I made the song “Jeff Tweedy Turd” for the 2007 album “Zabada – the Album!”. I always had a video in my head for this one and last night I finally made it. Jeff has played several solo shows at Marytr’s in Chicago over the years, making my fictional purloinment of said fecal matter a [...]
Vinyl is back! Around 10 weeks ago I published a new website: http://wax.fm which aims help you “find your favorite albums on vinyl both online and in the real world”. With just a little bit of promotion on a few social media outlets, primarily Twitter (follow @wax_fm), I have been quite happy with the initial [...]
Here’s the native French speakers translation describing this creative project: Here is a remake of the “Thriller” song that I’ve entirely recorded with my own voice, using 64 acappella tracks. There is therefore no instrument, synthétizer, beatbox, or even to sampler, but only the sound of my voice livened up with Reverb and slight Chorus [...]
Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I’ve been burning the candle at both ends lately. Hell, if a candle had three or four ends, they’d be burning, too. I’ve always felt like starting a post like the awesome Jim Anchower, and now I just did. Stuff [...]
A couple of weeks ago Mary and I attempted to get tickets to the sold out Flight of the Conchords show at the Chicago Theatre. There were tons of people looking for tickets and extra tickets were very scarce. Mary was successful in obtaining a single ticket, which she sacrificed to me and I went [...]
Trent Rezor released his new Nine Inch Nails record, Ghosts, today under a Creative Commons License. Nice! I honestly haven’t paid much attention to NIN since the early 90′s. I’ve got Pretty Hate Machine, Broken and The Downward Spiral which are each great in their own way, but haven’t bothered to pick up any NIN [...]
There’s a great story of Jonathan Coulton on Yahoo: How To Become a Rockstar. Jonathan is a kindred spirit in that he’s a software geek … and he quit his job to be a rock star. He eventually self-made himself into an artist making more money as a musician than he did at his software [...]
Hi, this is Billy Mays for Zabada the Album, now available on vinyl! This posting is a joke. There is no Zabada on vinyl and Billy Mays is not my pitchman. I just needed an excuse to work Billy Mays into this blog and shamelessly get you you go listen to the song Zabada! Happy [...]
Nephew Jim and I wrote and recorded the beginning of a new original song this weekend called “Devil Dolphin”. Jim wrote most of the music and played all of the guitar. Last night I made a whacky video for it: This morning in the shower, I came up with some potential silly lyrics for it [...]
Here’s nephew Jim playing Zabada after several more weeks of practice (now with more monorail!) This post was brought to you by The Simpsons Season Four featuring the great “Marge vs. the Monorail”
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