Beautiful Lies news:

As we are continuing to work on the new album, we've all decided a little more blog action would be appropriate. Whether or not that means we talk about the album, well, that gets repetitive after a while. We'll have a track listing as well as a title very soon. We do have some other exciting news though!

Beautiful Lies is releasing an EP just before Christmas. We figured there's nothing better to give your loved ones than a CD full of hits, including "Untitled" and newly recorded versions of the classics "Cold" and "All Because of You." There will be one or two other songs on it as well, but I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise just yet...



Obviously it's too early to be playing holiday music, but once Thanksgiving is over, we're open to the idea of recording a Christmas song. What would be a good holiday song for BL to cover? Send us your thoughts and suggestions!



In other news:

I've been working on this electronic/pop project, and it's going to be completed by Christmas as well. It features hits such as "Light My Cigarette" and "Put Some Butter On It." There's also a demo of "Trapped" on my page (myspace.com/nickmcleanmusic). When the rest is done, I'll probably post it there as well. Word on the street says there may be an exclusive dance party this weekend to debut it.


Feel free to check out my blog (finally updated since March) at http://nickmcleanmusic.blogspot.com/. The old posts talk about our travels in Europe. There's lots of photographs up there too.

Also check out Zach's new blog at http://www.theonelove.org/zachmclean.

So I was walking home with Dave around 8:30 pm and we overheard a band rehearsing in an apartment complex at quite a loud volume. I thought to myself "How unfortunate it must be to live within proximity to that building." To my dismay, the same thing happened at my complex, except it was at 2 in the morning. I don't have access to the building next to me, so I couldn't really do much about it. Police don't respond all that often to situations such as this, and I couldn't get inside next door to knock and ask them to stop.


So I finished up this recording and decided to share it with the world. It's a new version of an old song called "Trapped." I'm debating the title at the moment, and very open to suggestions. I just got a new keyboard, so a lot of the sounds in this song are from that.



Enjoy!



-Nick

So Beautiful Lies' full-length debut "Words Are All We Have" is finished. What now?

Well I've decided I wanted to try re-doing some old stuff off the first album I recorded under the surname Beautiful Lies. That was before this band got together. Songs like "Yeah" and "Someday" didn't really get justice done to them. Now with all the new equipment I'm gonna try and mix it down on ProTools.

Also, there have been rumors about different projects about what Beautiful Lies is going to do next. Remix EP? Acoustic EP #2? It's really hard to say right now, but I would be lying if I said we weren't remixing some of our songs already. We're going to master the first Acoustic EP and re-release it with a new track. Other than that, we're probably just going to record all summer when we can. Just want to start building a library of songs to choose from. With all 4 members writing songs, why not record them all?


Keep checking back for more updates. Beautiful Lies is playing the Avalon on June 30. Times and ticket prices TBA.

I decided to make a new profile just because i wanted a way to put out what I've been working on outside of Beautiful Lies. Songs posted could even be works in progress, but I'd like to have this alternate outlet. Yes, it is a music profile but it's still just my personal profile, so look at it as no different from my page except it has a music player on it. That's about it. It's just some motivation to constantly work on new music especially over the summer when I will have a lot more free time.