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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

Posted in Øresund Space Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, Music, recording, Touring, Violin

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

Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, recording, Touring

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

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Posted in Music, Philosophy, recording

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

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Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Guitar, Music, recording

An end of summer update

This is directly from my website‘s news, but I thought it should exist forever here also because I’m proud of all of these musical adventures. Here are many recent (2016) musical additions to the world on the web: SHALE is Tom

Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, recording, Touring, Violin

Playing music for the purpose of music.

A couple weekends ago I went to Copenhagen to play a doom rock festival with Øresund Space Collective, the release for “Ode to a Black Hole”. It was a punk rock youth center, tons of doomy bands, really quite something.

Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, recording, Touring

The continuing road to superfluity

I’d like to continue the story of the making of the (as-yet still upcoming) record called “Superfluity” because I am assuming all the people reading this entry have also read the previous 10 or 6 or at least the last

Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Guitar, Philosophy, recording, Violin

Part 4 – Punk as fuck.

The next weekend’s gig was an opening slot for The Dead Pollys, and then I would sit in with them as well. They are a punk band. Straight up, though a bit celtic-influenced. The singer, Niclas, or Nizze, is a

Posted in Guitar, Music, recording, Touring, Violin

…and a year later… (part 1)

My last posts here were almost a year ago. I didn’t have any words. So I started recording music. Again. Try as I might, I can’t stop recording music. I fully realize that it’s meaningless in this day and age

Posted in Guitar, Music, recording, Technology

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