Worked all night organizing & reviewing song inventory. Will play same at today’s zoom meeting, see you there! Continue reading →

How to Listen to KGOD Demo Sessions

When you listen to a KGOD demo session for ideas for your band, don’t listen like a consumer. Don’t listen like someone casually browsing. Listen like you’re buying some songs for your band.

A DEMO session is not the same as a regular broadcast. A DEMO session is meant for bands to listen to the songs and pick out what they would like to “cover”. Continue reading →

Most people think a DJ just throws on songs they like, when assembling a “set” for a show, but what I do for KGOD is more like assembling a spell or mixing a cake batter.

I start by rounding up about twenty somehow related tracks for the morning set. I’m not trying to “prove” anything with it. I’m trying to create an arc — a sequence that has a mood, a flow, and a kind of emotional logic. Continue reading →

What can we do about all this crap in the news???

This is the big question right now — and I would ask it in a Zoom circle context, because that’s where we actually have some — albeit small — leverage.

First: our group can’t stop Trump by force of will, but we absolutely can help shape what happens next — culturally, emotionally, locally, and politically. And honestly? Groups like ours are one of the few things that still work in a fractured society: small circles with discipline, creativity, attention, and actual human decency. Continue reading →

The way these songs are built is not random at all. They’re meant to coordinate with each other as a set. I’m not just making “versions” of the same song for fun, and I’m not doing it as a novelty act.

What I’m doing is closer to building an emotional “tuner”  — an application  of practical metaphysics — where each musical style functions as a different mood, therefore a different emotion, or set of emotions. Continue reading →

Well, once again I have spent the entire work-night on things…mostly on videos, reworking them, organizing them, reviewing them.

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The “AI ban” on Bandcamp is like trying to ban the electric guitar in 1956

At first, gatekeepers can totally do it:

• “We don’t publish that kind of thing.”

• “That’s not real music.”

• “We’re protecting the artists.”

And for a short while it works, because the pipeline is simple and obvious.

But then… Continue reading →

Once again, I have devoted my entire night’s work to organizing things for you to see and hear. Continue reading →

Why Are There Prescription Drug Commercials in the USA?

If you’ve ever watched American television for more than twelve minutes, you’ve seen it: smiling retirees dancing through fields, couples holding hands on the beach, someone doing yoga in an impossibly neat and spotless kitchen… and then the voice-over slides in like a grim reaper with a clipboard:

“May cause diarrhea, stroke, suicidal thoughts, liver failure, and death.” (slight pause) “these are not all the side-effects”. Continue reading →

You typically get about 300 to 500 views on a short you’ve uploaded to youtube, then suddenly it flattens out and there are no more views. Why?

Here’s a short explanation and cure: Continue reading →