The Bodega Girls’ Jake Brennan made an appearance on National Public Radio’s ‘Here And Now’ program last Friday to talk about his new venture, The Hector Fund. To make a long story short, the Hector Fund is basically an expanded version of the music marketing model semi-recently made notorious by Josh Freese and other’s whereby the fans basically fund the making of an artist’s album. The artists offer different ‘packages’ of items and/or experiences for different levels of monetary support. For instance, for a measly $250 bucks, Jake’s band The Bodega Girls, “will accompany you to the street-corner, front-yard or window of your loved one and assist you in the coolest PDA ever. You can wear your John Cusack trench coat and hold the boombox over your head and we’ll accompany you by singing either an original, a cover, a bastardized version of “In Your Eyes” - whatever you want and we’ll rock the beat, vocals, acoustic guitars and ukelele. If this doesn’t get you laid then he or she just isn’t that into you.” This of course is the “John Cusak Level”. Listen to Jake dish the in’s and out’s of the Hector Fund on www.hereandnow.org. And to get all the info on Hector go to www.thehectorfund.com.

We’re a bit behind the times vis a vis Dear Leader’s self-administered leak of their new album due out next month. Songs number 3 and 4 from the upcoming DL album are called ‘Empires’ and ‘Rust Belt Ballad’ respectively, and are now available free of charge at www.dear-leader.com