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Janelle Monáe and Randall Thompson

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

All the musicians I trust for recommendations in real life and on the web agree: the hottest artist in the universe right now is Janelle Monáe.

Also filed in music | Tagged autobio, emotion, family, janelle monae, memory, michael jackson, randall thompson, sampling | Comments (1)

Muppet Silly Songs

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

For my 35th birthday, my sister gave me a CD of Muppet Silly Songs, a favorite of ours when we were kids. It’s been out of print for years and last time I checked wasn’t even available on the web, legally or not. We unearthed the vinyl at our mom and stepfather’s place when we [...]

Also filed in music | Tagged autobio, eighties, family, funny, marx brothers, muppets, recursion | Comments (0)

Revival Revival May shows

Saturday, May 1, 2010

May 22nd at 9:30 Parkside Lounge – 317 E. Houston St 9:30 pm Revival Revival – Babsy Singer, Ethan Hein, Pam Adams 10:30 pm Danger Pin – Sam Gurewitz, Matt Horton 11:30 pm DJ Babsy No cover!

Also filed in music | Tagged dance, electronica, ethanhein, funk, mashups, remixes, revival revival, rock | Comments (1)

The Revenge Of The Nerds band

Friday, April 9, 2010

As I mentally prepare for my Revival Revival show tonight, I find myself thinking about the scene in Revenge Of The Nerds when they perform their talent show:

Also filed in movies, music | Tagged 808, breakdancing, eighties, electronica, movies, revenge of the nerds, revival revival | Comments (2)

What does live music mean in the laptop era?

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

This weekend my electronica band Revival Revival is doing some shows for the first time in many months. We’ll be doing a lot of what my non-electronic-musician friends consider to be cheating. The lead vocals and guitar will be live, as will some of the synths. Everything else will be canned, recordings played back from [...]

Also filed in hardware, music, software | Tagged authenticity, electronica, guitar, improvisation, lionel richie, michael jackson, midi, miles davis, pop, pro tools, reason, remixes, revival revival, songwriting | Comments (0)

Authenticity

Thursday, February 11, 2010

When I was younger I was obsessed with authenticity in music. I wouldn’t even play electric guitar because it felt too easy, like cheating somehow. I expended a lot of energy and attention trying to figure out what is and isn’t authentic. Now, at the age of 34, I’ve officially given up. I doubt there’s [...]

Also filed in music | Tagged acoustic, alicia keys, authenticity, autotune, bebop, big chill, bill monroe, bluegrass, blues, book, coltrane, electronica, emotion, harmonica, herbie hancock, howlin wolf, jay-z, jazz, judaica, klezmer, led zeppelin, lipsynching, michael jackson, motown, nyc, purists, rnb, sampling, soul, synths, thelonious monk | Comments (7)

Blue Christmas

Friday, December 11, 2009

Christmas makes me depressed. I would like it not to make me depressed. I want to have kids, and I want them to at least have the option to enjoy this time of year. In order for that to happen, I need to learn to enjoy it. I remember enjoying it when I was little. [...]

Also filed in music, tv | Tagged america, autobio, christmas, dickens, drumming, duke ellington, eighties, elvis, emotion, family, ibm, nostalgia, santa, tv | Comments (2)

How we wrote this song

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Boys And Dance Floors [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Revival Revival vs Janet Jackson mp3 download, ipod format download Right-click or option click the links to save the track to your computer. There are as many different ways of writing songs as there are songwriters. Barbara Singer and I have arrived at a [...]

Also filed in music, software | Tagged autotune, composing, improvisation, janet jackson, looping, pro tools, production, reason, recording, remixes, revival revival, sampling, songwriting | Comments (0)

Blogging is a real-time strategy game

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Anna watched me Twitter over my shoulder for a while, and then announced: “I get it. It’s a video game where you compete for attention from strangers on the internet.” She’s completely correct. Having a web presence is a real-world immersive internet game where the scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. Like any [...]

Also filed in hardware, software, web | Tagged attention, blogging, civilization, recursion, simcity, social media, social networks, stats, twitter, video games, wordpress | Comments (0)

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