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There are times that I realize I haven’t directed my own music choices for a while. Maybe I’ve been traveling, spending all day on the phone, or simply driving down the road with the radio inadvertently tuned to KRAP-FM.
And I find my motivation waning, my creativity lacking, and my general happiness in deficit. [...]

This week I’m dropping by the recording studio where my friend Sean is recording an album for his local Asheville band The Propheteers. He, Joe and Mason are cranking it out. I, a man who spends his daylight hours leveraging synergies as an engineering manager, hanging with the band helps me reclaim some [...]

To be honest, I’m not that much of a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I think it’s cool that they’re breaking out of the normal box, and doing a rather odd tour this year. They’ve picked 2 cities to have a “residency” at. One of them is my town, Asheville, North Carolina.
9 shows between [...]

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This evening, sitting around with my wife and our friend Jeff, he mentioned seeing a crapload of emo kids outside a local music venue. I immediately asked what an emo kid looked like. My wife suggested the kids from The OC. Jeff described what sounded to me like followers of The [...]

Galactic played in Asheville on Sunday. My friend C.D. and I hopped into the car amidst a snow storm, and proceeded to the venue. During the trek, we saw several 4×4 trucks sliding around along with a cop car skipping along laterally. Deciding that we probably stood a slim chance [...]

If you use WordPress and occasionally link to an mp3, you’re creating an implicit podcast.
Poking around, I realized that iTunes would consume the RSS 2.0 feed from WordPress as a podcast, and load up the first mentioned mp3 in a given entry as the podcast. If you link to multiple mp3s, alas only the [...]

Joe invited me to blog at Music Sucks. And now I’ve started. But going back to wanting to earn karma for all of my blogging, I’m now reverse-syndicating my blog posts from Music Sucks. They all end up back here within an hour or two of going live at Music Sucks.
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After listening to radioioJam for a few days, I realized that one song kept catching my attention. That song was Horses by the John Popper Project.
Horses has a mid-eastern flavor to it in terms of melodic intervals and phrasing from John’s sometimes spooky voice. In general, it’s more processed than your typical organic [...]

So my friend Joe is one of those crazy cool Contegix kids.
He’s a music maven and has set up a new blog for music stuff, Music Sucks. He’s particularly proud of his most recent interview with Alex Chow of Islands.
Joe’s also invited me to be an occasional guest blogger, so any of my future [...]

Just heard Diamond (link to mp3) by Bootcut (”The World’s Greatest Hammond and Drums Duo”) on the radio this afternoon, and thankfully they’re progressive enough to have quite a handful of free MP3s available on their site.  They are definitely in the general style of Medeski, Martin & Wood or the Benevento/Russo Duo, but seem [...]