Music

  • On the Radio

    (POSTPONED since first posted – see below.) I’ll be discussing my new album and playing some demos and rough mixes from the project on WXDU in Durham, NC on any given Sunday <formerly 8/17> from  6 to 7 pm. You can listen live online at WXDU.org, or if you are local, on your FM dial at…

  • Corporate Welfare.10: Wrestelmania

    I just read an incredible article by Dan O’Sullivan in Jacobin magazine about the abuse of wrestlers by their promoters, and in particular, by Vince McMahon and the WWE, (World Wrestling Entertainment.)  I recently wrote about the film The Wrestler as a depiction of how wrestling performs the abuse of workers outside the ring by amplifying…

  • Kickstarter up and running today

    I launched a Kickstarter campaign to help pay for my forthcoming album today.  You can check out the project description and rewards here. I just got back from spending 4 days recording with Scott Solter, Peter Hughes, Andrew Hiller and Louis Landry at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Recording Studio in Kernersville, NC, (pictured above.)  One of…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.12: Goldbaby for Less Silver

    Goldbaby is the stage name of a dude named Hugo down in New Zealand who makes fantastic sample libraries of drum machines, sound fx and synthesizers processed through choice outboard analog gear and tape machines.  Denziens of online forums like Gearslutz revere him, and his friendly responses in those nether regions suggests he’s a nice…

  • Corporate Welfare.9: Markets and Chains

    Today I’m posting a link to an article from the blog CivilEats.com by Adrien Schless-Meier called “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains Make More.”  It’s a topic on my mind because one of the songs on the record I’m working on is about the economics of supermarkets.  The song is called “King Piggly…

  • Knucklehead

      photographs by Walter Crump.

  • Studio Samsara

    I found this on Francis Prève‘s Facebook page.  To this I would add step 7, “I am awesome,” and then step 8, “Go back to step 1.”  Then it would be an even better representation of what I like to call “Studio samsara.” The Buddha used the term samsara to refer to the endless cycle…

  • Busking in the digital age

    I’m planning on doing a Kickstarter campaign in July to help with the costs of recording and mixing a new album with Scott Solter this summer.  We will be starting by doing a few days in the studio late next week! At any rate, I have a pretty good draft of the rewards, but I’m…

  • Snippets of Repeated Takes

    I recently finished and highly recommend the book Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.  My main criticism of the book is that it’s large size makes you think it’s gonna have lots of cool illustrations in it.  Instead, you get a conventional size text layout with blank margins so big they call to mind the immense foul grounds…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.12: Valhalla Freq Echo

    “The best things in life are free.” “You get what you pay for.” If cliches are cliches because they’re true, which one of the above applies to free audio plug ins?  Well, ca depend. When it comes to the Valhalla Freq Echo delay plug in, the answer is definitively the latter.   This gem of…