Okay people, I have a favor to ask of you, it's nothing too elaborate, but it's a favor all the same. I'm sure 90% of you have stopped reading by now :P But my friends, A Faulty Chromosome, are trying to set up a tour, and it would help them greatly if certain college radio stations have played their music once or twice (or preferably many, many times).

So, it's easy, many of the stations have AIM accounts, I've made a vcf card here - if you're not sure what that means, don't worry. You just download it, and it's a list of addresses for your email client, or in this case, IM client. You can drag these into your buddy window and send a quick IM to the 14 different stations requesting one of the songs off their new album. Which you can download here for free :)



Here's a blog post from the band, if you want to read the entire thing and see a more detailed list of radio stations you can contact, then click this magical link.

This past month I have been working as band manager (I should probably dress in suit-and-tie so as to make it official and appropriate), booking a tour, talking with people about lawyer / record label / college radio / getting reviews-type things. It is dirty and very businessmanlike and I do not enjoy it much. I'd prefer to magically rain our album upon all those in the world who would enjoy it, but --sadly, very sadly -- it doesn't work that way, and in order to be able to survive making music (which is the only goal here, not giant, rockstardom stupidity, just making enough to not have to put everything on an ever-giant credit card debt and be able to eat more than tostadas and cereal without resorting to spending 8hours a day working a job I'm not very good at) we have to at least get people to hear it. And so, I ask for your help (which I mostly never do):

If you don't hate us / like us / love us / want to see us in your home town / are bored at work / don't feel like doing your stupid essay / want to practice your acting skills by caring on short conversations with strangers / want to conquer your fear of speaking on the phone in a business-like manner / just want to do a good deed...... request us on your local college radio station (or any college radio station for that matter; if you have nationwide cell phones, a call to Athens, GA costs exactly the same as a call to your mother who is only downstairs in the kitchen, right?) please? We will certainly lose over $2000 on this tour, so it'd at least be nice to have at a few kids happy to see us there instead of the usual jaded scenester at the bar.

Now, I've already heard from a few people who volunteered to do this stories about DJs saying "I never heard of it / we don't have it / I can't find it." But they do. They were all sent the cd, the delivery was confirmed, and the music director has it somewhere. Now, whether or not the DJs put it back where it belongs / feel like bothering to look for it is an entirely different story.

Hope you can spread the love a little and help them out - trust me when I say that they are some of the best guys ever.