Notable pledgers include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
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Early-bird pledgers can get a front and rear light set for 278 Danish kroner — around $43.
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Giving What We Can has a little under 4,0.23 pledgers, which is honestly less than I thought.
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At $399 for early-bird pledgers, the Hover 2 is priced around the same as the handheld DJI Spark.
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How many Dry January pledgers have you heard fantasising about that first sip of a double (triple) G&T come February 1?
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So, weigh in: Is this a good idea (looking at you, 225 pledgers!), or just the newest addition to your junk drawer?
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Many of these pledgers have descended on San Francisco for a three-day summit organised by Mr Brown that started on September 12th.
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In fact, January 17 has been dubbed Ditch Resolutions Day, since it's the time most "new year, new me" pledgers officially give up.
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So, last month, it opened an office in San Francisco, and Goldberg visits the Bay Area once or twice a quarter for dinners with prospective pledgers.
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But the easiest-to-convince pledgers signed up, as you'd expect, early on: 21 people committed in the first four years, but only 65 over the next five years (three have signed up so far in 2019).
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The history of the collaboration between Bill Gates and Warren E. Buffett that resulted in the Giving Pledge is widely known, but "The Givers" also describes the continuing institutional infrastructure established to help the pledgers give effectively.
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In some ways, a stricter pledge — one that commits pledgers to report details of their giving, and to give to areas they believe to be neglected, high-impact, and not better addressed through policy — might have been a better strategic call.
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Videos that support initiatives like the "It's On Us" pledge (to prevent sexual assault on college campuses) and climate change have attracted millions of viewers and pledgers online (one video had more than 42 million views on Facebook, making it the most-watched Facebook video ever published by a U.S. government or political entity).
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Rosenbaum's study was innovative for using Rubin causal model matching, instead of relying on regression analysis, which makes potentially untrue parametric assumptions. According to Rosenbaum, past research findings that virginity pledgers delayed sex may have been affected by their statistical method's inability to adjust fully for pre-existing differences between pledgers and non-pledgers: pledgers are much more negative towards premarital sex prior to even taking the pledge, so would be predicted to delay sex even if they hadn't taken the pledge. Comparing pledgers with similar non- pledgers is the only way to be certain that the effect comes from the pledge rather than the pre-existing greater beliefs of pledgers that sexuality should be restrained to the matrimonial context.
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The efficacy of virginity pledges has been extensively studied. Some studies have found that virginity pledges may be effective at delaying vaginal intercourse, but that they are ineffective in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) because pledgers may replace vaginal intercourse with other sexual activities, such as oral sex and anal sex; other research, however, has suggested no such substitution among pledgers, though pledgers may partake in vaginal or oral sex. Virginity pledges may also reduce the likelihood of contraceptive use once pledgers decide to engage in sex. Though studies have reported this and found that pledgers are more likely to remain virgins by age 25 than those who do not pledge and that those who do become sexually active report fewer sexual partners, at least one study found no difference in the sexual behavior of pledgers and non-pledgers after controlling for pre- existing differences between the groups.
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PledgeMusic – Updates Pledgers were able to pledge money on a limited edition colored vinyl of the album, where the color of the vinyl version was voted on by the pledgers. The winning color combination ended up being a burgundy and yellow swirl. This vinyl was exclusive to pledgers, limited to 200 copies and will reportedly not be reprinted once the project is over.
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On August 28, Manafest released the music video for "Let You Drive", a day after releasing it to pledgers. On September 3, 2015, a pre-order option for Reborn was put on iTunes. On September 9, 2015, Manafest released the album early in digital download format to all album pledgers. On September 9, according to Manafest, shipping had begun for all album packages to pledgers.
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There have been numerous peer-reviewed studies of virginity pledges with varying results. Four of the five peer-reviewed virginity pledge studies and the non-peer-reviewed study discussed below use the same federal data, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), in which 13,000 adolescents were interviewed in 1995, 1996, and 2000. The other peer-reviewed study used a study of virginity pledges in California. The first peer-reviewed study of virginity pledgers (by sociologists Peter Bearman of Columbia and Hannah Brueckner of Yale) found that in the year following their pledge, some virginity pledgers are more likely to delay sex than non-pledgers; when virginity pledgers do have sex, they are less likely to use contraception than non-pledgers.
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The Giving Pledge :: Pledger Profiles Retrieved 16 May 2017 Not all pledgers are billionaires.
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On May 26, 2017, Manafest announced that pledgers would be getting two unreleased bonus tracks, as well as the instrumentals for the album. Around the second week of June, 2017, pledgers began receiving their copies of the album, a little less than a month ahead of the release date.
