As of February 2025, Black Magic has not released and is yet to have an official release date announced.
On April 24, 2018, The VAST Companion was made available for pre-order, a book detailing the stories behind VAST songs: “The book goes into where he [Jon] was when he wrote them, what went into making them, and the stories behind each song. Written with humor, introspection, and tenderness, this…
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In March 2018, it was announced that the next VAST album proper will be called Black Magic . “She Is Murder” will be the first single lifted from the album, and its music video has been officially posted online.
On April 22, 2018, the official VAST shop website announced the track listing for Black Magic , as well as two other releases: a limited edition EP for the song “She Is Murder,” along with a follow-up to the Jon Crosby solo release Posthumous Serenade titled “More Posthumous Serenades”.
Throughout 2018 the four EPs from the previous year were reissued on CD and bundled together. Many of these songs were later compiled for the digital release of the She is Murder EP.
November 2017 also saw the release of Posthumous Serenade , a two-part collection of twenty acoustic covers done by Crosby (solo) as a tribute to some of his favorite musicians who have died. Artists include Joy Division, Prince and Johnny Cash, among many others.
The announcement of Warped Tour 2017 included the Riverboat Gamblers to appear on two dates in July 2017 on the Skullcandy Stage.
2017 saw the release of Jon’s second publication, Ruminations On Everything , a non-fiction work, also released in audiobook format. They Only Love You When You Die EP followed, with a music video for the song announced but remains unreleased. The next two EPs released were Here I Am and…
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Although intended to be a five-part series, Stripped/Violet was released in December 2016, with Jon going on to say: “I felt like something was missing from the “Stripped” series. All songs I wrote before the first VAST album ended up ignored. They are a little raw because I wrote them…
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In the following April, the band announced that their latest single “Massive Fraud” would be released on June 24, 2016 as the last part of their single series on End Sounds along with a B-side cover of The Dicks ‘ “Hate the Police.”