Oh, the places Jonny Craig will go. Former Dance Gavin Dance vocalist and drug addict/awkward criminal Jonny Craig recently released three interesting cover songs (including a song originally by Justin Timberlake) and announced a solo headlining tour. Today, he has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new EP on Indiegogo that you can find here.

Jonny is without a label now, so the crowdfunding could make or break him. In his own words, “I want to get some new music out to all of you, MY FANS, but in order to do so it’s going to cost some money. As I no longer have a label budget behind me I decided to team up with the people at Indiegogo to offer you, the fans a chance to be part of this and make this EP come to life!” The most interesting options are spending $2500 to sing on the EP yourself and a grand to get an acapella performance by Craig. The campaign was updated after critics pointed out none of the options actually gave a purchase of the music, so now ten bucks fetches you the album via download, whereas before it got you an autograph. Bravo, cynics; bravo.

We don’t expect everyone to have the crowdsourcing success that Kevin Devine had, but let’s hope more artists let the fans determine their future. We’ll let you know how the EP turns out.

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Dan Bogosian

I finished school with a music theory degree. Before I finished school, I was a janitor. You really should apologize to all the janitors you've ever had. You hurt them. Seriously. You did.

But, now that we've cleared that up and you called your high school janitor, know that I quit being a janitor to pursue writing about music. So here I am, and here you are, and hey how are you?

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