The Vault is a Patreon-style membership platform
created to provide members with a friendly and comprehensive user experience.
The Vault is artist-hosted, handcrafted, and Lex-Land-specific 💖
As a thank-you for your subscription at Twitch,
I’d love to gift you a free month of access to my membership platform, The Vault.
This is a special tier I created just for you. Within it, you can access streaming players of all the years of exclusive content I have released at The Vault, get 10% anything in my store, and join us for the Vault-exclusive monthly concert for the month that you are active.
Your membership will expire one month from sign-up unless you decide to continue your membership at a regular tier.
I hope you love your experience at The Vault, and thank you so much for your support on Twitch!
If you are unfamiliar with The Vault - here’s all the nitty gritty:
For a small monthly pledge amount of your choosing (after your free month is over, should you choose to continue at a paid tier), as a Vault member you’ll receive immediate access to years’ worth of otherwise-unreleased content, as well as actively participate in the generation of new content on a monthly basis.
This artist-listener relationship allows music-lovers to engage on a deeper level with art they enjoy, while directly supporting its creator without any middle-men or distribution delays.
Whether you like to casually observe from the sidelines, or dive in real deep, there is a tier for you!
All paid members regardless of tier get access to all new content through a blog-style feed on the platform (and are also delivered the new content directly to their email address immediately upon each item’s release).
BONUS: Sign up at the Listener Tier or higher (monthly) OR any annual tier before September 30, 2021 and get a limited edition Rainbow Plated Lex Land commemorative “Key” lapel pin!
currently active members:
125
“I didn’t know I needed this. I can’t stop listening.”
“Knowing songwriting is [her] passion and career, letting us be involved is such an unbelievably generous gesture that I can’t fathom how to possibly thank [her]. Enjoying the end result is candy.”
Howdy! I'm Lex. I'm a working musician. As cheesy as it might sound, my life is music, through and through. Making it, listening to it, writing it, watching people make it. I've been learning and performing music for as long as I've been able to physically phonate - and now, to top it off, I live in Austin, TX - the "Live Music Capital of the World."
Though I've got a few albums released and get to do this crazy thing full-time, I've struggled all these years to find a better way to connect with music-lovers like me that are into what I'm doing, and to be able to create more releases without the assistance of a label or other false idols of the music industry. Then, finally... boom! 6 years ago, I launched a Patreon membership…
What's That?
Patreon is an awesome platform that allowed me to release my newest music and videos directly to supporters who contributed a monthly amount of their choosing for the last six years.
The platform is great, but not without its limitations, so in September 2021, I took the plunge to leave Patreon and create a custom and fully-loaded user experience on my own site - it’s called “The Vault,” and you’re currently standing at its door!
If you like the music I make and want to support me in creating more of it, you've come to the ultimate place. Check out the tier buttons above or below to try it out!
What I Release in The Vault:
Songs: Brand new songs, previously unreleased studio recordings, new versions of older songs, cover songs, requests from Members (“Keyholders”) and more
Music videos: Self-produced videos, concert videos, cute covers, and embarrassing vlogs where I may or may not have eyebrows
Blog Posts & Poetry: deeply personal and intimate diatribes about my inner life and creative process
New Releases: exclusive first-listens of new singles and albums
Why I Make Music:
I ponder at the meaning of my own life each day and how I can best serve humanity.
Unfortunately (?), I happen to be peculiarly skilled at one thing: wearing my heart on my sleeve and somehow stitching a song out of it.
Times are tough these days, right? It's hard to stay informed and not get sad, or hopeless.
I know what I can do is provide what I have and fulfill my purpose by serving others through artistic means. Art brings us closer together, lets us see light in the darkness, that there's community in feeling lonely, that we can shift and elevate ourselves and our world by coming together.
Why a Club like this?
When you become a Keyholder, you're diving into the deep-end with me. You're becoming my label, my producer, my audience, and my cheer squad! I'll come to you for advice when I'm stuck, for encouragement when I'm down, and I'll come with great gratitude at every baby step we make together.
You'll get early access to everything I make (and pretty much everything I ever have made), first and special access to discounts and promotions, and you'll be directing me on which things to do and create next.
In turn, Keyholder support keeps me at my desk at home so I can keep making content like recordings, videos, and albums (and spend all the extra time performing live online for you, or out in the world).
This arrangement especially is awesome, I think, for three reasons:
1) It's a win-win. You get access to a lot of cool stuff that wouldn't exist without you.
2) It requires a really small amount to make a huge impact. If a lot of folks contribute a little bit, that creates a serious foundation of support that will allow me to keep creating, giving you more stuff... wait... I guess that's still the win-win bit?
3) There is no middle man - no other platform, no label, no distribution, no streaming service. It’s just me and you and the music.
How Does It Work?
