Big news today. And no, this is not a late April Fool’s joke. After a long sabbatical from the songwriting world, I’m proud to announce my first collaborative song with Sean Boyle. By collaborative, of course, I mean that Sean did 98% of the work and the total time of my [...]

 

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As I complete my latest tune, I’ve started to expand my general production sound. The detuned leads have grown stale for the time being, and I’ve been experimenting more in chillout and Drum n’ Bass sounds. The sheer difficulty of DnB production is recognized by many in the electronic music production scene [...]

 

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My blog postings have been unable to keep up with Sean’s prolific output as of late so I’ve created a separate page featuring a flash player and mp3 downloads of all his songs. Fans will note that there are four brand new fantastic songs here in addition to an older one that was never [...]

A few items I  found interesting:
The musical genius of Jens Lekman {slate.com} - I love his new album.
Helvetica DVD {uncrate.com} - Excellent documentary for those who take their fonts (too) seriously.
Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy {techcrunch.com} - Discusses stats on piracy of Radiohead’s new album.

The Arcade Fire released a cool interactive flash “music video” for the song Neon Bible. Try clicking on different parts in the video and see what happens.

Neon Bible flash video [via Pitchfork]

While waiting in a store, I saw this very cool music video in which Gnarls Barkley is inserted into music history. They use a great selection of clips from Duke Ellington to the Velvet Underground. The song is called “Smiley Faces.”

Full sized version [youtube.com]

Tony Wilson passed away earlier this month. For those of you unfamiliar with Tony, he’s an influential co-founder of Factory Records, the label from whence sprang the bands Joy Division, New Order, and the Happy Mondays. Furthermore, I consider him one of my personal “spiritual leaders.” For an enjoyable introduction to [...]

Listen to Wilco’s entire upcoming album Sky Blue Sky on their website. It’s far more “chill” than any of their previous albums.
See Beirut’s fantastic new music video for Elephant Gun.
Discover some of my favorite new music from the U.K. namely Klaxons and Lily Allen.

The new Internet radio page I’ve added has already received its first rave review: my roommate listened to it all day at work. However, I must thank Last.fm, a social music site I’ve written about previously, for providing this capability.
I’m simply amazed - I don’t have to pay any licensing fees, upload music, or [...]

Below, check out the newest “electronic masterpiece” from my brother Sean. I uploaded Sean’s previous song Creative Burst to the Podsafe Music Network and it was featured on an Israeli Electronica podast. So who knows, maybe he’ll be a big hit in Israel.
This time I didn’t want to leave out his equally [...]

 

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