Yearly Update

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Table Topics:
CUSH-​​Who in the hell knows… As men­tioned before Andrew and I have mul­ti­ple jams ready to go.  We just need a vocal­ist.  Last night I got a suprise in my email; a scratch vocal and some bgv’s on one of our songs.  It sounded great.  Hopefully before the end of the Mayan cal­en­dar we can share it with you.  Tentative title “Always Disapper”.
The Lassie Foundation-​​Who in the hell knows…  We are still in haia­tus.
CVSC-​​Kevin and I plan get­ting together within the next year to fin­ish some more songs.
Stranger Kings-​​A new project that I started with Herb Grimaud, John Hertzberg, and Holly Nelson.  We have started record­ing a song that should be avail­able for release in the next month or so.  What does it sound like?  Well I think that it sounds like the shit!

4 Minute Mile

The first track from the band CVSC, fea­tur­ing Campuzano and Kevin Castillo, is called “4 Minute Mile” and is now on Northern Radio and avail­able for pur­chase in the Northern Store.

New Music On Northern Radio

Check out the lat­est EPs by Telegram and Set To Sea.  You can hear every song from these two impres­sive debuts on Northern Radio right now. Just click on the drop-​​down playlist menu to select one of the artists.  Then go to the Northern Store and down­load “We Look And See” by Telegram and order, or down­load, “The Last Solid Ground” by Set To Sea.

Without Further Delay

The first incar­na­tion of NorthernTV is now play­ing. We have some lofty aspi­ra­tions for what NorthernTV can become but we have decided to bring you what can best be described as ver­sion 0.0.  This ver­sion is not the HD chan­nel full of com­pelling con­tent that we hope to bring you in the future, but we think it is a good place, and time, to start. Check out some videos by Northern Records artists, both past and present, along with some other video from across the web that we will be adding in the com­ing days.  Thanks for your patience.

Telegram — “We Look And See”

Almost 2 years ago, I was intro­duced to a guy named Nick, who had a very com­pelling voice and wrote some great songs.  Not to men­tion he was/​is a fel­low Star Wars nut.  Instant love, and we’ve been work­ing on stuff since then, fight­ing all obsta­cles man-​​made (self-​​made) and oth­er­wise.  We have released 3 songs, the first of a tri­ol­ogy of 3P’s, called “We Look And See”.  It is a great plea­sure to work with Nick, and the icing on the cake for me per­son­ally is that I got to play a whole lot of gui­tar and bass on it as well.  Yay for delay pedals!“Who You Are” is the old­est song, and went through a few ver­sions.  Tracked, retracked.  Sung, resung.  Its one of those songs that hit me as a ‘clas­sic’ on the first lis­ten.  Beautiful.“Planet Emily” arrived this sum­mer, and got remolded a bit by Barrett Slagle when he mixed it.  Thanks to power of mod­ern tech­nol­ogy, it got a much needed kick in the pants.“Sleeping In” came very recently, and blew me away.  Fast, loud, and a great melody.  And fuzz gui­tar.  Yay for fuzz guitar!More on the way.

Telegram “We Look And See” Now Available

The new 3 song EP from Telegram is now avail­able for down­load at NorthernWorld​.com. To buy “We Look And See”, their debut release on Northern Records, please click on or go to: store​.north​ern​world​.com

Telegram vs Nick

Late last night i went down to Northern’s stu­dio to work on some songs only to be hijacked by Telegram/​Nick record­ing a piece music that i can only define as art.  As a rule, of my own, i gen­er­ally don’t con­sider most music, includ­ing my own, art.  What i heard last night was art and it was hum­bling, excit­ing, beau­ti­ful, con­fi­dent, and very frus­trat­ing. What Nick and Andrew were work­ing on was beau­ti­ful and spe­cial.  It was frus­trat­ing because it was an uncom­fort­able reminder that there is no grace given to those who are lazy in Rock n Roll.  The lazy fail.c  

Summer Songs

New Music!A cou­ple of weeks ago, Telegram posted the song “Who You Are” on their Northernworld page.  We have been work­ing on this song for quite some time, and it has gone through many vari­a­tions.  In the form which has been posted, it includes yours truly on lead gui­tar and bass, Dylan on drums, Tysen on rhodes, and Nick play­ing gui­tar and singing (and cre­at­ing the ‘space’ sounds).  The basics of drums, bass and rhythm gui­tar were tracked live together at Northern, and then a long period of vary­ing over­dubs, start overs and redos com­menced.  It’s a favorite of mine, and I hope you enjoy it as well.This week, we have the first song from Leslie DuPre Grimaud, a track called “Raven’s Song”.  I had the priv­i­lege of play­ing gui­tar on this song as well, and even man­aged to squeek in the last minute use of my Convulsion Fuzz.  Eric and I have known Leslie, and her hus­band (some guy named Herb) for years and years.  Among other things, she fronted the only legit dark­wave band in the early days of the SoCal scene, and added the haunt­ingly beau­ti­ful vocals to “58” and “Never Enough” by the Prayer Chain.  She has hun­dreds of amaz­ing songs, wait­ing to go, which I look for­ward to being a part of​.So, finally, new music.  More to come, sooner rather than later.

These Are The Links

The Music Business is evolv­ing.  Thankfully.  While some peo­ple are fright­ened by this, oth­ers are embrac­ing it and charg­ing for­ward.  I count myself in the lat­ter party.These are the sites I fol­low in my Google Reader.  I highly sug­gest them to all who are inter­ested in how, why and where da ‘biz’ iz going.Ignore at your own risk.HypebotDigital Music NewsGerd LeonhardFuture Of MusicIndie Music TechMusic Think TankNew Music StrategiesThe Long TailTerry McBrideTech CrunchTech DirtKnow The Music BizDigital NoiseBillboard.bizWired:Music 

Time.

Time is always short.  And its never free.I run around chal­leng­ing peo­ple to look at their lives and rec­og­nize things maybe a bit dif­fer­ently, etc.  So, look­ing at my own life, I have had to face, yet again, the truth that:  judg­ing by hours spent, I am in fact not much more than a Music Editor.  While I fancy myself a Music Creator, Maker, etc., the facts state oth­er­wise.  While I have made some progress in this depart­ment, it is still not enough.  For me, or, any­one else for that mat​ter​.So, I refuse to let the sad­ness of this real­iza­tion slow me down, and in fact intend to charge whole-​​heartedly through my cur­rent work, and fight for a more real-​​time Creative future.I don’t believe I’ve men­tioned this yet, but if you are a per­son involved in Music Business on any level, then I highly insist you sub­scribe to a web­site called HypeBot.  They and a hand­ful of oth­ers like them are sail­ing bravely into the new waters of the unde­fined future of the ‘Music Industry’ (a term which has taken on an even more oxy­moronic mean­ing in the last few years).  It’ll be worth your time, for sure.

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