var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8681255-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @nakedempire)http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/<p>As of today, Naked Empire is no more. From all of us to you - thanks for all the great nights, memories, and for singing along so loudly.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1615610434http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1615610434Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:59:09 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_larxfkKRXK1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Unlimited sustain.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1385936343http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1385936343Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:54:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_larj9vxC501qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Writing at the practice space.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1384028646http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1384028646Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:49:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la7mx8qg5r1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Shed some blood preparing for Halloween.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1303655629http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1303655629Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:55:44 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7xrr7kgUn1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Can you hear me now?</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1033432896http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/1033432896Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:57:07 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l68r6kKilp1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New poster from <a title="Kris" target="_blank" href="http://www.threeeyedrabbit.com">Kris</a>!</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/868197276http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/868197276Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:11:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l53mqgHC9F1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Naked Empire is brewing beer.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/773712491http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/773712491Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:13:28 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4hk4jsw7H1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>new poster from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.threeeyedrabbit.com/">Kris</a></p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/729552467http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/729552467Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:09:54 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4a4dbqb4m1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>We really gotta stop playing this new song. It’s breaking everything.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/716003271http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/716003271Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:46:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l46tqzsL2g1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New song causes metal sticks to break.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/709906306http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/709906306Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:04:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2sitvSxoZ1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Naked Empire finds God.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/620198001http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/620198001Fri, 21 May 2010 18:05:45 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2qvkhR0lF1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>We have released new songs for you, our first finished recordings with our new singer. They are made of a deep, frothing love usually only appropriate when present between a man and a woman. However, it is somehow okay in this circumstance. It’s over there on the right sidebar. Enjoy.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/617620774http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/617620774Thu, 20 May 2010 20:48:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1xipkXLpo1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://studiocreations.deviantart.com/art/Steampunk-Abe-Lincoln-Costume-97579453?offset=20">Here he comes to save the day! (ala *StudioCreations)</a></p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/572623685http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/572623685Wed, 05 May 2010 00:20:08 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1pfldrdIG1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>While checking out new music releases this week, I was sexily surprised to see that <a href="http://www.gogolbordello.com/">Gogol Bordello</a> had a new album out, produced by Rick Rubin and entitled Trans-Continental Hustle. As a long time fan of those guys, and of Rubin as a producer, I immediately bought the album and have been listening to it non-stop.</p> <p>Trans-Continental Hustle offers more of what makes these guys awesome, a blend of traditional Old World sounds and raw, boisterous rock and roll. With this album, they seem to have incorporated even more varied styles from around the world into their sound. The result is something that sounds like a drunken, gypsy dance party taking place on every continent at once.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/561473530http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/561473530Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:32:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1jjbmriC31qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Everything is Wonderful</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/553562230http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/553562230Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:06:58 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1i42oLGxK1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I was recently turned on to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sturmast">Sturmast</a>, a Hungarian “folk influenced martial industrial” band. Yeah, wrap your head around that one. Their musical offerings are not so much songs as they are the score I would want in my ears if I was marching to war, in the midst of the apocalypse. Heavy, epic, and loud.</p> <p><br/>They also brag that they have forgone the usual samplers and electronically generated effects with acoustic instrumentation. The songs do have a raw and organic breath to them.<br/><br/>They actually remind me a bit of <a href="http://www.residents.com/">The Residents</a>, just more reigned in structurally. It unfortunately seems as though they are not up to anything these days but…if they are reading this…GIVE ME SOME MORE DAMNIT!<br/><br/>- John</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/551503388http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/551503388Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:40:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1e1et5qB61qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just tell us what you want</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/545751418http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/545751418Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:52:05 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1aif7CID41qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/541084265http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/541084265Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:09:07 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4j1pWB7m1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Stubbs!</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/441325770http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/441325770Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:29:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwjy4pINsM1qzbsw7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>See you soon.</p>http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/344428114http://nakedempire.tumblr.com/post/344428114Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:38:49 -0500