thursday 2008.07.24
not that i'm sufficiently qualified
mehan jayasuriya and i wrote a fairly long article together about our experiences at a radiohead concert a while back. (spoiler: it was a total disaster for him). i'm particularly pleased with this one because it breaks away from the usual format of concert reviews.
monday 2008.05.19
taking this show national
i'm now contributing to a new popmatters mp3 blog called sound affects. check it out if you are getting tired of the whole writing:music::dancing:architecture situation -- you know, given that pictures are worth a thousand words and all. songs must be worth a cool million, and i get to actually post mp3s there.
monday 2008.05.13
nine inches
my most recent popmatters assignment was a review of the slip, the second major digital release of 2008 from nine inch nails.
monday 2008.04.14
blue man goes west
my latest bit at popmatters is a review of a recent performance by blue man group. they have also introduced cool new author pages where you can see all my articles at a glace.
thursday 2008.02.15
monkeying around
a beta version of the monkeyclaus online music store is now open for business. check it out -- there's tons of cool music that you won't find anywhere else, and i had a hand in setting up some of the back-end audio functionality.
saturday 2008.02.02
versus, indeed
chasing silver now has a sequel called andy's return, and the whole shebang is being broadcast on versus (formerly the outdoor life network) on saturdays.
- sat feb 2, 1:30pm est
- sat feb 16, 1:30pm est
friday 2007.11.02
full of hot hydrogen
and now for something completely different: i've been asked to lecture at washington and lee university next week on the various audio media formats and their implications for the record industry. vorbis nerds unite!
friday 2007.10.12
control
popmatters binge, part three: apparently disliking lucinda williams is a contentious position. popmatters now says i'm their "resident fan rankler" and ran a counterpoint essay!
monday 2007.09.17
brace yourself
more popmatters. they seem to think it's a concert review, but i'm not so sure. judge for yourself.
monday 2007.08.20
persona non grata
popmatters just posted my review of last month's charlottesville performance by the b-52's.
monday 2007.07.09
symbolism run amok
my review of last month's battles show at the satellite ballroom has just been published on popmatters.
tuesday 2007.06.19
your fifteen minutes are up, sonny
well, the material in question has been pulled from the dmb web site -- probably because the hook decided to put that little blog news blurb into last week's print issue. awesome.
friday 2007.06.13
under the table and... thieving?
in what i suppose might be construed as the latest good news in my continued feeble attempts at building a writing career, i've been plagiarized by the dave matthews band. it appears that they decided to flesh out their overview of the local music scene using an article i wrote for the hook way back in 2005.
oh well. i'm sure they'll get more use out of it than i will, and maybe the musicians will get some web traffic as a result. i suppose it wasn't doing anybody any good tucked away in my archived files.
attribution sure would be nice, though.
friday 2007.04.20
truthfully i'm still at a loss for words
since i grew up in blacksburg, the recent virginia tech murders hit close to home, and i wrote the closing essay in the current issue of the hook. please take a moment to read it or reflect; either will do.
wednesday 2007.04.18
anti-anti
monkeyclaus has posted an article i wrote about the recent antibalas performance at starr hill. one unique aspect of this particular writing gig was that it also involved getting a live recording of the show, so be sure to check out the audio, even if it's just for the first few minutes -- that intro riff is fantastic.
friday 2006.11.25
same as the old boss?
the electronic musician web site is kept a few months behind the print edition, so they've only recently added the online version of my lossy encoding article.
friday 2006.11.04
rocks + muffins (in an unfavorable ratio)
i have finally been published on mcsweeney's.
twenty-seven twenty-six more things to do before i die.
wednesday 2006.10.18
tryptophan for everyone
my interview with michael ivins of the flaming lips is now up on the monkeyclaus web site.
sunday 2006.10.08
barely missed out on dunkaroos
i've just been informed that one of my submissions has been accepted for eventual publication on timothy mcsweeney's internet tendency. it's not up yet; stay tuned.
monday 2006.09.18
i can just imagine the letters
the article on lossy audio encoders which i wrote for the october edition of electronic musician hits subscribers soon and should be on newsstands shortly.
i was particularly amused by the lead image they used to represent the topic.
