When one of the musicians in the band I play in complained of the drummer being loud, he started playing with drum-rods, which are described here.
In Germany and in Switzerland, drum-rods are expensive. The ones we found locally cost 23 Euros.
The drummer decided long ago to spare himself from paying that ridiculously marked up [...]
The next installment in the Weezer saga has hit the stores (or did so a while ago). I used to complain about CDs costing about thirty bucks in Switzerland but for this opus I consider that price a real deal.
Weezer have been mainstream now for fourteen years, half of my current lifetime and maybe a [...]
In order to cover your tail when requested or requesting to sing at a karaoke gathering, here are a few tips. I do recognize that watching people botch their performance is most of the entertainment of the entire act of kara-okaying. But to not be on the laughing-stock side of the fence when [...]
Hi all,
I just went through all of the songs and licensed them using a creative commons license. Do a wiki on that term if your interested in its definition. Before, a musician had to send an actual CD to a copyright organization who (supposedly) registered the work and administered the copyright. That [...]
I hereby christen the first draft of our online music store of our tunes, “b-tunes”.
http://www.branderson.net/store/downloads
The fact that I programmed almost everything myself*, however, means that broken links, wonky files and general mistakes in the programming are inevitable. I continue to be a beginner at this stuff. Send me an email and I’ll fix [...]
Its a drag buying a laptop which is obsolete in X years and whose hardware is impossible to upgrade.
A step in-between a laptop and a desktop is to buy a small desktop, a flat-screen and the typical external components (along with the indispensible external harddrive), and pack into a suitcase. The only thing potentially ‘missing’ is a battery [...]
A long long time ago I sent a CD of brandermusic to the Service of Cultural Animation of the City of Mulhouse in France. The idea was to play in the nationwide “Fête de la Musique”, which is held in every town in France on the evening the summer Solstice.The people at the Service [...]
Last night we went to see Denmark’s finest multipart-harmony orchestral musical export, Efterklang (means “aftertone” in english).
They were really stunning, something like 5-7 people on stage, with an energy not corresponding to the petite-ness of the room.
The band’s singer spoke in perfeck American English. Made me want to stand up as yell, “get your own [...]
I was in a studio again on saturday, first time since mid-january.
probably the most fulfilling experience i’ve had in a long while. do you know what its like to hear the ideas on a recording that you’ve had in your head for 8 months? there were no ego-clashes, no sound-engineers wanting to rewrite the music, no chaos… [...]
