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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · 6d

Our first EP is also up. @FakeBitRebel My favorite songs from our EP are “Lost In The Gray” and “Drunk On Queens Boulevard”.

There’s a bonus track on the EP called “Messages”. This track is the first song @j-m-a-d.bsky.social and I ever made in this project. It’s from 2010 and it sat on a drive.

Lost & Found by Messengers From The Empire on Apple Music

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · 6d

Couriers. Have you heard? Our debut album dropped today!

Let us know your favorite songs or even ones you don’t like.

We take all your feedback to heart. We do this for fun, we share our art with you and the fact that anyone listens to it, fills our hopes and dreams.

Album · 2025 · 14 Songs

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Sep 14

CyberPunk Ballad? L3T5 G0!!!

J.M.A.D. @j-m-a-d.bsky.social · Sep 14

Possibly my favorite song off Lost and Found has dropped! Nothing Comes Easy by @mfte.bsky.social is here, the gritty cyberpunk ballad you didn't know you needed.

#musicsky #newmusic #alternativehiphop #independentmusic #yourgrandmasfavoriterapper #hashtag

Nothing Comes Easy, by Messengers From The Empire

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Sep 12

Bandcamp: messengersfromtheempire.bandcamp.com/track/nothin...

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Sep 12

Pandora: pandora.app.link/G3LhHRWvBWb

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Sep 12

YouTube: youtu.be/AcA-LfQRMv0?...

Nothing Comes Easy

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Sep 12

If you haven't checked out "Nothing Comes Easy", whatya doin'?

Nothing Comes Easy by Messengers From The Empire on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 3:58

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Aug 26

Sorry, it’s been awhile Couriers!
We are super busy with life stuff. @j-m-a-d.bsky.social and I @fakebitrebel.bsky.social are definitely doing the best we can!

We do have a new song called Forest Hills Punk. Check it out wherever you get your music.

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 30

Newest single! Take a listen when you get the chance!

J.M.A.D. @j-m-a-d.bsky.social · Jul 28

Here's my verse from @mfte.bsky.social newest song Karma!

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 25

"Karma"
Everything we suppress eventually rises.
Karma is the undertow.
🎧 Listen now → artists.landr.com/056870260587
#Karma #AltHipHop #PopPunk #LostAndFound #NewMusicFriday

A VHS-style distorted image of a silhouetted person waist-deep in a glitchy, neon-colored ocean, arms raised toward a stormy, digital sky. The text overlaid reads:
“Consciousness is a stream
And your current
P U L L E D
Me
VIOLENTLY
underneath.”
The words are stylized in pixelated, retro computer font, evoking a raw, emotional, and chaotic tone that matches the visual distortion.

Messengers From The Empire - Karma

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J.M.A.D. @j-m-a-d.bsky.social · Jul 25

Karma just dropped. There's a bit where I pay homage to Eyedea (RIP).
"Secrets spill out when you're asleep;
It grabs me by the throat, I'm choking on your speech..."

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 25

If Twenty One Pilots, blink-182, and Aesop Rock jammed under a full moon…
You’d get “Karma.”
We already did it.

Now it’s your turn:
🎧 artists.landr.com/056870260587
#NewMusicFriday #Karma #LostAndFound

Listen to Karma by Messengers From The Empire.

Messengers From The Empire - Karma

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 25

If Twenty One Pilots, blink-182, and Aesop Rock jammed under a full moon…
You’d get “Karma.”
We already did it.

Now it’s your turn:
🎧 artists.landr.com/056870260587
#NewMusicFriday #Karma #LostAndFound

Listen to Karma by Messengers From The Empire.

Let Me Go, by Messengers From The Empire

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 11

Hey Couriers! Our latest message from "Lost & Found" dropped on Bandcamp!

@j-m-a-d.bsky.social kills it on verse 1 and the choruses!

You really should take a listen: messengersfromtheempire.bandcamp.com/track/let-me...

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 11

🚨 LET ME GO BULLETIN 🚨

To: Couriers
Subject: “LET ME GO” – Available Now

Chorus Message Override initiated by @j-m-a-d.bsky.social

Recommendation: Listen loud, process freely.

🪪 Stream protocol: artists.landr.com/056870260563

#LetMeGo #LostAndFound #CourierNetwork

Messengers From The Empire - Let Me Go

Listen to Let Me Go by Messengers From The Empire.

Roller Coaster, by Fake-Bit Rebel

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jul 1

For those Couriers that celebrate blink-182 day (182nd day of the Year), celebrate part of it with @fakebitrebel.bsky.social's cover of "Roller Coaster". He's doing it for charity! That means 100% Free. That means you get to hear the savory baritone tones of Fake-Bit Rebel for 0 munnies.

Fake-Bit Rebel @fakebitrebel.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wake up Bits and Bytes, the "Roller Coaster" blink-182 cover is out!

All proceeds go to 3 charities (For ADHD Support and Resources, Leukemia and Lymphoma Support, and Alzheimers Support)

fakebitrebel.bandcamp.com/track/roller...

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 30

Also, Fake-Bit is making a charity cover album of blink-182 songs. Roller Coaster comes out July 1st. If his sempai would notice him, maybe he will shut up about sounding like Mark Hoppus. JK. Anyway, you should check it out!

Fake-Bit Rebel @fakebitrebel.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tomorrow is the 182nd day (blink-182 day) of the year and I’m dropping a surprise song!

Here’s a teaser for “Roller Coaster”!

Listen + support at:
🕹️ fakebitrebel.bandcamp.com

Proceeds go to:
🧠 chadd.org (ADHD)
🧬 lls.org (Leukemia & Lymphoma)
🧓 alz.org (Alzheimer’s Association)

Messengers From the Empire - "Lost & Found"

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 30

Hey Couriers! Our next message is going to drop July 10th. For these next two songs from “Lost & Found” we have made the following personnel changes:

“Let Me Go” - @j-m-a-d.bsky.social Lead Vocalist and Lyricist

“Karma” - @fakebitrebel.bsky.social
Additional Poet-Flower and Lyricist

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 13

Also! Give @versatonerev.bsky.social some love and a follow! He dove deep into “Lost & Found”. Check out what he’s got to say about it!

Establishing a Courier network

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Messengers From The Empire - I Won’t

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 13

Hey Couriers?! Feel like you are one step from crashing out?!

How ‘bout listen to I Won’t?!

It’s out today! Everywhere!

Listen to I Won’t by Messengers From The Empire.

Messengers From The Empire - I Won’t

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Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 11

Hey Couriers! We hope your summer (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere) is off to a great start!

We have a new song coming out on Friday. It's called "I Won't".

If you are into 311 or Box Car Racer you might vibe hard with this next track!

Listen to content by Messengers From The Empire.

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 5

@warehousegames.bsky.social cool seeing the warehouse from out in the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise ship big screen!

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 3

Let’s go Yanks!!! Jazz is back!!!

Messengers From The Empire @messengersfromtheempire.towercollective.net · Jun 3

Hey Couriers it’s Fake-Bit! I’m enjoying some much needed time off aboard Liberty Of The Seas! Would love to honor my ancestors and play a show in Puerto Rico someday!