Retro Thing is a great blog. I found this nice little piece on the Silvertone guitars that once came right out the Sears catalog. A cool piece of vintage kit that had a humble start as a not so cool basic consumer axe. Many artist got their start with a Silvertone guitar. And not mentioned [...]
Some how I don’t find this cheesy.
From Dean.
It not my favorite genre but I dig DJ /rupture. He produces music with nuggets from all over the place. Often hectic and crazy but often at the same time dubby and spacey. The thing I really like is that with his 2008 release the Uproot he also released the Uproot: [...]
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
The Archive is a nice little documentary on the largest record collection in the world. If you love vinyl this is Mecca. I thought DJ Shadows secret record stash was big this is unbelievable. This is both amazing and sad that little care about it. If [...]
So, I am going old school today and talking about a person most of have heard but most likely don’t know it. Mike Watt is a man that has takend a winding road thorugh indie music meeting many many people along the way.
Until recently I really had no interest Digitech pedals. I guess their marketing never really work on me. Maybe it is the name is reminiscent of digital. Not very appealing if you like analog goodness. I like my digital Holy Grail pedal which does a good job of faking spring [...]
I have been out of it for about a week. People in more northern and less deserty places might find it hard to believe but last eight days ago i got sun burnt. The water was supposed to be cold so I was only going in for a moment but [...]
I thought I would start off with some gear porn. You can find some more images of the tape recorder above here.
Cycling 74 has this cool article. Expand Your Guitar, Vol. I hope there is a vol. 2. think of the craziness max/msp could do to live guitars. It is a really good [...]
Worst of Music Making Tech or Keytars and Bad Software
The Internet seems to really be good for a few things. Besides porn and bad homemade videos it seems to be good for lists. I used to love ‘em, list that is, but all the Internet lists seem to have burned me out of lists. So, I have resisted as long as I could making [...]