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By Kurt Parker

Leaked from a Warner A&R rep late Thursday, FilmsCrewBand’s adora-drummer deluxe Aaron Housos James has been quietly recording a second solo effort with his former power couple heart throb bandmate Shawn Zone at the helm producing, lending his golden hand in the co-writing and playing with other members of Films Crew.  The chameleon time keeper Aaron shelved all but a single from his first solo effort which wasn’t up to snuff with high standards of his efforts with his bandmates, this time out he takes Films Crew which may make this an official Films Crew Release.  What we know, at a pre-NXNE panel week, the boy we swoon over Shawn Zone along with newbie Andrew Self, when debuting the upcoming Films Crew limited edition in a closed door insider session, the bomb was dropped about Aaron’s solo release and from what we’ve been able to gather it should be a FilmsCrewBand release under a different name.  What we know, Films Crew with Aaron are working under the name Symposis 0 and our Warner source told us that the album is titled Redemption dealing with themes of redemption, and that heart of the controls is sexy shred master Shawn Zone.  With details on Redemption still being sparse, a Warner A&R rep told The Village Voice the album consists of eight lengthy tracks written by Aaron and Shawn and hammered out by all members of Films Crew, the release is expected to drop early 2018 with a limited edition vinyl release to test the waters, note; all Films Crew limited edition releases have always sold out before ship date.

Films Crew Band’s psychedelic progressive post-metal masterpiece Crying To Crisis  from the upcoming Stigmatized vinyl limited edition hit the French and German streaming behemoth Deezer last Tuesday premiering at 19 and 17 respectively garnering over 600,000 streams within 3 days, quite the feat, with no social media promotion for the heavily digitally rights managed network, not in these regions, out of luck for now, though it can be streamed from the band’s site for a brief period.  A Warner managing official hinted the label waging a tug of war with Films Crew over the label’s push for a radio ready single which Films Crew is at odds with.  Crying To Crisis debuted April 10 as a personal message from Shawn to apparently very close and cozy Films Crew mate Cameron Drawmer is set to be a mammoth single for FilmsCrewBand in Eurozone, it defies genre, thanks go out to Cameron Drawmer for being the inspiration for what’s becoming a mainstream hit by the reluctant reclusive Films Crew.  Now if only ShawnZone would reappear on his section of his site, his insight has been missed.  Not to downplay Aaron’s wordplay, he has become a millennial voice, an often talked about must read even for people who don’t listen to Films Crew.  The Village Voice was also told that double kick wordsmith Aaron’s tonsillectomy was a more complicated throat surgery from which he will be on the mend for quite some time, but is working.  

Our source, Dallas Andrew, a gear tech to the band stated the band has had a stark year and a half with devastating personal losses, grueling schedules, and troubling relationships which caused blond bombshell guitarist to post, “If anything, I’m merely a novelty”, a provocative statement, repeated, and enough to double down, having himself mostly removed from his own site, dealing with his exclusive inner circle.  Dallas was emphatic that guitarist decision to remove himself from his site was not entirely his own, that the guitarist had been threatened by someone online to even remove himself from his quiet social media accounts.  The heavily trafficked website is a labyrinth maze with secret areas.  Dallas stated that the band had been completely honest with Aaron referencing this state of affairs’ complexities in his updates and from his understanding the golden boy Shawn had indeed suffered at the hand of some elaborate game playing on the heels of a devastating family loss.  Dallas confirmed that the blond heart throb’s whereabouts were sometimes only known to his exclusive inner circle.  Dallas also confirmed rumors of ongoing stalking incidents leaving the band on high alert.  The rumor mill placed Shawn at a leukemia fund raiser and other events in Manhattan within the last week, Dallas confirmed this adding that he had been extremely quiet and preoccupied.  Asked about the Daniel Lukas controversy, Dallas said that no one in Films Crew to his knowledge has no contact or dealings with the sometimes viral internet sensation, sometimes social engineer hacker, let alone knows who Lukas is and that it was likely the fault of social media hijinks.  Asked if Daniel Lukas’ alleged epic news he was about to drop would affect Films Crew, Dallas remarked that no one in the band would even be aware of it, the band wouldn’t know who that was, and that the band kept people up to date on their news.  We still think it would be wise for Films Crew Band and Aaron to heed Cameron Reyher’s urgings about dealing with Lukas in a less causal manner.

