turn up the radio

Starting 1/1/2011 at midnight, I'll be launching an internet radio station mostly for my own amusement. With this, I'll be playing some of my music (released and not), my friends' music, and the music that influences me. This is something I've wanted to do for a while and I finally found some fairly reliable software to do it easily. So, more details to come in the next week but wanted to drop that update. There are some other things happening in 2011 and I'll slowly release more details as we move into the new year. Merry Xmas + Happy Holidays.

your love it covers me in a wave of fluorescent light

This year has been a lot of things but most of all it's been exhausting. In a week in November, I did rough & short clip demos of 30 songs. Below is a list of those songs. The album will tentatively be called "Vampires" not because it's trendy but because at times this year has literally sucked the life out of me. I'm hoping to have the 1st single/b-side ready soon.

• Anxiety
• Bad
• Beating Heart
• Bedroom Window
• Breakdown
• Butterfly
• Complete
• Contagious
• Control
• Conversations
• Crucifixion
• Damaged
• Dear World
• Deliverance
• Downtown Lights
• Escape
• Fluorescent
• Glow
• How It Feels
• Just You
• Mess
• Neurosis
• Probably
• Recluse
• Scared
• Shine
• Slow
• Too Dark
• Villain
• Wake Up

Additionally, I've been slowly releasing some tracks from a double acoustic album I'm working on. More on that later but it's more or less going to be 26 songs with just voice and guitar. Most of them will be from the 100 demos project. That's all I've got right now but more coming soon.

it's getting too dark

Very short update because it's 3:40 AM and I'm tired...

In addition to the 11 tracks mentioned above, 8 more have now had rough clips assembled. The titles are:

• It's Bad
• Too Dark
• Wake Up
• Mess
• Downtown Lights
• Glow
• Damaged
• Breakdown

One more day of putting these roughs together and then I pick the ones that I'll expand upon. Already strong contenders and several that need some tweaks to be in contention.

One other thing to mention with this group of songs. The plan as of right now is to write long and edit versions of these tracks. The extended versions will be less available than the short versions. Additionally, I want to release multi-track remix stems for the entire album once it's complete. We'll see how that materializes but that is the plan right now. It might change, we'll see.

nobody gonna stop this

Been a while since the last post and so not sure where I should start. Let's start with "Revolving Doors." I decided as I was reworking songs from the past that the second half of the album needs to happen further down the road as opposed to right now. Not that I've lost interest but I have more pressing endeavors on the horizon. With that, the 100 Demos tracks are on ice for now as well. I'll get back to them but I am feeling this new project I'm working on. It's a big departure from what I've released to date. Influenced more by minneapolis & hip-hop than by rock it's going to be more of a dance/pop album. I started working on demos yesterday evening and to date here is a list of song titles of tracks in contention to be finished:

• Anxiety
• Beating Heart
• Bedroom Window
• Butterfly
• Control
• Conversations
• Escape
• Just You
• Neurosis
• Probably
• Villain

These 11 have been started and I have 22 more beats to go through tonight as well so I might end up with a large pile of tunes to work on. Taking a new approach on this particular project in that instead of starting one song and finishing it, I'm getting down the hook and most of the instrumentation and then I'll go through the full list and pick the 10-15 I like best and finish those. Outside of that, I released to some a demo of a Harry Nilsson cover from an eventual EP and I have also been working on an EP of John Lennon covers but when those will see the light of day I'm unsure.

Today is Thanksgiving and I just want to say I'm thankful to everyone who has supported my art this year. You all keep me going and I have nothing but love and appreciation for you all. More news in the next few days...peace out.

you're stupid and young and you just don't fit in

I had a lazy weekend for the most part but I did release 3 tracks: "Lampshade" from "Revolving Doors", "White Flag" from "Wristbreaker" and "Blackhole" from a new album I started working on that is currently unnamed. I also finished recording "Sadness" for "Revolving Doors." On the radar for this week are the following:

"Superficial", "Gone" & 1 or 2 others from the "Revolving Doors" list

2 or 3 from the "Wristbreaker" list

1 or 2 from this new collection of songs.

That's all for now. Posts of the released demos coming soon. Oh and I started working on a facebook page but it takes a long time to upload 100 songs. :)