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Some studies of the efficacy of virginity pledges have found they may be effective in delaying vaginal intercourse but ineffective in reducing the rate of sexually transmitted infection. They also reduce the likelihood of contraceptive use. Additionally, it has been reported that pledgers replace vaginal intercourse with other sexual activities, such as oral or anal sex. At least one study has found no difference in the sexual behavior of pledgers and non-pledgers after controlling for pre-existing differences between the groups.
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In July 2019, Ladytron announced they had bought these items and would send them to pledgers for the postage costs.
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On 26 June 2013, she finished recording the limited release version of her debut album. Hide & Seek was released to pledgers on 1 July 2013. Janet released an exclusive bonus acoustic EP, Nothing Lost, to pledgers on 14 August 2013. On 25 June 2013, Devlin worked with Newton Faulkner again, providing vocals for his new album project, #studiozoo.
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The lyric videos for both "Let You Drive" and "Reborn" were released the next day on August 5. On August 7, "Let You Drive" was released globally on iTunes. On August 17, Manafest informed pledgers he would be sending out their pre- ordered albums in early September. On July 19, Manafest released the official track listing for the album to pledgers.
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On August 4, 2015, Manafest simultaneously released the first two singles off the album: "Let You Drive" and "Reborn" to pledgers. This was followed by the re-releasing of "Let Go" on August 19. Finally, "Shine On", featuring Trevor McNevan, was released to pledgers on August 24. On August 7, "Let You Drive" and "Reborn" received simultaneous official releases as singles on iTunes.
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Pledgers also commit to reporting their project activities back to the Global Population Speak Out coordinator. These reports are then listed on the GPSO website.
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They deduced that there was substitution of oral and anal sex for vaginal sex among the pledgers, although the data for anal sex without vaginal sex reported by males did not reflect this directly. This study also estimated that male pledgers were 4.1 times more likely to remain virgins by age 25 than those who did not pledge (25% vs. 6%), and estimated that female pledgers were 3.5 times more likely to remain virgins by age 25 than those who did not pledge (21% vs. 6%). The study also noted that those who pledge yet became sexually active reported fewer partners and were not exposed to STI risk for as long as nonpledgers.
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Ginger Wildheart: The Triple Album Project on PledgeMusic Via the PledgeMusic website, persons who pledged money to the project were allowed to download completed tracks before they were released in other forms. The first track to be made available for download by pledgers was the rough mix of "You're The One, You're The One, Yeah, I Know You're The One, You're The One (Yeah I Know You're The One)."Brand New Song To Download Exclusively For Pledgers The thirty tracks recorded for the project were made available to pledgers in three batches of ten, on 23 March, 30 March, and 6 April 2012 respectively. On each date, the tracks were made available at 5:55 pm England time.
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On July 12, Manafest released a brief preview of the song "Army" on YouTube which showcased the total line-up of all the featured artists that will be on Reborn. On July 17, the album project reached 100% funded. On July 31, Manafest gave pledgers previews to two songs off the album: "Reborn" and "Let You Drive." As promised, Manafest released both full songs free, as singles, to the pledgers on August 4, 2015.
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The songs were released individually in digital form. In 2014, the re-recorded collection on CD was made available exclusively for pledgers. The official release of To Hell With You was January 28, 2014.
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A third peer-reviewed study — by Melina Bersamin and others at Prevention Research Center, in Berkeley, California — found that adolescents who make an informal promise to themselves not to have sex will delay sex, but adolescents who take a formal virginity pledge do not delay sex. A fourth peer-reviewed study — by Harvard public health researcher Janet Rosenbaum published in the American Journal of Public Health in June 2006 — found that over half of adolescents who took virginity pledges said the following year that they had never taken a pledge. This study showed that those who make the pledge but have sex are likely to deny ever pledging; and many who were sexually active prior to taking the pledge deny their sexual history, which, it is speculated, may cause them to underestimate their risk of having STIs. A fifth peer-reviewed study, also by Janet Rosenbaum published in the journal Pediatrics in 2009, found no difference in sexual behavior of pledgers and similar non-pledgers five years after pledging, but found pledgers were 10 percentage points less likely to use condoms and 6 percentage points less likely to use birth control than similar non-pledgers.
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A download of the album was released to pledgers on 16 December 2014. The album was released along with a DVD of the performance. Both are entitled Way More Beer, Live in Köln, Germany, October 19th, 2013.
