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April 28 , 2008

Floater is proud to announce the release of their third full length live album, "Acoustic Live at the WOW" !!!

Recorded on location in Eugene's fabled and historic WOW Hall, this wonderfully captured, unplugged evening is sure to become an instant classic. The album will hit the stores as an exclusive, environmentally friendly digipack on May 20, 2008.

CD pre-orders will begin next week with the launch of the new Floater Music Store. You can get your copy early by purchasing the album as an mp3 download, and you will receive exclusive photos, band reviews and a bonus track for free.

Now Available For Digital Download (MP3 / FLAC) and Pre-Order

January 1 , 2008

Floater.com launched

There's an all new official website for Floater with an all new design, and many new features, including an official forum for fans to meet and discuss all things Floater!

Check it out now at Floater.com

 

January 8 , 2007

Rob's Solo Tracks Available For Purchase On MySpace

Rob Wynia has posted several tracks of his solo material on his official MySpace. You may listen to "Come On Down" "Conversations With A Whore (edit) and The Whale (edit) with the built in player. He has unedited tracks available for purchase for $1.49 each. If you're a fan of Rob's lyrical writings, these Ken Nordine style (closest comparison I can come up with) spoken word pieces will leave you astounded at his long form writing.

Check it out now at Rob Wynia MySpace

Rowan has uploaded her concert poster collection, and we will be adding them to her page shortly.

December 19 , 2006

Guestbook Removed

Due to continued spam, we have decided to remove the Guestbook feature on this site. We feel that having the EXILED Forum incorperated with this site is a much better avenue for communication with other fans, and honestly I am sick to death of seeing porn spam on the guestbook. Even with the option to approve all comments set, it still doesn't stop the 2 - 5 entries per day that I have to sort through.

October 23 , 2006

Updates To Official MySpace Page

Floater have updated their official MySpace page (www.myspace.com/floater) with samples of two tracks from Stone By Stone.

October 11 , 2006

Stone By Stone Pre-Order / New Site Content

10-10-2006
Beginning TODAY, October 10, through October 20 the "Stone by Stone" CD/DVD can be pre-ordered on the "SHOP" page of the official website (www.floatermusic.com). During this pre-order period the new record can be purchased for $15 - shipping included. After that date the price (including shipping) will be $18.

New photos from Sept 22, 2006 in Mesa AZ have been added to the Live Gallery.

A new guestbook feature was added due to the overwhelming amount of spam in the previous version as well as popup ads. Because of the spambots, all comments will be approved by an administrator before becoming visible to the public.

More changes will be taking place throughout the course of the day.

October 10 , 2006

Welcome To The New Site!

Site redesign is uploaded!

New Fall Tour 2006 photos coming soon!
New Tourography

Returning in the future :
Alien Intelligence (Floatermail) Archive
News Archives

September 18, 2006

CD Release Shows In Eugene & Portland Announced - Official Website Updated & Stone By Stone Tracklist

The official Floater website (www.floatermusic.com) has just had a major redesign to coincide with the new album!
Go check it out!

1. An Apology
2. Ghost in the Making
3. In America
4. Weightless
5. Breakdown
6. Helping Hands
7. Spaces In Between Us
8. The Wave
9. Everything Falls Our Way
10. My Burden
11. Proviso
12. In Transition
13. Tonight No One Knows
14. Home in the Sky

Includes a bonus DVD

September 15, 2006

Title of new album announced / Acoustic "Apology" on KUFO / Marconi MySpace

Floater have announced the title of their forthcoming CD "Stone By Stone" and have set October 31 2006 as the release date.

Recently the boys were in the KUFO 101 studios on the Marconi show and performed an acoustic version of one of their new tracks "Apology" - You can listen to this performance on Marconi's MySpace page by clicking HERE

September 4, 2006

Sun, Sky, Stone under new management - Site Changes

Greetings from your new webmaster Rai. I would like to first say "farewell and all the best" to the creator of this site Matt. I have been a constant visitor to this site since it's creation and have always found it to be the best source of information and archive material for Floater on the web. I myself, over the years, have contributed lots of content to the site, and begin my history here with only the best intentions at heart.

There will be some major changes occurring here at SSS in the very near future. Most noticeable will be the updated look that will be greeting you shortly. Some smaller, less noticeable changes have already occurred.

The SSS Forum is now gone. It was rarely used by Floater fans for communication, and received more traffic from spam bots than anything else. You are here to get your Floater fix., not to find links to porn sites. In it's place, you will find a link to EXILED. Exiled is not an official Floater Forum, but it is the place where the majority of netbound Floater fans that I know reside, and a great place for conversation! I highly recommend you join us in our fun!

The Bravenet Chat feature will be disappearing soon. I have joined the chat room many times over the last 5 years, and never once was there anyone else in there with me.

I have updated the contact page with current emails for Floater's management, as well as links to MySpace profiles for Rob Wynia, Pete Cornett, Elemental Records, and the Official Floater MySpace page.

You may at any time email me questions, critiques, or criticisms to webmaster@floatermusic.net as well, I also accept site contributions to this email address. Please limit your contributions to files under 8 megabytes. If you have larger files you would like to contribute, please email me and I will make arrangements with you.

Welcome to the next era of Sun, Sky, Stone. Enjoy your visit!
RB

September 1, 2006

Sun, Sky, Stone soon to be under new management

Greetings from your webmaster Matt. I created this site, and have ran it since it first launched on Oct. 8, 2001.

As of late (or for some time now), I simply haven't had the time or the drive to maintain the site like it should be. My love for Floater has not waned; I've simply been too engrossed in other projects, most notably my band, to focus on updating the site. I think everyone would agree, SSS hasn't been updated as regularly as it should, and is long overdue for a re-design.

I don't want SSS to fade out & die like other Floater fan-sites in the past.

So I will soon be handing over control of the site to Rai Beardsley, aka Weymolith, whom many of you may know from Exiled - the Floater Board. Wey is a fellow Floater fanatic, adept at web skills, and is also a personal friend of mine & Floater's. He is capable & willing to give this site the attention it deserves.

For those who have content published here - never fear, all existing site content will remain online.

It's been almost 5 years for me, and it's been a great, fun experience. I've met many cool people & learned a lot. To everyone who's helped me out with either advice, assistance, and of course submissions, I thank you all sincerely. This site was created by fans, for fans, and that's the way it should be. Letting go of the site is a hard decision for me, but the right one.

This will be my last posting here. To keep in touch, email me @ dyingmind@yahoo.com. And feel free to check out my band's website here.

All future site updates will be by Weymolith. You can contact him @ webmaster@floatermusic.net

Take care & float on!

-Matt
(former) webmaster
Sun, Sky, Stone

Two shows in Bend added. Shows Page for details.

Floater on tour in September - Calif, Ariz, Nev., Utah, Idaho... see Shows Page for details.

Attention Seattle... Floater is playing the Crocodile Cafe on Aug. 20th, and it's All Ages. See shows page for ticket info.

Floater plays KUFO's RockFest 11 tonight w/ Alice in Chains and other huge bands! Way to go, Floater! See kufo.com/rockfest_eleven for details.

Floater will also be playing Sept. 9 on the Portland Spirit, which is a... ahem... riverboat, that cruises up and down the Willamette River. Floater played a show on the boat several years ago, and it's a truly unique experience. See shows page for details.

Seattle show added... July 22 in PDX @ the Crystal Ballroom! Semi-official word is, this is -not- a CD Release show. Floater's new record won't be finished until later this summer.

Floater eBay watch: Secret House Vineyard concert poster.

Check out this Picture Gallery from the recent Secret House show.

Seattle show added... @ the Showbox!

For the RIVERBOAT fans...
Complete lyrics posted (thanks to Mitchell for transcribing these), and four guitar tabs... with more to come!

Plus one new Floater tab: Misfit's Song.

Floater will be headlining the KNRQ "Summer Blast" concert in Eugene, with the likes of MXPX, Harvey Danger, Stroke 9, and I Can Lick any SOB in the House. Check Shows page for details & advance tickets.

Updated the Shows page with Floater's spring tour dates.

Check out this homemade video for "Cinema" submitted by Andrew Wills.

New guitar tab: Equinox bass tab submitted by Rowan.

"Exiled" - Floater Fan Forum, now has its own domain (www.rotyouwill.com), and is becoming quite the little fansite of its own! Have a visit & meet some other fans!

"Riverboat" - Floater drummer Pete Cornett's side project -- has a new official website designed by our good friend Weymolith. Check it out here: www.riverboatmusic.net.

Local Portland band Assisted Living has just released their new CD titled "Happily Ever After", which features Floater's Rob Wynia doing additional vocals on three tracks. So far as we can tell, the CD is not available online yet, but we'll post a link here if we find out about it. The CD may be available in Portland area record stores.

New show dates for Portland: Dante's & Crystal Ballroom... see Shows page for details. Those of you in Seattle can catch Rob Wynia do his solo acoustic act @ Chop Suey on Thursday Feb. 9, opening up for Rose Hill Drive.

New Guitar Tabs posted: Strychnine, Evangeline, and Out of Sheer Lonliness (guitar solo). Thanks to Lotusage8@aol.com for those last two. I'm also taking requests for untabbed songs (see Tabs section for all of 'em). Currently working on "4 Down/A Toast", and "All the Stories But One"). Email your tab requests here.

Two new pieces of Fan Art! Thanks to the cool & talented people who submitted these works.

Lastly, check out Floater on Wikipedia.

Happy New Year! Check out Floater drummer Pete Cornett's new side project, Riverboat... you can purchase the CD online @ CDBaby.com & listen to some song samples... way to go Pete!

Next Floater show: January 27th in Seattle @ the Showbox.

Site news: we passed 100,000 hits this week! It's an awesome milestone, and you Floater fans made it happen!