what is going on in your musical life

My band Atomic Thrillride is making it's long trip to play some gigs next weekend as we are going up into NE Ohio to play again in Canton at the Buzzbin on next Friday 6/27 and making our first sojourn into Cleveland to play the Spitfire Saloon on Saturday 6/28. This will put us up to 15 gigs by the end of June, where we only did 15 all of last year. We got 2 more shows booked in July and then a festival in KY. on 8/3 then we are going to start doing some writing and recording. April to June we will have played 11 shows and only practiced 3 times.

If anyone knows of any good rock/punk/metal dive bars in St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, North Carolina - pass on their names. I'm looking for the smaller clubs 75-200 people than the bigger touring band places. Those are some of the towns we want to road trip to play at some point. I can pass on tips about Louisville, Indianapolis and a few other clubs.

i need a tip for small metal clubs in louisville!!!!!

memphis: try P&H Cafe! or murphy's (people aren't cool tbqqh but it's easy to book). there's also the courthouse co-op.

Wick's Pizza (Highlands)
Metal Monday @ Highlands Tap Room (They do some other metal shows.)
Jim Diamonds (bigger club, does smaller metal shows through week)
Phoenix Hill

I finished this album I've been working on for a long time, I'm really happy w/ it. At this point if I were to describe it I would say it's like, uh, sample-based free-jazz-y or sample-based classical stuff. I watched a RBMA interview w/ Caribou dude from a long time ago, and it fits his description of what he was doing like ten years ago, but it doesn't necessarily sound like that work of his because I have different interests when it comes to composition maybe (it probably has a closer affinity to Koushik's stuff from ten years ago, but even then the compositions unfold differently, and the sampling's done differently). Anyway, I'm working on album art now (having never worked on any visual art before), and sent it to a cousin for some mastering. I have no idea what to do with it after these last few steps are done. I can't hope to release it because it's all sampled and it isn't the 80s or 90s anymore or w/e and even really small labels that made their name from sampled work are running away from uncleared stuff, but whatever happens, I learned a ton doing this and it sounds amazing. I hope I can use it for something down the line other than giving it to my friends (which isn't really the worst outcome in the world).

link? :)

I don't have any streaming links, just got it up on dropbox, I'll email 2 you if that's ok

Would like to hear this, too.

I think I ilx mailed it to you emily, the followup screen after the mail screen was blank so if for some reason you don't get it then let me know and I'll do it again

Awesome, thanks!

Doesn't seem to have come through to my email. Am pretty sure I'm looking in the right account.

ah, fuck it did the blank screen again, email me at aj_lo✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ (w/ no underscore) and I'll send it over

apologies for this scooby-doo-chase-scene-like routine to get this I'm not ready to throw the traxx up online yet

ah fuck

a j l o l i o @ y a h o o

sorry, I'll stop shitting up this thread, anyone who wants this, just send me an email and I'll try and get it to you

sorry not sure if it was this thread or another where yall were talking about sampling, but i just made a song off a very short vocal sample (barely recognizable i think) and i'm wondering how you handle these situations if you want to put the song up on bandcamp. not saying i would be selling it per se but would definitely have it on an album with my name on it. is a credit all that's needed?

you don't even need to credit unless you want to (and for me this comes down to if the sample is supposed to be obvious and the track is closer to a remix, or if you're just using it as a sound source and flipping it), it doesn't matter unless there's money or official licensing involved imo.

Cool. That's what I was hoping.

first gig with electro-funk outfit on fri

still writing lyrics for three of the five tracks, also been informed that PA sucks

stoked

playing drums in public for the first time in 12 years tonight

lucky you!! have fun!

awesome!

thx, im slightly nervous cause weve only practiced twice but i also dont care that much lol

it came back really easily. like riding a bike tbh

who are you playing with? what kind of stuff are you playing?
someday i will have news for this thread

band called coffinwomb, usually he plays solo - crusty sounding garagey pop. he added a drummer and bassist for this show at our place tonight

cool! i'm sure it'll be a good time.

Last month I sprained my ankle three days before a show where I was playing drums, but fortunately, it was the ankle of my hi-hat foot and there was no hi-hat part in the music I was playing.

But if I had learned to play drums the "normal" way (where I played the kick drum with my right foot), I would have been fucked and/or in a lot of pain.

Band hasnt played together in 2.5 months due to combos of holidays, illness and plain old being busy.

Last night sucked balls. We were all flat, tired and couldnt remember stuff. Practice is So Important!

show was great tbh

Performed a couple of new pieces on the 13th. The show actually got reviewed here: http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2014/09/25/a-cathedral-for-cathodes-jacousmatic-vol-2-lights-up-ottawas-electroacoustic-scene/ . Dude was totally right about my squeaky pedal: WD40 time. Hopefully, I'll get good recordings done by the end of the year. I plan to present a fugal classical guitar piece that I wrote over the summer at a more low-key 'new music open mic' event towards the end of the month. Gotta be a theorist before then and get a paper together before a conference in Mississippi next week.

played trainwreck of a show last night ... one of those "so awful it will eventually be the source of much hilarity" type shows.

my oberheim is broken again ;_;

What kind of stuff do you play, sarahell?

my oberheim is broken again ;_;

is it the crutis chips?

this band is sorta no-wave noise/avant-garde stuff

playing our first ever london show at the Brixton Windmill on Halloween - pretty exciting!

watched 'Frank', the film, last night and realised my band is pretty much the same as his.

Also, that sucks, crut.

playing our first ever london show at the Brixton Windmill on Halloween - pretty exciting!

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Real cool to see you for a second the other night Sund4r

heh, sorry emil.y have i been inadvertently spamming you?

Nope. Check the other bands playing.

You're Slum of Legs?! I had no idea. Well that's a turn up for the books and now I'm even more irrationally nervous than ever.

Hehehe. It should be a good show, I reckon.

this is great - looking forward to meeting you and your bunch. could even be a good excuse for an ilx FAP.

started a really loud band and quit all my other bands (except argentinum astrum)

first spiritual ensemble gig of the year on Friday

also the last original founder told us she's planning on retiring from the group after our 20th anniversary concert in Dec so she can concentrate on her education contract work with the White House, which was basically just flat-out bragging IMO

how many people are in your group?
also did you ever find out who stole your wife's pitch pipe?

Right now, 9 (2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors, 3 bass/baritones); I think we are also courting three new ppl (sop/alt/bass). We're also losing a tenor, who is 75 and about to retire to Philly to be closer to his kids, so maybe we should be actively seeking a tenor (we've got a friend who might do it but he tries to do a bunch of shows plus his job has him traveling all the time so he may not be able to commit to the group).

The other baritone stole my wife's pitch pipe and insists to this day that he didn't, he just magically has two now. It's kind of funny.

i have wondered about it! i dont know why