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New Podcast Plan

I recently decided that unless I force myself to buckle down and release finished tracks on a regular basis I’ll just continue to have hundreds of unfinished tracks in my library (yeah, there are lots of them). My plan now is to release one song per week, offered up to you as a podcast. I was inspired by a post on createdigitalmusic.com about how an artists typically group songs and release them in album format, due to the fact that up until recently albums were the only way to reasonably release music. After all, releasing a record after every song was written would cost too much to produce,...
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Lab 24/7’s Lab de Loops Show: a Success

Thanks to Jonathan at Lab 24/7 for hosting a great party, and to everyone who showed up. To those who didn’t make it, you missed a great night of electronic and hip hop music courtesy of Elijah B Torn, James Forrest, and yours truly. The night started out with a PBR/burrito fueled electro-jam. Coming from years of playing guitar in blues and jam bands improv jams are nothing new to me, but electronic improving definitely is. I must say that it is damn fun. Later on in the night super-MC’s Geometree and Harlem L’s took to the mic to add their freestyle rhymes. All in all a damn...
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AC/DC Excel Spreadsheet Music Video

AC/DC released a new music video this week on their website. This is no ordinary video, this is spreadsheet ASCII Art! I know, spreadsheets aren’t typically mentioned in the same sentence as sex, drugs, and rock&roll (and neither has AC/DC for about 15 years), but this is worth checking out. Download the excel file here or if you’re feeling lazy just watch the youtube video below. ********************************************************* R O C K N R O L L T R A I N ********************************************************* THE WORLD’S FIRST MUSIC VIDEO IN AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET! *********************************************************
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The highlight of the last Presidential debate, the audience..

Probably the funniest article I’ve read about the presidential debates so far, this time about the debate audience: the bug-eyed lady, the old guy section, the bald guy section, the skeptical teen, the helmet haired kid, the penis haired lady. The debate itself was pretty boring, basically a recap of the first debate. At least they made an effort to make the audience entertaining Pophangover’s Debate Audience Analysis
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