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to travisleewiggins.com! The official website of Chicago's Travis Lee Wiggins! This website has attempted to show some of Travis's best projects, and touch on the wide array of styles and mediums Travis works in. Travis is known for his tremendous output, so this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are links to most of Travis's projects through this site. Click on the Online Store above where you can purchase items.
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RECENT NEWS & RELEASES
9.28.2008 FETLA FETLA FETLA! In case you haven't heard, Fetla is back! We've got a new album called Sweet Disaster and you get a physical copy before it comes out, or get it online. This album is great and you're sure to enjoy. Stream it off the Fetla website or go there a get a couple of the songs from the album for free. Stephen did a nice job redesigning the site, so CHECK IT OUT!BUY THE ALBUM HERE!
Fetla went on a little mini-tour to Michigan in September and there's gonna be some videos eventually - but here are some from our show in Ypsilanti.
9.27.2008 Videos from the 7.30 Schuba's Show on YouTube!!!!! The whole show from Schuba's is up on Travis's YouTube! To see all the videos click for the show wrap-up here. Make sure to check out the 3 new songs (Skinny Dippin', Already in Heaven, & I Know You Didn't Think About) that are from the upcoming album Love is Proximity. 18 new videos total! And a poem by Thax Douglas! Up at The Summer Salts website you can see Travis playing with his other band, The Summer Salts the same night!
Did you think that was it? Of course not! Uploaded also are mp3s of each song as well as the full show and The Dancing at Weddings section all together so you don't have to piece it together.
9.27.2008 FREE SONG FROM ESSEX CHANEL Another song has been released for The Album is Dead, called Love Birds. Listen to it and download it here.
9.27.2008 Essex Chanel part of a sampler through Limewire.com! And it's FREE! Essex Chanel is part of a LimeWire.com Disk Sampler: "The latest edition of our Ear to the Ground series is a Free Tour of the current CHICAGO music scene. Playing tour guide this... time around is Matt Rucins, booker for venerable Chicago venue Schuba's. Helping out with some editorial on each artist are our friends at Chicago Innerview, a go-to source for info about Windy City music events. Stuck out there in the middle, Chicago doesn't get the attention it deserves. We hope this collection fixes that."
The Sampler is available for FREEhere. Make sure you download some of the other great artists that are a part of this! They also had a nice little writeup about Essex Chanel - see the press section for more.
9.27.2008 Summer Salts on YouTube Videos of each song from the 7.30 Schuba's show are up on Travis's YouTube! Click here to see them all conveniently on one page. You'll get to listen to a lot of new songs that are going to be on the new Summer Salts record!
7.31.2008 The Schuba's show went great! Thax Douglas wrote a poem about "Get up and dance" and read it! Here's some pictures from Christopher Hiltz. Dancers! 100 FREE sampler CDs! See the show wrap-up here. Videos and audio to come soon. Mentioned on tonybreed.com.
6.17.2008
FREE SAMPLER CD @ NEXT ESSEX CHANEL SHOW! July 30th, Essex Chanel will be playing it's next show. Essex Chanel is offering a FREE sampler CD for the first 100 people in the door. The sampler CD will contain a variety of songs from Essex Chanel’s 7 albums and other projects, as well as some previously unreleased material.
Essex Chanel will be expanding the live full-band set list at this show. They’ll perform many Essex Chanel classic songs, tracks from the upcoming album “Love is Proximity,” as well as doing a full rendition of the self-released LP, “Dancing at Weddings.”
6.17.2008 The Summer Salts have made the second single from our album Do A Somersault!, "NO," available for FREE!See the album track listing here or click here to download or listen.
6.3.2008 The Summer Salts' Do A Somersault! now available on iTunes!
5.8.2008 The Summer Salts are officially releasing their first CD, Do a Somersault! on May 20th, 2008. To celebrate the release, we're having a CD RELEASE PARTY at Double Door on Friday may 23rd. See here.
4.22.2008
Whoa! It's been a while since I've put that Fetla logo anywhere. The rumors are true: Stephen, Mike and I are working on a new Fetla album, loosely titled Sweet Disaster. It's kind of a radical departure of the old Fetla sound, being that we recorded So Patriotic about 2.5 years ago, before Stephen went to Japan for 2 years. A lot has happened since then! This album is really turning out great.
4.8.2008 Dancing at Weddings is up on Amazon.com! You can now purchase the album digitally!
New Website Design! This has been long overdue. The site should now be easier to navigate, and highlights some of Travis's best work. More will be added and changed in the coming months.
3.13.2008 Dancing at Weddings CD release show video! Essex Chanel's Dancing at Weddings CD release show Video is complete! You can download hi-res version of all the songs, including the whole show here. You can also see the videos on Travis's YouTube here.
New Brad Videos! 5 new Brad Videos. If you don't know who Brad is, maybe you should see here. The 5 new videos: Brad - What is this Fluid?
Brad - The McRib
Brad - Pilot Light
Brad - Long Term Damage
Brad - Breast Cancer
New Song for The Album is Dead!
A new song has been released for The Album is Dead called I'll be there (if you want me to). Listen
to it here.
Essex Chanel Live Videos! Videos from the show at South Union Arts have been added to the video section! You can download them or watch them via YouTube. See all the videos of the show here.
The Summer Salts have completed their first album, Do A Somersault.
Expect a release party in Early 2008. Travis produced and
did the design for the album.