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GPSO 2010 increased the number of project endorsers from 32 (in 2009) to 50 in 2010 (including 28 Ph.D's). Under Population Institute's project management, the number of pledgers had also increased from 216 in 2009 to 386.
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The video was directed by Michael Sherrington, who also directed Ladytron's "Mirage" video. On 1 June, she shared to the pledgers a 55-second- long sample from a song titled "Hearts on Fire" and also confirmed the official track listing of the album. The album was initially scheduled to be released in March 2013, but it was delayed multiple times, to 10 May, then 31 May, and then 2 June. The album was released and available for download to pledgers on 11 June 2013 in FLAC and mp3 formats.
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Larry Smith Covenanters And Jacobites And Wars With England, Mother Bedford website. Accessed 30 May 2008Manganiello p. 144 The Earl of Argyll learnt of the Bonds existence from Lord Almond and on 13 April 1641 it was discussed by the Scottish Committee of Estates. Although many members of the Committee were eager to press treason charges against the pledgers, after Montrose and others appeared before them and testified to the bonds existence and tried to justify it, no action, beyond having the bond burnt on a written statement extracted from the pledgers that no evil had been intended, was taken.
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In December 2014, Day created a PledgeMusic campaign to fund a new album, Lanterns, which was released to pledgers on April 16, 2015. The album was released on iTunes April 28, 2015. Several songs on the album feature Aimee Mann on backing vocals.
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Supporters uploaded selfies, then created and shared AI-generated artworks using one of the six artists' tiger-themed artworks. The images symbolise pledgers' collective fight against illegal tiger trade. The physical artworks were displayed at Clarke Quay Singapore and the interactive showcase travelled to various cities worldwide.
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Reddick also announced in a video posted online that the band was scheduled to record a new cover album, as well as a greatest hits album after the 2013 Farewell UK Tour and preceding the band's 20th anniversary in June 2014. On June 11, 2013, Reddick announced via the band's PledgeMusic Project page it was up to the pledgers to vote on what the newest album should be named. On June 20, 2013, it was announced the title with the most votes was Lunch. Drunk. Love. The album was released to the pledgers on September 6, 2013 in both clean and explicit formats and the pledge campaign was temporarily extended, allowing effective purchase of the album for $10.
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In June 2010, the Giving Pledge campaign was formally announced and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began recruiting members. As of August 2010, the aggregate wealth of the first 40 pledgers was $125 billion. As of April 2011, 69 billionaires had joined the campaign and given a pledge,10 More U.S. Families Commit to the Giving Pledge , retrieved 25 October 2011 and by the following year, The Huffington Post reported that a total of 81 billionaires had pledged."Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Giving Pledge Gets 12 More Billionaires To Commit Over Half Of Their Fortunes", Huffington Post, April 20 2012 By May 2017, 158 individuals and/or couples were listed as pledgers.
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On February 23, 2017, Manafest released the title track "Stones" as the first single off the release via lyric video. On March 21, 2017, Manafest debuted a second single entitled "House of Cards" to pledgers exclusively. It was later released to the public in the form of a lyric video.
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On December 21, 2016, the band granted early download access of the full album to pledgers of the campaign. The album then debuted globally on its release date of January 13, 2017. In April 2018, Till did another interview with Cross Rhythms and explored further about the creative process behind Pulses.
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The study also showed that virginity pledges were most effective within a small group of pledgers in an at least partially nonnormative setting, meaning that if abstinence is not the norm, those taking a virginity pledge are more likely to adhere to it. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth"National Longitudinal Studies". National Longitudinal Studies. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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GPSO 2011 maintained the number of project endorsers at 50. There were 24 women and 26 men, who represented 16 nations, including: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Uganda, UK, and the USA. The number of Pledgers increased from 386 in 2010 to 1,037 in 2011. Overall, GPSO 2011 achieved participation from individuals from 52 countries.
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In 2016, the band started a celebration for their 20th anniversary. They announced that they will release a new record and when supporting their PledgeMusic campaign, they send an EP to all pledgers, titled Influence EP, which consists of cover songs of bands that all influenced them. On September 13, 2016, the band announced their 20th anniversary tour with support from Death Therapy.
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In October 2012 the band launched a PledgeMusic campaign for their third album, Remain in Hope. The pledge page went live on 25 October, and had reached the target amount within 2.5 hours.Pledge Music campaign page By the time the project was completed, they'd raised over 500% of their target from over 1,200 pledgers. Fans received video updates, covers and an acoustic album for taking part.
