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The 2010 MAMAs
Null Device is up for three – THREE! – Madison Area Music Awards this year. Best Album – Electronic (for Recursions), Best Song – Electronic (Travelogue 09), and Electronic Performer of the Year. The way it works is this – tracks and albums are submitted for consideration by the artists, and then people from all [...]
Dane101 5th Anniversary Gig!
This Saturday! At The Frequency, Madison. Dane101 5th Anniversary party Little Red Wolf German Art Students Guante and Big Cats Null Device 9pm $7, 21+ Should be one heckuva show. Little Red Wolf does a sort of alt-country-folk-rock-bluegrass-pop kind of thing with a healthy dose of vocal harmonies, German Art Students is a group that [...]
Soft Launch
If you’ve visited the website recently, you might note that we’ve redesigned a bit. Primarily, to highlight the next album, which we hope to have ready in a few months. The next album will be titled “Suspending Belief.” It’s almost all recorded and mostly mixed. We’ve been playing a few tracks from it live for [...]
Mike Carlson
Last year, our friend, DJ and tireless promoter of local music Gary lost his house in a fire. It was tragic, and I hoped something like this never happened again to anyone I knew. Yesterday, it happened again, to another friend, DJ and tireless promoter of local music. Mike Carlson, a guy who I’ve known [...]
Null Device/The Dark Clan Tour 2010
I mentioned big things afoot for 2010. One of those has been confirmed now. Null Device is going on a short tour with our compadres/former guitarist’s band The Dark Clan. June 25th-July3rd Dates to follow once they’re all confirmed. Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B’more, DC, Richmond are all in the works. A few more waiting [...]
Happy 2010
It’s 2010. Null Device is 15 this year. FIF-FREAKING-TEEN. Officially, anyway. There were pre-95 noodlings, and our first album on a real label didn’t come out until 2003. But 1995 is when Dr. Goedken and I started writing together, and when we started getting rather serious about making music. Lots has happened in those fifteen [...]
I Heard It On NPR, Sorta
Last weekend the NPR “Monitormix” blog posted a challenge – write and record a song in a weekend. They had some conditions, like using a few certain words, etc. I gave it a shot. It’s not my finest work, certainly. The vocals are a little weak, the lyrics are a bit…um…but considering the whole thing [...]
Just in time for New Moon
Ordinarily I don’t post much about remixes, but I can’t help myself in this case. The Dark Clan has just released a single on their bandcamp site, called “Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle.”. Just in time for New Moon! The b-side is the “RPatz Nonstop Dub” by Null Device. It bears zero resemblance to the source [...]
Salvation!
The exclusive ND track “Under the Gun (Immune Response)” will be appearing on the “Electronic Saviors” compilation, due out on Metropolis Records in February. All proceeds will go to the Foundation For Cancer Research And Wellness. Assembled by the multi-talented Jim Semonik, himself a cancer survivor, it’s a 4-disc behemoth of awesomeness featuring EBM, industrial, [...]
Recursions!
It’s been a while in the creation, and we’ve hinted and teased at it for a few months, but it’s done, it’s together and HERE IT IS!
Recursions.nulldevice.com or nulldevice.bandcamp.com/album/recursions
Featuring 12 tracks – six remixes, 2 remakes, one cover, 2 demoes and a live recording. Remixes from indie-electronic luminaries Stripmall Architecture and Bloodwire, dubstep maven Bogart Shwadchuck, vaguely-goth power-poppers The Dark Clan, and a passel of mixes from Null Device ourselves. Also a cover of the Dead Can Dance classic, “The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove.”
Various and Sundry
A few things in the works.
First, we signed up with Bandcamp, which seems pretty cool. It’s getting a lot of good buzz, anyway. It’s a nice interface, and seems like a decent model allowing artists to provide a ton of options.
