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• AP in Lawrence, KS on Fri 14 Aug 2009
• AP in Louisville, KY on Sun 16 Aug 2009
• AP in Platteville, WI on Fri 21 Aug 2009
• AP in Green Bay, WI on Sat 22 Aug 2009
• AP in Knoxville, TN on Fri 28 Aug 2009
• AP in Oregon, WI on Sat 12 Sep 2009
• AP in Lookout Mountain, GA on Tue 15 Sep 2009
• AP in Tallahassee, FL on Tue 22 Sep 2009

• RG in Tuscaloosa, AL on Sun 5 Jul 2009
• RG and Ginny Owens in Canton, GA on Sat 11 Jul 2009
• RG in Clearwater, FL on Sun 19 Jul 2009
• AG in Hollywood, FL on Fri 31 Jul 2009

I’ll make you click through to read the possibly-controversial lyrics Eric wrote, but I want to quote his discussion of them after the fact:

These are potentially expensive words. I see how they could easily be misinterpreted or taken out of context without knowing the story’s backdrop. Hence, they may be expensive in that customers might want their money back after purchasing a “christian” album expressing such sentiments. I have no idea how the song will be received, as it is hopefully as honest in its narration as the true story on which it is based. The reality of humanity is that we owe to grace as great debtors. In our worst moments, we curse the blessing of our own skin, our own breathing in and out, the universe and Maker alike. In our best moments, we remain desperately in need of that which is beyond our frailty or capacity to bring anything good to the Mercy Table. I struggled for weeks, in the process of writing it, to allow the main character the red-blooded freedom to tell God, “I hated you that day.” That is not the sort of cheap, plastic, pre-fab line that floats easily upon the waters of this industry. I am trying to be as honest as I can, since I so personally and closely related to the story of my friend’s losing and losing, while in the midst of such tremendous anger, hostility towards God, loss of income and business, found himself spewing those very words with all the venom and bile his hard, tired heart could muster. And in the process, God still showed up with all the mercy and hope He ever possessed.

The emphasis is Eric’s, but that’s where I would’ve put it, too. I personally have written before about what doubt is to us as Christians, but I don’t think that writing about sinful things is, in and of itself, sinful. After all, Christianity teaches [or at least it should] that we are sinners, broken and needy. If we learn this through anything other than our own foibles with sin, we learn it through others’ experiences—and I have the feeling that this kind of song that Eric’s talking about, while it might be hard to hear, is what we need to hear. The lyrics he quoted struck within me ways that I’ve felt at dark hours, and it’s important to know that others have felt that way and moved on from there to right thinking and living. Not that any of us have attained all this…

So Derek will be playing a one-hour show at The Rutledge in Nashville on the 3rd of July. I’ll be there if I have to sleep in my car to hold my place in line. [Actually, I'll just go eat at the Mexican place next door. I've been to The Rutledge many a time at this point.]

All you northeastern/New England types … heads up.

• AP in Jamesville, NY on Thu 9 Jul 2009
• AP in Blakely, PA on Fri 10 Jul 2009
• AP in Brooklyn, NY on Sat 11 Jul 2009
• AP in Bethel, CT on Sun 12 Jul 2009
• AP in Teaneck, NJ on Mon 13 Jul 2009
• AP in Boston, MA on Tue 14 Jul 2009
• AP in N. Waterboro, ME on Wed 15 Jul 2009
• AP in Augusta, ME on Thu 16 Jul 2009
• AP in Old Town, ME on Fri 17 Jul 2009
• AP in Portland, ME on Sat 18 Jul 2009
• AP in Westbrook, ME on Sun 19 Jul 2009 [morning]
• AP in Weymouth, MA on Sun 19 Jul 2009 [evening]

New England, represent!

• The whole SPA in St. Peters, MO on Tue 30 Jun. They play Cornerstone the next day, but we won’t list that separately as you’re either already going to C-stone or not.
• EP and BS in O’Fallon, MO on Fri 31 Jul.

• AP in Winchester, TN on Tue 7 Jul
• AP and EP in Hendersonville, TN on Sat 8 Aug

If you’re a fan of Andrew Peterson on Facebook, you got the following today:

Tentative Andrew Peterson Tour Schedule in July

July 10-OPEN
July 11- First Evangelical Free Church-Brooklyn, NY
July 12- Walnut Hill Community Church-Bethel, CT
July 13- Grace Redeemer-Teaneck, NJ
July 14-OPEN
July 15- Lakeside Community Church – Limerick, ME
July 16- Hope Baptist Church-Manchester, ME
July 17-OPEN
July 18- First Baptist Church-Portland, ME
July 19 (Morning Show)- Stroudwater Chstian Church-Portland, ME
July 19th (Evening Show)- First Baptist Church-Weymouth, MA

We are still looking for a church in Washington DC or Philly for July 10th.

We are also looking for a venue near Boston, New Hampshire, Vermont, or Rhode Island for July 14th (Tuesday Night) and July 17th (Friday Night).

The only thing we are asking for is a crowd of 250 or more, 1 night hotel for Andrew and I, and dinner the night of the show.

Any thoughts?

Email me-Josh@Centricitymusic.com

Thanks!

Josh Petersen (Andrew’s Marketing Guy)

Can you plug those gaps?

at around 12:15AM on day two the first artifact and the details about it were revealed. Robert Gay, whose name you will find listed on www.paradiseisaparkinglot.com as the finder of the first nashville artifact, posted on a message board about the artifact.

