Music

  • Preview.2

    You can now hear the second song to be released from my forthcoming album Spare Parts, courtesy of Impose magazine at the following link: John Davis, “The Wrong Tree” The song is called “The Wrong Tree,” and features Jose Medeles on percussion and drums.  It also features backing vocals by Laura Burhenn, Megan Siebe, and…

  • New video released today for “Masoch” on OWS anniversary

    Today marks the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and to celebrate the occasion, we’re proud to announce that director Michael Galinsky has taken the time to make a video for the song “Masoch” from the forthcoming album “Spare Parts.” The video incorporates footage of OWS taken from an excellent short film he made called…

  • Top 40 Over 40.13: Weird Al’s “Party In the CIA”

    I can think of few more unlikely candidates for creative growth after 40 than Weird Al Yankovic.  Back when I was in grade school, he came on the pop culture radar with “Eat It,” his parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”  His string of similar Dr. Demento style hits willfully sucked all of the sexual…

  • 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/

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Core is Gettin’ Soft.5: Tuba Time!

    I recently saw an interview with Lydia Lunch in which she said that the guitar bass and drums sound was dead, dead, dead.  She admonished people to move on and play the tuba.  So of course I was thrilled to find a free tuba sample library this evening, which I am currently downloading.  I’m not…

  • 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.  …

  • 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…