Tag: Music
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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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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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New Page with Sound Cloud link for Outtakes, Ephemera
Today I put up a new page on the menu of this site that links to a SoundCloud playlist where I’ll be posting a rotating cast of outtakes and demos and ephemera. Read the new page here – and happy new year to all!!!! All instrumental tracks are now done for the new record. There…
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Top 40 over 40.18: Peter Hughes and Dipa Ma
I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma: she had a Honda that was running perfectly, and that had proven to be very reliable over the years. Nevertheless, she found the car boring. She found herself eyeing…
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The Residents and the Arctic
I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio. A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity. I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…
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Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song
Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young. I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings.…
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Radio Rescheduling: WXDU 8/24 7-8 pm
I’ll be doing an interview on WXDU, (88.7 fm in Durham, WXDU.org online,) from 7 to 8 pm on Sunday night August the 24th. This was supposed to take place on 8/17, but had to be rescheduled because the DJ was involved in an accident. I’ll be playing some rough mixes from the record I’m…
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Meet the Octopus
I just uploaded a rough mix of one of the tunes I’m working on for my next record on the page of the Kickstarter I’m running to support it. You can check it out by clicking here, or on the photo above. It’s called El Pulpo, a handle I got from the book Inevitable Revolutions…
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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…
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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…
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