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  Oceana – Clean Head EP

  05.16.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  There’s only one show left on this Coheed and Cambria + Moving Mountains tour and then we start the long 18 hour trek back home.  The tour has been a great experience.  I wrote a couple blog posts about it for Property of Zack which you can find part 1 HERE & part 2 HERE. [...]

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  Hackers and Football

  05.02.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  + George Hotz and the Hacker Wars The New Yorker did a lengthy profile on George Hotz - the young man responsible for the first iphone jailbreak and the first Playstation 3 hack – and how a lawsuit brought against him by Sony was the catalyst for the hacker wars. After Hotz uploaded a video of his [...]

• pianos stuff, Tour

  Coheed and Cambria, Moving Mountains & Pianos Become the Teeth

  04.29.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tonight is the first show of this tour.  If you read this blog often you’ll know that I play guitar in Pianos.  This is what I’ll be doing for the next couple of weeks.  I doubt we will use all of our guest list spots on most of these shows so if a show is [...]

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  Ólafur Arnalds – Living Room Songs

  04.16.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is pretty cool.  I listened to his new album …and they have escaped the weight of darkness to fall asleep on tour.  Very relaxing stuff. Icelandic contemporary composer Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for a whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and [...]

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  Two Albums

  04.07.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Back after a 5 week tour!  I need to buy a netbook or something so I can update on the road.  We went to Canada, did a handful of US dates and then flew to Europe and toured the mainland and UK.  Since you spend the majority of your time riding in a van on [...]

• pianos stuff, Tour

  Pianos Become the Teeth/Xerxes Tour

  02.23.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  I leave for the great white north tomorrow for a two week tour with Xerxes.  This is a start to a busy year.  Hope to see some of you there! Pianos Become The Teeth & Xerxes Northeast and Canada tour 2012 Feb 24 – The Studio at Webster Hall – New York City Feb 25 – The Space [...]

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  Fringe Science

  02.15.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Ian Stevenson spent the majority of his working life researching the validity of reincarnation. Stevenson traveled extensively to conduct field research into reincarnation and investigated cases in Africa, Alaska, Europe, India and both North and South America, logging around 55,000 miles a year between 1966 and 1971.[3] He reported that the children he studied usually started to [...]

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  R. Budd Dwyer’s Public Suicide

  01.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state’s 50th district. He served as the 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1987. In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania [...]

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  Code Orange Kids @ Charm City Art Space

  01.22.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  My friend Henry, who plays guitar for the band Voyage In Coma, wrote a short piece about the Pittsburgh based punk band Code Orange Kids.  If you haven’t listened to this band yet – you are missing out.  They are currently on a full US tour with our best friends in Xerxes.  Go see them! Here’s Henry: [...]

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  AZEALIA BANKS – 212 FT. LAZY JAY

  01.14.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is tight.  I guess she’s kind of big in the UK?