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This meant I had to do things for myself, of course. It was a stressful time, but, by acting at exactly the right moment, I managed to retain most of my pledgers. I'm pleased to say that all of them received their promised albums, on time and at the agreed-upon date.” “Looking back,” he reflects, “perhaps the headache caused by PledgeMusic was actually a blessing.
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Holding My Breath is the fourth full-length studio album by American singer- songwriter Jon McLaughlin. The album was released on September 24, 2013 in the United States. In July 2013, McLaughlin launched a campaign with PledgeMusic, allowing listeners to be involved actively with the making of the album, even releasing the track "Hallelujah" early to pledgers as an incentive on September 7, 2013.
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Trevor McNevan was then announced to be expected to be featured on the track "Shine On". On July 29, Manafest announced to pledgers the release date of the album to October 2, 2015. This was followed by a general announcement to the public on August 6, via YouTube. On August 4, Manafest announced that the first music would be released to people who pre-ordered the album.
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This version consisted of 10 tracks; all except the title track were "re-forged" versions of older songs. Mars Williams of the Psychedelic Furs provided additional saxophone on several tracks. The full version of the album, released in 2016, included additional remixes and extended versions. After releasing the first remix to pledgers in early 2016, Denbigh suffered a stroke and was hospitalised for a long period.
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On 16 September 2012, Marnie started the PledgeMusic campaign in order to fund the making of her solo album. She also posted a short trailer about this project. She achieved 100% of her goal in three days. Helen Marnie offered various items for potential pledgers, like digital download/CD/gatefold vinyl of the album, signed 8x10 studio photos, disposable cameras filled with random pictures chosen by her, market bags customized with her logo, screen printed posters, handwritten lyric sheets, a pair of shoes and a dress that she wore in Ladytron's "Tomorrow" music video, a blue bikini that she wore in a pool photoshoot, personalized ringtone package, test pressing package, and her 1998 Mini Cooper Sport car. On 16 February 2013, Marnie offered to the pledgers a 1-minute 45 seconds preview of an unfinished version of one of her songs titled "The Hunter".
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Johnson launched a joint North American tour with Charlene Kaye, Misty Boyce, and Jay Stolar in the spring of 2013. On Christmas Day of 2013, she released the lead single from Heart, titled "American Dreamer", initially only to fans who had already donated, and pledged. The single was released publicly on January 10, 2014. On January 29, 2014, Johnson released the Extended-Play Heart, initially to pledgers only.
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On February 20, 2017, Manafest launched a Kickstarter project for a new album entitled Stones. On the same day, Manafest also released the title track to fans (via email and Dropbox) who had supported his previous fan-funded projects. On March 21, 2017, Manafest debuted the second single from the album entitled "House of Cards" to pledgers. On May 9, the song was released to project backers for early download.
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In February 2006 CKXU held its first annual on-air funding drive. The funds raised totaled over $5,000. In 2007 the annual funding drive (Fundrive) took place from February 8 to February 11, and the goal was $6000, a modest increase from the first year and The pledges totaled $7,800. During the 2012 FUNdrive the pledgers managed to surpass the pledged amount of $10,000 with a total of $12,543.
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He advocates for donation solutions such as payroll giving, transactional giving and the sharing pledge, which offers companies and individuals the opportunity to donate a portion of their sales, profits, stocks or capital gains (1% or more) to causes supported by the foundation. Pledgers include Alex Chung, Co- Founder and CEO of Giphy; Andre Haddad, Founder & CEO of Turo; and Chieh Huang, CEO of Boxed; as well as investment firms.
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The song appears as a bonus track on the vinyl release of Heaven or Somewhere in Between, along with a "piano version" of "Fall on Me". In August 2016, Kitten began a crowdfunding campaign through the website PledgeMusic to fund their planned second album. The band shared two new songs in February 2017: "No Hallelujah" and "Oh My God". Both songs were made available to download via PledgeMusic, exclusively for "Pledgers".
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This study found, however, that virginity pledges are only effective in high schools in which about 30% of the students had taken the pledge, meaning that they are not effective as a universal measure. Their analysis was that identity movements work when there is a critical mass of members: too few members, and people don't have each other for social support, and too many members, and people don't feel distinctive for having taken the pledge. This study was criticized for not being able to conclude causality, only correlation, a criticism which applies to all studies of virginity pledges thus far. A second peer-reviewed study, also by Bearman and Brueckner, looked at virginity pledgers five years after their pledge, and found that the pledgers have similar proportions of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and at least as high proportions of anal and oral sex as those who have not made a virginity pledge.
