The Pink Spiders at Mercy Lounge, Aug. 6, 2016
When last we left The Pink Spiders, they were fresh off celebrating the 10th anniversary of their record Teenage Graffiti with an ecstatic, sweat-drenched, multi-encore reunion gig at Mercy Lounge, followed by the announcement of their first album since 2008: If all goes according to plan, we should look for Mutations in spring 2017.
Frontman Matt "Friction" Bell indicated that there were some logistics to work out with crowdfunding and organizing recording sessions, and it seems that those details are now place. The Spiders have launched a PledgeMusic campaign to secure the coin to release their next slab of post-Weezer rock ’n' roll into the world, and you can pitch in.
Pledge incentives include downloads and physical copies of the album, t-shirts and posters or even a disposable camera the band will shoot in the studio and send to you to develop. There are some pretty neat super-limited premium offers, too: one-on-one instrument lessons over Skype, a visit to the studio during the recording, a chance to play on a song if you really want to, or even a chance to set the WABAC machine for 2004 and have the band play your house show.
From their non-embeddable pitch video (which you can watch at the campaign link above), it sounds like you could even score some underwear worn onstage by drummer Bob Ferrari, if that's your thing — "I will use clean underwear, crotchless if you want, just let me know," he says in the clip. But they don't appear among the published incentives, so you'll probably have to risk a personal encounter to retrieve them. You've got 56 days left to pledge.
