngryAsianMan.com for plugging "Radiant" on his awesome site. If you guys don't know about AAM, you're seriously missing out on the best site for Asian-American related news. I've always wanted to buy his "Nobody loves an Angry Asian Man" shirt, but I thought it would be better suited for someone who looked like he was ready to kick your ass (and most days, I just look I'm ready to go back to bed)
supporting Radiant on Facebook
10/28/2007 at 11:04 PM
Hey guys, I just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone who's been supporting "Radiant" in the form of song dedications and song adds on Facebook. Check out how easy this is:

Just go down to the songs on my page and click "Add to profile" or "Dedicate." It takes one click!
If you really love the songs and wanna take them with you everywhere, click this one:

Also, if you happen to find yourself in Orlando, FL these days, go to JB Robinson Jewelers in The Florida Mall. You may hear my album playing in the store. Find this girl -

- and give her a high five! Because she bought my album, burned it onto a CD and is playing it in the store she works at! Score one for the East Coast... you rock, Joanna!
joe wu rocks. so does adding my songs to your facebook or dedicating them to your friends.
10/23/2007 at 8:31 PM
Just wanted to throw a quick entry up to plug the photographer who worked with me recently to do photos for the new record, Joe Wu. If you're looking for a photographer, just ask yourself: do you love taking bad photos? If so, don't call Joe. But if you wanna work with like the Harry Potter of photography, his website is joewuphoto.com. Tell him Scott sent you (I dunno if that'll actually do anything, but you know, it just sounds like something I should say here. :)
Also, thanks to Boston Progress Radio (bprlive.org) for playing the new album and Eugene at FR*A for the shout-out. And everyone who's dedicating the songs or adding them to their profiles on Facebook... You guys are rockstars!
Finally, if you're buying the tracks on iTunes, feel free to gimme some love in the form of a customer review. Thanks!
Radiant
10/19/2007 at 8:50 PM
Hey guys. Sorry for the long, long wait. My second album is finally done! For those of you who waited so long, I feel like I owe a bit of an explanation. So here it is, in one sentence (though a rambling one): I've been really, really busy with my non-musical life and I self-produced this record, which took much longer because I had so much more time to fuss over it. I think it was worth the wait, though, and I hope you do, too!
You can buy "Radiant" through iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and Napster, and you can even get ringtones at GroupieTunes. I've also uploaded several of my sites with streaming versions of the songs, and on the ones that would let me, I uploaded the whole damn record, so you can listen to every single track (I even threw the lyrics up this time).
In addition to my official site (scotttang.com), you can now also find me on iLike, so if you're on Facebook, you can add my songs to your profile and help spread the gospel of Asian-American indie music! I'm also on some really cool new artist-friendly social networking sites, like Virb.com, HumbleVoice.com, and AliveNotDead.com. Of course, I'm also on Myspace and Facebook, so you can hit me up there, too.
Take care and enjoy the new music!
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check out my new tune when you get a min, thanxxx
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