there are more on the way, hopefully along with an expanded set of writing samples for your perusal.
saturday 2006.05.21
eight fish nine fish
oln still loves chasing silver and has scheduled more broadcasts in may and june.
scheduled broadcasts:- sun may 21, 12pm est
- fri may 26, 8:30am est
- sun may 28, 12pm est
- fri june 2, 8:30am est
- sun june 4, 12pm est
- fri june 9, 11:30pm est
- sun june 11, 12pm est
- fri june 16, 8:30am est
friday 2006.05.08
josten's for the new millennium, methinks
i added my scoring samples to myspace under the "videos" section. the content is the same as what you'll find on this site, but the clips are stuffed inside some sort of stream-happy flashamadoodle in case you don't want to download the files hosted here.
friday 2006.03.10
your sanity may be audited
a video clip containing the title sequence from chasing silver can now be found on the music page.
saturday 2006.03.04
one fish two fish red fish view fish
chasing silver got extremely high nielsen ratings when it was broadcast on the outdoor life network in february. as a result, they are going to move it to primetime in march and have also signed on to show it through april and may. here is the new schedule.
primetime:- thurs mar 30, 10pm est
- thurs mar 30, 10:30pm est
- sun apr 23, 12pm est
- fri apr 28, 8:30am est
- sun apr 30, 12pm est
- fri may 12, 8:30am est
- sun may 14, 12pm est
- fri may 19, 8:30am est
sunday 2006.02.05
as contagious as the plague (but way more fun)
chasing silver, a documentary for which i wrote music, will be shown on the outdoor life network in february, divided into four installments. (and since i wrote the opening theme song, that's fine with me!)
scheduled broadcasts:- fri feb 03, 8:30am est
- sun feb 05, 12:00pm est
- fri feb 10, 8:30am est
- sun feb 12, 12:00pm est
- fri feb 17, 8:30am est
- sun feb 19, 12:00pm est
- fri feb 24, 8:30am est
- sun feb 26, 12:00pm est
monday 2006.01.02
the people have spoken?
the article about greg howard which i wrote for kyndmusic continues to rampage across the internet like a digital kong: it was their most popular article of 2005. i'm surprised, of course, but who am i to argue?
wednesday 2005.11.30
now with actual functionality
media samples are finally up on both the music and writing pages. more to come, if you are good and eat all your vegetables.
wednesday 2005.11.23
humbug
still working out the details of the video clips, but the latest in the slow trickle of uploads should help put you in the christmas spirit.
monday 2005.10.31
respectfully, your highness, booyah
"forest fire," a film by three local filmmakers for which i wrote some music, just took second place in two of the three categories at the 2005 adrenaline project.
sunday 2005.10.23
so long, and thanks for all the butterflies
i am still waiting for my horde of video clips, but in the meantime, keep yourself amused with stimuli. this was the first scoring project i did, an independent film by my good friend ian.
wednesday 2005.09.28
diversify your portfolio
the sesshin web site is finally up. i'm quite annoyed by the fact that it looks so much better than mine.
sunday 2005.08.21
two by two
i missed the boat as far as updating this to include the article on greg howard which i wrote for kyndmusic, but an email i got from big boss man dave gives me a good reason to revisit it: as it turns out, that was their most popular article of the entire summer. we beat out bonnaroo, the north mississippi all-stars (take that, red light!) and VICTOR FREAKING WOOTEN.
i've also been hired to build a web site for james mclaughlin's excellent new sesshin project. look for that online soon. it seems that this little web disasterpiece of mine is actually slick enough to land me a wee bit of paid work. anybody out there in tv land remember my geocities days?
sunday 2005.07.05
identity crisis
check out my supa fly new net stylings. awesome.
this is how i spend my saturday nights. not awesome.
saturday 2005.07.03
such a window as this
my article about greg howard should soon be up on kyndmusic.
thursday 2005.06.09
the fleas of a thousand camels
hook music issue hits today. go get it. also available in the real world.
sunday 2005.06.05
happy web site day
alright. finally we're live with this mammajamma.
i am now the music editor at the hook. the annual music issue drops on thursday 2005.06.09. talk about a trial by fire. yeesh.
well now. this is rather bloggy, now isn't it? hmm.