While recording “The Night is Dead” for June’s download, I filmed the process. Finally got a chance to edit it together, and here it is! “The Night is Dead” along with this month’s song, “If You Got It” and others going back to January are still available to download. Check the sidebar to the right […]
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[download id=”12″ format=”12″] To download a free MP3, click the image above. I hope you enjoyed your 4th of July weekend! Here’s a new song for you. This song started out as something I was doing for work. A play that’s about to open was in need of some scene change music and I thought
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Several times a year I enjoy sharing some of the new music I’ve been enjoying over the past few months. Since we’re about halfway through the year, here’s what I’ve been listening to since I last posted recommendations 3 months ago. I’d love to hear your recommendations as well! Leave me a comment or tell
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I’ve always enjoyed doing things myself, and I recently completed building my first guitar amp. All the parts for the amp came from a kit I ordered from Weber. The circuit is based on a Fender Princeton 5F2A from the 1950s. The cabinet arrived pre-built, but I assembled the insides based on the 5F2A schematic.
Among people my age (25) I feel I may be a bit of an anomaly when it comes to my music purchases. I could count on two hands the number of songs I’ve downloaded from iTunes. I still buy all my music on CD. I do import them into iTunes for convenience and to sync
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[download id=”11″ format=”11″] To download a free MP3, click the image above. “The Night is Dead” was completely written and recorded during May. Thanks for listening! I’d love to hear what you think. The rest of this post is for the recording geeks. I’ve been recording my music in some form for more than
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[download id=”10″ format=”10″] To download a free MP3, click the image above. Since I started offering monthly downloads, the is the first one that was completely written, recorded, and mixed specifically for the site. I started on it half way through April. Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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When my wife and I took a road trip on a recent weekend, I made a mix to listen to on the drive. As it happened, Kanye West’s song “Good Morning” was immediately followed by The Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up.” As different as those two songs may seem, I almost didn’t notice when the track
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[download id=”9″ format=”9″] To download a free MP3, click the image above. This month’s song is a collaboration with Nikkita Cohoon. Nikki is an artist, writer, and one of my wife’s closest friends. A while back I suggested setting some of her poetry to music, and she sent me a few options. The words of
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We’re nearly a quarter of the way through 2011, so I thought I’d share some of the new music I’ve been enjoying so far this year (in no particular order). John Vanderslice – White Wilderness Over the past seven years since I first heard John Vanderslice, he’s managed to release consistently great records without falling
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Alex Chilton, best known as founding member of 1970s Memphis rock band Big Star, passed away a year ago today. I recorded a cover of his song “I’m In Love With a Girl” as a tribute.
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I had nothing to do with this, but I thought it was too cool not to share. Sound designer/composer Diego Stocco created a piece of music using only sounds created by a tree in his backyard. This is worth three minutes of your time: