Muzak 101: Live Blogging the Andy Fitzpatrick Waterfront Sessions
“The Last Peep Show”
Good night.
Muzak 101: Live Blogging the Andy Fitzpatrick Waterfront Sessions
Final listen to “Maybe”
Two down … About 53 to go.
Muzak 101: Live Blogging the Andy Fitzpatrick Waterfront Sessions
One down. About forty to go.
Muzak 101: Live Blogging the Andy Fitzpatrick Waterfront Sessions
Mixing: Day One.
Song One: Liberty.
Holy Crap!
Archiving 101: Wreck Hoard Ing
Hi,
A warm and fuzzy happy Birthday to Mr. Jamie Alegre, pictured below laying down some sweet cabasa at The Nunnery for the forthcoming Andy Fitzpatrick release!
Andy and I are heading up to Waterfront Studios in Hudson on Monday to mix about 300 songs in 72 hours. Or Something. Over the last couple days we added various percussion, some Moogish sounding Wurlitzer with my amazing MLM and equally amazing 1957(ish) Magnatone pictured below, and even had Andy recut a lead vocal. What? Yeah. You heard me right. I’m pretty sure the world is coming to an end too.
And speaking of how I’ve had the first 6 songs of Foo Fighters “In You Honor” on repeat for the last hour, with any luck the forthcoming Casey Shea LIVE ALBUM will have as much crowd noise. And btw, if you haven’t seen the new Casey Shea video, you can click this part of this sentence and just be positively amazed.
Hopefully the above paragraph contains some form of copyright infringement.
And speaking of having the new timeline, tonight I’ll grace the stage with one Wes Hutchinson at Rockwood Muzak Hall where we’ll be recording the show for something called a LIVE ALBUM. Coincidence? You decide. Anyway, we go on at 8pm.
Mwah!
M
P.S. Don’t forget to get to Rockwood early and check out All Night Chemists!
P.P.S. They have great stage lighting.
P.P.P.S. Don’t forget to do this thing that this P.P.P.P.S. links to …
P.P.P.P.S. Before it sells out.
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Today, our friends at Mixbridge are featuring an interview with everyone’s favorite troubador, Casey Shea. The answers to all of your burning questions can be found within this video! Of course, if there’s still something you’re dying to know about Casey (like “how does he get his hair to do that thing?!”) then you can email your questions to emma[at]thefamilyrecords[dot]com for inclusion in the FR newsletter’s artist Q&A. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Kinesiology 101: Vote For Mother Feather at nyc.thedelimagazine.com
Hi,
Today I don’t have a lot of time so I’m gonna do this thing called “cut and paste” with an email I got this morning from one Ann Courtney. You should read it and follow the directions. Because I said so.
“I’ll say it. Most of these year-end “best of” lists decided by “tastemakers” are whack.
Power to the people! The Deli Magazine is putting you in charge of voting for your favorite emerging NYC artist of 2011. Mother Feather is in good company on this list of nominees. If we win the most votes they’ll stick our pretty mugs on the cover of the spring issue and you’ll be able to read about us in any rehearsal space bathroom in the five boroughs! I. WANT. THIS. And I don’t deal well with disappointment.
We have a ton of exciting sh!t in the pipeline. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime…vote, motherfeather!
xxMFxx ”
In unrelated news, I’m pretty sure you can buy tickets for the February 10th Mother Feather show at Mercury Lounge starting tomorrow. You should remember to do that.
In the meantime, you can come down to Rockwood Muzak Hall tonight when I’ll be demonstraing how at 30somethingorother years old I have, to quote my new doctor, Dr. Jonnie, “the blood pressure of a teenager and the pulse of a professional athlete” by playing the 7pm set with one of my favorite singers, the indestructible Kris Gruen, and then running back to The Nunnery to drop of the double bass I use to play with Kris and pick up my electric bass and go back to Rockwood to play in the 9pm set with someone named “Shwa,” whose claim to fame of course is that the former drummer from Cinderella played on his album Chop Chop.
Cinderalla is the first band I ever saw. And I still think this song totally rocks and if they ever need a bass player I would totally play with them for at least, oh I don’t know, $100 a show and maybe 25 per rehearsal if they can swing it.
Lastly, for all you insomniacs out there, The Casey Shea band will be simultaneously putting everyone to sleep and earning me some live performance songwriter royalties tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden. See you there.
Mwah!
M
P.S. The new Casey Shea album “In Your Head” is conveniently located at places where people buy albums.
P.P.S. It’s also available as a record record, meaning an LP, or vinyl if you’re nasty.
P.P.P.S. He promised me that if I got a lot of people to buy it, he would retire next year.
Occupy Soundtrack.
In case you were wondering, Mother Feather is about to record in the room where Nevermind was mixed.
Looking for an intimate night of DESTRUCTION to bring in the new year? Well you’re in luck! We’ll be counting down to midnight at Rockwood Music Hall starting at 11PM on Saturday night.
Casey Shea
Saturday, December 31 – 11PM
Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 1)
FREE*Jeff Taylor at 12 and Derek James at 1.
Booooooring…
Musicology 101: Live A Better Life, Get A Better Job
If you’re like me, you know it’s not everyday you get an email from Casey Shea that is worth reading. Once in a while though, a little ray of sun shines through the dark clouds he’s always dragging around and voila, he sends you something you actually care about.
Case in point, today I received the folder of audio files pictured above. This means that about twenty minutes later I was able to send my very own email to one Steve Wall requesting that he download said files and commence to finalize the mix of “Live A Better Life, Get A Better Job” … which is a song by failed NYC rocker band Rich Girls!
That’s right, for the 14 people in the world who give a s#!t, there are new Rich Girls song recordings coming your way in 2012! I can’t imagine how happy you are.
Incidentally, as I write this, I am listening to this awesome song …
… and remembering how much Rich Girls wished we were Elastica.
Mwah!
M
P.S. See you Saturday night when The Casey Shea Band is augmented by the inviolable Chris Foley!!!
The latest edition to The Nunnery. Wurlitzer MLM. Early 70’s I guess. Click the photo to hear a sample of this amazing keyboard and what may or may not be a “synth” track from the forthcoming Rich Girls single “Your Voice Is American.”
