We Cavedwellers had Cybroinica play bass for us along with an old pal Bobby on drums. Here we are performing Mandibles- Right Again there was no sound man and only one mic. Fun! https://youtu.be/MXr_w2xNPS4 This is awesome - "Right Again" was one of the top songs in the whole tournament so I'm glad...

Micah- ... The bass line is probably my favorite part. ... Thank you! I very consciously decided to do all live instruments for this song. Since I don't own a bass, I had to borrow one, and this is actually the first time I've recorded with an actual bass rather than sampled/synth MIDI bass sounds....

I'm unsure if I'm supposed to send in a vote for this thing; if I get a vote #1 is definitely going to Faster Jackalope, imo it's not even close. No offense intended to the other three, except to Third Cat. Screw that guy. I just think this challenge was... challenging. It's very difficult to write...

Here are my reviews and rankings, cross-posted from the official site , so that you may more easily yell at me about how wrong I am. PREAMBLE This was a very difficult round to evaluate. It seems to me the judges were tasked with ranking each song along three independent axes: 1. Similarity to the t...

I had to go relook at my Phillipso lyrics, I thought I was just improvising about a broken up relationship. However, the Kavanaugh angle totally works. It's all around, so I'm sure subconsciously it's an influence, but that wasn't what I was really thinking about. I did wonder if I might be reading...

I wrote a protest song in response to US immigration policy: http://micahsommer.bandcamp.com/track/let-them-in It's available for free download but if you buy it, I'll donate my cut to immigration advocacy groups. Last week I got to sing it at a religious conference in front of a few hundred people,...

CoT might be cursed, but I've gotten two pretty good songs out of it, so I would likely participate!

Here's my version of Regina Spektor's song "The Calculation", for Micah. Thanks for picking a bunch of great songs, Micah! I really liked all four of them, and hadn't heard any of them before this. This is great, VV - I love your synthpop take on the song! Glad you liked my entries - it was to come...

I have a sneaking suspicion there are more than a few TMBG fans around here.

Their new album "I Like Fun" is out, and I think that much of it ranks among the best music of their career. They are in fine form.

Here they are playing "I Left My Body" on Conan:

Just watched the season 2 finale of The Good Place. It offered up... not another twist exactly, but certainly an exciting turn, which bodes well for season 3. Assuming the writing and acting stay at the quality level we've seen (and I don't see why they wouldn't) I'm very very excited for season 3.

Wow, I'm kind of glad I didn't get it together to submit for this one. There are some heavy hitters in this fight.

I thought technically you couldn't actually increase the real loudness beyond a certain amount (e.g. the output of your audio file is 0db the entire time). You can increase the "apparent" loudness up toward that real ceiling though, I thought, which is what has been happening. And the way to do tha...

Ah yes, the old “science proves that pop music is garbage” claim. And now five for the price of one! I checked out the BBC link (https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/fb84bf19-29c9-4ed3-b6b6-953e8a083334) and strap in because I have some thoughts (or feel free to ignore this entire post). 1. Slower a...

Here are my picks!
Micah Sommersmith

TEGAN AND SARA - SPEAK SLOW

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DAR WILLIAMS - IOWA

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REGINA SPEKTOR - THE CALCULATION

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VIENNA TENG - NEVER LOOK AWAY

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I have really enjoyed this show through its entire run. I think its recent darker turn is a necessary consequence of taking seriously Rebecca’s unhealthy behavior throughout the show. And the increased focus on secondary characters goes along with her increased awareness that other people have their...

I would participate. A January schedule would work well for me since my November and December were pretty crazy this year.

Congrats to Minty Handy! Welcome back. Congratulations Minty Handy! Good songs all around. Just out of curiosity - do you tabulate the votes immediately before posting the results, or is there a lag in which votes might not get counted if they are too late? I voted just I think a couple hours befor...

Chumpy - Good solid tune although it doesn’t stick very strongly in my head. Nice guitar playing, lead and backing vocals, etc. The snare drum feels a little thin and monotonous, but other than that the production is solid. Some clever lines, especially the one about that damn high note in the nati...

Here's mine: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B12kc ... J1NUIyekww

Micah Sommersmith

Chumpy wrote:sometimes you can be a real jerkatorium

I learned from the best.

Technical difficulties resulted in me sending my entry over a day past the deadline. If it appears in the fight, it is thanks to the gracious and generous Fightmasters. If not, I have no one to blame but myself.

In the Jukebox, I noticed that chronologically, "Flamethrower" is listed first, before the actual first fight, "Golfpunk Drives a Cadillac," even thought the dates are correct. Also, not that I'm complaining, but Jerkatorium feat. Micah Sommersmith are currently listed on the Jukebox with 4 wins out...