Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

And where have I been exactly?

Monday, June 18th, 2007

My cyclical habit of post some, hide some repeats once again, but at least with good reason.  Since my trip to Chicago, I’ve been working almost non-stop to design and build-out a new music blog for the fine folks I work for with the intent of launching today. On top of that, I was trying to coordinate plans for the annual trip to Bonnaroo, this time with credentials provided on behalf of another music blog that would get me press and photo privileges.

As of this afternoon, both of these are now done deals. You can pay a visit to the LimeWire Music Blog now (expect tweaks and a revised logo — the name changed while I was off on the road) and expect to see and read all about my Bonnaroo experience over the next few days at BrooklynVegan, here, and my Flickr account.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some content creating to do….

Out of Control, and then some

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Reggie Watts: a vocal virtuoso

Ever since a chance viewing at a long ago concert, i’ve been a big fan of the vocal stylings of one Reggie WattsMaktub front man and Soulive contributor. This loopy, beat box driven, a cappella composition entitled “Out of Control” just makes me like him all the more.

And while I’m talking music, let me drop some more music-related linkage on you. Nutritional content may vary:

  • Maktub’s 2001 recording and 2003 release Khronos should be in any soul music lover’s collection.
  • While cleaning through the numerous blog posts I started, yet never posted, I found this article about the release of Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood’s “Out Louder“. Months after getting said album, I’m still digging it.
  • As of this moment, Clutch tops my Last.fm account as the most played band, year to date. A lot of that is due to great tracks such as “The Drifter” on great albums such as Jam Room.
  • My old boss Christian threw me a link to this funny — yet catchy — little ditty: Code Monkey (MP3).

Grab some of the above and make your ears happy.

A different breed of music videos

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Two comedians with their takes on two different genres of music. Brian Posehn does Metal By Numbers while Aziz Ansari shows us the world of an Indie Marketing Guru.

Change, change, and change again

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Back in February, one of my favorite guitarists — Scott Metzger — took a break from his gig playing with New york rockers RANA to link up with trance-rockers Particle.

Well, scratch that for now. From the Particle web site:

It’s with great sadness and surprise that we recently learned Scott Metzger will no longer be a member of Particle. Last week, Scott received unfortunate news of an unforseen family emergency that requires his long term attention. The combination of Particle’s rigorous touring schedule, west coast rehearsals, and upcoming studio projects make it impossible for Scott to commit to both the band and his east coast family.

Not the best of news for Scott, and I wish him and his family the best. But that doesn’t mean that the man won’t be playing. The aforementioned RANA is playing a special Rocks Off Boat Cruise show on the East River to Shea Stadium. I’ve got plans for that afternoon at the moment, but I think that may be changing….

Catching up and cutting down

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Well, first off, the haircut turned out not to change my outward appearance all that drasticly. About 3 inches or so trimmed from the ends and it’s still down a bit below my shoulders. At least it’s a little cleaner looking. Still, it was nice to sit in that barber’s chair again. That fresh cut feeling is the one thing I miss about having short hair. Shots will show up sooner or later, though tellign the difference will be difficult.

As you may be able to tell from the sudden bursting of content here, I’ve finally got my desktop system up and running with some consistency again. For some reason my G4 tower — the same one I threw a ton of cash and a great many upgrade components into — keeps forgetting it’s startup drive, which usually translates into lost evenings for me trying to either fix the issue or wiping things out and starting over. This time around I’ve found a plan C to fix things, so keep your fingers crossed that this is is the last time I have to do any major fixing for a while.

Tonight is also catch-up night over at The Outer Edges, as I posted pics from the last two shows I went to (The New Deal and Helmet respectively) and as I write I’m in the process of recording episode 16 of the posdcast. Only two weeks between episodes! See waht a broken ‘puter does to your recording schedule?

Also, I’ve come to the decision that I might want to shelve my freelance projects this winter so I can concentrate on my own things. Outside of the work I’m doing at Lime Group (which will start to see the light of day this month), I feel like nothing is getting done. Lesson to learn: don’t spread your schedule too thin, or else you won’t have enough time for anything.