February 17, 2006
where it's at
Somedays I can't get enough of this one.
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February 04, 2006
it's just a thought
It's just a thought, but this may be my favorite record of all time.
If you don't own it, you need to get it.
If you don't like it, you need to have your head examined.
I can wax all day long about the Beach Boys and Led Zeppelin
and the Flaming Lips, but it always comes back to this one for me.
Tonight.
Go check out Little Country Giants at Barking Legs Theater.
Their website sucks. (click on information from their site to go the sonicbids page)
But their music is really great. I love the singer's voice.
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January 24, 2006
american altitude
I made a new years list a few weeks ago, and listed some of my favorite
unsigned bands of 2005. I was reading back thru that post and realized
I forgot American Altitude from New Jersey.
They cite Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing as one of their biggest influences.
I played one of their songs at the photo show.
They are awesome and you should check them out.
In fact, you should check out every band on that list (whoever you are).
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January 19, 2006
new music by jaymay
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm obsessed with Jaymay,
the singer-songwriter from New York. Her new EP,
"Sea Green See Blue" is coming out soon, and she
has posted 2 songs from that EP on her Myspace
page: "Gray or Blue" and "Sea Green See Blue."
You should check them out because they are fantastic.
Hopefully, her revamped website will be up soon too.
Supposedly, she will be touring this year. Maybe with a little luck, she'll
play in the SouthEast.
(photo by beiginside/D. Robert)
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December 30, 2005
year end resolution(s)
I like making lists.
And I like looking thru lists to find music that I totally missed.
This is not a top 10 (or top 15). It's just a list of records I dug in 2005
favorite records of 2005
Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary
Over The Rhine, Drunkard's Prayer
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Beck, Guero
South San Gabriel, The Carlton Chronicles
The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, st
Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
Broken Social Scene, st
Antony and The Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now
Kanye West, Late Registration
The Decemberists, Picaresque
LCD Soundsystem, st
Coldplay, X&Y
Spoon, Gimme Fiction
favorite unsigned bands of 2005
A Fir-Ju Well (Atlanta)
Jaymay (NYC)
The Teenage Prayers (NYC)
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (Chapel Hill)
Margot and The Nuclear So and So's (Indianapolis)
Cari Clara (Cincinnati)
Imagine Asians (Nashville)
year-end links
Top 50 Music Videos of 2005 You can watch them all too!
metacrtitic top 50
Artists Best of... Courtesy of Pitchfork.
The Year of Sufjan Stevens
I'm by no means a music journalist (thank God), but if I had to sum up
the music scene of 2005, it would have to be: The Year of Sufjan Stevens.
The guy's been around for a while, but everyone was all about this new record.
Rightfully so, as it is incredible. (He also put on the best show I've seen all year.)
It's funny though, how a guy can rise from relative obscurity to be in everyone's
top 10 list by year's end. He's the man.
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December 29, 2005
the state of being me
I've been sick for the past couple of days and I've noticed
something about my frail old body that I've never noticed before.
Like most people I lose my appetite when sick, but I just don't eat
even though I should. Today, my blood sugar got so low, I started
shaking while trying to buy gasoline.
I don't think I've ever shared this with anyone. My favorite website of
all time is dictionary.com. Sometimes when I'm bored or I am using
a word in an e-mail I'll ask myself, "Is this really the right use of the
word?" So I go on over to the best damn website ever and find out. I
looked up "arrogance" a couple of days ago because that's a word
that a lot of people mistakenly attribute to me. In a nutshell it means
"the state of overbearing pride." I really enjoyed that for some reason.
I think it was the word 'overbearing' that put it over the top for me. As
a side note, I relayed that story to someone else, and right before I
got to the definition, my friend blurted out, "and you saw a picture of
yourself?" Good one.
I'm not entirely convinced that mufflers are a necessity. My car is loud
as shit right now, and I kind of feel a mixture of badass and white trash
in my bones. Plus, it's like $80 to get that badboy replaced. Is it really
worth the cost?
The Features are playing in Chattanooga tonight, and I am way pumped.
Finally, my studio is moving to a new location in Chattanooga.
In addition, I am acquiring a Pro Tools HD system. This is a pretty
bigshot deal in case you didn't know. The timing of these events has me
second-guessing the move to Nashville for the near-future.
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Currently Listening: Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
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December 13, 2005
yule tide carols
Last year I co-produced an X-Mas CD with Jon Jon called Let's Keep the X in X-Mas,
a collection of traditional X-Mas songs re-arranged by the X-Mas Ensemble.
This year, I am pleased to announce that I have put together a collection of X-Mas originals from friends in the Chattanooga Area. The EP is called The Jesus Clause EP and is available for download.
The EP features 3 tracks by Charles Allison, Stephen Nichols, and myself.
Please download and enjoy.
Each track was recorded by the person who wrote it.
The artwork above was created by Victor Huckabee.
Merry Christmas.
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Also in keeping up with the spirit of the season,
here are some links to the Sufjan Stevens Christmas MP3's.
My friends Tall Betsy and Safeguy put this EP out a few
Christmas's ago.
Bright Eyes has released 2 Christmas albums in the past
five years, Oh Holy Fools and A Christmas Album.
Both available from Saddle Creek Records.
You can download "Blue Christmas" and "Going For The Gold."
