On a wall near the corner of Broadway and W. 37th Street in Manhattan. Bit of punk defiance (or is it punk piss-taking?) in a part of town where no one has any reason to go unless a) they work a desk job or b) they’re a tourist trying to walk from one landmark to another.
Scandalous!! Actually, not really. Facebook thinks one of the links on the page I’m trying to share is “spammy” because it uses an unusual domain extension, but it’s not spammy at all.
Anyway, in advance of the Attempt’s next show in New Haven (TOMORROW, Friday the 17th at Elm Bar), CTIndie, Connecticut’s leading online source for independent music news and reviews, asked me a bunch of questions about songwriting and other things, and I answered them, and that’s the link to the interview. Word.
I conducted an interview with CTIndie.com over the weekend, and among their questions, they asked about the best song I’ve ever written. Now, I realize I know it’s this song, and several of the people who have heard it (I’ve played it at a few solo gigs, and the Attempt fellas and I have been rehearsing it) agree, but we’ve neither played it out as a full band nor recorded it. I thought it would essentially dumb to cap off a response about the best song I’ve ever written with an “… AND YOU CAN’T HEAR IT,” so I figured I’d direct readers to this demo. I recorded this in my bedroom last year with a guitar, a bass, a cheap keyboard and a drum machine. The vocal’s kind of pitchy and there’s no compression on this, so the volume’s weird at points. Look, it’s a demo, recorded onto one of those little Tascam digital four-tracks. But yeah, as I’ve said before, not only does the Attempt have a full-length album in the can, mastered and ready to go, but I’ve written and demoed the next album too. This one will go on the next album. Enjoy… as much as you can enjoy a no-budget bedroom demo. It’s called “The Difference Between Me and Everyone Else.”
WOAH. Thanks to Ethnic Lending for sharing.
Russia Travel Blog has put together a fantastic collection of Russian propaganda posters of the Soviet space program (1958-1963). As a bonus, they’ve translated them into English. Click here to see them all.
Hey, so as some of you know, my band, The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, has had an album in the can for a little while now. It’s called “Something, Anything Else,” and the only thing it needs is a platform, by which I mean, like, a label. (Hey, look, this record is fantastic, and if I had the means to hire a publicist, I’d put it out myself, but those are means I don’t have.) I’m making a post office run tomorrow with some CD-R samplers, and while I was at it, I figured I’d just take the four songs on the CD-R and upload it here too. Check it out, spread it around, and if you wanna help out in any way, let me know (tylertrudeau@gmail.com):
Tyler Trudeau Attempt four-song sampler from “Something, Anything Else”
