Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

Random Album Cover

Discovered via Dan and Kim, a process to make a random album cover, complete with random band name, random title, and random artwork. It goes like this:

Your band needs a name. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and the title of the first article is your band’s name.
Your album needs a title. Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3, scroll [...]

CD Sales Down, LP Sales Up

“I think at this point people are just fucking with the record industry as a whole.”
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Congrats to Doughty

Mike Doughty has been sober for 8 years as of this past Monday. I say congrats to him.

I know this disc is “rare”, but…

While searching to try (in vain) to find a copy of an old 7″ from a local band in my high school days, I discovered some donkey selling Chimark’s Fifteen Fingered Man EP via the Amazon Marketplace for $100.
I realize there are probably no more than a couple thousand copies of this disc at most, [...]

Dear Sports Illustrated

That’s ok, we didn’t want to actually play the remaining 136 games anyway.
Love,
The Chicago Cubs.

Woodrow Wilsons tonight at O’Brien’s

Folks, I am seriously excited.
The Woodrow Wilsons are playing with Harris tonight.

Chris and I have a long and storied history with Harris. Some of you may recall Center of the Earth. Center of the Earth played many, many, many shows with Harris. When Harris had some members leave the band, Jon and Jim joined forces [...]

This Weekend’s Shows

As mentioned, The Woodrow Wilsons played two shows this weekend. Both were generally a good heap of fun. Friday was Blastfest, which essentially consisted of the Whitehaus moving itself to the Cambridge YMCA and having a hoot. Sets were short and it was pretty much like a hit-and-run barrage of bands and [...]

Rock Shows

In lieu of having anything of interest to actually say, I’m going to promote this weekend’s Woodrow Wilsons shows. Friday at the Cambridge YMCA and Saturday at Razzy’s in Somerville. Please do come see us play our “orchestral pop”, as The Dig deemed our style to be.
Check out the WW’s myspace page for [...]

This Film Is On

Briefly, I wish to mention my band.  For those reading who are unaware, I am a member of The Woodrow Wilsons.  Generally, I play drums (with brushes), though I do play ukulele on a song.
set up to record some basics.
Anyway, lately, and rather suddenly in my mind, we have gone on a really strange tangent in [...]

Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar

My glorious Telecaster, &c.
A couple of nights ago, I set up my guitar amp and effects pedals in an “always ready” state. This is the first time in probably 5 years that I’ve had an arrangement where I could just pick up an electric guitar and play it. It’s pretty fantastic.
Maybe I’ll actually [...]