Category: Music
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Coming attractions
You can listen to the song “Masoch” from my forthcoming album at the following link to the A.V. Club website: http://www.avclub.com/articles/listen-to-a-new-track-from-onetime-folk-implosion,101843/
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New LP/CD announced
New LP/CD announced You can read a one page preview of my forthcoming album Spare Parts, and see a snap of the front cover, at the link above thanks to Nathan at Riot Act Media.
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The Core Is Getting Soft.7: The Kunst of Kunz
A quick look at ebay tells me that a used Roland Juno 60 can run you in the neighborhood of $550 to $1,195. If you’re really lucky, you can pick one up that was used on tour by Ministry, with their own presets still intact! I once considered purchasing a used Juno 60 at a…
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The Core is Getting Soft.6: Ohm…Ohm….Ohm….
While the last post in this series on plug ins and virtual instruments, “Tuba Time,” proved that there are some truly atrocious digital products out there, this should not cause one to give up hope. One of the best software developers out there, the French company Ohm Force, make fantastic products, and they are on…
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The Core is Getting Soft.4: Redwirez Rulez
It’s a tough enough job convincing folks that they shouldn’t look down on music software when it comes to stuff people use when holed up in recording studios. But the guitar amplifier is a public affair. Imagine a live rock band pulling out a laptop onstage instead of rolling out fearsome refrigerator size amplifiers. …
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Top 40 Over 40.12: Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet
I’ve listened to lots of records I’ve liked over the last 10 years, but the recording the Kronos Quartet made of this piece is probably my favorite. It seems remarkable that such a strange thing of beauty could be recorded at Skywalker Sound, George Lucas’s compound in Northern California. Morton Feldman spent the…
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Top 40 Over 40.11: Wurst is also Best!
I cannot pretend to write an objective review of today’s entry into my Top 40 Over 40 countdown, Transcendental Youth by the Mountain Goats. You see, I compete in an annual NFL pool with John Darnielle and Peter Hughes. I’m indebted to Peter for running this pool and to John for keeping me out of…
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Outsourcing…it can be a good thing.2!
As Spare Parts rambles towards completion, cello, violin and backing vocals have been added out in Omaha by Megan Siebe, Mike Williams, Sara Gleason, Benjamin Brodin, Laura Burhenn and Simon Joyner. Vocals were done at ARC studios on the 17th, and a few final percussion, lap steel, and backing vocal tracks will be done chez…
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Outsourcing…It Can Be A Good Thing.1!
Jose Medeles is recording the drums and percussion parts for my forthcoming record out in Portland Oregon today, with Brandon Eggleston at the board. Think I’m gonna go celebrate by listening to this.
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