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People who pre-ordered the album through the website, or "pledged", would also be able to download the album earlier than others. When the pre-orders hit the target goal, 5% of the money raised would be donated to To Write Love On Her Arms. Pledgers would also receive updates and exclusive videos. Mabbitt released certain songs from the EP when the target percentage of donations reached certain points, such as 55% or 75%.
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Water and Washington is a 2013 album by Mike Doughty. It is a rare bonus album available to participants in his PledgeMusic campaign for Circles, Super Bon Bon, and The Very Best of Soul Coughing. The album, available as a download to pledgers who ordered a copy, consisted of 20 acoustic tracks, including acoustic versions of the Soul Coughing songs on the album, as well as several tracks that were not included on the album.
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The first virginity pledge program was True Love Waits, started in 1993 by the Southern Baptist Convention, which now claims over 2.5 million pledgers worldwide in dozens of countries.Anne Bolin, Patricia Whelehan, Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives, Routledge, UK, 2009, p. 248 A torrent of virginity pledge programs followed. Another prominent virginity pledge program was the Silver Ring Thing (SRT) which started in 1995 has been featured in hundreds of media reports worldwide.
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On 1 September 2014, The Getaway Plan announced their plans for their third LP, entitled Dark Horses. The band chose to avoid record labels and remain independent and set up a crowd-funding campaign through Pledgemusic.com. The band self-recorded a 4 track EP entitled 'Journaux' which was made available as an exclusive to pledgers. Dark Horses was the first album by The Getaway Plan to be fully written and recorded in Australia.
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Pledgers get access to updates about the album as well as some of the songs to be released on the album. “There's a little bit of everything on it," Reeves said about the new record. "It goes from really stripped-down acoustic to full band. There's a couple things on there that I’ve never tried before, but for the most part it's a return to the way I have been doing it all along – just the acoustic, organic feel.
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The band performed a brief tour Fall 2013, co-headlining with Emilie Autumn. In mid 2013, the band officially announced that they were working on a new album. On February 5, 2014, the band announced that their next album would partly be funded by a crowdfunding project on PledgeMusic in cooperation with their label, Metropolis Records. The project launched on February 7, 2014, offering pledgers a number of incentives and bundles in return for their support.
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The fifth Ilya album, Fathoms Deep, is being released on 12 January 2012 (digital only). Financing the sixth album (titled Blind as Hope) went through a crowdfunding process, as the band opted for a more ambitious - and somewhat more expensive - orchestral sound. Recording was done during late Summer 2013. A few months later, singer Joanna Swan requested from the pledgers to volunteer for backing vocals on one track, Blind as Hope, by sending their home-recorded parts.
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From October 2016 to October 2017, while the band was writing and recording new music, they released eight new songs total for pledgers who pre-ordered new album on PledgeMusic. On October 9, 2017, it was announced that a new album, Sheep Among Wolves, was to be officially released on December 5, 2017, in celebration of their 20th anniversary as a band. The album featured a three- piece lineup of Schwab, King, and Wolves at the Gate and The Overseer drummer Abishai Collingsworth.
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In December 2015 Future of the Left announced they would once again crowdfund for their fifth studio album entitled The Peace and Truce of Future of the Left. The funding goal was reached within three hours. Set for a release date of 25 March 2016 the band announced they would again record another sessions EP in addition to the new album and pledgers could also buy a special Fuzz Pedal specially created for the band. The album was released on 8 April 2016.
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In September 2013, The Graveltones embarked on a tour with The Temperance Movement as the main support act for their UK shows. In October of the same year, the band announced that they had been confirmed as support for The BossHoss on a 13-date arena tour of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. During this time, the band's debut album Don't Wait Down was released exclusively to pledgers, with the album set to be available internationally on 21 October. Distribution for the album will be through RSK Entertainment.
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Knowing the project would become expensive, Hammonds advised Wakeman to set up a fund on PledgeMusic to allow fans to donate towards its cost. The 90-day fund launched on 9 February 2016 with donation incentives to receive exclusive merchandise, deluxe album packages, attend recording sessions, and receive an executive producer credit. Wakeman was pleased with the pledge system and felt encouraged to deliver a good product from reading fan comments and messages. The fund ended with 140% of its target met and 2,891 individual pledgers.
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She is honest and passionate about her work, but only because of her desire to be promoted and her love for money. Cisqua is modeled from a character the creator drew in middle and high school and B.B. Hood from the Darkstalkers series. :Cisqua is not an Edel Raid Pledger, but she is well versed in martial arts and gunmanship. Despite having a small frame, she's physically strong and capable on taking down well trained Pledgers such as the Edel Raid Hunter, Wolx Hound.
