Site Updates

Posted May 4 2009

We've added some new features to our websites and we just wanted to give you a rundown of what's new! First, if you go to our blog, besides the new layout you'll notice there are now links to share each post on various social bookmarking sites. We wanted to make it really easy for all of you to share anything that you think is awesome on our site.

Speaking of sharing. We also added links to the discography section of our website that will allow you embed each song with a shortened URL right into your tweets on Twitter! Song.ly is the company that puts this service out, and it's really cool. People click the Song.ly link, and they go right to a web page with an embedded music player where they can play the song. The share button for Twitter on our blog automatically shortens the URL of the post for you too, because we're cool like that.

And finally, we put ourselves up on Wikipedia! We know that we have a bio section of our site, but we didn't want to put all the really specific details there. We tried to keep that bio short and sweet, and then put the extended version up on Wikipedia. If you want to know everything there is to know about Divergence you can check our Wikipedia page: User:Divergencemusic. Because of some of the rules regarding Wikipedia and how they maintain the site, you can't get a main page until enough other people edit the page and request that it be moved off of a user account and turned into a main page on the site.

*Edit: We just went to our Wikipedia page and saw they blocked our account from editing pages, because apparently user accounts are supposed to be for individuals and not groups, and the website is not to be used for "Promotional" articles. Since the post was written by the group it is about, they consider it a conflict of interest. We just sent them a response to try and see what we need to do to properly have ourselves listed. We'll let you know what happens.

Standing Over Shadows Is Out!

posted April 18th 2009

It's midnight here in New Jersey, which means Standing Over Shadows is officially out! You can buy the album from CD Baby here if you're not going to see us at the album release show tonight.

We also have an amazing new website at www.divergencemusic.net, special thanks to Dan Orso at KidEclectic Design for making the site! You can use the "Store" link on the site to buy the album too, and we have cool Divergence Standing Over Shadows desktop wallpapers available in the "Media->Downloads" tab, along with Divergence buddy icons. Go take a look around, there's a lot there to keep you busy!

Odds & Ends

We've got a lot going on right now preparing for the release of Standing Over Shadows and we just wanted to fill you guys in on some of the little details.  Here's what's up:

We had to make some adjustments to the design of the album, which included revising the headshots we took for the Divergence Desktop Wallpapers.  As a result we've taken down the old wallpapers we had up for the time being.  Don't worry though they will be back up after the album comes out, along with some fresh new ones, to help promote the release.

We are also coming close to finishing our real website for www.divergencemusic.net, and we're hoping to be able to time the release of the album with the launch of the site.

The album is going to include a bonus track, which will be available as a "Fan-Exclusive" download from our ReverbNation page.  On April 18th that song will go live and you'll be able to download it if you're on the mailing list.  If not you'll have to join before you can get the bonus song.