Echodrone

echodrone Echodrone was birthed in summer 2005 from the miasma of Craigslist. Answering a call for like-minded musicians, Brandon and Mark F. joined Eugene and began Echodrone’s exploration of the intersection where Medicine, Ride, Stars of the Lid and Mogwai meet. Original drummer Kahlil Karn felt the call in June 2006 and provided a visual … read more ➜

Veil Veil Vanish

 myspace profile Veil Veil Vanish is a San Francisco based 4-piece that brings dark, post-punk energy, shoegaze atmospherics, and modern indie aesthetics into the current era of pop music. Featuring ex-members of Andalusia , Astral & Jada Morning, Veil Veil Vanish began in January of 2006 and has since played venues throughout the US, with bands such as 1990’s (UK), … read more ➜

new Frightened Rabbit due next week

I first posted some songs from these guys over a year ago.  They have a new album coming out on April 15th called The Midnight Organ Fight. Be Less Rude (the file says Modern Leper but it’s not) myspace profile

Broken Records, “The Next Arcade Fire”

myspace profile “Jamie, Ian, Arne, Rory, Gill, Dave & Andy formed Broken Records in December 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Using a range of instruments including guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums, they create a sound combining traditional European folk with modern Scottish alternative music. 2007 was a busy year for … read more ➜

Swervedriver with Film School at The Fillmore

Swervedriver, with special guest, Film School One of my old favorites with one of my new favorites… On sale to General Public via Ticketmaster: Sun, 04/06/08 10:00 AM PDT Show: Fillmore , San Francisco, CA Thu, May 29, 2008 08:00 PM

last.fm / slacker.com mashup

I’m late to the game but I’ve just discovered that there is a mashup of slacker.com and last.fm. You can listen to music on slacker.com and it’ll update your last.fm profile. lastslacker.com

The Voom Blooms, Thursday night at Popscene!

I’ve been digging these guys for about a year and a half now. They are finally coming to San Francisco. Come see them in the rinky dinky 330 Ritch! Next week they are playing at the SXSW festival in Austin. THURSDAY, MARCH 6 Grand Re-opening party at 330 Ritch with THE VOOM BLOOMS (UK) There … read more ➜

my slacker custom radio station…

Recently at work, we’ve started a new policy. You can’t have more than 500 megs of music on your computer. That limits me to about 75 songs. 75 frickin’ songs! My options are now either streaming radio or listening to my iPod. I’ve toyed with last.fm, Pandora and several radio stations. (mostly KEXP and KCRW) … read more ➜

The Distortions

After spending half of this week at Macworld, a meeting today with fellow system admins and a couple guys from Apple, and listening to Directory Services, Kerberos, Active Directory, and LDAP speak, the title of this song seems somewhat appropriate. “Machines at Night” begins where the band’s first record left off, but quickly speeds off … read more ➜

Intravenous! What it was like to collect music in the ’90s.

For those of you under 25 years old, you may wonder how music fanatics obtained rare tracks from our favorite bands before MP3s were common. (Or before streaming) In 1995, I worked for a small software development company in San Rafael, CA called Presage Software. We developed predominantly educational titles for kids that used popular … read more ➜

City-State

City-State is a band out of Washington, D.C. They write solid, post-punk influenced rock, with strong melodies. Recommended if you like: The Cure, Interpol, Joy Division, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness myspace site city-state.net

Ash – Goldfinger

Ash – Goldfinger (from the album ‘1977’ which was released in 1996) Ash Recommended If You Like: Blur, Pavement, The Buzzcocks, Weezer, Oasis, Hurricane #1 “Irish punk-pop trio Ash first formed in 1989 when childhood mates Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton got guitars for Christmas and established the metal act Vietnam. Nothing more than something … read more ➜

Leopard Screen Sharing Image Quality

ScreenSharing within Leopard doesn’t give you the fine grained control over the remote screen’s image quality like Apple’s professional remote control application ‘Remote Desktop’. If you’re controlling the remote computer over a slower network, such as wifi, you’d want to change this setting to a lower image quality for faster screen refresh. Leopard’s built-in ScreenSharing … read more ➜

Track A Tiger

“Track a Tiger began in August 2003 as a solo recording project of Jim Vallet. After sifting through some old 4-track tapes and a notebook with a few song ideas, a 16-track digital recorder and a few microphones were bought and recording began in his Chicago apartment (dubbed Coal to Cola Studio). The songs started … read more ➜