Yesterday I overheard Murray on the phone and he said: “This is the album I’ve always wanted to make.” I think he was still on a high from the killer string session. Wednesday - the first day of mixing - was spent tracking at Mountain City. From noon to 7PM. Murray kicked out the lead [...]
Click to see Murray’s introduction of the Broken Speaker. Sorry the video is so…dark (literally and metaphorically)…you actually can’t really see the speaker at all. All you see is a pack of strings bouncing on the patched up cone. You don’t see any of the duct tape! That’s the best part. At least you get [...]
Check out page 57 of the April 2008 issue of “Canadian Family” magazine. Bottom left corner. Hilarious.
These past few weeks, Murray has been in the basement studio, poring over all the recorded tracks. He’s choosing which takes to use, re-amping things, experimenting with effects, comparing microphones, doing some editing, and on and on. He starts mixing tomorrow at the Hotel2Tango: Murray’s pretty comfortable there, and he’ll be manning the boards for [...]
Here’s a rad little review-ish thing about our last album, Gang of Losers, from the Whale In A Cubicle blog. I appreciate the sincerity!
Being Easter weekend and all, my inbox was empty aside from my e-mail news alerts and Malaysian spam. Nobody is updating their blogs, and judging from my stats, no one is reading them, either. So I decided to try and do some Easter weekend-ey, internetty type things.
My mom was in town for a few days, [...]
I don’t know how this happened, but I’ve become dangerously addicted to Perez Hilton’s celebrity blog. I’m not sure I condone what he’s doing (though I am thoroughly entertained), but from what I’m learning about paparazzi culture, most celebrities tell the paps via their publicists or representatives when and where they are going to be. [...]
On one of my drives I put the iPod on shuffle, mostly out of an impatience to decide what to listen to. Usually I prefer to listen to whole albums top to bottom - you know, the way they were created - but while driving, scrolling through hundreds of bands with a click wheel is [...]
I read this quote the other day, made by Victoria Legrand of the band Beach House:
“I think playing as a duo is a real benefit. It’s like starting with very little and working up gradually as opposed to starting with too much of something and too many directions and opinions. I think a lot of [...]
I talked about it before in my Corn Aggression post: the biofuel conundrum. Anyhow, if you want you can do something - something small but meaningful - to encourage sustainability and responsibility among our leaders:
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