Literally at the last minute I got an instant message from the NPR crew that they had extras on the guest list for the New Pornographers’ show at the 9:30 Club. Here are five stray observations from the show (not a review) — which you can hear on NPR here.
1) Neko Case puts the [...]

It’s been awhile since we’ve had our Karl Pilkington fix. I have to say I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed the lame-brained insights and off kilter-brain waves of Pilkington since Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ceased the hilarious podcast. But now it seems a new documentary special (granted in the U.K.) intends [...]

Finally got a little bit of work done on this song I started a few weeks back. Not much has changed on it, but I put in some midi (un looped) drums in there. I’ll no doubt take these out, but I really wanted to emphasize the waltz (3\4, 6\8) nature of the [...]

As time slowly counts down to the October EP, it looks like while Aryn has found some early fall prolificacy, all things are quiet on my front.
Too quiet.
I don’t know what it is, but I have been less than musically productive in the last week or two. Normally I’m always working on something, but [...]

I’ve done it again. Cranked something out in about 30 minutes ( from picking up the upright bass to rendering the master copy from live).. This is a pretty fun process, it really forces me to make quick decisions with regards to melodies and what not (hence the simpleness), and I think I’ve created [...]

OK so maybe i’ll make this 30 min workout thing a little bit of a feature.. or it will slowely fade away.. But not before I get a few under my belt!
Here is my second try at cranking something out with minimal work on time. My goal here is to get 3 or [...]

So I came home today with the urge to play some music. I think my neglect over the past month or so has finally caught up to me. I only had an hour before I had to shower up and run out again so I decided to do a quick improvisation with myself [...]

Awhile back I posted a few videos making the rounds on the YouTube of the live collaborations of Fiona Apple and Nickel Creek. One of the best songs I found was an old ditty “Tonight You Belong To Me.” I enjoyed the song so much I tried to find the origins.
According to ‘reputable’ [...]

It was brought to my attention today that I have moved one step closer to internet stardom. The Google Street Team happened to be driving by one fateful day outside my office when a coworker and I happened to be moving a case from a ups truck. This sequence of events has led [...]

Its a given that the music world is indeed changing. In these days of digital downloads, MySpace, YouTube and social media, artists have embraced alternative means to get their music out there. So much so in fact that these things are hardly even considered ‘alternative’ any more; For any artist, from the [...]