Gorby’s Barbershop Quartet insists they did not form on purpose. They say the group assembled itself one afternoon when four men reached for the same chair, missed, and instinctively harmonized their apologies. A chord locked. No one sat down. History was made. Continue reading
janice (always spelled lowercase) isn’t a revival, a tribute act, or a reconstruction. She’s a frequency — a voice that shows up when a singer stops trying to survive and starts telling the truth out loud. Continue reading
Worked all night organizing & reviewing song inventory. Will play same at today’s zoom meeting, see you there! Continue reading
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.
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