The 4th of July sale was reasonably successful, although it exposed a few narsty bugs in the ecommerce software we’re using. Those have been fixed. But given the kind of awesomeness described above, we may abandon selling our own music off the site in favor of selling through bandcamp, just for simplicity and robustness.
Null Device 4th of July Sale!
Always wanted a Null Device album, but just couldn’t bring yourself to spend the $9 on iTunes? Or the $5 on our store? Or…well, whatever? Well, for a limited time, we’ve slashed the prices of digital downloads in half. It’s a holiday weekend after all, at least for those of us in the US. But [...]
Announcing the Null Device Shop
The ND Store? Ye Olde Nulle Devife Shoppe? Call it what you will, but it’s a pretty definitive place to buy Null Device music and merch. We’re slowly adding products, as we account for inventory, get packages put together, etc, but it’s there and it works. Notably available are some digital editions – full, high-quality [...]
…And the remixes start to come in
Received three of the four remixes we’ve solicited so far and daaaaaaamn. Stripmall Architecture returned a remarkably rockin version of “Return” that almost makes us sound like Muse; The Dark Clan sent a remix of “Under The Gun” that’s…I’m not even sure what to call it – it’s so pan-genre that I lack adjectives, although [...]
May
Much went on behind-the-scenes at Null Device Media Industries this month. Nothing that’s going to explode into a big new album or multiplatinum recording, but some seriously cool stuff nonetheless. Shipped off some remix kits for Recursions - Included remixers are, thus far, Bloodwire, Bogart Shwadchuck, The Dark Clan, and Stripmall Architecture. (I tried to [...]
Madison Area Music Awards
This year, Null Device won a Madison Area Music Award for “Performer of the Year – Electronic.” Sensuous Enemy won for Album and Song in the Electronic category, so congratulations to them as well! Thanks to all who voted for us, and of course thanks to my fellow band members who did all the stuff [...]
Update
Lots of stuff going on. Remixes are successfully being wrangled for the next release, including one remixer that I was convinced I wasn’t going to be able to get, but managed to anyway thanks to some fortuitous business transactions. Also got to drop some spooky theremin hand-waving on a really stellar track for another band [...]
Welcome to the new Null Device dot Com
As you might have noticed (or maybe you haven’t, if this is your first time here) we’ve kinda changed things around. A few reasons for this: I wanted better integration with social networks I wanted nicer inlining of rich media I was tired of rolling my own CMS It was time for a makeover We’ve [...]
Two more shows
One in Milwaukee, this weekend – at Zad's Roadhouse in the third ward. The other in Madison, supporting Rein[forced]. Both shows will also be with our friends The Dark Clan. Fun for the whole family, provided your whole family is over 21.
Big Show Announcement
A benefit for DJ Garz, or “Gary” as we usually like to call him, featuring 5 top-notch bands, 3 top-notch DJs and a lot of fun. Gary has been a tireless promoter of local music, usually at his own eprsonal expense, and has been instrumental in giving a lot of bands – ours included – [...]
Another show announcement
We'll be playing the Inferno once more in March, the 26th, opening for Moulin Noir and Faith Assembly. Our as-yet-untitled EP rolls along. We've got B-sides, we've got remixes, we've got new versions of old tracks. Recording continues on album #4. We've had many guests onboard already – Alec the oud player, Raya the singer, [...]
Various and Sundry
I put it on the shows page, but forgot the news page – there was a gig at The Inferno in November. Howbout that. Uh, anyway. Upcoming is a gig at The Majestic on Friday, January 16th. More details to follow. Possible gig in Milwaukee in March. Not confirmed yet. Last weekend was a recording [...]
Big upcoming show
We are pleased to announce that we'll be opening for DJ Rekha at the Majestic Theatre on Sat, October 18th!
Correction: Not Rockin the Terrace
Since I've got honest-to-god pneumonia, Null Device will not be performing tomorrow night. As much as I was excited about this gig, it's not worth hospitalizing myself over.