If by some chance you have not seen it, the project is up on a blog on the Huffington Post.
Obviously that is a pretty big deal, so facebook posting, retweeting, DIGGing, reddit, etc. on that post will go a long way to more exposure for the project and record.

As will comments on the post itself.

Our mailers arrived, and we are in the process of packing up records to ship.
The rest of the vinyl is on it's way also. It's been a slow arduous process that has to compete with dayjobs, sleep and other such frivolities. Thank you for your patience.

if we do NOT have your address, expect an e-mail requesting that shortly as the time is nigh!

"Proper" website now up at KarlRoveBook.net.
Provisional buy link up through paypal while the compilation is setup through all of the normal distribution channels.

Just got the master back and it sounds fantastic!

If you have already donated and not sent us your address, please do so at: projectcourageandconsequence@gmail.com

There was a bit of a mixup in regards to what and what is NOT automatically sent out. oops.
We will be double checking to ensure we have shipping information for all donors with physical products heading their way, but let's leave nothing to chance shall we?

We're going to start assembling the pre-order mailers as early as late next week.
They will go out the second we have them in hand. There is not an exact date for this, but it will be later this month.

Unless otherwise specificed the Digital Download package will go to the e-mall you signed up with.

Also, Please make sure to check out: http://courageandconsequence.blogspot.com/ and http://twitter.com/bookkarlrove
aaaaand... THANK YOU!

-C and C.

We made it! Thank you one and all for helping make this happen. We go into production monday. For now, all of you that have pre-ordered should see an e-mail requesting shipping details for your records by Monday.

If you haven't please e-mail us at: projectcourageandconsequence@gmail.com

the real website and ordering infrastructure will be up very soon and it will be available at Amazon, etc. in a couple weeks.

Stay tuned for phase 2, and THANK YOU.

Thanks to the East Bay Express's Rachel Swan for the excellent feature article in this weeks paper.

I big feature article in the East Bay Express about this record just came out.
Warning: plenty of explicit language within.

Observeth:

Bands of Courage and Consequence by Rachel Swan

Indie rocker Conan Neutron has colorful ways of describing George W. Bush's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove. He offered a few examples over beers at the Uptown Nightclub: "Master of lies and manipulation." "A man with blood on his hands." "Shameless tactician." "Lying salesman." "Gandalf behind the scenes." "Unconscionable, soulless asshole." That's only the beginning. Neutron also faults Rove for "all these wars that we're still embroiled in, our economy being screwed, and gay marriage being used as a wedge issue." Then there's that "porcine face," which, according to Neutron, resists even the softest lighting or the finest airbrushing techniques.

"Did I say 'cocksucker?'" he added, his voice rising to a crescendo. Mere mention of the name "Karl Rove" is enough to get his blood boiling, and spur another fusillade of insults.

Neutron's well-entrenched animus stems from eight years of watching Rove serve as "Bush's brain," by issuing terror warnings and launching warrantless wiretaps, among other offenses. Like many of Rove's detractors, Neutron blames the erstwhile Chief of Staff for engineering our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet, what really got Neutron was Rove's recent comeback attempt, in the form of a new, self-aggrandizing autobiography. The title was the real clincher, Neutron said: "Courage and Consequence? Are you kidding me?"

Even as the ink dries on the pages, Neutron is planning his own project to coincide with Rove's March 9 book release. Originally, he wanted to create a one-off band that would perform songs about Karl Rove, and show "what the book should actually be about." The idea was to create a "Google bomb," like the one that Richard Kim and Betsy Reed created with their Sarah Palin parody, Going Rouge. When Neutron broached the subject with friends, their response was so overwhelming that he decided to take the idea one step further. He devised an entire compilation of songs that go against the Rovian grain. He named the album Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence, in the hope that it would steal hits on Google and perhaps even trick right-wing book-buyers into purchasing the wrong product. Barring a lawsuit for copyright infringement, Neutron says his main goal is to mess with the retired politician "in some small way" — even if it only amounts to a few less book sales, or a slightly lower Google ranking.

To Neutron, Rove's memoir and book tour is the equivalent of playing a show at the Hemlock Tavern: "You pump the show. You set it up. There's a solid routine to it that basically includes a lot of people kissing your ass." Thus, he continued, even a beleaguered politician can find ways to steer clear of critics. There's a real danger that Rove could successfully reframe history, or at least capitalize on a legacy of bloodshed and domestic surveillance. It's enough to get an activist rock musician hot under the collar. "He needs to be answered, and I don't see that happening from anyone else," said Neutron. "So I've elected myself curator of that."

