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Looking through old external HD backups can result in finding some great songs I don’t remember writing. This was probably written with Buzz like 4 years ago. Otherwise, I don’t remember anything about it.

This is… baroque electronic dance rock? Well, perhaps. I think it will keep you entertained for 5 minutes, at any rate. There are a lot of things that go whoosh, a thing that goes ping, and rather a lot of things doing things near the end. …or, as one garageband.com reviewer put [...]

On the heels of onehalfjunco’s Lithium Spanish Flea, Jay-Z’s “Money Ain’t a Thang” sung to the tune of Boots Randolph’s “Yackety Sax”

I recorded my first band. ( Nessie James & The Unknowns) Was my first paid studio gig time. This is the 2nd mix of sorts. Still more to add. The vocals are James Mcgee dummy vocals. He is going to re sing it and add some lead fill. Basically fill the empty spots in more. [...]

A song I wrote about a trip to Texas with a girl in 1989. We broke up while we were there and had to drive home together. It was a pretty quiet drive! The girl in the last verse, who I was going to try to reunite with, turned out to be my wife.

A song both about being tired, that attempts to make you tired. In a good way. “I walk up to Teresa at a random time, and I go “Song subject, GO!” Then I count down from five with my fingers, as she babbles something out. This is why later you’ll get a song about [...]

A mashup of Nirvana’s “Lithium”, and Herb Alpert’s “Spanish Flea.” Made in about 20 minutes with Ableton.
Came home to find my wife humming “spanish flea.” I started humming the bassline and realized the first 2 bars of “spanish flea” are quite similar to “Lithium.” I had to cut ‘n paste to make it all fit, [...]

Just some music I just made just now. Ingredients: tapes, pedals, keyboards, computers and stuff.
Sound: Lo-fi dance-noise noodling, maybe Animal Collective-esque.
Around the 4:20 mark the music hits a pretty destructive tone, might be advisable to turn your speakers down then. Thanks.

This week: Jon Pareles reviews Rod Stewart’s latest release “Soulbook”; Ben Ratliff on “Stone In The Water” by Italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani; and Nashville based alt-country singer Will Hoge performs live and talks to Ben Sisario about how his recovery from a recent motorcycle accident influenced his new album. Sia Michel is the [...]

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