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Pledgers would also be entitled to exclusive videos, streams of demos and new songs, pictures, blog posts, and much more. It was also announced 25% of the money raised would go to Ear Candy, a charity that provides musical instruments and education to children. During the summer of 2012, Vesely recorded an acoustic remake of A Twist in My Story. In July 2012, the release date and the title of the remake were announced by Vesely and it should be released on iTunes and Amazon as download.
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Pledgers received digital copies of Johnson's sophomore album Let 'Em Eat Cake one week before the official release date of October 14, 2014. Alexz embarked on a tour in support of the album from October until December of the same year. Jared & The Mill and Patrick Droney joined her as special guests. From February to March 2015, Johnson had a five-week residency at The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, CA. The song "Let 'Em Eat Cake" was featured in an episode of South of Hell starring Mena Suvari.
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On February 15, 2013, the band started a pledge music campaign to fund a new album, and Reddick stated: "The Writing Process has Begun". Pledgers got to hear the songs just as they were finished. The first song to be written was "Since We Broke Up", by Linus of Hollywood and Reddick. On April 8, 2013, Bowling for Soup announced that the group's last tour of the UK would take place in October of the same year, but they toured the UK again in February 2016, February 2018 and February 2020.
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The first song from the album to be released was "Bin This Way for Years", which was released on the band's website on August 15, 2011 as the first single. The band released a music video for the song on October 28, 2011. The band announced the recording of their new album on October 18, 2012, and that the album would be funded by pledges from fans through PledgeMusic. On March 22, 2013, the entire album was made available to stream on PledgeMusic exclusively for pledgers of the album.
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Members of the American Public Gardens Association celebrated National Public Gardens Day beginning in 2009 with activities that varied by garden. The Atlanta Botanical Garden invited visitors to bring flowers so that they could be put into arrangements for patients and their families at Children's HospitalAtlanta On The Cheap. "50% off Admission to the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Friday & Gardens for Connoisseurs Tour this Weekend", . The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, asked visitors to pledge to conserve water, displaying 400 five- gallon water containers that pledgers could adopt.
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Pledgers received a special 2CD pack featuring 12 additional remixes including two tracks not included on the original album ("Liam Hits Seven" and "Black Heart"). To support the new album, the band performed gigs in October and November 2013, and a short tour in April 2014, including a headlining slot at the Convergence 20 festival in Chicago, the first US appearance of the reformed lineup. This was followed by a return tour of the West Coast in June 2014. In August 2015, the band confirmed that Moy had officially left the band.
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He sang backing vocals on both Dweezil Zappa's album Confessions and the Danger Danger album, Screw It!, along with his Extreme bandmates Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. He has also sung back-up on a live version of the Van Halen song, "When It's Love" on Sammy Hagar's live album, Live: Hallelujah, on which Cherone sang co-lead vocals with Hagar. In 2013 Pat initiated a PledgeMusic campaign to help him release his first solo record, offering exclusives to pledgers and updates related to the project as well as past rare Extreme footage.
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In May 2013 it was announced that Future of the Left would crowdfund their next album through the website Pledge. The funding goal for the album was reached in just five hours. The band rewarded pledgers with a four track EP entitled Love Songs For Our Husbands released on 1 July, through their own new label, Prescriptions Music. The full-length new album entitled How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident was released for streaming on 21 October and was released in physical format on 28 October.
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All exclusive pledgers were given a free download of all of the tracks on the EP. The second single "Sometimes" was released on the same day as the album and has been championed by BBC Radio 1 (Zane Lowe) and XFM (Mary Anne Hobbs). The song "Sometimes" became a viral hit thanks to its appearance on the Martyn AShton Road Bike Party video. The song, along with "Alcatraz" is now associated with many extreme sports videos on YouTube including the Turbolenza: We are not crazy... WE ARE AMAZING! video. Angels and Enemies was released to critical acclaim.
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Still Got That Hunger is the sixth and final studio album by English rock band the Zombies, released on 9 October 2015. The band funded production of the album through the crowdfunding web site PledgeMusic, receiving donations from 958 pledgers and reaching 143% of its funding goal. Two of the songs on the album are remakes of earlier recordings by members of the band. "I Want You Back Again" was originally released by the Zombies as a single in 1965 and in the intervening time has been covered in live performances by Tom Petty, a self-professed fan of the band.
