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The year is 1996. I'm in my neighbor's tiny basement studio. I am making my first remotely professional recording. I am earnest. I am 17 years old.
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at 7:50 PM on September 2, 2010
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So scody
had a medical adventure today, which got me thinking about how awesome scody is and how much I enjoyed hanging out with her and being music dorks in LA last fall, and this is one of the songs I remember really enjoying during our drunken singalongery.
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at 2:48 PM on August 31, 2010
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I had an idea for a sort of epic slow-build, slow-burn song but I didn't have time to work out an appropriately epic-in-length arrangement so this is a little under two minutes long instead.
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at 8:15 AM on August 27, 2010
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Noisy old testament stuff.
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at 10:50 AM on August 16, 2010
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So I thought it might be worth mentioning this over here specifically: the new meetups-and-such subsite we've been working on,
IRL, is officially ready to host non-traditional meetup stuff like, well, music gigs.
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at 11:13 AM on August 6, 2010
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I decided this morning that it'd be fun to try getting involved at long last with
Song Fight, but it turns out that submissions for the next round were due this morning. This is probably the most frantic writing-and-recording I've done in a couple years.
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at 10:17 AM on August 5, 2010
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I read
this post and immediately thought a loud crappy punk song with that title had to exist. And now it does!
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at 4:57 PM on July 20, 2010
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One of the tracks off the bizarre algorithmically-reconstituted album I
recorded constructed today called
The Seattleward Spiral. Because the world needs more industrial pop reconstituted from Frasier audio clips.
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at 5:07 PM on June 4, 2010
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A busy, silly, energetic million-things-going-on-at-once cover of the Blondie song that was #1 the day I was born.
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at 3:45 PM on June 1, 2010
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Journey's
Don't Stop Believin' as a kazoo quartet improvisation.
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at 6:11 PM on April 29, 2010
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Roy Orbison gets the lofi FourTrack treatment. This is pretty rough stuff, but has convinced me that with some care You Got It could be a fucking tremendous bluegrass number.
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at 1:42 PM on April 28, 2010
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An abbreviated acoustic take on the done-to-death Eagles song, on uke, banjo, upright, and brushes. Another breakneck iPhone/FourTrack recording.
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at 11:01 AM on April 27, 2010
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Another loud, sloppy, first-takes-only FourTrack cover. One of my favorite earworms, though I should really have listened to it a few times to figure out how the verses go.
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at 10:57 AM on April 26, 2010
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The break-neck lo-fi fest continues with this cover of a song I just loved to death back in high school.
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at 5:22 PM on April 16, 2010
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I still don't know why exactly I just did this, but here is a deeply lo-fi cover of Avril Lavigne's
Complicated, from vague memory and sight-read lyrics, on an iPhone using the Sonoma Wireworks/retronyms application FourTrack.
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at 5:18 PM on April 15, 2010
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The tenth track from
Inchoatery, and the finale—a letter to the ex. Probably the most structurally complicated song on the whole album.
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at 7:57 AM on March 23, 2010
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The ninth track off of
Inchoatery. The other side of the story.
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at 3:42 PM on March 18, 2010
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Track eight off of
Inchoatery. One of those trying-and-failing scenarios—merely grabbing your boot straps and yanking doesn't always do the trick.
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at 2:45 PM on March 17, 2010
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Track seven from
Inchoatery. As much a mixing stunt as anything—trying to synthesize a drinking-buddy monologue in a crowded bar while the band plays on.
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at 11:48 AM on March 10, 2010
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Track six from my new album,
Inchoatery. A 5/4 instrumental follow-up to
Drunk Again. Theremin solo!
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at 10:59 AM on March 8, 2010
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Track four from
Inchoatery. More Microkorg than you can shake a stick, and a lot of other changes from
the demo I posted last month.
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at 7:59 AM on March 3, 2010
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The second track off my new album,
Inchoatery. Sort of a pop-rock braggadocio, the euphoric declarations of someone still feeling the relief instead of the pain of a breakup a long time in the coming.
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at 11:09 AM on March 1, 2010
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Lead-off track from my new RPM album,
Inchoatery. I'm still getting my ducks in a row as far as the album's proper home on my music blog, but I'm pretty happy with what I came up with and I wanted to share.
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at 8:38 PM on February 27, 2010
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I'm starting in on the final recordings for the album in a month, and I've started with this big epic third track. Still needs work but it's a good start.
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at 7:42 PM on February 17, 2010
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Another RPM demo, this one a super-upbeat thing about neurotic fears about what one's ex is getting up to.
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at 8:31 AM on February 13, 2010
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Uke-driven boozer's lament. One of the demos I recorded yesterday for my album-in-a-month.
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at 10:19 AM on February 9, 2010
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Pixies cover, with the debut of my new theremin (and a little bit of my new cowbell).
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at 3:40 PM on February 3, 2010
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News-of-the-weird recording from 2006. One of my favorite compositions back from when I was doing
The Aural Times.
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at 12:20 PM on January 4, 2010
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This is one of my favorite bits of not just holiday music but music in general, but it's not something I usually hear people rock out to. This is my attempt to help change that.
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at 11:58 AM on December 8, 2009
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This is my messy pop-rock interpretation of mikepop's
excellent parodic adaptation of the old murder ballad "Darling Corey", which this sounds basically nothing like.
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at 2:11 PM on November 6, 2009
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This is a song I wrote in late August, for bingo's
Revolving Floor project.
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at 12:46 PM on October 23, 2009
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Now with less German supermodel. Plus, I play drums!
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at 6:30 PM on July 28, 2009
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So I just bought myself a drumkit. I have functionally no drumming experience. Where to start?
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at 5:08 PM on July 22, 2009
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As realized by the Christopher Walken & The Lounge Fellas.
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at 11:42 AM on July 7, 2009
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It's still June for another hour and seventeen minutes, server time.
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at 10:43 PM on June 30, 2009
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An attempt to anger both Leonard Cohen
and Bob Dylan.
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at 11:47 AM on June 19, 2009
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This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia.
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at 11:30 AM on June 18, 2009
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When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste.
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at 10:09 AM on June 17, 2009
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Stealing the 5/4 shuffle from Take Five and injecting it into Leonard Cohen: non-trivial.
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at 12:08 PM on June 11, 2009
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I thought I'd take one for the team and kick off June's "Cover Hallelujah"
Music challenge. This is a scratch recording I made about a year ago when I was home sick and had lost most of my voice. If you ever wanted to hear Excessively Husky-Voiced Cortex, this is your chance.
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at 12:14 PM on June 4, 2009
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This is one of seven tracks off my friend Brian Rozendal's updcoming debut EP,
Lean. I'm on piano. A whole bunch of details within.
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at 8:20 AM on April 12, 2009
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An attempt to create a recording of the late-90s boozehound anthem Tubthumping that sounds as flat and obnoxious as the hundredth chorus of fratboys singing along with it did by the end of that decade. Happy St. Paddy's Day!
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at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2009
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My attempt to exorcise some high school nostalgia. The lyrics are as dumb as they always were, but now there's banjo and mandolin!
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at 2:36 PM on March 3, 2009
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