mspa news sources & additions courtesy lilith

12 files changed, 57 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml
index a782b8c..115c991 100644
--- a/album/alternia.yaml
+++ b/album/alternia.yaml
@@ -72,12 +72,22 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>-minibiography written by Linnet, and is presumed to be 100% accurate</i>
 
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100719132135/http://www.mspaintadventures.com:80/?game=autosave&s=6&p=001901), excerpt)
+
+    <b>What have we here?</b>
+
+    MORE MUSIC!
+
+    An album titled <i>Alternia</i> by the prolific and electric (prolifilectric) Toby "Radiation" Fox.
 
     Yes, this is a solo album, meant to put music to the troll universe which has been taking shape recently. I believe you will find this album shall only further crystallize the atmosphere of this arc. It will do this because we say it will.
 
     But there is some trivia here! Before I started act 5, Toby talked to me about working on an album like this, couched in the assumption that the troll story would never be examined in the detail it is presently, and that this album would only serve as a tonal exploration of a purely hypothetical adventure supplied by the imagination. Turns out he assumed incorrectly! Which only made the project that much more timely and apropos. In fact, the planet Alternia was named after the album, and not the other way around!
 
+    This is really good stuff. It should go without saying that Radiation's work is always among my personal TOP PIX. This is obvious, since I have leaned heavily on him for HS scoring. Leaned hard. Like he is a diner jukebox, and I am the coolest fucking dude you ever saw. I am seriously making the Fonz look like the Star Wars kid from that old meme. Thrashing around like a spaz with a mop handle in the garage of whatever the fuck family he lived with.
+
+    I don't know a goddamn thing about Happy Days, honestly.
+
     <i>Cindy Dominguez:</i> ([whatpumpkin.com news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110208011641/http://whatpumpkin.com/))
 
     And now, presenting...
diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
index 9d1566d..9a7579f 100644
--- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
+++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     *Please don't lick your screen.*
 
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118111151/https://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/15222891959/the-next-album-a-contest), excerpt)
 
     <b>The Next Album: A Contest</b>
 
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     I am hoping to include as much artist diversity as possible in the final list. Ideally, one artist per song. So while you may submit up to 3, if one of your songs is picked, it'll likely be only one. If you have a lot of music you're dying to send, hopefully the 3 song max will mitigate any agonizing decisions over which to send.
 
+    <b>Those details again</b>
+
+    - Pick a Homestuck character
+    - Make a song for that character
+    - Submit up to 3 songs (for different characters if you like)
+    - Attach MP3 files to email (no WAVs!)
+    - We’ll get back to you asking for a high quality file if your song is picked
+
+    I am hoping to include as much artist diversity as possible in the final list. Ideally, one artist per song. So while you may submit up to 3, if one of your songs is picked, it’ll likely be only one. If you have a lot of music you’re dying to send, hopefully the 3 song max will mitigate any agonizing decisions over which to send.
+
     <b>The Prize</b>
 
     If your song is picked, it will be included with the album! That's pretty much the extent of the prize. You'll get a cut of the album sales, in proportion with how many songs you have in the album to the total number of songs.
diff --git a/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml b/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml
index 30a59cf..3f3a3e3 100644
--- a/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml
+++ b/album/homestuck-for-the-holidays.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ Art Tags:
 - Birds
 - LoFaF
 Commentary: |-
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20101230063632/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
+
+    WHOA HEY. Check it out. A bunch of guys from the music team put together a sweet Christmas album at breakneck speed! It's quite great, and *virtually* free. They're giving all the proceeds to charity. NICE JOB DUDES.
+
     <i>Lexxy:</i> (cover artist, [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/lexxercise/art/Homestuck-for-the-Holidays-190909696))
 
     FINALLY! The delicious fruit of my all-day drawing marathon.
diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml
index 9b499bf..b728e9c 100644
--- a/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml
+++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Wallpaper Artists:
 - Homestuck
 - Niklink (edits for wiki)
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20090812050554/http://www.mspaintadventures.com:80/?game=autosave&s=6&p=002343), excerpt)
 
     Homestuck songs are finally available for download!
 
