While plenty of bands ran successful crowd-funding campaigns for their creative projects over the past year via sites like Kickstarter.com and Pledge.com — November Rush, Guiltmaker, Mighty Mongo, and King of Spain among them — none scaled the mountain of money quite like the God-revering indie-worship foursome Ascend the Hill, which set and exceeded a goal of $25K in 30 days with more than 650 donors, ending at a huge $28,149. On the non-God front, alt rockers Oceana raised an impressive $10,896 to fund the recording of their next full-length and the support tour that follows. Finally, alt roots songstress Geri X raised $5,115 during a $1,000 campaign to press copies of and tour behind this year’s The Work Is the Wolf, an impressive 511 percent of her goal.
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.
