Up the Tree

Category: Music

  • Top 10 Albums of 2014

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    Top 10 Albums of 2014 is a damn fine list of great alt music from 2014 by Thomas Schrijer. Most of my favorites or honorable mentions are present for sure and a few surprises are there as well. All albums provided as Spotify links so you can get to the listening immediately.

  • Drip.fm and Becoming a Patron of the Arts

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    So hoping I would get Otto A. Totland’s masterpiece Pinô – I subscribed to the M+6 drip pool. The M+6 pool is a conglomeration of 6 independent record labels; Morr Music, Altin Vilage & Mine, Miasmah, Shelter Press, Immune, Sonic Pieces, and Roots Strata. While I had only really heard about Morr Music, who represent…

  • TJ & Dave on Radiolab

    TJ & Dave on Radiolab

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    This week one of my favorite improv groups, TJ & Dave, are on my favorite podcast, Radiolab. It is fascinating. When TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi get on stage they introduce themselves, work the crowd a bit … and then, the lights go off. And when the lights come back on, they’re just standing there, staring at each…

  • The Levelator

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    Do you have a podcast? Then you should really be using the free audio utility The Levelator. I spent many years trying to get my podcast audio to sound uniform and this utility does automatically.

  • I Can’t Make You Love Me / Nick of Time cover by Bon Iver

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    I Can’t Make You Love Me / Nick of Time Bon Iver on Calgary single Pretty incredible cover, although Justin Vernon of Bon Iver sounds like a Muppet. Think about it.