To put the puzzle pieces together, read Aaron’s last few updates, worthy reading material, voice of a generation.  And a pleading video to ShawnZone ProTip, on the Media tab, tapping on ‘A Sound’ takes you a hidden page of music.

Link to FilmsCrewBand’s and Aaron’s updates with a cryptic video message

Link to Daniel Lukas nonsensical news warnings

Courtesy Village Voice

By Kurt Parker

Updated

It appears Films Crew’s Aaron has made some major revisions and updates to his latest post, worth the read.  Flying under our radar was the return post of Nathan on his part of the Films Crew website, chilling.

Films Crew’s Aaron never at a loss for words appears to be out for blood after some unnamed individuals who threw sexy blonde guitar god ShawnZone into an emotionally tortuous turmoil. In a post last week that seemed like emergency damage control called Rollcall, the collab post between Aaron, Levi and newbie Andrew detail stresses outside of the band day to day dynamic of tensions, detailing further ShawnZone having been devastated by the interference of a woman’s interference in a relationship pointing to new FilmsCrew contributor Cameron Drawmer.  Pointing out that ShawnZone had indeed cut the cord between himself and the FilmsCrew part of the franchise for the time being.   The moderator for the post was Aaron’s possible new hubby, (verify) FilmsCrew’s webmaster Jay.  Where it ventured into the weeds involved the band members involvement on Twitter and the ultra far right wing extremist video streaming service Periscope.  The post pointed out a limited edition vinyl release has been almost completed of new material which had been presumably been streaming on the site which will see brand release in another form within the next year, how this might conflict with the re-recording of their debut Narcissus Echoes is unknown.  Not mentioned in Rollcall is the band line up for the new album tentatively titled Stigmatized, according to a Warner label rep Films Crew will feature ShawnZone - guitars, bass, synths, percussion, vocals Aaron - drums, guitar, vocal Levi - bass, visuals Andrew - vocals, guitar, synth Kurt - percussion, vocals, guitar The album titled Stigmatized will have been written completely be ShawnZone and ShawnZone and Aaron from what we have been told with a first limited run of 5,000 which will have collectors chomping at the bit.  The ever enigmatic and mysterious band get more enigmatic and mysterious when they post to their own site.  There is little explanation of ShawnZone’s absence and the blond heartthrob guitarist becomes  more of an enigma wrapped inside a riddle in a Zen poem. Known for his high moral stances, approaches to ethics and decency, we are only left with the triplet master and scantily clad Aaron as spokesperson, enigmatic in his own way provides a clear cut picture of what’s going on in the band’s dynamic.  In his latest post he speaks openly about ShawnZone, his relationship to, and a relationship ShawnZone is involved in which resulted in tortuous pain to the point where he has withdrawn completely, 

A Warner rep mentioned Films Crew Band’s album Socratic had been removed from European streaming services at the request of the band for lack of revenue and royalties due from all streaming services. Deezer, which the label is renegotiating with the French and German streaming dynamo had been the sole source of revenue with other streaming services cutting non-mainstream bands out of play royalties, several bands are removing themselves from streaming services due to lack of payment or royalties.  Films Crew had been very critical over their output on the Socratic which they said was the label’s album not their own, Predator remains on their site available for streaming, with the still frightening but edited due to pornographic concerns video.  Films Crew has always blurred the line between the erotic and the mystical, ShawnZone appearing in hot pic in the buff on the site a couple of months ago.  They are the only band in progressive music that can get away with it and so they should.

Link to Aaron’s latest posts

We were not going to give Daniel Corin Lukas publicity by linking to him at this time, this is under review. Upon review and his recent post which we can't decipher Link to Daniel Corin Lukas website, warning it’s not coherent