Studio Blog




Two People Made This Mess

It’s about time for me to start working on a new album, and I’m already in full swing! A side-gig for a website last year afforded me a really nice tube mic and some gear, so I’m going to take another shot at home recording, with Dead Pressed Flowers’ old helmsman, Ryan Miller, trying out…



Studio update

It’s been forever since I posted here, and I’m gonna work on that, but for now, let’s get to the business at hand. At this point, we have a big picture in frame where the album is concerned — this is, by far, the most well-planned project I’ve ever done, with Mark and I constantly…


Studio blog: Jerk

….So you’ve all heard “Jerk” by now — it has a driving four-on-the-floor rhythm, which lends itself to an implied drum part. I was on the way to the studio a few weeks ago and was listening to Elvis Costello’s “Get Happy,” and thinking about how much I love “King Horse,” a song that I…


Studio Blog: State of the Union.

It needs to be said that I’m still buzzing off of the success of my TRAF set, partly because you can YouTube the living hell out of it! Thanks to David Oleniacz for: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRKL0J0LlBE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] I think my favorite thing is the two crotchety guys who full-on have a conversation about which way to go…


Studio Blog: “Wonderful Lie”

I had an idea for a transition, and I shared it with Mark at the top of the session yesterday, so we started on “Wonderful Lie,” a newer song about stuff that happened a year-and-a-half ago. Some subjects just stay with you, which is fine, as long as they stay catchy. “Lie” is probably my…