February Album Writing Month commences in a few short days. If you’re a musician, lyricist, kazoo player, whatever, you need to look into this. A collection of like-minded maniacs get together online and each try to write 14 songs in 28 days. Some merely post the title. Some post an elaborately produced MP3.
Whatever your ability, you owe it to yourself to check out www.fawm.org. Drop in and say hi to Scott O. Clamp and Bri N. Clamp!
Summer of 2009: two patient developers and one immediate punch in the face.
I’ve like a number of albums this year, but only two have blown my mind. First up, Future of the Left’s incredible Travels With Myself and Another, which is released nationwide tomorrow.
The Animal Collective’s Merriwether Post Pavilion starts a winter music roundup from the Martin hi-fi.
Here is my top 20 albums list for 2008!
Finished at last with a overwhelming sensation of Umbrage! Continue Reading…
A gently refurbished 50/90 song represents November: The Long Fade. Continue Reading…
A simultaneous ode to loneliness and to two great movie studios on different continents, October’s belated song-of-the-month is called Toho and Ealing. Continue Reading…
In a mad dash to the finish of 2008, here’s a reworked 50/90 song called Patsy Tipton. Continue Reading…
EDIT – Saturday, September 6, not Friday as written before. Sorry!
There will be a fall FAWM Midwest Songwriters Showcase on Saturday, September 6th from 7 to 11 p.m at Ginko Coffeehouse in St. Paul. This great show will feature Traitor Mouse, Missile Wings, Static Captain, Dapple Throat, Todd Norem, T-Spoon, as well as your good friends in Autoclamp. The show is free to the public! Thanks to Eric Distad of Traitor Mouse for putting this together.
Hope to see you there!
If Basia Bulat came to guide us into spring, and these kooks were here to take care of our summer needs, then the Walkmen have arrived to usher in autumn with a powerful new album. I could listen to this song over and over. In fact, I just did. Continue Reading…