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Category Archives: Musicians of Sound

The New Way Forward

This morning, the shape of the projects we’re working on became clear to me.
Writing pop songs is an odd pasttime, or maybe it’s just that my approach is odd. The songs originate as fragments, which are then combined with other fragments, and the embryonic song then either dictates the direction of the lyrics or [...]

Musicians of Sound

So last night we played a show.  I guess it went alright, but Eloise and I left immediately after our set because we’re the sort of people who need to go home and go to bed on a weeknight.
We left so quickly, as a matter of fact, that I didn’t get to hear any reaction [...]

The Princess is in which castle what now?

OK. First, the really, really good news. At practice today I came one step closer to achieving a lifelong dream. Actually, it was more like 500 steps.
Djerzi’s written a bunch of new songs for Musicians of Sound, and he expressed an interest in playing guitar when we play them live. [...]

There are two things happening right now

I’m kind of excited about both of these things, but don’t have the time or the energy to explain the excitement.
1. We’ve started recording Tough Nuggets. Here’s the tracklist:
“Christmas Over Pearl Harbor”
“Motherfucker Like Marvin Gaye”
“Killing Civilians”
“The Traitor Speaks!”
“The President Speaks!”
“It’s a Beautiful Day in Washington DC”
“Monster in the White House”
So yeah: [...]

The Music Model of the Present

Disbursement of the Roboctopus cds is well underway. I believe the only folks who need their complimentary copies at this point are My Friend Dave and Official A–they’re on their way, dammit!
As much as I want to believe that cds are essentially wasteful and irrelevant and that the digital future of music should be [...]

Title

The work in progress currently known as “the Summer Album” now has an official title: 
“Delightful Young Man: Musicians of Sound”