A new album, out August 7th, 2020! Whenever I make a new album of music I am so proud of it; it always feels like the best music in the world, the culmination of everything I have learned to write…
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What’s all on that overcrowded Bandcamp page?
5 June 2020, it’s one of those first Fridays of the month when Bandcamp foregoes their share of sales and all proceeds go to the artist. It’s a good day to explore and buy new music. Go to: https://jsegel.bandcamp.com (also…
Posted in Music
(Mostly) Universal Audio and mixing the space rock
It’s the end of an era. Well, for me anyway, in terms of mixing and recording audio. You see, for the past number of years, almost a decade now, I’ve been on the Universal Audio “Artist’s extended demo” roster for…
Posted in Music
Songwriters and composers! April 22 2019 is the deadline!
Songwriters and composers, lend me your ears/eyes/brains for 20 minutes here, this is IMPORTANT and critically timely. And it affects writers globally, if your music is streamed in the US. Please take time to read this and research a bit.…
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Links and still playing catch-up
[This is an amalgam of information from the front page of my website from the past few years, just gathered in one place toward the end of 2018. Here is info on my solo material, my work with Øresund Space…
2018 updates
Hi, it’s been over a year since I wrote anything here. Partially it was because I wrote that thing about the New Pornographers and then apparently AC Newman read it, and then I saw them play and talked to him…
The New Pornographers’ “Whiteout Conditions” and my interpretation thereof.
So far I’ve refrained from writing ‘reviews’ of albums or other music or bands to this extent. I’ve written an awful lot about music, of course, (well, mostly my own, see every other blog post) and its interpretation and/or effect,…
Literally, Superfluous.
It’s Monday today. Last Friday afternoon I was home waiting for a call from WORT radio in Madison WI, to do an interview about music, specifically about my latest release “Superfluity”. The phone rang and it was my wife who…
On guitars, yet again (…for guitar nerds only!)
A couple weeks ago I did an interview about my recent albums “Superfluity” and the Sista Maj “Series of Nested Universes” for a Japanese blog called StarTrip. One of the questions was about equipment I used (the guy is a…
Tagged with: guitars, Les Paul, Music, recording, Stratocaster
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Guitar, Music, recording
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Guitar, Music, recording
Very Brief Tour Diary, Winter 2016-17
From Dec 27, 2016 to Jan 21, 2017, I was on tour with Camper Van Beethoven (playing with Cracker, as per usual) in the United States. Overall, this was an amazing tour, not just from the point of view of…
Tagged with: Camper Van Beethoven, concert, live shows, Music, My Life, Portland, rock music
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
photo by Ian Weintraub