As a Keyholder, you decide how much you'd like to pay per month
Access to the Keyholder-Only Feed and content starts at $3
All Keyholders receive access to all posts, regardless of contribution level
Upon sign-up, you'll be charged your pledge amount immediately (for the current month, at a prorated rate).
Monthly Pledges ever after will be charged on the 25 of each month (for the following month).
Annual Pledges (the monthly Pledge amount for your tier, minus 20%) are charged recurrently based on the date of your signup
Subscribers can change their pledge amount or cancel at any time.
Some of these releases will be exclusive to The Vault and some will also be released to the general public. All of them will be made possible by the support of my SuperFriends here at The Vault.
What To Expect:
On a monthly basis, you will receive:
One Audio Recording of a brand-new original song
One Music Video of a cover song of my choosing, or selected in a Keyholder poll
Access to an exclusive evening online concert (usually featuring a special theme or guest artist)
Each year (typically in the Summer), Keyholders are delivered 7 Songs in 7 Days instead of that month’s single-song.
Instead of 7 Songs in 7 Days for 2021, we are celebrating the songwriting challenge’s 5th Anniversary with a special event: 30 Songs in 30 Days for the month of September.
Typically, each month’s original song includes a Prompt sourced from a Member, selected in a monthly lotto.
All monthly cover videos feature a credit scroll of all currently active Keyholders as a special thank-you dedication.
All new Keyholders have immediate access to ALL past posts and content (since the beginning of our Patreon experiment in 2016).
The Site:
My favorite favorite part of launching this new experience outside of Patreon is the customizability we will have for delivery and aggregation of content. (There are currently 100 original songs alone in The Vault, most of which are unreleased to the public.)
Upon signup, you’ll be directed to a center home “hub” for your tier, which will provide a nice little menu of everything you have access to that has been posted in the past (blog posts for all the new songs, streaming audio players, links to downloads, a calendar for upcoming events, and more).
You’ll also receive a welcome email which will help you navigate The Vault when you first join. Whenever new content is distributed, you will receive an email with a quick look and links to take you to the full post/downloads.
You will be able to access, stream, and/or download all available the content on both mobile and desktop so long as you have some kind of wifi or cell service connection.
How to Join:
Peruse the tier buttons above or below to decide which one sounds the most intriguing to you.
Monthly Pledge tiers are available of course, but if you’re feeling super-committed, make an Annual Pledge and save 20% on your would-be monthly pledge throughout the year for your tier.
Monthly Pledges are charged on the 25th of each month (for the upcoming month), and upon signup at a prorated rate for the current month.
When you click on your preferred tier, you’ll be prompted to create an account and select your payment method.
Signing up is SO easy and takes less than a minute so long as you have your payment info handy.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me anytime at lex@lexlandmusic.com.
You’ll have immediate access to your tier’s home hub, and will receive a welcome email shortly after.
Final Note Info Bitlets:
This is the center hub for all my creative and musical projects and ideas, including Lex Land, and as a springboard for my side-projects, moorhaunter. and One Big Dark Room (as well as anything else that strikes me or comes up... sometimes things get weird, but, like, a good kind of weird.) I like to keep you on the edge of your seat ;)
I COULD NOT DO THIS WITHOUT YOU! I am and always have been maniacally committed to making my art better and better, and I thank you, sincerely, for letting it mean something.
My supporters are my lifeblood. Writing what I feel and see is an often lonely and sometimes heartbreaking journey. Creating and then sharing with you all makes the good stuff in life seem less out of reach, a little clearer and a lot brighter. THANK YOU.
Let's do this!
xo Lex
Questions? Feel free to reach me anytime at lex@lexlandmusic.com!
Want to go ahead and give it a try?
Check out the tiers and other perks by clicking here!
😬 To watch my cheesy/cringey intro video to my original Patreon membership and learn a little more about the purpose and origins of The Vault, click play on the video below! 👇
The Vault will be identical to the Patreon experience I describe in the video except for:
- the location (The Vault is hosted on my own site: lexlandmusic.com/vault)
- the lowest tier pledge (because there's so much content available now after 6 years of releasing content at Patreon, the lowest tier amount for new members is 3USD)
- The Vault has wayyyy more content, and that content is way easier to access than it ever was at Patreon
Join me and the currently active 125 other members of The Vault-
and let's make some cool stuff together!
What's inside The Vault:
approximately 400 blog posts dating back to 2016 with song demos, essays, poems, cover videos
100 original songs available for download, most of which are currently unreleased
an evergreen discount code for all members anytime for anything in my store, year-round
member-only playlists of all audio releases released to subscribers since 2016, organized by year, category, and/or project
several publicly-released full-albums available to members for immediate download (a minimum value of 70USD)
exclusive member-only collections (Alone: The Patreon Collection, Alone: The Voice Collection) available for immediate download (value: 20USD)
… and more.
