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The new single “Miss The Misery” is out today. Listen: https://t.co/Fnjc5LFwqL

This is one of several tracks from the vault intended for NEW AGE SEDUCTION TACTICS, which was originally set to be released 2 years ago today. I thought there was some karmic justice in releasing one of the key pieces of the story of this album on the same date. As you all know, I released an abbreviated version of this record in December 2024 uploaded from my phone in a hotel while incredibly ill. I’ve never missed a deadline in my entire career, but I wanted to at least let this record speak in some form.

I plan to release a deluxe edition of NEW AGE SEDUCTION TACTICS with the remaining tracks I planned to complete the story back in 2024. This release is in addition to Greatest Non-Hits Vol. 1 and Family Cruelty, the latter of which was written over the past 2 years. I also have several more unreleased albums I look forward to sharing with you all in 2027. I have a lot of lost time to make up for.

All this hinges on an improvement in my health to the point I can physically look at a computer screen in order to finish the production and mixing in Pro Tools. The multiple infections I have endured and living in an apartment with toxic black mold has caused neurological problems and issues with convergence and accommodation with my eyes. I hope a clean living environment and visual therapy will do much to help with this. I have spent the last 6 months relearning how to play guitar due to nerve damage in my left hand and arm and have had to rebuild my voice. I am not one to give up easily, and look forward to getting back to best.

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“Miss The Misery” from the album NEW AGE SEDUCTION TACTICS (Deluxe Edition), coming soon. https://t.co/LktRqMpnqM

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Album no . 5, “Karma’s Bitch,” was released 5 years ago today!

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Album no. 7, “Hard Times,” turns 4 today! The Hard Times zine was a ton of fun to make!

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MASOCHISTS was released 9 years ago today! 💀

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Lisieux I: Renaissance was released 6 years ago today!

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Spotify: https://t.co/ebgUlB7M1N

“I’ll Stick Around”

You said you’d kill
To hide the pain
Most days you lie
Just to feel something

You’ve got no empathy
I think you hate me
But I’ll stick around anyway

You called me a loser
I took the bait
Didn’t really mind
I’m that lonely

Remember the text you sent?
Told me you wished that I was dead
But I’ll stick around anyway

If I run away
You’ll come after me
Say it’ll be different now
This time I won’t beat you down

After all this pain
There’s no escape
Said you’d better never tell
Oh, this life will beat you down

I know I should’ve done something
But boys don’t cry
It’s not the same

I guess I should’ve screamed
What the hell is wrong with me?
But I’ll stick around anyway

If I run away
You’ll come after me
Say it’ll be different now
This time I won’t beat you down

After all this pain
There’s no escape
Said you’d better never tell
Oh, this life will beat you down

But I’ll stick around anyway
This life will beat you down
But I’ll stick around anyway
This life will beat you down
But I’ll stick around anyway
This life will beat you down

But I’ll stick around anyway

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“I’ll Stick Around” makes its radio debut tonight at 7 PM EST on @BlowUpRadio. Listen at https://t.co/LuEXutvAgc

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Stream the new song “I’ll Stick Around” by @IllAdvised from his new album, Family Cruelty, out later this year.

YouTube: https://t.co/gPav8luTPy

Spotify: https://t.co/fAjaucTDRr

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“I’ll Stick Around” from the album Family Cruelty, now streaming.

Spotify: https://t.co/pGu4pQ2faF

YouTube: https://t.co/ow8GdjI8yf

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“I’ll Stick Around” from the album Family Cruelty. https://t.co/rc8PHhRUwt

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Check out the new tune from my good pal @IllAdvised give it a like and a follow! \m/ #NewMusic2026 #NewMusicFriday #NewMusic

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Merch sample prints have started arriving! Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered so far! Added a few hats since some of you were asking. https://t.co/WOldLBV2lT

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To say I can’t believe I released my first album, Parkway Divides, ten years ago today would be a cliché understatement. They say you have your entire life to write your first record, and this album was the culmination of everything I had dreamt up since I was three years old and saw a photograph of the amazing Albuquerque musician Chris Dracup playing a turquoise guitar.

