BANGER WEEK IN THE MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!
New single! New music video! Podcast! Trip to Texas to do a fire TV show! MEDITATIONS II campaign stretch goals announced! And more! Phew!
A banger week it was indeed. BETTER THAN JUSTICE (https://ffm.to/betterthanjustice), the first single from the feverishly anticipated MEDITATIONS II album dropped (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII)… As did the music video! (https://linktw.in/QRdkuP) Featuring Pete Parada (The Offspring/The Defiant) on drums, it’s an instant classic punk rock stoicwave NUKE… This time I drew on THREE translations of Marcus Aurelius, going back to 1862, to get the most accurate and musically maximal transmutation of the text…
Mere hours after the video dropped, we smashed our funding goal (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII) on the MEDITATIONS II crowdfunding campaign (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII) unlocking our most epic and exciting set of stretch goals yet (https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII) … Who wants new GOGGINS? New Wattswave? MEANINGWAVE LIVE SHOWS???
Back today and make dreams real!
(https://igg.me/at/MEDITATIONSII)
Meanwhile, it was a bumper week for podcast and other such Don In The Wild appearances, including a trip to Texas to make a second appearance on Blaze TV’s NORMAL WORLD show!
(https://linktw.in/tdxioX)
NEW RELEASE
BETTER THAN JUSTICE ft. Marcus Aurelius | SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO
(https://ffm.to/betterthanjustice)
INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
NORMAL WORLD: Dan Schneider's Super Sincere Apology, Beyoncé, and Akira the Don
(https://linktw.in/tdxioX)
Akira joins Dave Laundau and Qtr Black Garret for a glorious episode of chaos and lunacy
Chrissie Mayr Podcast LIVE with Akira The Don
(https://linktw.in/XTwEDZ)
Akira joins comedy legend Chrissie Mayr to talk about babies and art and universe creation and gets into some deep Lore about early ATD years
The Works interviews Artist, Wavelord, and professional Vibe Regulator
(https://linktw.in/bodiAy)
Akira joins MAZ legend Kalei and goes deep on geek stuff, including the mysterious magical Anime Shop he manifested at school.
STREAMS:
Not many streams this week, due to international traveling and whatnot, but those we had were awesome!
🔴 REAL PHONK CLASSICS | MEANINGSTREAM 532
(https://linktw.in/PjZFEp)
Two hours of nothing but pure 100% OG phonk CLASSICS!
🔴 SUPER REQUEST SHOW | MEANINGSTREAM 533
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/super-request-show-meaningstream-533-stream)
An epic Meaningwave show curated by the fine citizens of the MAZ!
🔴 PARTY! | MEANINGSTREAM 534
(https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/meaningwave/%F0%9F%94%B4-party-meaningstream-534-blocked-stream-recording-march-22-2024)
Epic party set soundtracks the smashing of campaign goals!
🔴 STRETCH GOALS | MEANINGSTREAM 535
(https://linktw.in/QYqJjz)
Akira announces the epic new stretch goals and plays Meaningwave bangers.
AND THAT WAS… THIS WEEK IN MEANINGWAVE!
We’ll be back tonight on stream (https://linktw.in/nXZxAa) with another epic show! And hold right for a new mixtape tomorrow… And myriad epic activities all week long!
Love to you and your family!!
AKIRA THE DON, Don Studios, Mexico, March 2024
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
Own the NFT at https://opensea.io/akirathedon !
BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome to the quarter century mark. That sure went by fast. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas - THAt sure went by fast! And now here we are in the new calendar year.
My distributor informed me a few days before Christmas that they were shutting shop for a few weeks, so I’d not be able to get any new releases out until January 18th, which put a lil crimp in our NEW MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY schedule…And it occurred to me whilst under the barbell in the gym on New Years Eve, which is where all my best ideas occur to me, to make you a special mix for the New Year. So I did. And that mix is now live for you to enjoy.
GO!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
Patrons and supporters on Patreon, Youtube, and now X can download the mix for free here.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
MEANWHILE! I am taking the extra time I’ve been allotted to make what would have been this week's single extra beautiful. So it’s getting a gospel choir, which I always thought it deserved. And you’re gonna...
“I want you
To understand what it means
To lose your freedom…”
Ross Ulbricht (https://freeross.org/case-overview/) is currently serving two life sentences in a maximum security jail, where he’s been since 2013, for creating the world’s first online digital marketplace based around Bitcoin.
This is his story. Told in his own words, via phone-call from prison, transmuted into music.
Understand what it means - to lose your freedom.
Stream and download the album now on your platform of choice.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/FREEDOM)
Join us live for the visual premiere on Youtube here from 2ET
(https://linktw.in/bMjfSr)
I met Ross’ mother, Lyn, late last year, when I was in Miami to perform my Ayn Rand EP (https://go.meaningwave.com/ANTHEM) at the Atlas Society gala. The World renowned “Pimp On A Blimp” Alex Stein very sweetly invited me to a party being hosted by Tim Pool, where I had a lovely time and met a number of fascinating people, and late in the night I was introduced to Lyn. ...
“You can't pursue happiness
You could pursue a wild animal
You could pursue a ball
That's rolling downhill
You could pursue a car
You could pursue a dog
Because those are all real
But happiness you can't pursue
You could end up happy
But you can't pursue happiness
There are two things
You can pursue
That'll get you there…”
Make some noise for the grand return of Scott Adams () to the Meaningwave Universe! And with a song that couldn’t be more perfectly Meaningwave if it was synthesized in a lab by a team of 100 genius-level Meaningwave scholars 2000 years from now...
CHASING MEANING
(https://go.meaningwave.com/CHASINGMEANING)
…is out now!
I sent it to Scott last week, and he replied straight away, “I love it! But I am biased.” Which is fair. I love it too, and I hope you do too. Hey look! Here’s the music video!
(https://linktw.in/USRVHE)
Wonder where it’s gonna show up in next month’s MEANINGWAVE TOP 50, huh? SPEAKING OF THE TOP 50!
The MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 ...
