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We’re #1
…well, at least on Google. Yup, our friend Mike pointed out this morning that this website is now the #1 hit if you google “The Dailies” This is a big deal to me. I remember Kristen, whom we are officially naming #1 Superfan, telling us in a post here that she had a [...]
What is Indie?
What is Indie Music? This is something that’s been stirring in my noggin for a few months now. According to Wikipedia, from whom all good and perfect gifts flow, Indie Music is defined as, “a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and [...]
Back in the Booth
Erica’s back at it as I type, working on The Tempest. No rest for the wicked… we go to mix August 25th. T-minus one month and 2 days. Game on.
Well, It’s Official:
The record is going to be a hit. Our kids like it. We went to pick them up Saturday morning, and ended up taking them for a night out behind the Orange Curtain. Erica’s folks live in San Diego, so we always meet at the Irvine Spectrum. Lots of parking, scores [...]
Vocal Week – Wrap Up
Well kids, it’s been fun. I’ve gotten to enjoy our little daily chats here. I sincerely appreciate your encouragement through the week. It’s a lot more fun to sing and create when you can have a little instantaneous feedback. We feel like we got some really solid work done this week, and at [...]
Vocal Week – Day 5a
Well today is definitely different. Our friend Zack, who shot and edited all of our You Tube footage during Eldorado week, and is going to be working with us to create some sort of longer piece of media to tell the story of this record, is here shooting footage in our little home studio. [...]
Vocal Week – Day 4b : Signal Chain
Ok, so I mentioned that Erica rocked this song earlier today, and here’s our evidence. I love this song. I think I mentioned that before. There’s something that just does it for me on this one. Perhaps it was because it was written in one sitting with no revisions, perhaps because [...]
Vocal Week – Day 4a
Making a record is hard, hard work. Erica and I have noticed this in the past, and I’ve said it before on this blog, but sometimes it seems like non-musicians have an idealized idea of what the life of a musician looks and feels like. It’s hard, taxing work. 13 songs written. 13 melodies and lyrics composed. 13 [...]
Vocal Week – Day 3c : Goin’ All In
So… All In. I had Stick, our mixing / editing guru take a pass through it to tighten up the ginormous guitar stacks and drums, and I have to tell you, this song is going to rokk yer sokks. We’re gonna be huge in Alabama. I have a feeling that this tune [...]
Vocal Week – Day 3b : Now What?
Rock and Roll. Pausing periodically to cough, Erica channeled her inner Gwen and put some pretty stanky rock vocals down on a song called Now What this hot afternoon. It’s a tune that was written first in the process where I was trying to write a new song every three days. The lyric and [...]