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Altan called on Pledge Music's services in order to finance their new studio album. On 3 January 2015, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh explained why Altan made this choice and thanked all the pledgers for helping Altan with the fundraising campaign and for bringing it to completion (reaching, at that time, 101% of goal): «The music business is a changing world for professional musicians as ourselves. We depend more on live concerts to make our living. We can no longer depend on big record company funding to get our music out there, we have to do it ourselves.
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Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. Next was the single "I Am Mark E Smith" (referencing singer Mark E. Smith of the Fall), released 15 December 2014. Their second album, Songs for Our Mothers, was released in 2016 by the Without Consent label. Lias Saoudi described the album as an attempt to “really to get at the shittiness lurking in the core of my own soul, and in everybody else's.” It was promoted with a single for "Whitest Boy on the Beach", which was later chosen for the closing credits of the 2017 film T2 Trainspotting.
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They wrote songs about Brythonics migrations and the show has been played three times in Brittany. In 2012, Dom Duff has been asked to write the anthem of the famous breton relay "Redadeg" and Foeter Breizh (Breton Wanderer) was released for the event, been sung by runners all over the 1500 km all over Brittany. Early 2013, he started a crowdfunding campaign to help him release his new project Babel Pow Wow, an album celebrating Global Diversity. The campaign worked well, about 300 listeners and pledgers helped him to reach the goal, through his crowfunding page and also his website.
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Fans "pledge" to receive a copy of the completed project (an album or EP), while also having the chance to purchase exclusive extras such as private gigs, music video appearances, or even providing backing vocals during recording. Simpson first issued new material on Christmas day 2010, releasing a "pledgers only" EP entitled When We Were Lions. The EP and subsequent singles, garnered praise from music critics, seeing "Down Down Down" selected as "Record of the Week" by BBC Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton. Simpson has described his solo work as "something completely different", while it has been noted the album contains elements of melancholy, similar to the works of The National, Bon Iver, and Jackson Browne.
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In February 2010, the Damnwells began a pledge drive to cover the production costs of a new studio record through a direct-to-fan/fan-funded music platform, Pledgemusic. As of October 9, 2010, the band had raised over $34,547, 173% of their initial goal of $20,000, and released two songs to pledgers, "She Goes Around" and "Feast of Hearts", from the new Pledgemusic-funded record. $2,909.40 has been donated to United Against Malaria as part of the pledge campaign charity drive. In December 2013, The Damnwells began a new pledge drive in anticipation of their fifth studio album, which features original members Steven Terry, David Chernis, Ted Hudson, and Alex Dezen.
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In a December 2011 interview, Chris Conley revealed that an eighth Saves the Day album was in the works and that he was hoping that the band would be back in the studio in the fall of 2012 to record it. On November 23, 2012, Saves the Day announced they were making a new record but wanted the fans to get involved. They signed up on PledgeMusic and offered fans everything from free downloads and album updates to limited edition T-shirts, tickets to a shows, and private house shows. They released a demo to 'pledgers' of one of the songs on the new album, "Ain't No Kind of Love", when pledging started.
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A letter of inquiry, explaining the project's mission receives the endorsement of a specially selected group of high-profile scientists, activists and celebrities. Over the years, endorsers have included famous scientists such as Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University, and Dennis Meadows, Professor Emeritus of Systems Policy and Social Science Research, University of New Hampshire. This letter is then distributed to individuals thought likely to have an interest in human population dynamics. The recipients are asked to make a personal pledge to publicly speak out at some point during the month of February on the size and growth of human population. Scientists, representatives of environmental NGO’s, science writers and activists, along with ordinary concerned citizens constitute the community of pledgers.
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This was followed by a Christmas raffle in which Chris gave away his trademark Ibanez guitar The album was released on download exclusively to pledgers in the first instance, and the band hosted a virtual listening party on Facebook and Twitter to celebrate on 26 March 2015. Brain Waves was released officially on Monday 11 May 2015, accompanied by a new video from the band for the song Brainwaves (difference in spacing intentional Uber Rock article) filmed in the back of their van while on tour. The video was made Video of the day on the Pure Rawk website Brain Waves entered the UK rock album chart at number 3, behind Guns N' Roses and Fall Out Boy. It also appeared in the Indie chart at number 12 and the official album chart at 75.