Truth is, I think a lot of people were surprised I made one record, let alone eight! I wasn’t the best singer or guitar player out of the gate - drums were what came naturally and I was the drummer for many years. But I wanted to write songs and front a band, so I learned to sing. I was lucky to work with Jim Carson, vocal coach for the movie Across The Universe, for many years as a teenager.

In the spring of 2015 I somehow convinced my honors college thesis advisor, Dr. Philip Cioffari, at William Paterson University to make an album as my thesis (and special thanks to Jan Pinkston for her support and encouragement)! Thus I set out to make Parkway Divides.

My freshman year of college I interviewed the legendary mix engineer and producer, Michael James for a paper about the human element in music. We stayed in touch and over three years later, I reached out to MJ to see if he might mix a song.

Most LA pros would’ve ignored some kid from Jersey - but Michael didn’t. He saw something in my demos and rough mixes that most people didn’t, and decided to work with me. What followed was the 21st century version of making a record, but for me at least, just as magical. Over the next several months MJ lent not only his mixing skills, but his expert ear, and helped guide me as I produced and recorded Parkway, and he mixed it remotely in California.

I still remember listening to the final mix for ���Summer Nights” in the car with my mom, practically in shock that this was actually real. Our air conditioning had gone out a few weeks earlier, which helped inspire the song. After I finished recording the first demo version, I got that feeling you sometimes get as a songwriter that you might be on to something. Luckily, Michael felt the same way.

MJ didn’t dismiss me like a lot of people in my life had up to that point. My mom had been my only source of encouragement for years, so to get the validation that yeah, I wasn’t as delusional as some people thought (I think you have to be a *little* delusional to make an album!) set a fire in me that led to 16 hour days 7 days a week! Parkway Divides had evolved from college thesis to a full-blown concept record.

Other industry pros could’ve easily questioned and interfered with my creative process - and justifiably so. After all, this was my first album and I was producing it, too! But MJ let me develop on my own, gently guiding me and enhancing what I created. He let me find my own voice, which is a rarity in the music industry, and for that, among many, many other things, I will be eternally grateful. This record would not be what it is, and I would not be the artist I am today, without you, Michael. From the bottom of my black little heart, thank you, my friend.

I also want to thank another legend, David Donnelly, for mastering this album. It still sounds great a decade later. And a huge thank you to all of you who pre-ordered Parkway Divides on PledgeMusic all those years ago, fulfilling another childhood dream to make a physical CD! It was so fun looking through the liner notes recently to see all your names. Many of you have continued to pick up copies of my music all these years later, and it still blows me away and is incredibly humbling.

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Happy 10th anniversary Parkway Divides!

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It’s the last day of the countdown to the 10 year anniversary of Parkway Divides on November 20th! Today’s song is track #12, “The Last Goodbye,” which closes out the album. Listen: https://t.co/g7y7V8zPjI

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As we near the end of the countdown to 10 years of Parkway Divides, today’s song is track #11, “Shame.” Listen: https://t.co/MGQgweCpq8

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Today’s song is track #10, “Cyanide Caress.” I was lucky enough to have my longtime friend and digital filmmaker, animator, and graphic artist, @kennyonset, create this animated music video. Watch it here: https://t.co/LoH0lyAIhe

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Today’s song is track #9, “Ghosts Of My Memory.” It features a massive orchestral arrangement of strings, percussion, and woodwinds. Orchestral instrumentation continues to be a key element in the Ill-Advised sound 10 years later. Listen: https://t.co/MZ64kfie3I

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Counting down to 10 years of Parkway Divides! Today’s song is track #8, “Poison/The Cure.” Listen here: https://t.co/0Nik38D5av