Archive for May, 2006

Daytrotter.com

13May06

Woah. I just found this pretty awesome project, based out of Rock Island, IL (”The name of the city is not ironic,” they say) called Daytrotter. Touring musicians come in and record music, they put it on their website for free. And they have an illustrator who draws pictures of the musicians, just for the […]

Yelle and Gnarls Barkley: Musical Crack, vol. I

13May06

I’m feeling compelled to post some music, as these couple of tracks here are rather infectious and I think the only way I’ll get over them is by getting upset that they’ve become oversaturated in the collective listening pool. So, here goes:
First we have Yelle, hailing from Brittany, France. I guess there’s some sort of […]

I have a PA!

06May06

As in, public address system. It’s kind of crappy, and the speakers almost definitely have their tweeters blown, but nonetheless I can now practice playing music at louder volumes! I played along to m83 for awhile and then to Lightning Bolt for one song. Let me tell you, playing along to Lightning Bolt, it’s an […]

BallzOutTour! Report #2

01May06

It’s been fun. Some twenty or shows completed, two or three to go before the long drive back to Bloomington and I resume frantic work on the half-dozen projects which need to get finished some time before Summer.
At first I was feeling kind of let down about playing a lot of smaller shows. On one […]