A Musical Manifesto (Of Sorts)
I'm in the very early stages of recording a second LP under my pseudonym, Red State Soundsystem. (I'm also recording an acoustic EP of some of the tracks from my…
Slide, slide, slippety slide
One of the things I love most about using the ipad as a musical instrument is that several of my favorite tools (Bebot, Nanostudio) allow me to treat the screen…
Current Listening 1-13-2011
The Church, Starfish The Chameleons UK, Strange Times Orange Juice, The Very Best Of Black Dub, Black Dub The Lightning Seeds, The Very Best Of Foals, Total Life Forever
My Top 20 Albums Of All Time
In no order, not including compilations. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Radiohead - OK Computer The Cure - Disintegration The Velvet Underground & Nico - The…
Current Status: The New Album
I've started writing (which, since I use computers, also means "recording") the second Red State Soundsystem album, which will probably either be called SPQR or The Big Darkness or possibly…
120 Minutes and the value of curatorship
I was delighted to find on Metafilter a link to The 120 Minutes Archive, a site dedicated to preserving the history of MTV's long-defunct underground music show 120 Minutes, which…
The Indelicates – Songs For Swinging Lovers
UK group The Indelicates are that most endangered of species -- a band with intention. They defy the current notion that rock and roll songs should be about, y'know, whatever…
Things I have discovered in three days of selling my album online
1. People are willing to buy online music via PayPal from your website. 2. Not all of these people are my mom. Or actually people I know. This is encouraging.…
Ghosts In A Burning City — available now!
My debut album as Red State Soundsytem, Ghosts In A Burning City, is now available for preview/purchase over at Redstatesoundsystem.com. More when my brain is fully functioning.
The value of music
So apparently a group of musicians in England called the Featured Artists Coalition have voted to support a "three strikes" law against illegal file downloaders: get caught three times and…