Archive for November, 2006

So Divided

Thursday, November 16th, 2006


…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s new album, So Divided, is another one of those records that, when you listen to it, you just can’t wait to see the songs performed live. AYWKUBTTOD, as we shall refer to them from now on for the sake of carpal tunnel syndrome prevention, is [...]

Hopeful for Dec 7

Thursday, November 16th, 2006


It’s 2:00am wed night/morning. nobody told me putting out the Earlstown Winter record was going to make for such late nights. But anyway, the artwork and CD masters have a flight booked to Ontario tomorrow (today) to be pressed. You can always get a head start and reserve your copy now, or, we are very [...]

New Music Teaching Technology

Monday, November 13th, 2006


In the cacophony of mashups, widgets and collaboration tools demoed at the third annual Web 2.0 Summit here, one rang out as the biggest crowd pleaser: a musical instrument instruction web app with a golden ear and infinite patience.
Called In the Chair, the application encourages music students and budding guitar heroes to play along [...]

Easy Roads, Easy Skies

Monday, November 13th, 2006


Mastering has been completed as of yesterday for Earlstown Winter’s, “Easy Roads, Easy Skies” album and the artwork will be completed today. We should be ready to send it off for pressing this week, and are looking at announcing an official release date very soon. You can preview four of the albums songs here.
John [...]

Now I can play guitar, too!

Monday, November 13th, 2006


Developed by the mad scientists over at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology in Geelong Australia, the t-shirt has textile motion sensors integrated into the shirt that track elbow movements. The upshot of this is that the shirt translates your legendary air guitar stylings into music
Bad news: T-shirt makes your air guitar real guitar – [...]

National Product? National dullsville…

Monday, November 13th, 2006


National Product draws the listener in with warm, acoustic stylings, strings and heartrending hooks. My favorite song is “Allison” one that lyrically goes deep into the eye the hurricane of a heart’s ache, for in that eye, the heart is filled with hope, surrounded by the complexities and shades of gray that are often evident [...]

You know Blue Rodeo is one of Canada's greatest when…

Friday, November 10th, 2006


When you think of Blue Rodeo frontmen Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, it’s easy to picture Cuddy as the Paul McCartney to Keelor’s John Lennon. Cuddy is best known as the sentimental crooner of the pretty hit ballad “Try”, whereas Keelor is most recognized as the wounded, cynical voice of the moody “Diamond Mine”. As [...]

Holy Crap, Christopher Walken to play Ozzy?

Thursday, November 9th, 2006


Ozzy Osbourne will become a lot creepier, as Christopher Walken’s set to play the singer in an upcoming film.
Walken will portray the reality television star and rock icon in an upcoming biopic about Motley Crue. Vince Neil announced that Walken would make a cameo in a film version of the Motley Crue biography, titled The [...]

Earlstown Winter Update

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006


earlstownwinter.com is up and running. Make sure to check out the new site for all the information on the latest Worn Records recording artist. 308 Productions and Earlstown Winter have been working together, putting the finishing touches on the soon to be released “Easy Roads, Easy Skies” album. We have designed a very classic looking [...]

Mogwai – Zidane Soccer Film Soundtrack

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006


Mogwai’s soundtrack to a soccer game turned into a feature film hit stores in the United Kingdom this week.
aversion.com/news/mogwai soundtracks Zidane film
I saw Mogwai live earlier this year. I figured they were passionate about soccer being that they were all wearing the same soccer jacket when they took the stage. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait [...]