http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/digital-archivists-plan-to-back-up-soundcloud/ If you have put music or podcasts or anything up on Soundcloud, make sure you have a backup. The service is under financial strain and though they assure everyone that nothing is going to change, we know that p...

Well, Tony Shalhoub is a fantastic actor, so it definitely had something going for it.

JB

The Sennheiser 650 headphones that Ken recommended are available for the next 12 days from "Massdrop" for $200 (regularly like $316 on Amazon).

http://dro.ps/b/wDOZ247/l

JB

I didn't measure my head, but the head tracking actually works! With no calibration! Headphones are my best option because baby so I think it'll be interesting to get good at mixing with them.

Mmm, wish those were on sale. I've had these 7506's since the 90's! I think I know what you mean about harshness-- I bought the Waves NX plugin, which has an EQ compensation setting for the 7506's, and when I engage it the sound gets much much more muted. http://www.waves.com/plugins/nx#introducing-...

Don't worry, they'll suck again soon enough

Do you think they're a step up from Sony 7506, Ken?

glennny wrote:

Pixars and Hybrid Cars

Come on man, Pixars and ELECTRIC cars.

Yeah I thought about that but then was going more for a Berkeley feel than Pali Alto. And Incouldnt think if anything that rhymes with "biodiesel".

Quiets and Riots
Songs and Bongs
Bears and Blank Stares
Starry Ploughs and Unibrows
Hippies and Dippies
Guitars and Wildfars
Light coats and Deep Throats
Pixars and Hybrid Cars
Recycles and Bicycles

I have no problem with artists restricting the formats their music is available on. Why should Tweedy have to put it anywhere he doesn't want to?

As far as I can tell, the free Spotify tier contributes to the problem of artists not being able to make a living.

For a few days back in whenever it was at Santa Cruz, we were all obsessed with the online video series "Yacht Rock".

They have a podcast: http://www.yachtrock.com

Each episode they create an arbitrary genre name and then pick songs that should go in it.

JB

Spotify defaults to shuffle, so IMO track order doesn't matter for new albums that you don't already have the order ingrained like the White Album. I don't even know how important it is to release songs all at once any more. But the systems don't make it easy to release an album a track at a time-- ...

Batman didn't have the meta-story that LEGO Movie did, and I thought it really suffered for that.

J

Man it was so boring IMO. The thing about staying true to the source material is that USUALLY people don't mind so much if you deviate and make an awesome movie. It's when you deviate and suck that people start getting pissed off (e.g. The Hobbit movies despite their box office success). If you stic...

lichenthroat wrote:I'm finding that although many words rhyme with "saw," surprisingly few of them fit well in my song.

What? Naw.

A disturbing number of you have made the "I-don't-get-the- Black-Days -connection-in-your song" remark (or variations thereon). Did you try reading the comment I posted on this subject in this very thread? I devoted 319 words to the topic. Too much to ask in light of having an instrumenta...

I saw this one recently:

https://mediagoblin.org/

MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.

At least nobody is still using MP3s...

Man they should tell every podcaster about this too eh?

JB

The John Benjamin Band is proud to present:

Hugo William Shane Nolt
6 lbs, 20 inches long
Born 10:49 PM Eastern, 5/5/2017
Sibley Hospital, Washington DC USA

We're having a baby(!) in May, so all bets are off for me attending this year. I just have no idea, and would say the odds are probably against it. Has to be a first time for everything eh? So I'll abstain from voice a location/timing preference. If it turns out that I can go, I'll go wherever it wi...

DOes it count if i'm delieriouds from fevre ?

The Ballad of Paco Del Stinko By JB Who has the licks That sunder all the chicks From their hard-won Self integrity? Who makes the jams That quiver all the gams At the first note struck With such alacrity? Who strums the chord That even him the Lord Can’t stop from shouting O great good god damn!? L...