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Hi, my name is Ben Morey.

I make music with The Wallpaper, New Socks, and Dumb Angel. I record and produce music in my attic studio.I run a small independent record label called Yarn Bird Records. I teach people how to play and make music, and I work at a comic book store called Pulp Nouveau.

I live in Rochester, NY with my girlfriend Hannah and our cat Abraham Lincoln.
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Recording Routine Involvements today in my sweat lodge of an attic.

Recording Routine Involvements today in my sweat lodge of an attic.

» COME TO THIS SHOW TONIGHT! GOOD LUCK IS PLAYING!

cherylboberyl:

@ PB2 with Revengineers, The Wallpaper, and Spoonboy!

Bring $5-10 for touring bands, please!

This is going to be a great night.

soundsfamiliarpodcast:

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The Loudness War is the pejorative name given to the decades-long struggle to try and make the loudest record, to have that one song that’ll stand out above the flood of other sounds we hear, musical and non-musical, on a daily basis. Of course, with everybody competing for the next loudest record, all this has done is made that flood much, much louder. And people are starting to say enough!


Why is loudness bad? Is loudness bad? How loud is too loud? What do those shiny little plastic discs we used to pay twenty dollars for have to do with all this? What’s it going to take to end this thing once and for all? The answers to these questions—and some very loud music along the way—this time on Sounds Familiar.

Next week: “The Rule of Threes”

This is great. AND I played the electric guitar on part of it. 

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» Sounds Familiar: #2: Bad Translations

soundsfamiliarpodcast:

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We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? Translations of all sorts can, at best, ensure our shared survival. And at worst, mistranslations have had varied, far-reaching and often disastrous effects, as basic as “all your base are belong to us” or as serious as botched postwar food aid.

This time it’s all about translation. What is it? Is it an art or a science? What does it mean to translate something correctly— and, more importantly, what happens when translation goes wrong.

Next week: “Loudness Wars”

Another great podcast by my friend Blake.

» Sounds Familiar: #1: The Drums From "Be My Baby" and the Life of a Meme

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One of the most viral memes in popular culture came way before the invention of the internet. Ever since the iconic opening bars of the Ronettes’ hit “Be My Baby” first blasted from a hi-fi back in 1963, the same drum beat has been used in songs by everyone from The Beatles to Lady Gaga.

Join me for the inaugural episode of Sounds Familiar as I trace the beat, and its influences, through the decades, and find out what happens when a somewhat obsessive person like myself attempts to ask the most difficult question of all… why?

Next week: “Bad Translations”

Listen to my brilliant friend and long time collaborator Blake Cooper’s new podcast Sounds Familiar. It’s really really good.

kaymobo:

swarbles:

a rough cut of the trailer for a documentary about elephant 6 that chad stockfleth has been working on.  this is going to be SO GOOD.

The sweetest of hearts, these humans.

I can’t wait for this to be finished.

blakecooper:

This is so good! Do more of these!

justinpulver:

I hastily recorded a cover of The Velvet Underground’s Pale Blue Eyes on Sunday. It’s one of my favorite songs.

Justin covering The Velvet Underground on Casiotone.

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cherylboberyl: nickmaynard: girlsrockrochester: THIS IS TOMORROW NIGHT! Come check out some intense arm battles and help support Rape Crisis Service in Rochester! Seriously, you do not want to miss this. See you there! this is going to be absolutely bananas. seriously, if you don’t come to this, you’ll regret it! (also, the doctor said i won’t be contagious anymore by then!) come to this or you’re dead to me. I’ll be at this tonight.

cherylboberyl:

nickmaynard:

girlsrockrochester:

THIS IS TOMORROW NIGHT!

Come check out some intense arm battles and help support Rape Crisis Service in Rochester!

Seriously, you do not want to miss this. See you there!

this is going to be absolutely bananas. seriously, if you don’t come to this, you’ll regret it!

(also, the doctor said i won’t be contagious anymore by then!)

come to this or you’re dead to me.

I’ll be at this tonight.

hannahcorey: Gin & Tonic. GPOY Pinky Out Edition

hannahcorey:

Gin & Tonic.

GPOY Pinky Out Edition

ALBUM WALKS: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970, 36:29) 

Some albums are like old friends. I got Bridge Over Troubled Water on CD when I was 15. My stepdad got me a job mowing the lawn at the cemetery down the street from our house, which I did for three summers. I listened to this album hundreds of times on my headphones walking behind a lawnmower and I’ve listened to it a thousand times since then. There are very few albums I know as well as this one. When I listen to it I feel like I’m listening to my own history. It’s one of those albums where it seems strange to think that other people listen to it too.

I walked around Highland Park in the grass and listened to Bridge. It was like hanging out with an old friend.

Also, Baby Driver is the fucking best song ever. 



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