My name is Robert Gay. I’m a 20-year-old student and musician, but more relevantly, I’m the guy who snagged the first “artifact” this morning at Ugly Mugs in East Nashville. It was a silver thumb drive, printed with the barcode/heart logo, and in theory a photo of me holding it should serve as my profile picture here.

My story’s pretty simple — after deciphering the clues and driving to the coffeeshop, I asked for the fake drink and was given the thumb drive, which contained the “in San.wav” file which is now hosted on paradiseisaparkinglot.com. Also on the drive were 2 images: one was a square image of the barcode-heart labeled “dwss.jpeg,” which I presume to be the album’s cover. The other image was a snapshot of an eye — in fact, the eye photo from the rss stream is a cropped version of my image, which contained additional instructions for me.

Upon realizing that all 5 of us must have received different photos or instructions, I’m willing to bet that the other 4 artifact finders had the 4 remaining rss items contained on their thumbdrives. I have the feeling there’s some kind of clue to be found here.

I’m happy to answer any other questions you have, as well as to give you more proof that I am who I say I am.

-Robert

PS: I was notified that I will recieve “a tier 3 preorder of Stockholm Syndrome and 2 tickets to the Black Eye Tour.

What are these preorder tiers?
How many tiers are there?
What is the Black Eye Tour?

Stay tuned for the answers!

Hey folks. We are attempting to put up a daily recap of all that is going on with the release of Derek’s new record Stockholm Syndrome. While a daunting task, we hope that this will help those who can’t keep up moment by moment all day because of work or other responsibilities…etc.

So here we go!

It began at about 6AM this morning. The following email went out.

friends-
this is turning into a bigger deal than we expected. as a result, we’re having to temporarily _pull everything online down (can’t explain now). and to be on the s_afe side, i’m going to pe_rsonally go offline while we sort this out. i re_ally shouldn’t use my twitter account for now either so _don’t expect any updates there.
make no m_istake, our trouble with the label over content i_s very r_eal, and not as simple as one word; we’re backed into a corner. but we have applied all of our creative resources to th_is, working furiou_sly to create something that we believe not only subverts any leg_al issues but should also be a _pretty wild ride.
so this will be the l_ast email for a while. we’ll t_ry to lea_k information via a new tw_itter account, @ssyndrome. you’re o_n your own so start payin_g attention. i’l_l see you _on the o_ther side-
derek

the spaces spell out “paradise is a parking lot” Searching for clues someone stumbled upon www.paradiseisaparkinglot.com wich takes you to a site that looks like this:

This site let’s us know a few things:

1.) There are 20 sets of artifacts to be found
2.) It lets us know the rules for finding artifacts ..etc.

-Follow instructions to location
-Do what instructions require
-First 5 people to each location will receive artifacts
(First person’s name to be posted on this site)
-Email verify@ssyndrome.info with code found on artifact
-When all 5 artifacts are found and verified, their audio contents will be available to all
-Assemble audio content (stems) to hear complete track
-Tell no one

3.) Each set of artifacts found will unlock a set of wavs that will be spliced together.
4.) The “RSS” link points to several files (including a few pictures and a few movies)
5.) The “Follow” link is a pointer to the twitter account that was set up (@ssyndrome)

A cryptic link on derekwebb.com led you to a screen that asked

What do you want?

based on tweets that were posted here a few weeks ago this question pointed to lyrics from the new record.

What you want? “kickdrum”

After entering that code you see a big picture if Derek with a URL on/near his eye that says “www.black-eye.me” Going to that site give you another question that can be answered by our twitter post “What time it is?” which is answered with the code “youneverknow” which opens a video showing clips of instruments; Houston, TX; and plays a bit of a song.

So. At the end of Day One, where are we?

- We know the 1st set of artifacts were located in Ugly Mugs coffee shop in East nashville and they were flash drives. More on this in our next post
- We have a videos that range from off camera discussions to teepees to what looks like an intro video of some kind.
-we have several pictures of derek’s face and a black eye
- We know that things derek has posted on twitter in the past can be used as clues for further puzzles.
- We alsop know that based on the newest file in the RSS feed that the next artifact set may be in TX at Royers Round Top

Stay tuned for daily recaps and special reports here on dw.net!

• EP in Lake Forest, IL on Sun 31 May 2009

Yeah, so we’ve been letting Derek drive the bus lately on news about Stockholm Syndrome. It’s his bus. But now there’s a code to figure out, and … well, Bryan is a crazy Lost fan, so you know we’re all about it.

We don’t figure we’re going to solve the puzzle; we will, however, summarize what’s known about the puzzle to date. So, here’s what we know as of mid-morning on May 19th:

• Derekwebb.com is offline. The cryptic message from derek’s email is paradise is a parking lot, and paradiseisaparkinglot.com looks like it has some fun goodies for us.
• With derekwebb.com being offline, his message board is gone. Some of the regulars have reconstructed their community at She Must and Shall No Longer Exist: the webboard reloaded.
• We also have discussion of Stockholm Syndrome on our message board at rocksmyfaceoff.net.

There are 20 stems on paradiseisaparkinglot.com … what could that mean? A 20-track record? 20 stems of one song? We’ll find out together.

• AO and RG in Xenia, OH on Sun 7 Jun 2009

MySQL CPU usage has spiked, and we’re trying to bring it down without rebooting the server and damaging tables. Please have patience.

It’s not just you … promise. I wonder if this is like what happened yesterday or what …

Indeed, it was another network outage, but not like before: