August 2009
2 posts
My friend let me borrow her ukulele, which I...
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March 2009
2 posts
This started as a simple song on my acoustic, and...
I decided to put up a little sketch of a piece of...
December 2008
3 posts
This song typifies what I wanted to accomplish...
I wanted to write more of a real...
Someone tonight convinced me that no one would...
September 2008
1 post
I spent a good chunk of yesterday making some...
August 2008
12 posts
This is the 3rd track from Alvas Mosfera. We did...
As part of this whole exercise, I want to start...
This is the second track from my electronica EP...
Here’s a sketch of an idea I stumbled over a...
Greatest Dessert Ever?
Don’t get me wrong. Zuni has been, and continues to be my favorite restaurant in the whole wide world. They’re open fairly late every night, serve the most delicious hamburger in the city, roast the world’s best-tasting fowl, and serve drinks behind a bar made entirely of copper and glass.
The picture above, mentioned first here, is of the centerpiece to Zuni’s summer...
WatchYeasayer is one of my favorite bands of last year. This song, 2080, is Yeasayer at its peak - contrapunctal bass and guitar licks, synths screaming, Stewart Copeland beats, and a sing-along near the end of the song.
Somehow, pitchfork.tv convinced the guys in Yeasayer that recording a rooftop show in Brooklyn, in the winter, with temperatures in the teens would be a good idea. I’ve played...
Fans of The Decemberists might enjoy this hidden...
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Funny thing. When I posted about Caribou...
On Repeat
Every couple of months I find a new band I can’t stop listening to. This month, the lucky recipient of my undivided attention is Caribou. Caribou’s is actually one dude, with the sweet name of Dr. Daniel Victor Snaith. Not only is he Canadian, and smells of maple syrup, but knows much about Overconvergent Siegel Modular Symbols, which was the focus of his graduate studies.
I’d...
This is the first track from Alvas Mosfera. An EP...
I wrote this song after I was done obsessing over...
Something New
So I decided I’d get off my ass and start recording music again. Well, calling it music is a stretch. These are really sketches of ideas I’ve had floating around for a while, that I wanted to commit to bits and bytes before they disappeared from my tiny tiny head.
I’m also going to try to and find some old stuff I recorded and put it up here. Stay tuned.