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     But the songs are priced pretty reasonably, especially if you get the whole album. More songs will be added to it as the story goes. But really, the Homestuck music is the tip of the iceberg with respect to this larger, somewhat mysterious MSPA music project. There will be some more cool developments in the coming weeks and months, so keep an eye out!
 
+    edit: also thanks a bunch to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] for helping me set all this up!
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20090815120135/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-1))
 
     \> Purchase entire album and see what happens.
diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml
index c753e3d..7db85de 100644
--- a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml
+++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ Additional Files:
   Files:
   - vol5.jpg
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100719132135/http://www.mspaintadventures.com:80/?game=autosave&s=6&p=001901), excerpt)
 
-    Homestuck Vol. 5 is here. To call it a mega-album is an understatement. IT HAS 71 SONGS.
+    Homestuck Vol. 5 is here. To call it a mega-album is an understatement. <b>IT HAS 71 SONGS.</b>
 
-    And before I get carried away talking about it, we're releasing this under a new VERY SERIOUS AND LEGIT RECORD LABEL, which is called What Pumpkin. I thought this would be a much tidier container for all these crazy music projects we're cranking out. Oh and there will be more.
+    And before I get carried away talking about it, we're releasing this under a new VERY SERIOUS AND LEGIT RECORD LABEL, which is called [What Pumpkin](https://web.archive.org/web/20100616151859/http://www.whatpumpkin.com/). I thought this would be a much tidier container for all these crazy music projects we're cranking out. Oh and there will be more.
 
     The idea I had for volume five was to gather up a lot of music that had been accumulating, and stuff it all into this monster album. Like, WAY more songs than would ever be sensible to put in an album and still call it an album. The result is something so audacious, it just might be COMPLETELY MINDBLOWINGLY INCREDIBLE. You be the judge. I already know your verdict though.
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     Now it seems like I can never release one of these things without thanking my knuckles to a bloody pulp as I rain blows of merciless gratitude on everyone around me, and for good reason. Lots of people worked their asses off on this thing. It always seems like such a simple idea. Hey lets make an album! All this music is right here it'll take like two seconds to ram it out. Wrong stupid! So here I am assuming the flying crane position of indebtedness while I meditate on the fact that I'm about to snap the spines of fifty helpless thank ninjas in cold blooded succession.
 
-    Thanks to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] who worked forever on the new website and uploaded a million giant high quality songs which take forever to upload as it turns out and also hounding everyone for their files and stuff. Thanks to [[group:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] for doing great mastering/equalizing work on all the songs, and thanks to [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] for doing <i>additionally great</i> work of a similar nature. Thanks to all the musicians for lighting a fire under their bone bulges to get high quality files to us and of course not being able to help themselves from making all these killer upgrades to the music itself in the process. And thanks to [[artist:lexxy|Lexxy]] for the ultraslick cover art!
+    Thanks to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] who worked forever on the new website and uploaded a million giant high quality songs which take forever to upload as it turns out and also hounding everyone for their files and stuff. Thanks to [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] for doing great mastering/equalizing work on all the songs, and thanks to [[artist:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] for doing <i>additionally great</i> work of a similar nature. Thanks to all the musicians for lighting a fire under their bone bulges to get high quality files to us and of course not being able to help themselves from making all these killer upgrades to the music itself in the process. And thanks to [[artist:lexxy|Lexxy]] for the ultraslick cover art!
 
     I am never going to stop listening to this thing. Never. They'll have to send the cadaver dogs into my fucking unibomber shack cause I ain't coming out, and the fire ants will be wondering how they're gonna eat the rotting pulp in my skull with these headphones blocking my earholes like that.
 
diff --git a/album/medium.yaml b/album/medium.yaml
index 55fbd58..fed4117 100644
--- a/album/medium.yaml
+++ b/album/medium.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ Additional Files:
   Files:
   - bg.jpg
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110420022304/http://mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
+
+    <b>4/13</b>
+
+    Two years of Homestuck!
+
+    But before we talk about that, let's carefully examine this fine new album by Clark Powell, who is responsible for such HS scores as [[track:three-in-the-morning|Three in the Morning]], and the Gate 1 [[track:doctor|Doctor]] remix, as well as a plethora of other album songs.
 
