St. Vincent "Marrow" on Jimmy Kimmel
Posted on | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off on St. Vincent "Marrow" on Jimmy Kimmel
“Marrow” is an extremely important song. I don’t know why. But it is. The originality, if nothing else, is off the charts. I admit I am not all that big a fan of most of St. Vincent’s music. So much of what she does is overwrought, I feel. 
But then, she’s clearly trying to push boundaries. But christ, I am terrified of her. She is everything to music that I will never be: a multi-instrumentalist, a composer, a fantastic singer. I think I can do words better, and maybe, eventually, melody, but that’s it. St. Vincent is the anti-STETSON. I plunk away at my crappy acoustic guitar for days and days and still suck.
I checked around to a few performances on YouTube of “Marrow” and listened to the studio version, and for some reason nothing compares to this performance on Jimmy Kimmel. The sound is balanced, and the performance is spectacular. Not to mention she looks fucking fantastic. I have watched this video so many times.
I am so scared of her…
(LATE UPDATE: The fucktards at ABC appear to have made them remove this video. And naturally there is no way to even view it on the ABC website. Great strategy, assholes. That video is the most I’d ever watched ABC for any reason.)
Youtube to the rescue
Posted on | November 17, 2009 | Comments Off on Youtube to the rescue
When the tabs just don’t cut it — sometimes you find a video that shows you exactly what you need to know.
Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit plays an acoustic version of Modern Leper
The Playlist in My Mind
Posted on | November 16, 2009 | Comments Off on The Playlist in My Mind
Lori McKenna – Paper Wings and Halo
Nick Drake
Posted on | November 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Nick Drake
I just found out who Nick Drake was.
And now I’m trying to decide if it’s wonderful or tragic that the first time I ever heard him was in an extremely memorable Volkswagen commercial.
It’s probably both at the same time.
grateful/disorder ships for pressing
Posted on | November 14, 2009 | Comments Off on grateful/disorder ships for pressing
I’ve shipped a master of my first album, grateful/disorder, for duplication. 100 CDs will come back to me, and once I have them, I can ship them off to CDBaby and the fun begins.
It is remarkable that I produced this entire album for almost nothing. The whole thing was recorded in my apartment on a BOSS digital 4-track recorder which I got off eBay for $90 two years ago. 
Every track was mixed down and mastered (I’m being generous with that word here) into Audacity, a free sound editing package. Every sound you hear ran through cables my cat chewed on.
No wonder so few people can make money in the music business anymore. The same advance in technology that allows us to make quality recordings on the cheap allows people to gain access to recordings on the cheap, or even for free. As long as there are thousands and thousands of people willing to use their evenings and weekends to make their music, the market will be awash in just enough quality material that our social bookmarks can sort through it all. We almost don’t need full-time musicians anymore. We just need a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, and the technology to sort their output.
I suck as a producer, by the way, but I’m learning.
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