Category: Music
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Top 40 Over 40.20: L. Subramaniam live
Sometimes you just gotta trust a friend. Every year Duke Performances has a concert series you can buy into at a package discount. I pick up seats for the shows I wanna see before it all starts, and watch the dates roll forward and wash over me as the year unfolds. At the suggestion of my…
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Band that Rocked the Cradle
You can see video of 7 songs from the debut set of the live line up of John Davis & The Cicadas here. This show took place on August 3rd 2015 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Our next show at the moment is booked for October 24th at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NYC. I…
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Live on Radio Tomorrow Night @ 8
Brice Randall Bickford and I will be having a joint appearance on WXYC 89.3 FM in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, (August 2nd) from 8 – 9 pm. We’ll both play 20 minute live solo sets and chat with the DJ for 20 more in advance of our double bill at Cat’s Cradle on Monday 8/3.…
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The Core is Getting Soft.16: Quick Shelving
I’ve been spending more time than I really wanted to figuring out how to translate incidental sounds from loops and samples on my forthcoming record to a live setting this week. I haven’t played live in more years than I can shake a stick at, and the last time I did this with Folk Implosion…
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DJ for a day
Well, this should be interesting. I’ve never done a radio show as a DJ before, but I’ll be giving it a spin – sorry – this Friday, July 10th, from 12-2 pm eastern time on WXDU Durham, which you can stream online at wxdu.org. It’s a great station – usually. I’m sure it’ll go back…
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Cat’s Got my Tongue
I’ll be playing my first show in many moons on August 3rd at the Cat’s Cradle Backroom in Carrboro, NC. Brice Randall Bickford will be opening. This will be a full band show with 6+ guests. I’m especially looking forward to playing live with Peter Hughes, one of the first friends I made in this…
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New Project Update
I’ve just posted an update to the Kickstarter page about where we’re at with mixing the new record. You can check it out here. In the meantime, here’s to rallies in the rain: April 15th, 2015 at Shaw University.
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The Core is Getting Soft.14: Bang a Slate
One of the digital tools I threw in the mix of my new record is SSD4, the drum sampler made by Slate Digital. It was the first time I used something other than an electronic drum machine to program drums. The closest I’d come to fake “real” drums was the time we sampled a drum…
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Monsanto in the Classroom?
I spent the weekend editing vocals after reading an article that bore close relation to the subject matter of one of the songs I was working on. The track is called Contamination in the Grass and it deals with Monsanto and other similar agribiz corporations such as Dow Chemical and Syngenta. The lyrics takes many…
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