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We've got big news!  The new record Todos Somos Ilegales will drop any day now.  A new US tour begins Monday Dec 26th, starting with an NYC HEADLINING HOMECOMING show at BOWERY ELECTRIC.  Kickstarter gifts are boxing and shipping now and there's a big holiday merch sale -  including out first ever Hoodies, Vinyls and $7 Shirts.  This merch sale is so important to keep the band afloat and moving forward, please take a look and pick something up for yourself or as holiday gifts: http://outernational.bigcartel.com

9 MONTHS AGO...

9 months ago we jumped in the van and drove from Brooklyn to the California coast, we packed what we had and let everything else go.  3 months before that, in December 2010 Chad Smith joined us on stage for the first time in a very special NYC holiday show.  The chemistry and passion that night led Chad to suggest we cut a record together.  So there we were 3 months later, putting it all on the line and driving 72 hours and 3000 miles to begin writing and recording 'Welcome To The Revolution'.  As we left we had a few of the songs for what we conceived as a 6-song EP: 'Todos Somos Ilegales'.  

With no record label we decided the only way to do this was to bring the fans deep into the process - to raise the funds in small donations - not a small task when over $20,000 was needed.  Upon arriving in California we launched the Kickstarter fundraising campaign in April 2011... casting our lot with the people to create revolutionary art and music for the moment.

AND NOW HERE WE ARE...

Its December 2011.  Much has changed since last April - as we left, the Arab Spring was inspiring the world and now the defiantly new Occupy movement is at a crossroads.  Once again we are poised to make a straight shot 3000 mile journey across the country to bring you 'Todos Somos Ilegales' - now a full length 18-track mixtape album. 

Everything is building to the release of 'Welcome To The Revolution', coming in 2012.  And we did it all with the money you contributed - over $20,000 on Kickstarter.  Gifts are being packaged and mailed as I type.  As always is true for the artistic process, a little more is needed - about $5000 - to cover the cost of extending 'Todos' into a full length record with special guest artists.  We'll be raising more funds through a 'Pay What You Will' feature on the release.  Of course all of you who gave (and anyone else in fact) can download the album for free.  But this is an important way to cover the expenses.  It's also a way to involve all the new people who discover Outernational, encouraging them to come get involved - even financially - and really join our team and extended family who want to see so much more for the future... a whole other way...

So here we are 9 months later, returning from a wild west journey, back to New York with these 2 new albums and a sharper mission and artistic vision.  If you are in NYC come out and celebrate with us DECEMBER 26 at Bowery Electric - our last headlining show of 2011, our now annual holiday show and our last show before we go back on the road (wait till you hear about this one!)  2012 will bring hundreds of Outernational tour dates, in, around and through the borders of the world.

We want to thank you all for your support, for your investments, for your love and friendship.  Thank you for sharing with us your hopes and dreams.  Thank you for listening to something that may have challenged the way you think.  Thank you for your financial support of the band, we continue to rely on you to sustain Outernational as we get out into the world in 2012.  You can continue to support and fund the band by picking up a new merch item in the store - hoodies, vinyls, CDs, shirts…  Every single purchase helps us keep gas in the tank and move ahead!

So, future rockers, we write to you with love in our hearts and the horizon in our eyes.  We look forward to next year - to new changes and breakthroughs in the world and all the new artistic opportunities ahead.  We look forward to coming through your town, whether it's in Nebraska, Mexico, or maybe even Sweden and beyond…

Enjoy the new music as it arrives.  Share it and spread the world about Outernational and help contribute to a new culture in 2012.  Continue to financially support Outernational as you can.  Continue to bring your energy and your fire to the shows.  And keep dreaming… I've got these dreams / When I sleep / And I've got these dreams / That really could be! (Fighting Song)

TO THE FUTURE!!!

LEO MINTEK, The California/Arizona Border, 12/15/11

Hello all!  Been a while since we wrote to you, apologies for the delays as we have been neck-deep in recording and making plans to make sure this music you paid for gets out in a proper way!  The Todos Somos Ilegales project has been expanded from an EP to a full-length mixtape!  We've been recording even more songs and have some exciting surprise guest appearances I can't mention yet...  It will be available for free next month, and you all get the first downloads.  We've been inspired by the occupy movement around the US - starting on Wall St in NYC and spreading to hundreds of cities.  We've been performing in downtown Los Angeles, and tomorrow we return to NYC where we will soon be in the streets at Liberty Park standing and singing with the 99%!

Okay more updates - The new Que Queremos / The Disappeared 7"s are ready, and the new customized designer t-shirts, not to mention the autographed 12"s, and other gear like Chad Smith's drum sticks etc.  We'll be sending out your reward mailings before the end of the month.  If you have changed your address please reply here or send a message to futurerock@outernational.net with your new address.  I'll be sending a reminder about this next week before they ship.

Lastly, we are making the first music video for the full length album Welcome To The Revolution, watch out!  Keep in touch with us, we have a new blog here:  http://outernationalband.tumblr.com/ posting videos, photos, articles about the band and the world.

If you're in NYC, come catch us on Tuesday for CMJ, we're putting together a one-night-only special expanded band to play new songs from the Todos Somos Ilegales mixtape.

We in Outernational extend our deep thanks to you all, for supporting this project and making it possible.  Without your contributions this Spring, we would not be making these 2 new recording projects and would not be able to make revolutionary art to challenge the powers that be and reach out to this generation.  THANK YOU!

TO THE FUTURE!

Leo Mintek, Monrovia, CA, Oct 15, 2011

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