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GarageBand for iPad is the most complete and capable all-in-one music creation package available anywhere. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s effective. At $4.99, it has replaced my $220 Micro BR.

Among the highlights from Jon Brion’s New Year’s Eve show was an impromptu impression of Bruce Springsteen–in the form of a fake Bruce Springsteen song.

Never before have I gone into an event with such high expectations, and never before have those expectations been so far surpassed.

No matter how you cut it, modern technology has helped the musician at the expense of the executive producer. The profits to be had in the years to come are going to come from live performances, not from album sales. Musicians will need plenty of help planning their tours and selling out amphitheaters, but the album has finally been set into its rightful hand: that of the creator, the musician.

One has to wonder how soon we’ll see a new service that allows artists to sell tracks for whatever their fans would like to pay. Such a service could give the RIAA a run for its money while leaving even more at the hands of those who have most earned it: the artists.

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A brief review of Delta Spirit, Tokyo Police Club and the Cold War Kids

Since posting my cover of Elliott Smith’s Tomorrow Tomorrow on YouTube a few months ago, I’ve received several requests for help from enthusiastic guitarists looking to learn the song themselves. Rather than address everybody in a brief reply, I thought I would make a thorough post explaining how I learned to play the more difficult parts of the song.

On Wednesday night at 8:30pm, I opened for Jake Armerding at the Lyon’s Den, Wheaton College’s student-run coffeehouse. It was my first public performance that wasn’t an open mic. And it felt like it.

A few people have recently asked me how I tag the live concerts that I record and download. That is, how I label the artist, track titles and other relevant metadata. Here’s an overview of the tags that I use and how I format them: If you found this post useful, please consider sharing it. [...]