Jordan Yaruss

Yesterday, I signed a six-month lease for a room in this sweet little house in the Wellington neighborhood of Breckenridge. I have two housemates, Steven and Carolyn, who have the upstairs rooms and whose names I am likely spelling wrong. They seem very laid-back and cool so far. My room is the master bedroom, pictured [...]

Heyyy! I opened up my mailbox and found an envelope from BMI containing a royalty check for $153.18 for “college radio” airplay! Very exciting. I have no idea where it’s been playing, or how often, but I do know the tracks:
Back Home
Cosmic Confirmation
Fell Out of the Sky
Friendly Fire
Telenovela
I’m pretty thrilled.

I’ve switched webhosts (thanks Skellyweb) and I am now receiving email through the contact page.
In other news, I’m expanding the scope of this blog to be more of a journal for stuff besides music. Mainly, I expect this to cover whitewater kayaking, traveling and my upcoming move to Colorado (from New Jersey). But first, here’s [...]

Messages sent to me through the “contact” page don’t seem to be getting to my inbox. I don’t know how long this has been going on, but I’m working on fixing it now and will post when I have.

I’ve been trying to make a living from music for a bunch of years now, but It hasn’t happened yet. What has happened is that the joy has been sucked out of the process. So, I’m going to stop trying to make a living from music and hope that the joy comes back.
To that end, [...]

My song, Back Home, is a top-10 finalist on OurStage.com! Now, fans vote by text message to decide the final ranking (and who will win fabulous prizes such as CA$H). Check out the top 10 here, and then vote for MEEEEEE!!!!
To vote for me, you have to send the text message “ROCK02″ to STAGE (78243), [...]

You can sample and buy tracks from Amie Street right here on the audio page now! Just click audio up there in the banner. Or, if you are very, very lazy, click audio here in this sentence. I guess I have some sales, because the price of the album has skyrocketed to 69 cents!

Here’s a place for all you cheapskates to get my album: Amie Street
At the moment, the whole album is 36 cents. As more people purchase it, the price goes up, so go NOW. You didn’t go. You’re still reading. Stop! Go!
Also, the tracks you download have no DRM and are in mp3 format. This is [...]

Holy. Crap. Now this is a review! I think it’s safe to say that John Lane over there on thesmileshop.net gets my music. Thank you John!
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If you will kindly visit the audio page, you will find that I have updated it with some “The Hard Parts Pop Up” stuff, including downloadable tracks. Enjoy!