For those unfamiliar with Weed format, it is a Windows Media Player format that allows anyone to download a song and listen to it free of charge for three times before the user must decided whether they to buy it or not. We know it often takes more than one listen before a song becomes one of your favorites.This allows many to get an unfettered chance to try out songs for awhile and let them sink in. As a bonus, if a user registers with Weed (which is also free), you can earn money from the song by reposting the purchased weed song files on your site, bulletin boards, in your email signature, etc. for download. If someone buys the song from one of your postings, you also earn some cash from the sale. For more information please visit Weedshare.com.

    To be quite frank, we are managing the website ourselves, thus the redesign will take place often in our spare time and as we pick up new skills and techniques that we think could really benefit you our fans. While we redesign the site, we've  also decided it is time to blow the dust off the site and get some housecleaning accomplished,as it were, as we make some improvements.

    We've already made a few minor tweaks that we expect should immediately improve performance with regard to our videos. We've uploaded and linked our videos for "Synners" and "This Side of Forever" at the Youtube.com site for streaming. This should reduce the wait times for viewing. It also allows you the opportunity to archive the videos in your favorites folder there as well as rate us. We also think it will be a cool way for you to discover other cool indie artists who are doing interesting work. We are also committed to posting any future videos on the youtube.com site as well, so be certain to subscribe to us there and you will be among the first to receive any new videos.

    Speaking of keeping in touch, we hope that this blog and your ability to subscribe to our RSS feed will make it easier for us to keep you up to date with things that happen in the DPS world. We will still keep our Yahoo group Society of the Dead Poets around of course if you would prefer. I imagine that short of super major annoucements, we will probably make this our main site for group related things that we find interesting, or think might interest you.

    We hope you had the chance to get your singles at our ampcast page. That site has recently folded. We are now uploading all of our tracks including the songs from our official albums The Electric Haze and Deprogramming, as well as many of our more rare tracks and remixes to our soundclick.com site for your listening pleasure. This will be the only spot where you can  purchase our rare and remix tracks. Includes our remixes for Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Collide, Madonna and Hotboxed.

Gradually we will be moving over all of the entries that had been listed on the old news page to our blog. We hope that it will make things easier for people to locate a previous entry they were interested in viewing. We hope you like the new format. We look forward to hearing your ideas and comments regarding the new changes as they occur. 

Want to help us distribute your favorite DPS music and earn yourself some money in the process? DPS just recently made their music available in the WEED file format. You can become a music distributor instantly by downloading a collection of our Weed files and posting them on a website. It's that easy. You don't have to fill out any applications, go to any interviews, attend any meetings, file any reports, or answer to anyone.

When someone downloads a file from your site and buys it, you make money. So do we the artist, and so do  YOU who helped distribute it. More specifically, the rightsholder receives 50% of each sale, you get 20%, the person who shared the file with you gets 10%, and the person who shared the file with that person gets 5% of the sale price.

After some encouragement from friends and requests by some fans, Raven and I each now have our personal journals/blogs linked to the official site. Check them out at the following links. Raven's Journal and Wa's Journal

Due to incredible fan support, Dead Poets Society is ranking well at Soundclick.com, their official new home base for mp3 streaming. If you have not visited the new re-vamped DPS site at Soundclick, click here.

DECOMPOSITION features a wide palette of sound skillfully woven together to form an exquisite 55+ minute musical tapestry. Trance, Industrial, Trip-hop, Ambient, Punk and Techno treatments are all on the menu. Fans of Dead Poets Society, Soy Futura, Soviet Radio, Karl Mohr , Spectre VII, Cryptomnesia, Blue Mars, Bytet, Ingrown and The Synthetic Dream Foundation will delight at these new interpretations of Minefield classics. `The mixes on this disc really do underscore our electronic influences and push the envelope as far as experimentation goes' claims Tamara Kent, vocalist and lyricist for MINEFIELD.

If you are interested in picking up a copy for yourself, please contact us by email to make arrangements, or keep an eye on CDbaby.com. The album is scheduled to be available there later this month. We will be certain to let everyone know once it is up.

If you would like to hear the DPS remixed versions of "It's Too Late" and "After the Ball" from Decomposition, please click here.

Dead Poets Society Releases New Video To Web

A full-length video of Dead Poets Society's controversial darkwave single SYNNERS is now available for free viewing online at www.thedeadpoets.org. The track has been declared innovative by many, garbage by others. You decide. The video features the character Sin Drome portrayed by Hotboxed lead singer and Dead Poets Society collaborator, Ryan Mann. Sin's girlfriend and unwitting victim is portrayed by Sara Wooding.

Mann collaborated on the actual recording of the song, and is the screaming voice heard during the chorus. Of the recording experience, Mann has said "I had always liked the song SYNNERS from the first time I heard it, which was at a soundcheck before a show they were headlining. Even a week after the show I still couldn't get the song out of my head. When Raven told me that she wanted to try something new with the song and wondered if I would be interested in doing some guest vocals, I was a little unsure, not that I didn't want to do it, but I have never worked with a project like this. I wasn't sure how it was going to sound at first, and I didn't want to screw up a song that was already badass to begin with. Needless to say, I went over and did it anyway and it turned out great. I'm definitely honored that I could be part of such a great song and work with a great group of people."

To watch or download the SYNNERS vid, check it out in the GALLERY. More videos will follow in this space.