In fairness, he has all the right job qualifications. Thirty-one-year-old Neutron grew up in Modesto, where he was the small-town misfit with blue hair, guitar skills, and erudite parents — they named him for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (He added the Neutron part in 1996 and won't reveal his real surname.) At age seventeen he moved up to the Bay Area, took a job in IT, and started the first in a series of offbeat rock bands, called Replicator. As frontman and lead guitarist, Neutron gave the band its distinctive nerdy stamp, writing songs with odd meters and Philip K. Dick references. Replicator enjoyed an eight-year tenure in the local club scene, and paved the way for Neutron's second band, Mount Vicious (which broke up in August). In 2004 Neutron helmed Bands Against Bush, a precursor to the Rove project with its own, similarly seditious compilation. Neutron said that Bands Against Bush landed him on a federal watch-list. He was sure of it, he said, because in 2005 all his parking tickets went immediately to collections, and he received jury duty notices about every six weeks. He couldn't pass through an airport security checkpoint without getting pulled out of line.

To complete Courage and Consequence in time for Rove's book tour meant Neutron had to follow a pretty aggressive timeline. He hatched the plan on November 29, which allowed him four months to corral the bands, record the songs, mix the album, and set the marketing campaign in motion. Neutron also formed a new band, called Victory and Associates. Thus, he got to contribute an anti-Rove ditty of his own, entitled "Lies and the Lying Liars That Sell Them" (a spinoff of Senator Al Franken's new book). Victory and Associates will perform its first show on March 18 at the Hemlock, several weeks after Courage and Consequence hits the streets.

It seemed improbable: a protest album with no financial backing, no promotional machine, and a deadline that brought everything down to the wire. But Neutron saw himself as a fearless David ready to fight Rove at all costs, even if it meant selling plasma to press up a thousand copies of the LP. Even he was surprised by the sudden onslaught of support. Thirteen bands signed on, ranging from local favorites (Heavenly States, Poster Children), to relative unknowns (Lambs of Abortion, We're Gonna Fight the Eskimos Next). Some came so late in the game that Neutron had to request a prerecorded, premixed track. Even more shocking was the response from fans, who made pledges on Neutron's web site to help fund the album. Neutron responded, in typical fund-drive fashion, with a tiered gift system. Five dollars guarantees a digital download, twenty dollars gets a digital download and copy of the vinyl LP. The sky's the limit, he said. "Donate a thousand dollars and you get to write something in the liner notes, a kiss on the forehead, dinner with me — I don't know." As of last week, the album was already 34 percent funded by outsider donations, enough to give Neutron a little courage and consequence of his own. Or as he put it, "It takes a village to fuck an asshole."

Here is Conan appearance on the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy show on friday.
Courage and Consequence on Mike Malloy
We are currently at $1,721 of $3,000 and are well on our way to meeting our goal in 6 days.
For those of you that pledged/preordered, thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. To everybody else, please consider pre-ordering or donating to this project to help make it happen.

-P. CandC

I finished a video intro for the Courage and Consequence compilation.
I spent about an hour and a half putting it together, and another 4 hours editing it down.
Check it out if you have the chance or inclination.

I'm pretty happy with how it came together given the budget I had (zero), and the time (none).

We're at: $1,140 of $3,000.
Which is better than when I made the video.
That is pretty damn good. I've got 10 more days to meet the goal or there's nothing.
(no pressure, no pressure!)

A pledge is a delayed payment... doesn't hit until the fundraising deadline.
A pre-order is $20.
Even $1 helps though, because it bumps up the fundraising page and increases visibility.
so far, saturation with rock and roll people (almost universally broke), is very high and non-rock and roll people pretty low.

I have a few small press appearences coming up for this, but nothing major so far.

If you're reposted, retweeted, or e-mailed this project to a friend...THANK YOU!
If not, could you?

I'll sell plasma for this if I have to, but I'd truly rather not.
Remember: Now is the time when you can make a difference on this, tenfold more then when he is on the talk show circuit.

To the backers:
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It means everything to me to have your support with this project, together we WILL bum out Karl Rove.

We are 1/3 of the way to our goal and it's all thanks to you!
If you have an account on DIGG consider uprating this here to spread the word.

We are on target for our deadline and doing a great job with finished and mixed songs coming in every day. I will post an update with the actual album art here when it is done, sure to be an entertaining take off on the actual book cover.

The internationally acclaimed band The Heavenly States will now be appearing on the Courage and Consequence compilation as well.

More details on this as they develop.

Thank you to everybody who has donated so far.
This project will live or die with the support of folks just like you.

It is imperative that we spread the word as far and as wide as we can.
An important part of the "culture jam" is it being something of a surprise to the RIGHT people (*ahem*), but of course to make things happen we need to make sure as many interested parties as possible see it too.

Since folks have asked, I will include a list of confirmed/notable acts that will be on the compilation so far. Please note: This is NOT a complete list at all, just an idea of where we are going. I hope to release a more complete list at a later date:

Generalissiimo

Cartographer

Cold Lake

United Sons of Toil

Death Dream

Have Special Power

Victory and Associates

Assistant Cobra

Poster Children

Bottomless Pit/Tim Midgett (from silkworm)

Thanks and... please spread the word!