     This one's very cool. Clark has a great ambient sound, and her idea for the album was to musically express the Medium's planets, through both their elements and themes. I think she nailed it. Cover art was tag-teamed by me and Cindy (the lady who touches all your WP shirts).
 
diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml
index e63ecac..51d3b8e 100644
--- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml
+++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ Additional Files:
   - mcwpp_1440x900.jpg
   - mcwpp_1920x1080.jpg
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100207224423/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
+
+    <b>FAKE BANDS (they are not real)</b>
 
-    <b>FAKE BANDS (they are not real)</b><br>
     I am here today to blindside you with a completely unanticipated, unforeshadowed album by the Midnight Crew.
 
     Only two songs in this album have appeared in Homestuck pages: [[flash:1267|Three in the Morning]], and [[flash:833|Nightlife]] (both are extended versions in the album). The rest are new, never before heard, and all of them (including the first two I mentioned) were made specifically for this album.
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     In addition to some familiar names like Hadley and Bowman, there are a lot of great new artists represented in this album, who haven't yet authored something appearing in HS. But the newer folks made some of my favorite stuff there. I recommend you give the whole thing a thorough listen. Thanks to everyone for working on this, and as always, thanks to [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] for configuring all the tedious Bandcamp stuff.
 
+    And just to remind you, the artists make most of the money you pay for it. At $5.25 for 19 songs, we're talking a pretty serious bargain.
+
     A final note: when I said it was unforshadowed, I guess that [wasn't entirely true](https://homestuck.com/story/353).
 
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100206233406/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead-2))
diff --git a/album/song-of-skaia.yaml b/album/song-of-skaia.yaml
index 58c64ae..67f78f8 100644
--- a/album/song-of-skaia.yaml
+++ b/album/song-of-skaia.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Groups:
 - Parsec Productions
 - group:official
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118084115/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/))
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20120118084115/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
 
     Another [New Year's Eve](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3220) gone by, another [ball dropped](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4413).
 
diff --git a/album/squiddles.yaml b/album/squiddles.yaml
index 0edcc96..6055ac5 100644
--- a/album/squiddles.yaml
+++ b/album/squiddles.yaml
@@ -29,20 +29,23 @@ Additional Files:
   Files:
   - squiddles_banner.jpg
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100908063929/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
+
+    <b>THIS IS INCREDIBLY SILLY</b>
 
-    <b>THIS IS INCREDIBLY SILLY</b><br>
     Hey guys, guess what the next album is all about! No, your guess is wrong. It is a Squiddles album. Surprise!
 
-    Here is an important thing to note before all else. [This album comes with a full-length animation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9DO7P2vbU)
+    Here is an important thing to note before all else. [This album comes with a full-length animation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9DO7P2vbU) That is a link to the trailer. The full version comes with the download.
 
     A lot of the same people who have contributed to MSPA animations lately worked on that animation. In fact, they did 100% of it! Conceptualized it and storyboarded it and drew all the assets, all under the supervision of a very skilled Flash animator named [[artist:paige-turner|Paige Turner]].
 
-    This album began percolating many months ago, and as with much of what this music fellowship works on, it snowballed in quantity and silliness and awesomeness over an extended period of time. It began with [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti's]] great [[track:squiddles|single track]], a snippet of which found its way into the big [[flash:1940|[S] Descend]] mashup.
+    This album began percolating many months ago, and as with much of what this music fellowship works on, it snowballed in quantity and silliness and awesomeness over an extended period of time. It began with [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti's]] great [[track:squiddles|single track]] (1st in playlist), a snippet of which found its way into the big [[flash:1940|[S] Descend]] mashup.
 
     The idea we formed around that song was to make an album that would serve as the soundtrack for a fictional cartoon show for kids, full of ridiculous happy tunes with strong themes of friendship and chock full of squeaky noises and aquatic gurglings. Seems to me like they pulled it off. It's very easy to picture this as a real show now!
 
