Flute Flies raise awareness for CyTunes, Tisch Brain Tumor Center

The Flute Flies, the local music supergroup featuring Ivan Howard from the Rosebuds and GAYNGS, Reid Johnson from Schooner and Zeno Gill from Pound of Miracles, have a beautiful, lush new album out called "Yes Means Maybe."

The band released the album in order to raise awareness for CyTunes.org, the local-music download site that's dedicated to the memory or Rosebuds friend and music fanatic Cy Rawls, who passed away after a battle with brain cancer in 2008. The album is available on the Flute Flies Bandcamp site using the pay-what-you-want feature. All proceeds will go to CyTunes, and then be donated to the Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, where Cy was treated.

Cy Tunes is now on Twitter!

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Catching up from the weekend: CyTunes party

After months of hard work, CyTunes finally launched at midnight Friday. Later that evening, the volunteers held a launch party at Local 506 with The Magic Babies and The Flute Flies, which is a band put together by Ivan from The Rosebuds and several members of Schooner just for the CyTunes project. Flute Flies performed a couple of originals and some covers from their other bands. Here are a couple of videos by them.
Another one by Flute Flies from Mann's World on Vimeo.
The Flute Flies from Mann's World on Vimeo. The Magic Babies opened the show.
Magic Babies at Cy-Tunes launch from Mann's World on Vimeo. For more info on CyTunes and the launch party, check out the article I wrote for pastemagazine.com.

CyTunes is launched!

And apparently the first song sold on the site was one by my old band. And no, I wasn't the one who bought it! Congrats to everyone who worked on CyTunes. It looks awesome, and I can't wait to see The Magic Babies and Flute Flies at the launch party tonight at Local 506. Now, it's time to so some shopping!

CyTunes on Pitchfork!

Check out the Pitchfork article on CyTunes.