Dead Meadow

Real good. Thankfully not that Jack White band.
It's like Earth meets The Black Keys with Sonic Youth singing.

Delicate Steve & Short Stack PCBs

Photo by Andrew St. Clair via The Brooklyn Veegan

I heard about Delicate Steve through a friend. There's not much info on the internet besides the hilarious press kit they put together. But that's not important. What is is that Delicate Steve's music is the kind of glorious slide guitar heavy sounds that I've dreamt of doing. Maybe most important: they use tons of pedals...like the Digi Whammy. Reminds me some of George Harrison, Stephen Malkmus, maybe an indie Derek Trucks--they'll definitely be worth following.

Also here's some new PCBs I made for sale: Short Stack OD/Fuzz    Hotcake-alike. $8+S&H

Benji Hughes

     I found out about the songwriter, Benji Hughes, after getting hooked on How I Met Your Mother. Ironically enough, he's from Charlotte and has a string of gigs at Snug Harbor starting on the day I discovered him.
     His style is reminiscent of Jonathan Richman, his voice sounds like Jeff Tweedy's at times, and sometimes the production reminds me of that on Gnarls Barkley's first album. There's a rumor that his 2nd album is in the works...I know I'm looking forward to it. Enjoy

FM-2

Bigmufffuzzwizz (from the madbean forum) and I are working on getting some Acetone FM-2 pcbs/projects together. I'll likely get some more hotcakes boards made too.

vacation listening:
The Beta Band
Modest Mouse: "TLCW" + others
The Mighty Imperials
Unrest- Imperial FFrr

Got My Wheels Turning

Here's some stuff I've come across this week

Very interesting study/experiment in music creation...where music creates and evolves itself with listener feedback
http://darwintunes.org/

See also: Sonic Charge "Synplant" soft-synth plugin. cool tool

David Lowery being a badass and revealing the Bystander effect we're almost all part of (--me included)
http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/

Titan's debut album FOR FREE

check it out. download it. spread the word
http://titanrock.bandcamp.com/
word

Project Studio set-up

Yamaha PM1000

     We helped an old punk rocker setup his studio today. Nice guy, it was fun--relics and all--still more to do.

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Snake? Snaaaaaaake!!