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Category: Sun Tunnels

  • New old song

    This is an old song (~11 years) and old recording (~4 years) but a new mix. I’m never quite satisfied with the mixes I do of this song, but this one is pretty good with headphones. I’ll keep at it.

    In other news, I set up a Facebook page for Sun Tunnels. Come on and like me. The Facebook corporation will use the fact that you like me to display personalized ads for related goods and services. I wonder what they’ll try to sell you? What says “Sun Tunnels?” Deodorant? Major appliances? I can’t wait to find out.

  • New demo and love for SoundCloud

    Hi there, check out this demo:

    It’s the first finished song for an album concept I’m working on and the first thing I’ve published on SoundCloud.

    I’ve been shilling SoundCloud to my friends a lot lately because I’m so impressed with it. When I first heard about SC I tried to ignore it — I figured it was yet another way to do music stuff on the web, among hundreds, probably to be short-lived, and didn’t want to bother with it. It’s a couple of years later now so I’m late to the game, but after trying it out I think it’s great. The interface is intuitive, a bit crowded with some redundant elements but still easy to use. I like that you can keep tracks private and share them with other SC users (or email a link to someone outside SC) before you make them public. I like how it keeps stats and gives you lots of options for downloads vs. streaming, etc. The iPhone app is very good.

    Their dashboard “stream” is interesting philosophically — you see new tracks by the people you befriend as they share them. It’s like the old days of trading CDRs or tapes, only instant, less tactile, and more single-oriented as opposed to collections of related songs. So, it tracks with how music is now experienced in the mp3 age, which makes sense. People go back and forth as to whether that’s good or not, but in any case their developers have done a great job and I like it.

  • Ball of Wax Volume 27

    I have a song on Ball of Wax #27, the quarterly audio comp (and, more recently, blog) my pal Levi Fuller has been putting out since 2005. This is my ninth appearance on the series, making me exactly 1/3rd committed to the project.

    As with every BoW release there’s a show, and I’ll be playing it, tomorrow (the 23rd) at the Sunset Tavern, starting around 9pm. Here’s a Facebook invite.

    As for the song, I submitted an old one that was initially meant for a different friend’s homemade horror movie. That was four years ago and he either never finished the movie or didn’t want the song, so there it is. You can listen to the comp and even (gasp) buy it right now at Bandcamp.

  • Anacortes double header

    (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 reference (double-header) to describe what’s happening Saturday. It means something happens, then some other thing, then everyone goes home. Nailed it!

    Sun Tunnels (formerly the graze) is playing at the Brown Lantern tavern in Anacortes, Washington, Saturday (tomorrow) 1/28. Sorry for the late notice! Right after Sun Tunnels will be An Invitation to Love, meaning that I personally will be performing for two hours in a row. I don’t remember writing that many songs, but we timed it at rehearsal and there it is.

    Here’s a flyer:

    Long-time listeners might recall the last time I played there was 2004. No doubt everyone in Anacortes remembers and will throw me a parade.

    Hope to see you there!

    Louis

    PS: That pretty full-color photo was taken by our friend Josh at our Josephine show back in November. Thank you Josh. The Brown Lantern’s booker Erik made the flyer. Thank you Erik.

  • Benbow night 2 postscript

    The show Friday was lots of fun, thanks to everyone who came out and stuck around, and to Sam for drumming. We’ll be there again this Friday in the form of An Invitation to Love.

    One last thing about last week though: the Autonomics were added to the bill at the last minute and were pretty great. They’re three 21-year-olds living the dream, practicing 6 nights a week and playing everywhere. And it shows. They play “Shit Luck” as well as Modest Mouse themselves do and you should see them.