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Why November 6 matters to me — and to you

Today is very, very important. For all of us. Things have happened on this day that have, and will continue, to shape how we live our lives in the years to come. There are times when one must stop and...

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Charlie Ray’s Seasonal Music Rundown: Fall Edition

A scene of fall in the Pacific Northwest. Autumn is upon us in the northern hemisphere, and all remnants of the swollen, lustful last third of summer have faded away. Soon, the weather will turn and...

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Newsfeed Anxiety: Origins

The band as it was October 2010. We’ve all felt them: the pang from unwelcome updates; the wince from vicarious embarrassment; the twinge from T.M.I.; the #humblebrag-induced bile rise. There’s no way...

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Newsfeed Anxiety: Not Practicing, Solo Acoustic Performances, Home Demos and...

Not Newsfeed Anxiety, but close enough. Promo photos for the Trans-Billingsian Orchestra show. The formation stages of Newsfeed Anxiety were, like the band’s conception, long and slow in coming....

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Newsfeed Anxiety: First Shows, (the album), and the Importance of Recording...

Cover art for (the album). Those were the best darn sunglasses I ever had. (Photo by the Montana Kaimin.) The new decade marked the beginning of another golden age for our collective of Billings...

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Newsfeed Anxiety: Breakthrough, The Holiday Extravaganzer, and The Compromise

The band, all bundled up from the cold, playing at the “Wolf Den.” (Photo: Maegan Simmons.) More than a year into our existence, Newsfeed Anxiety only had (approximately) 1.25 shows and an incomplete...

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Newsfeed Anxiety: The Compromise

Any guesses as to the album cover’s background image? The Compromise began as a series of bedroom demos recording in fall 2009. As mentioned before, I was still new to songwriting and supplying an...

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Newsfeed Anxiety: How Missoula Was Won … And Lost

The horizontally oriented album art for our live compilation. This photo taken by good fan Zachary Quiroz during our “A Night to Remembert” performance. It might not seem like much, but those five...

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Andrea Desmond and the White Lights: Milk and Rain EP — A Look Inside

Us being us (minus Tall Steve), as pictured on the back sleeve of Milk and Rain. (Photo by Erica Russell.) It is here. On this blog. Finally. Right now. Period. Milk and Rain, the debut EP for...

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Five Songs to Play on St. Patrick’s Day

What more can I say? (Photo courtesy of the Clintons.) As Guinness clocks near zeroes in bars across the country, it’s time to start thinking about the 4th Century saint whose feast day calls for mass...

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Wanna listen to an excellent band with a storied legacy? Look no further than...

All questions, great and significant, are answered by this band. (Photo courtesy of Flickr.) Oh, hello there. I didn’t see you come in there. Welcome. Please, enter. I know it’s been a long time. A...

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Mariko Ruhle’s The Wonder Years: A Look Inside

No Fred Savages were harmed in the making of this record. During the cold, steel-gray bleakness of mid-February Seattle, Atticus Wyman, Jeremy Bang, and Mariko Rose Ruhle invited local and visiting...

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Silver Gate, Mont., on 7/20/12: A Look Back at the Night That Was

Me and Alex during the jam sesh. According to the 2010 census, the combined population of Cooke City and Silver Gate is 95, which isn’t all to surprising: both seem more like collectives of...

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Roger Waters The Wall Live in Seattle: A Look Back (Part 1)

On Thursday, May 24, the Key Arena in Seattle played host to one of rock and roll’s greatest achievements: Roger Waters’ The Wall Live. Waters, former bassist, co-lead singer and main visionary behind...

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Newsfeed Anxiety’s The Disconnect: A Look Inside and the History of (Part I)

Photo courtesy of Charlie Ray. Album design by yours truly. The world has never been more connected than it is today. Such is the topic of many a tech trend story, citing social networking sites,...

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Newsfeed Anxiety’s The Disconnect: A Look Inside and the History of (Part II)

(Continued from the previous post) Disassociation Having written the songs anywhere between two to five years prior to the album’s release, there’s bound to be a disconnect between who I was then and...

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“(Eo) + Zibo I.13” — A Love Story for the Ages

A Romeo for the 200th Century. And no, I didn’t draw this as a child, but as a 23 year old. In the interest of preventing this blog from collecting too much dust in my post-Newsfeed-Anxiety life, here...

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Andrea Desmond’s “Teal Water” — Making the Video

(A brief note from the future: We were actually very unsatisfied with the final result, so much so that Andrea had it taken down from Vimeo and expunged from the Internet, like it never happened. I’m...

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A Cornucopia of Music Happenings: Thanksgiving Edition, 2014

Ms. Thanksgiving herself. I’ll admit it: I’ve been off the radar for some time now. It wasn’t anybody’s fault–including my own–so this post will not be about dishing out the blame. Rather, this post...

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A Look Back, a New Solo Album(!) and a Glimpse of the Future

If I think back to the very first shows of the year—at the Crocodile with Mariko and in Portland with Andrea two days later—and remember what’s happened since, it’s clear that this was a very...

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