what is going on in your musical life

girls rock! (mission statement: Building socially just community with girls, transgender youth, and gender non-conforming youth by developing leadership, fostering self-esteem, and encouraging creative expression through music.)

We are practicing to play a gig in Louisville @ the Mag Bar with a band called Dead Country Gentleman from San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Drummer f-ed up his back, so since drummer had been down for a month, I had been working on some other tracks we had cut with the guitarist. Practiced last week and got a couple more till the show.

https://youtu.be/w8lYfQXd8sY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2HXjqVGQk

take two

i've been building my musical network on soundcloud, the platform of the future

https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/unfollow

karl you should make a bandcamp

yeah, i guess i'll probably have to move over there pretty soon. it's probably all for the better, anyway

Put out a release

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/constant-light-lie-of-the-lands

https://constantlight.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-unhip-observations-2

and stoked to be planning live shows again after a lengthy absence...

did any of you ever use mp3.com back in like 1998 when it was just open to anyone who wanted to have a band page with mp3's
those were the days

It was a cool place for electronic music at the time. I had a couple ambient tracks end up on compilations in Europe from there. I had a CDR up there for sale back then.

I joined a local dad cover band. Concept is to do lite rock stuff with a lot of vocal harmonies. It's my first time doing vocals in a band - I have a pretty good voice but never really used it.

Fun! Enjoy.

Me, I just finished a dreampop/space-rock project and I'm extremely happy with how it turned out.

This band is made up of childhood friends living on opposite coasts, so we only had a week. We emailed and dropboxed demos back and forth, but ultimately we had one rehearsal, one afternoon in the studio, and one 20-minute live set - all in about six days.

I played drums, a bit of mandolin, and contributed lyrics. Don Zientara of Inner Ear Studios, here in Arlington, made my decidedly subpar drums sound pretty good.

https://soundcloud.com/theageofairships/sets/2017a

I think "Trillion-Ton Iceberg" and "Rotary Motion" are highlights. I like the sound of the intertwined male and female vocals.

I joined a local dad cover band. Concept is to do lite rock stuff with a lot of vocal harmonies. It's my first time doing vocals in a band - I have a pretty good voice but never really used it.

Actually was just thinking of you since a bass player I know told me his son is starting at your alma mater this year.

wkiw man alive's daddy doo-wop group

finished mixing our album!

also our DX7 went completely bonkers

got replaced by a man :(
long story that i don't feel like telling but that is the gist of it. the synthpop project i was playing with changed into a rock band while i wasn't looking and my playing isn't what the project is looking for. oh well!

that sucks. i thought of you while listening to the new Trap Set ep, where Joe interviews a 105 year old woman who is a total bad-ass.

bless her forever
i need to catch up on my trap set eps - they almost always make me feel better when i feel low

ugh what bullshit! Your powers will be properly appreciated elsewhere (I mean they already are since I know you have multiple irons in the fire but you know what I mean). You don't need 'em.

it's fine
it just happens to be what's going on and i would rather not have to talk about it any more than i already have
moving on!!

Best of luck to you in whatever you do LL

I'm getting more comfortable with finishing tracks and then deciding that they're not good enough or not right for a release. I think part of that is giving them dumb demo titles and not giving anything a real name until I know it's a keeper. Also just having faith in the idea that I can come up with something better, instead of feeling like making anything is an unrepeatable miracle.

Just be careful that you don't get so comfortable with it that you hesitate to ever release anything. I've, uh, heard about that problem.

Otm

giving them dumb demo titles and not giving anything a real name until I know it's a keeper

Like children in the days of high infant mortality?

haha exactly

Can I talk about my friends' musical lives? Because one of them was recently cast in a Broadway show and was on Good Morning America this morning.

Wow. I assume you are not going to reveal anymore details to me at this point.

Actually was just thinking of you since a bass player I know told me his son is starting at your alma mater this year.

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, August 18, 2017 8:32 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I'll let you know when/if a show ever materializes. It's really hard to get rehearsals together since we all live in apartments with kids that go to bed early. We're literally resorting to doing our next one in the park.

lol -- wrangling people with kids to rehearse is def no walk in the park :)

i have bounced back after my moment of adversity
dropped a new EP yesterday
setting up shows for my other band for the next few months
maybe someday i will be on the today show (again, lol)

Honestly it's been super fun to sing again after not really doing it since middle school choir. Sort of got over my hangups about it recently. Have been practicing a lot in the car.

i have bounced back after my moment of adversity
dropped a new EP yesterday

this makes a good couplet

so, uh, where can we hear this EP?

oh man i know the feeling of getting over the hangups and also the singing in the car
i got caught jamming out to "ramble tamble" once and i feel it was a turning point in my ability to ngaf what people think of my singing

https://arcpair.bandcamp.com (it's the EP)

also there is no singing on the EP

Just be careful that you don't get so comfortable with it that you hesitate to ever release anything. I've, uh, heard about that problem.

Ha, no danger of that, putting something out into the world is an integral part of what I enjoy about the whole process. In the past I could have had better quality control and been a harsher critic of myself though. I was always doing the best I could at the time, though, so it would have been a choice between releasing that or putting nothing out, in favor a theoretical time in the future when I would be able to make a better record.

Hard to say which would have been 'better', but I've always chosen to put the work out there and hope some people appreciate the progression.

critiquing yourself into silence seems like a bad way to be an artist
let it rip imo

We had a rental car for 2 months because we had a lot of trips to eastern PA we had to make (I just returned it day before yesterday ;_;) and man one of the takeaways is that if I want to start writing music with lyrics/singing again, all I need to do is drive a lot. I got so many lyric/vocal melody ideas driving that thing.

critiquing yourself into silence seems like a bad way to be an artist

Definitely, and I wasn't being completely literal; obv I do put things out.

LL, your EP is fun! Very reminiscent of some Fugazi-esque tones. Good stuff.

I've done two new song sketches in the past week that I'm actually very proud of.

One is fake Cure: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-74
And the other is something else I'm not quite sure yet; it's already seen one big revision: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-75

Thank you! I like sounding fun. I also don't get much (any) feedback, and it was generous of you to listen.

fun fact: I recently used a Rat pedal that used to belong to Fugazi.

That is also, indeed, quite fun.

My old band from the '80s and '90s (though in a new lineup) did a digital single of a couple of our new songs:

https://thenephewsandaniece.bandcamp.com/album/the-only-black-mouseketeer

Church choir gig starts up again tomorrow. I have no idea what we are singing beyond Handel's "Swell the full chorus"

i recorded something for the liam gallagher precover comp, the first song ive done in months. i just need to record an album already.

this was the last song i did: https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/inheritance

tbh i was feeling myself vocally, but writing lyrics that are not traditional love songs is such a challenge

My old band from the '80s and '90s (though in a new lineup) did a digital single of a couple of our new songs:

Ha, I recently properly digitized the 1996 cassette of my old emo band. Might end up online at some point.

Thank you! I like sounding fun. I also don't get much (any) feedback, and it was generous of you to listen.

I like Arc Pair btw! Still play Grammar sometimes. Will catch up with rest of thread.

this was the last song i did: https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/inheritance

tbh i was feeling myself vocally, but writing lyrics that are not traditional love songs is such a challenge

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This is a good one! I like the melody/lyrics/singing. Superfint.

thanks Sund4r! i really do appreciate every scrap of feedback and it makes me happy that you enjoy something i helped to make!