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Slow but sorta sure…
With writing the new mainstage show, album progress has definitely slowed to a thick and syrupy-sweet pace. It’s great, however. I was moving at crazy lightning speed–and for probably, zero reasons. I always have to remember that with music it’s better to slow down and just, notice shit. (I keep listening to this track and [...]
Roger Knox – Koorie King of Country
Bloodshot page for Roger. http://bloodshotrecords.net/knoxsongs/ With some nice quotes about the project from a few of the other musicians.
No, but really…
I am getting so excited for these tunes to be done. There are a lot of people to thank for helping me get where I am with everything…. and I think once it’s done and once my schedule is a little more clear we’ll have a party/release show for everyone who was involved. MONDAY NITE [...]
Baldwin pt 2
This album is nearly done. Just need to finish a bit of recording and mix. Here’s a rough mix of one of my favorites so far. To recap, the whole plan was to just record a bunch of covers with my favorite musician pals. 10, to be exact. Pick ten songs to play with [...]
Junk of the Hearts
What’s the last Cardigans track you listened to? Change that. Make it this one.
Girlfriend is Better
…Is my least favorite Talking Heads song. Maybe not out of their entire canon, but definitely my least favorite track from Stop Making Sense. The lyrics are weird and repetitive, it’s boring to sing, the music is awkward (and not in that good-awkward, david-byrne’s-a-weirdo-genius kind of way). HOWEVER. Being my least favorite tune, it’s still [...]
Weightless
A sneak peek from the new album. Unmixed and un-Alan’d. This is a good song for cold weather. Bethany Thomas and I worked on a tune today. It’s not ready to be bandied about so I put up this one. Some might say, also not quite ready for bandying. Between writing music and making chicken [...]
Drone Operator – Live
Another video from our show with Roger Knox at the OTSFM. Jon, Jean and I playing a stripped down version of Drone Operator, our recently released 7″ single. Buy it here. Thanks to Nate for filming!
Roger Knox at the Old Town School of Folk Music
A couple of videos from our recent show with Roger Knox, the Koori King of Country at the Old Town School of Folk Music. 10/11/12. “The best music is border music, the sound of cultures colliding. In the late 20th century Black Australians assimilated Country & Western, that whitest of American musical forms, to tell [...]
Fiesta: the sun rises on the Costa Brava
2 days in Barcelona. 1 lazy afternoon in Sabadell to buy a dress. Train to Llanca. 13 mile hike along coastline and through the hills to Cadaques. 2 days in Cadaques. Ferry to Roses. Bus to Figueres. Almost miss train back to BCN. 4 more days in Barcelona. Time moved slowly. We sat in cafes. [...]
Baldwin
Just re-ordered one of my favorite books. I almost said second favorite book, but it’s really just my second favorite book by James Baldwin. The first: Another Country, the second: Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. It feels weird to even say it’s my second favorite anything, because I only read it once, [...]
The Almond Toss Game
Intermission, backstage. (peep that slo mo…)
Baha’i Temple
Beautiful bike trip to the Baha’i Temple in Wilmette with Mike, Steve and Katie. 34 miles roundtrip. Stopped for lunch in Evanston at Addis Abeba. A completely empty, but delicious, Ethiopian place I’d been hearing about for years, but never made my way to. A shared pot of Ethiopian coffee kept us moving, even against some [...]
Hideout Block Party – Waco Bros, Kelly Hogan, Wilco
…is this Saturday. 9/15. Like aaaalllll day. What’s your excuse? I love the Hideout, and any party they throw is usually pretty killerrrrrrrr and cool and also the best kinds of weird. Last year I sang with Jon and 60 aging, perverse, Welshmen from Canada to promote his new book/cd. There were a lot of [...]
“This Could All Be Fine”
Just a quick demo I’ve been working on this week. Anyone have ideas for a video? It’s sort of about complacency, and art-making, and travelling and, copping out but that being okay, and summer distractions and lovely distractions and just general distractions that keep us from doing whatever it is we’re meant to be doing…and how [...]