Author Archives: Louis

Here’s a cool article I just read (via Facebook, thanks Forrest) — the author makes lots of good points. The economics of live music is weird. From my own observation, there are thousands, millions of bands. Most are not that … Continue reading →

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Louis | Leave a comment

iRig Stomp

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Louis

I got an email from IK Multimedia today announcing their iRig Stomp interface. Adding a bypass switch to an iRig is a great idea… which is why I totally thought of it first! I’m halfway through writing a page about the … Continue reading →

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Nadelle and Thom – Summerland

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Louis

(Note: I wrote a few reviews for what turned into the “bad at listening” series a couple of years before the Ball of Wax blog got started. Most of these were for and about me more than is appropriate for … Continue reading →

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This is nice: http://www.nme.com/news/of-montreal/60559. I don’t know where you even start to write a song like that, or any of montreal song really. Awesome!

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Louis | Leave a comment

Boxcar CDs

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Louis

Last week the physical CDs for An Invitation to Love’s EP Boxcar arrived. They look like this: We didn’t order very many and they’re mostly to send to radio and press and bookers. Otherwise we wouldn’t have ordered them. It’s … Continue reading →

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