Author Archives: Louis

Anacortes double header

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Louis

(eds. note: this is the sort of thing you can expect to see maybe once every other month if you sign my mailing list. Also this is a real event happening tomorrow in Anacortes.) Hello everyone, I’m using a sports … Continue reading →

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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