Damn that's a fine song. I'd listen to a whole album of covers of that song. It's fertile soil. The mix of minor and major modes is heartbreaking, the lyrics are sweet and dark at the same time, and it's all baked into such a deceptively simple ditty with no chorus. Just verse-with-hook, verse-with-...

Let's say I have an "album" with 10 tracks (WAV and MP3) and front and back cover art and I want to put it on the web for anyone to grab. I have access to web-server space that will allow PHP/mySQL. Is there a good template for this? Or some little-known-but-awesome free service? I've Goog...

BLT! Thanks! I always mix on $20 decent open-air headphones for all those reasons you cite (plus it doesn't bother the family if I'm mixing at night). But for some reason (and it could be my ears) the low end always sounds muddy in the car. Maybe I just got lucky this time around, but I found that g...

Every song I've ever recorded has disappointed me the first time I listen to it in the car. Every single time. I have actually told my family to wait until we get home before you hear daddy's song for the first time, though I never say why. And what good is a song that sounds crappy on the best and ...

Thank you but by all means let the dogs play.

Though I did give myself a black eye recording this song. It's that fucking good.

Hostess Mostess is in. It's already done. I'm afraid to tweak it anymore because I might make some of the awesome fall out.

Just to bump this up in case anyone is in the Ann Arbor area next week. The show is going great and is a light, witty, sweet way to spend an evening: outdoors in a pretty park with a colorful, catchy musical going on live in a newly refurbished art deco bandshell. For $10 a ticket. 3 more nights: Th...

I started songfighting in 2001. Daughter 1 arrived in 2003. Daughter 2 arrived in 2005. Daughter 3 arrived in 2008. You can graph the decline in my songfighting productivity as a function of that.

If I recall correctly, someone here participated in the experiment Franck describes in this NYT article . It was years ago so I'm not going to dig through the archives to make sure. Anyone else remember a "rate the indie songs and pass along to your friends" website? I remember noticing th...

If you're in the greater Detroit area this late July/early August, come see Mostess play Ladslav Sipos in an outdoor production of "She Loves Me!"

I tried a Linux set up a while back (Ubuntu). I got Ardour working after dealing with something called JACK. I got my hardware set up right and got to recording. It was sheer nonsense. There were these tiny buffer under-runs that would happen once every few seconds because the OS would ignore the in...

We're working on an entry. Here's the first sketch. And because it sounds like Dan Fogelberg on valium, here's the second. Ugh. It might not be worth it.

Ding! Hostess Mostess is in with a wah-wah guitar solo. And 8 vocal tracks. And live drums.

That cover art is amazing!

This is why I like GarageBand: even a crummy vocal take can be normalized, pitch- and time- corrected a tad, . Oh? Can it? Do you use that stuff? I haven't. Not out of any sort sense of it is "cheating" or anything - I know my vox very often need pitch or time correcting - I have just nev...

The one fight I've ever won by myself as RangerDen (Vest Factory) was recorded with the laptop mic in my Smackbook inside my closet. I clipped twice. I apologized with reverb and effects and mysteriousness. Goes to show that there is a sweetspot between songwriting and production in order to place ...

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Reminds me of something Peter Gabriel would do. Which I'm a fan of.

The only reason I record anymore is to try to recapture a moment of the joy I felt when I discovered Security.

Feels like old times around here! Only the brave will post OtM's name: hungry troll is hungry.

Too bad I didn't get my entry finished past the I-wonder-what-this-would-sound-like phase. But here's a taste of what might have been...

Imagine if Hostess Mostess made an album consisting of songs from their SongFight! catalog---all re-recorded with solid performances, all mixed carefully and mastered properly. If you have any opinions about such a thing, I have 2 questions for you: 1) What is the ideal song list? 2) What tracks wou...

Spintown wrote:Sammy Kablam did another NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT review for this fight:

http://spintown79.blogspot.com/2011/09/ ... ement.html

That was great! Thanks for the link.

We are so in. You guys better bring some game, 'cause here comes Hostess frickin' Mostess.

Ding! I'm in. I screwed up the title. Deal with it.