Techno and TV

I caught a commercial the other day that featured Daft Punk’s “One More Time” as the background music. Now there is a song that’s optimized for the dancefloor. On TV, the brick-wall compression caused so much weird ducking that it just sounded like the music was being squeezed out of …

Music and Meaning

Dan, myself, Mercedes, and William all had a few glasses of wine and began to rant about music on sunday. It was a fascinating discussion. William gets very up in arms about composers inventing a new musical language for every piece, then getting upset when listeners don’t get it right …

Who Cares?

Be patient. I mean for that title to be taken literally. Some time back, we played a gig at a club — any club — in a town — any town — and there were no fliers advertising the show anywhere in the club or on the nearby streets. There …