1000 days with the softest-working band not in show business

posted by jack at 20:23 CET in / music

I don't know if it's been exactly 1000 days, but sometime during the fall of 2007, some friends and I created Band of None. Our first 1000 days of existence have been, frankly, uneventful. The band's members and their families have all socialized on several occasions, and in fact the Band of None new year's eve "we should be performing at this party" discussion has become an annual tradition of its own. Our self-confidence and faith in our destined future as rock'n'roll superstars is matched only by our lack of available time to pursue our dreams. At this point, approximately 1000 days into our journey to musical stardom, I'd like to recap some of our accomplishments thus far:

• Number of live performances: None
• Number of recording deals signed: None
• Number of paid sales of our songs: None
• Revenue from merchandise sales: None
• Number of rehearsals where all band members were present: None
• Number of drug-related deaths: None
• Number of hotel rooms destroyed: None
• Amount of money spent on equipment: None
• Number of days traveling on the road: None
• Total radio plays of all Band of None singles (approx): None

As you can see, we don't have a lot to be proud of! Be that as it may, I'd strongly encourage you to check out our website and maybe even our myspace page and listen to some of our future classics. "Hoffburger" may be the best, but "Your Myspace Page" has something going for it as well.

Demand JoCo

posted by jack at 08:36 CET in / music

I've told you before about Jonathan Coulton and why you must love him and give him your money. Lately Jonathan has been extending the range of his touring outside the U.S. with a recent show in England, and he's thinking about coming to Europe again and wonders where his fans are. He's even set himself up on Eventful to figure it out.

Obviously it's time to rouse the Nuthole Army out of its slumber. Arise, Nutholios, and commence with the clicking!

Click here to demand Jonathan Coulton in Stockholm!

Of course you could probably click through there and demand him for some other city instead. But I won't help you there.

New Apple Logic Studio: Bigger but smaller

posted by jack at 21:01 CET in / music

Yesterday I installed Apple's new Logic Studio. The system I was installing it on was already crowded, with the first four Jam Packs among other things, and I only had about 11 gigs free. To top it off, the Jam Packs weren't properly installed; I had manually copied them from an older machine, but in a slightly non-standard location, without the .pkg files etc, so the Logic Studio installer couldn't see them and wanted to do a fresh install of the new versions included with Logic Studio.

So I figured I'd wipe out the old Jam Packs manually, and let Logic reinstall them, and hope I'd have room for all the parts of Logic I wanted. I stumbled across this thread on Apple's support site, which mentioned that the new versions of the Jam Packs in Logic Studio now have audio saved in compressed (but lossless) format, so they're a bit smaller. Cool!

So, I wiped out my old Jam Packs, and installed most of Logic Studio, including all software and all 5 Jam Packs, but not the new extra audio content (which as far as I can tell seems to be intended mostly for soundtrack use). After installing all that, I ended up with 17 gigs of free space! Installing the new version, with more stuff, saved me 6 gigs! Woot!

Hoffburger

posted by jack at 09:55 CET in / music

Hot on the heels of the release of Your Myspace Page, we at Band of None have now released yet another single, Hoffburger. Download the mp3 with the clicking action here, or use the fun thingy below to listen to it immediately:

Hoffburger is inspired, as you may imagine, by David Hasselhoff's drunken hamburger-eating escapade, captured on video by his daughter and reported widely throughout all media. Band of None considers it an honor (and a duty) to take that feel-bad viral video of the late spring and turn it into the feel-good hit of the summer.

Sing it with me! Hoffburger with extra cheese!

Your Myspace Page

posted by jack at 08:18 CET in / music

After much hemming and hawing, the second single from Band of None is hereby foisted upon the world. It's called Your Myspace Page, and you can download it here or listen to it with the following gadget:

This is a pretty big departure from the previous single. I don't know what, if anything, this implies about Band of None's "musical direction", but time will tell. Meanwhile, comments are welcome!