Archive for the ‘Den of Maniacs’ Category

Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer) + Damn Dirty Hippies

Here is an excerpt from Adam Payne’s new movie Damn Dirty Hippies, which I recently scored. This segment is an animation depicting a dream of one of the main characters, Katie. The song is Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer), which appears on my album Den of Maniacs; the song is edited for the [...]

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Marketer’s Rule of Thumb: Narrow Your Focus

My latest album, Den of Maniacs, has been out for almost two months now. Response has been slow (fewer reviews so far than any other album of mine by far), but mostly positive. One comment that I’ve gotten consistently, and which I think probably accounts for the slower than usual response, is that the album seems to [...]

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Den of Maniacs – Album Cover & Free MP3s

The official release date for my new album, DEN OF MANIACS, has been confirmed as March 23, 2010. In the meanwhile, here are two free mp3s and the album cover (left-click to listen, right-click to save): Look at Me (link no longer available) (in which I improvise a lot of electric guitar solos as a means of [...]

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Den of Maniacs

I wanted to do a quick post about my new album, which is in the final stages of creation before being sent off for duplication. It is in the process of being mastered by Mike Hagler at King Size Sound Labs in Chicago, and we’re preparing to do the cover art, which will again be [...]

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New Version of Fell (free mp3)

Here’s a new version I recently did of Fell, for my new album, to be released this summer (left-click to listen, right-click to save): Fell (Acoustic-Electronica-Shredder Version) (link no longer available) This is inspired by how I perform it in my live solo set, which includes a few guitars and a laptop. In this version there’s [...]

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Free MP3 Download From My Next Album: “I Want to Be”

Here’s a pre-mastering preview track from my as of yet untitled album due out this summer. The song is called “I Want to Be”, and is about my day job. The stream-of-consciousness arrangement is a metaphor for the dazed daydream quality office life induces. To listen, left-click; to download the MP3, right-click (or use the [...]

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The Next Album(s): Working Hard for the… how does that go?

I wasn’t planning to release an album this year, but a couple of weeks ago I started working on one anyway. I’m approaching it differently this time. Instead of the usual process of spending a year writing and recording songs, I’ll be doing this one in a couple of months. I’m also giving less regard [...]

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