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x-mas comps
Here are links for holiday comps, special thanks to Mike Wolf for passing these along.
m3 christmas
test pilot christmas
silvergiraffe christmas
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Here is my own playlist for the year. (Not available for download)
- My favorites are the Mariah Carey, Flaming Lips, and Remy Zero tracks.
- The M. Carey song in particular really pumps me up.
- There are several versions of Little Drummer Boy here, and I had more but I stopped myself from adding them :)
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December 08, 2005
(disturbing) fish-sticks
Tonight at Lamar's, Disturbing Fish presents American Analog Set with
Chris (no relation to Tom) Brokaw.
Doors open at 9 and the cover is $8.
I just finished the VCF record which means I will be completing work for the
X-Mas EP entitled "The Jesus Clause EP." I hope to have it up by Saturday or
Sunday at the latest. Promise(s).
I've prepared a special holiday blog that will include all kinds of holiday
downloads for you and your internet-loved ones.
On Sunday, I'm heading off to Music City USA to visit the Opryland Hotel
and it's awesome light display. This has been a tradition of mine since I lived
in Murfreesboro, and it's worth the 2 hour drive.
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Currently Listening:
jaymay
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last night at lamar's
- ok before i begin, some guy just farted really loudly next to me (I'm at the
library) and now it stinks something awful.
- I sat upstairs for the whole show last night. I've never done this before. It's
sort of like a skybox because when you're upstairs you don't watch the band
(even though you have the best view), you talk to everyone up there. Second,
regardless of how little you smoke, you reek the next morning because
everyone's smoke is covering your body, hair, etc.
- Apparently there was some debate b/t the ladies over whether I looked liked
Adam Brody. I was waiting for the catfight to begin. I also got into the age-old
OC argument: who was cuter: Summer Roberts or Anna Stern?
- One of my favorite terms is man-collector. It always reminds me of the song
"Molly's Chambers" by Kings of Leon. It also reminds me to stay the fuck away.
- As a sidenote. On my way to the library this morning I heard Mark Kozeleck's
cover of "Ocean Breathes Salty" on the radio. I've never been a huge fan of his,
but sometimes you hear him exactly when you want to.
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Check out the best commerical ever. It's by Sony.
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The Grammy nominations came out last week. I'm always kind of bored by
the nominations and the awards show itself. Why is it that the Oscars are
fairly respected and the Grammy's are not? Kanye is up for like 5 or 6 awards
this year. And Arcade Fire???
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December 04, 2005
jeans jackets and central ave. (weekend overview)
- Josh's parents in town means free food, a clean house, and lots of lazing about.
(Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon)
- Gearing up for the release of X-Mas EP (finally). Lots of people are already
offended by the cover art.
- Hung out with Andre, Stephen, and Sara to go see Ballroom Dancing.
- The White Stripes performed on The Daily Show a few nights ago.
Watch videos here.
- This has been one of my favorite links this week. A preview of the Beck remix
album, Guerolito. Click. Record comes out next week. Features remixes by Air
and Adrock of The Beastie Boys.
- Check out this Gap commercial directed by Spike Jonze.
- Stopped in for 5 minutes at Lamar's to see Kingsbury Manx.
Boring...I think 5 people showed up.
- Realized that sarcasm is only effective amongst friends.
- While searching for the Gap commercial I found this site.
Currently Listening:
Queen - A Night At The Opera
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On Tuesday, Dec. 13, music bloggers will be posting Dean Grey's American Edit mashup.
Check out Daniel Ryan's site on that day to download the mp3's.
Another great mashup that'll probably be taken down in a couple of weeks. Q-Unit.
Gentle Indifference is a great site to check out. C'mon, all the cool kids are doing it.
By cool, I mean me, Mike...(uhm)
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At first i laughed really hard.
And then I thought, "My God, I actually live here."
I think it's time to get the F' out of dodge.
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I post this link for Ryan Joyce and Victor Huckabee and anybody else that doesn't mind that they've been duped. Enjoy. Clickers.
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December 02, 2005
power of the middle finger
So I was looking at NPR's site yesterday and they had a feature on
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and their overnight success this past summer.
The story focused on music blogs, podcasts, and Pitchfork Media, showing how
a relatively unknown band could do so well without a record label.
In case you were unaware, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sold 10,000 records this year
and is selling out venues across the country and up until recently didn't
have distribution into major record stores.
Meanwhile the Big 4 of the RIAA is in neverending pursuit of closing file-sharing
networks, P2P, and the like. Every month they dump hundreds of thousands of
dollars into Abusivo, Angel City, and Lindsay Lohan. They work on product placement,
sell ringtones, buy TRL-time, and publicize the hell out of artists that are
here today gone tomorrow.
Oh, the times they are a-changing.
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This week has been crazy. I've spent most of it recording and mixing.
VCF record is almost complete (I'll clap my hands and say yeah).
That project took way too long for a lot of reasons...some of which were
my fault; some of which were not. On Monday, I do the mastering thing and
breathe a short sigh of relief as I gear up for exams.
In addition I have trips to Nashville and DC for the next 2 weekends, and then
I'm going back to the old life...nah, I start on new recording projects which
I look forward to.
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Dane Cook hosts SNL tomorrow night. ("Are you out of your fucking minnnd?")
Currently listening:
The Teenage Prayers
Jaymay
KRS-One
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