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Songwriter and musician Julian Dawson collaborated with Hopkins on one recording, the pianist's last, in spring 1994, a few months before his death. After Ray Coleman's death, the connection led to Dawson working on a definitive biography of Hopkins, first published by Random House in German in 2010, followed in 2011 by the English-language version with the title And on Piano … Nicky Hopkins (a hardback in the UK via Desert Hearts, and a paperback in North America via Backstage Books/Plus One Press). On 8 September 2018, the Nicky Hopkins "piano" park bench memorial, crowdfunded through PledgeMusic, was unveiled in Perivale Park near Hopkins' birthplace. The campaign offered the opportunity for pledgers to have their name inscribed on the bench and contribute towards funding a music scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where Hopkins himself won a scholarship in the 1950s.
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The pledge is accompanied by a video, in which band members and crew are shown and interviewed, indicating that the band wants to approach their fans more proactively, with their attorney Thomas Osinski remarking: "this is famously a band that kept to itself, and in this new era of openness, they want to join with their fans [and] more so after the last few years of challenges they've been through". The term "Building Empires" was used previously in the Empire tour, as well as a video from that tour, although in this context it is used to indicate that the fans are helping to rebuild the band's career. The band regularly posted studio photos and short videos, some of which were exclusive for pledgers. They made the first single "Arrow of Time" publicly available for streaming through SoundCloud, along with revealing the album title and providing a tentative release date.
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"The Ghost of Tom Joad" was featured during the 1999–2000 E Street Band Reunion Tour, in arrangement fairly close to the album's, albeit with Federici often playing accordion and Tallent on stand-up bass. In the U.S., the large arena audiences frequently treated the song's appearance as the signal for a bathroom or beer run. The song became an infrequent appearer after that, perhaps surprisingly only showing twice on the 2005 solo Devils & Dust Tour. The song made several appearances on Springsteen's 2006 "big folk" Sessions Band Tour, in a new arrangement that featured member Frank Bruno handling some of the vocals, and two extended instrumental passages that saw soaring interplay between violin, pedal steel guitar, trumpet, and harmonica. One such rendition was captured on the subsequent Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin album as a bonus track for PBS pledgers, and was also included as the lead track of the 2007 World Hunger Year/Hard Rock Café benefit album Serve2.
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The band wrote a message on their website: > We've teamed up with PledgeMusic to give you privileged access to pre-order > the new album plus other premium items such as the new album on signed CD or > vinyl, the chance to attend a VIP "meet and greet" and even a signed guitar. > Each and every one of these items and experiences comes with a high quality > digital download of our ninth studio album, plus bonus tracks exclusive to > PledgeMusic! The new album will be officially released to the public in the > summer but by pre-ordering you'll get your copy much sooner. Throughout the > pre-order period, you'll also get free access to our 'Pledgers Only' updates > here on PledgeMusic where you will be able to enjoy a load of exclusive > extras, videos from the studio, interviews, demos and much, much more [...] > In addition to this, pledges will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust to help them > continue the incredible work they do.
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On October 7, 2011, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding Jive Records along with Arista Records and J Records. With the shutdown, the band (and all other artists previously signed to these three labels) will release their future material on the RCA Records brand. Apocalyptica performed live with Metallica on three songs, "No Leaf Clover", "One" and "Seek & Destroy" in celebration of Metallica's 30th Anniversary on December 5, 2011. The band released an exclusive pledgers-only song "Solo Tu" featuring Erik Canales of Allison via fan-funding website Pledgemusic, as part of their Apocalyptica photo book project on October 28, 2011. Apocalyptica took a year off from touring and recording after concluding the 7th Symphony world tour in Beijing September 2012. During the break the band worked on a crossover musical and theatrical project titled Wagner Reloaded, combining Wagner's music with the sound of Apocalyptica, to celebrate German composer Richard Wagner's 200th birthday. There were two live performances in Wagner's birth town Leipzig, Germany on July 5 and 6, 2013. Eicca Toppinen arranged and composed the music for the production.
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Via PledgeMusic fans could pre-order the album along with pledging for other items such as a two-CD package to include Rockville II (a second CD of nine new tracks and a new recording of the song "High", originally released by Steve Overland and Pete Jupp under the SO! banner on the album Brass Monkey), Steve Overland's microphone, various items autographed by the band and VIP concert access. FM held a press launch for Rockville at London O2 Academy 2 Islington on 6 March 2013 which was also attended by Pledgers via the band's PledgeMusic campaign. Following a playback of the album in full the band played a half-hour set of some of their crowd- pleasing anthems before a playback of Rockville II. Rockville was released 11 March 2013 and debuted on the Official UK Rock Chart at #6, followed on 25 March by the release of Rockville II which had earned an official release of its own due to the amount of interest generated by its inclusion in FM's PledgeMusic campaign.
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