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HERE IS THE NEWS:
"Are You Committed" EP Release Set for 27 August 2010
22 August 2010

"It's an EP Era," vonHummer explained, as he debuted the new 6-song EP originally slated to be a 15-song album. "Music fans don't have the time for big-ass albums anymore. It's far better to release a lot of small albums throughout the year, than a big one every couple of years. Or so my experts are paid to tell me."

The new EP, "Are You Committed," self-released on vonHummer's long-time label Therisno Records, is expected to be released at his next show, the 2nd Annual Death of Summer Concerto on August 27th at the Eagles Lodge in Portland, Oregon. Release to iTunes and Amazon are expected to follow in mid-September.

Although most of the album was completed in Spring of 2008, vonHummer spent the last month re-recording vocals, backing vocals, and adding drum tracks.

"In typical lobster-fashion of doing everything backwards, the drums were the last thing I added. I know that's generally done first, but..." vonHummer continued, voice trailing into the ether.

The album contains six never-before released songs: "Dumbluck Avenue," "Some People," "'89 Reliant K," "The Dachshund (and the Setter Bitch)," "In a Day or Two," and the title track, "Are You Committed?"

"Whereas [2006's] 'Indiscreet Where You Live' was stripped bare with just one bass and my voice, and [2009's] 'Ever So Transient' was a full, multi-instrument extravaganza, 'Are You Committed' is kind of imbetween with one bass, a scratch loop and some minimal drums," vonHummer unevenly stated. "The sound is, however, huge."

The cover art features a photo taken by a local artist and fan, Jov Luke, as vonHummer played a live promotion from the back tailgate of his station wagon in Portland's Pearl District. "It was a disaster, really, that promotion," vonHummer says, shaking his lobstered mane. "A group of hippies moved in across the street with drums and marimbas and stuff when I was about one song in, totally drowning me out. Jov's photo is about the only successful thing to come out of that night. I think it's a fitting cover photo. I seem 'committed' there. And I ought to be, playing on a platform resting precariously on the tailgate of a Buick Roadmaster."

New vonHummer Album Due in Late August 24 July 2010
	Bouncing back from the rubble of his Thebrosmad project, vonHummer is preparing to drop a new 15 song album sometime in late August. "Are You Committed" will be released online only for download, although clamshell CDs will be available for a nominal WTF-fee at live shows.

"This is kind of a lost-gem album, as it was recorded before 2009's 'Ever So Transient' but temporarily shelved as I needed to re-do the vocals," vonHummer stated by satellite transmission from an undisclosed island hideaway. "I told myself, 'I'll get around to releasing this. I will, though, I really will.'" More details as they develop.


"Bübiwulf!" Released to DVD: Bout Damn Time! 18 July 2010
	Getting off their slowpoke duffs, Therisno Films—a division of Therisno Corporation, parent company of all things vonHummer—has at long last released to DVD and for download the Lobster Lord's 2007 monsterpiece film about a boob-squeezing werewolf loose on an all-feminist campus. And it only took them 3 years.

"Bübiwulf!"—directed, written, casted, animated, scored, acted, edited, hell you name it by vonHummer with a budget of $7000—is now available on FilmBaby.com, as a DVD-R for $14.99 or for download as an mp4 for $2.99. "Tens of fans over the last three years have written in to ask where the hell they could buy a copy of 'Bübiwulf!' Today, I can tell them exactly where the hell," read vonHummer from a statement at a private news conference deep in an undisclosed location. "To those who doubted this day would ever come," vonHummer continued regarding the DVD release, "I can only say: I told you I would get around to it, that I would, though, I really would."


Mutual Fratricide: Thebrosmad Ist Kaputt 12 July 2010
	A mere ten months into what was a very promising side project for vonHummer, Thebrosmad has blown into tiny pieces following an enigmatic video shoot at Portland vegan strip club, Casa Diablo. "Devil got my band," chuckled vonHummer, doing his best Skip James impression, but still sounding a bit like a leprechaun. "It was a swell band, we made a lot of good art, and it's

over," he shrugged. "No regrets. I'm probably best left to tend my own fire, since other people get burned crispy just sitting around it, apparently." Sir Raleigh Grey, drummer and background vocalist for Thebrosmad has, according to unnamed sources, quit the band in the fallout from the taping of "Each and Every Woman" and "Gone for the Day" at Casa Diablo at 3:30 AM on July 3rd. vonHummer is known to be no-nonsense when directing which may have been a factor in what was reportedly a high-pressure, late-night shoot on location. Other sources indicate that differences between Sir Raleigh and vonHummer had been stewing beneath the surface for a few months now over decisions about creative content, which reportedly vonHummer guards fiercely. "I've been working the vonHummer brand almost ten years now," vonHummer explained, "and I hold the reins of the lobster. Musically, I'm fairly open to ideas, but content-wise, or marketing-wise, or video-wise? Forget it. I reign supreme in those kingdoms. That's my turf alone." "I won't go into what exactly went wrong with Thebrosmad, but the great German cartoonist, Wilhelm Busch had a swell poem called 'The Flying Frog.' Ready?" "'Wenn einer, der mit Mühe kaum/gekrochen ist auf einen Baum,/Schon meint, daß er ein Vogel wär,/So irrt sich der.'" "My translation?" "'If someone, with an easy hop,/finds their way to a high tree top,/and figures they are now a bird,/well...they've erred.'" The breakup of Thebrosmad leaves a good deal of material unreleased, which vonHummer intends to make available at some point in the future. "We initially recorded 12 new songs of mine," vonHummer noted, "six of which ended up on Thebrosmad EP, so those last six need mixing and mastering. I've still got the Casa Diablo videos to edit and our version of 'Like Junior High.' Beyond that, there are still 10 tunes from the show we re-did, and another 8 or so cover songs we recorded to learn for the Summer Shin-Kick. Everything must go. I've just got to get around to it. I will, though, I will."