-    Most of what you hear and see is musician/artist-conceptualized. I didn't have much of a hand in it other than the original idea. The guiding principle for working on Squiddles stuff is, any idea someone has for it automatically becomes Squiddles canon. So really anything going on here, candy corn shrimp, skipper Plumbthroat's connivings, underwater unicorns, all that came together through the collaboration of these artists while I sat quietly and boggled vacantly at their shenanigans. These guys are a bunch of nuts. But they are your nuts, and now their work is yours as well.
+    Most of what you hear and see is musician/artist-conceptualized. I didn't have much of a hand in it other than the original idea. The guiding principle for working on Squiddles stuff is, any idea someone has for it automatically becomes Squiddles canon. So really anything going on here, candy corn shrimp, skipper Plumbthroat's connivings, underwater unicorns, all that came together through the collaboration of these artists while I sat quietly and boggled vacantly at their shenanigans. These guys are a bunch of nuts. But they are *your* nuts, and now their work is yours as well.
+
+    Go buy this (*cheap!*) album and have yourself a friendship aneurysm.
 
     <i>Cindy Dominguez:</i> ([whatpumpkin.com news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110208011641/http://whatpumpkin.com/))
 
diff --git a/album/strife.yaml b/album/strife.yaml
index 61586a1..7a8c025 100644
--- a/album/strife.yaml
+++ b/album/strife.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Art Tags:
 - Jack Noir
 Track Art File Extension: png
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20110312091545/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
 
     This is a solo album by Tensei. I was really impressed with his stuff, so a while ago asked him to put together an album. We talked about it and thought it would be cool to make a bunch of battle music for hypothetical STRIFE pages. I think two words that adequately describe how it came out are holy shit. His rock sound is sick, incredibly polished and well produced. You'll hear more from him for sure. (And in fact, you just did! He made the [[track:trollian-standoff|Mexican Standoff tune]] in the [[flash:3520|new Flash page]].)
 
diff --git a/album/the-felt.yaml b/album/the-felt.yaml
index d11ec75..6680888 100644
--- a/album/the-felt.yaml
+++ b/album/the-felt.yaml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Additional Files:
   - bg.jpg
 Wallpaper Style: 'opacity: 0.5;'
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i>
+    <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA news post](https://web.archive.org/web/20101209061941/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/), excerpt)
 
     In the same vein as the [[album:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|Midnight Crew fake band album]], but where MC was a dark jazz band, the Felt is an orchestral group. The idea I proposed earlier in the year was an orchestral sound with "temporal effects." Notes, melodies, rhythms played backwards, forwards, rewinding and such, as if the music itself was subject to their powers of time distortion. The sound also took on some electronic, sort of ambient qualities as it developed. You could refer to the genre as "temporelechestral." If you wanted to say a mouthful.
 
diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml
index 1f3b8e1..78d4f26 100644
--- a/static-page/changelog.yaml
+++ b/static-page/changelog.yaml
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Content: |-
     - added missing bonus track [[track:fiction-bittersweet]] to [[album:bittersweet]] (thanks, Niklink!)
     - added download-only tracks [[track:distortion-vast-error]] ([[album:vast-error-vol-4]]), [[track:distortion-catch-322]] ([[album:catch-322]]), [[track:distortion-vast-error-vol-1-3]] ([[album:vast-error-vol-1-3]]) to their respective albums
     - added commentary and context for removals across [[track:indigo-archer]], [[track:purple-tyrant]], and [[track:temporal-shenanigans]]
-    - added various missing MSPA news blurbs across [[group:official]], including practically all albums, plus [[track:black]], [[track:unite-synchronization]] and [[track:eternity-served-cold]] (thanks, Lilith!)
+    - added various missing MSPA news blurbs across [[group:official]], including practically all albums, plus [[track:black]], [[track:unite-synchronization]], [[track:eternity-served-cold]], and [[album:homestuck-for-the-holidays]], and updated existing MSPA news blurbs with source links and touched-up content (thanks, Lilith!)
     - added Bandcamp commentary/credit blurbs, as well as news and descriptions from whatpumpkin.com, across [[group:official]]
     - added Discord liveblog commentary (featuring various community members) to [[artist:jebb|Jebb's]] tracks on [[album:lofam5a2]] (thanks, Jebb!)
     - added missing booklet commentary from [[artist:keyboard-cait]] to [[track:disc3-lofam4]]