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Category: Shoegeezer Stuff

  • first peek at shoegeezer.com

    Frankly, I’m not sure the world needs another music blog. Despite these very valid concerns, Adrienne and I have embarked on a little project to document another era:

    “We melted down a vintage Fender Jazzmaster (Lake Placid Blue of course), a Yamaha FX500 effects processor, a box of cassette tapes circa 1991, an unknown number of random pills from the medicine cabinet, five Boss RV-3 pedals, a pair of ‘monkey boots,’ a packet of grape Kool-Aid powder and a single strand of Kevin Shields’ hair — the resultant machine produces exactly one song a day.

    And we share that one song with you right here on shoegeezer.com. Because volume is wasted on the young.”

    It’s been a fun and nostalgic journey so far. Stay tuned for more.

  • the paper south + fires were shot

    The Paper South - July 6th at Hole in the Wall The Paper South - July 6th at Hole in the Wall

    as i get older, it gets harder and harder to simply make time to be creative. (some will obviously note that i don’t yet have children and thus have no freakin’ idea.) well in an effort to keep my knives sharpened a bit (and to abuse illustrator’s live trace feature), i whipped up these flyers for an upcoming paper south show with fires were shot. being that the event is part of “shoegaze sundays” at the hole in the wall, i went back to my astronomy-obsessed roots and worked from an old soviet stamp design. played in terms of concept, but i had a good time with it.

    (the real bonus of this particular evening is that you get to see the infamous johnny ray wilkins perform in both scheduled bands.)