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5/24/13 - Erickson Clock - Atlanta, GA - tickets

another new date in NOLA!

5.21.13 - the howlin' wolf, new orleans, louisiana. tickets here.

also, a heads up if you don't have a tickets and were planning to buy them at the door; the san...

plan on swarbles doing something(s). i'm still not entirely sure what yet (i've been struggling with this for months now, and have it down to four choices. unfortunately, one of the choices is...

unfortunately, you mean VA. ;)


ticket info can be found here.

just kidding! austin, tx ticket info can be found here!

from the music tapes' facebook page



and two more dates from gct:

05/16/2013 - Phoenix, AZ - Monorchid Creative Studios - tickets
05/19/2013 - Austin, TX - Scottish Rite Theater (no ticket...

she replied to a post on facebook about it earlier today (thank goodness for that invasive news ticker thing?), saying that she was going over, so hopefully they were able to get some.

i just read...

april 12th, 1998, bottom of the hill, san francisco, ca.

welcome to the townhall!

according jim romeo (booking agent for jeff and neutral milk hotel), in this pitchfork article:

yes, it is. they meant how much of it they'll be able to take overseas.

i can't find anything that says whether or not the european dates are traveling imaginary shows or if they're "just"...

west coast and european dates!

04.29.2013 - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Fisher Center
05.01.2013 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge - 2 shows
05.03.2013 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center - 2...

pleasantly surprised that it is looking like something other than old hailstones! thanks for the heads up, kelly!

OH! one other thing that i just remembered that i think tips the hat towards a...

this is like that june 23rd/hailstones thing that happened with the music tapes a few years back. and it's probably the same sort of thing where it's being read into too much because we're desperate...

the voice belongs to will cullen hart.

left channel: "growing back the pyramids, about two miles below, the boundary between two cylinders."
right channel: "more water for the unknown engineer,...

while this isn't anything official or definite...

the state theatre just posted on facebook that saturday night's show in portland has been postponed to sunday, february 17th.

tickets still available here.

tonight's shows in philly and wednesday's show at suny purchase have been postponed due to an emergency.

http://theswollenfox.com/the-music-tapes-postpone-tonights-shows/
...

after the hi*fi festival on the campus of unh two years ago, i seem to recall him saying that he found it in san francisco (or somewhere out west), during the lullaby delivery tour of 2010. i want...

my educated guess (which is only a guess) is that they'll be emailing people who have offered to help set up the tent within a few days of the show that they've offered to help at, if they need help...

if you can find him and have a sharpie and a piece of paper and ask nicely, he'll draw one of his little fellows and sign it for you.



any bodies from the townhall going to the show in portland...

i miss optical atlas SO MUCH. i have been lamenting the end of that website since the day jeff closed up shop back in 2010. fortunately, it is still viewable via archive.org. at least partially. ...

i believe you're referring to carol of the bells. in high school, we sang that song for the christmas concert every year in chamber choir, and it's one of the best choir-y christmas songs (alongside...

it's probable that some of the shows will sell out, since there is a limited capacity inside the tent. the first philly show sold out, but they added a second show the same night. but according to...

when orange twin last had the vinyl in stock, it was offered with the dvd. they've sold out of the record version several times in the past few years since the movie was released, so hopefully it...

the cd and dvd come in a double cd gatefold sort of thing together (i think. maybe it's a even a double digipak? i don't remember and i haven't watched it in a while, as i'm not entirely sure where...

looks like they changed venues (from the ohio city masonic temple to the cleveland masonic auditorium)? ground control touring has this link up for the cleveland show.
...

it was jeff and guy picciotto from fugazi.

sign the dotted line (tall dwarfs cover) with jeff on lead.
*something* ransom. i don't remember the full title. i want to say it was endless ransom,...

the music tapes are on now, for ye interested parties!

http://www.concertwindow.com/shows/the-people-s-bailout-a-variety-show-and-telethon-to-benefit-the-99

8 pm to 11 pm, according to that tumblr blog the dark kindly posted.

ground control touring has ticket links for almost all of his 2013 shows.

tickets for the show in portland is $27 ($33.something after ticketmaster fees). the shows in boston last year were both...

from the merge website



i think part of the traveling imaginary is still happening this year. i've seen dates somewhere for athens (i want to say november 30th at the 40 watt, but i'm not...

i was just on the merge website and tour dates for the traveling imaginary are starting to appear!!!

November 2nd, Easthampton, MA - Flywheel Arts
November 3rd, Hampden, CT - The Blank Canvas...

i've definitely seen that music tapes video on google video, and i feel as though this set looks familiar to me too, so maybe the otc and sunshine fix videos are from google video too? and someone...

would it be real cheesey to call them oursongs? i've seen people post them on facebook calling them oursongs in the past (i've done it too), and that way, people who want to spend more time can...

i had the thought about posting hoursongs to soundcloud after cllct first crashed. the only problem with that is that you have a set amount of free upload time via soundcloud (two hours, i think),...

and he left his hat and shirt! what if his hat is in need of milking?!

i think the domain expired. i know it's gone down around the end of august in the past, so that is possibly what has...

the site had been getting hacked a lot this year, and it was not very informational, so maybe it's being revamped. hopefully hopefully.

i don't remember who showed me this (one-headedboy?), but this.


http://youtu.be/u--_-tyuejc

mine just went out too.

the neck "broke" during the 2008 caroling tour (from what i understand, it didn't actually break, but detached from the pot [it didn't have a truss rod? i might be wrong, maybe it did break]), he...

nice work, everyone! there's a lot of great stuff on this. love that album artwork, too.

who is green paper? are you at liberty to disclose this information or do they wish to remain anonymous?

here is a thread from last year.

http://e6townhall.com/showthread.php?18718-banjo

soniclovenoize posted a list in that thread that seems sort of complete, but it's hard to tell since there's a...

swarbles will now do no growing (exegesis).

sure. i'll be back to you a little later with a different song.

i've been trying to find the words since i read the first flagpole tweet around twelve thirty and i haven't been able to find them. i guess that's the fault with language: so often, it fails to...

swarbles; hilltop procession (momentum gaining)

any update on when you're hoping to have this up by? i'm curious and excited!

write and record a song in an hour or less. post it here. somebody* will upload the release on saturday evening, around 8pm eastern time, maybe.

someone else can pick a theme.

*i'm currently...

just sent my two songs in.

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume22fridaythe13th
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume22fridaythe13th
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume22fridaythe13th...

okay, i'm trying to get this uploaded, but my computer froze about ten minutes ago and cllct just 404'd on me while i was trying to upload. i swear, it'll be up soon.

i will wait for your submission, good sir!

sure, i'll update the ones i've uploaded at some point in time over the next few days.

it's not on the page for the preorder itself, but it's linked in the news item merge posted on the main page yesterday announcing the preorder.

http://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/the-music-tapes-the-dark-is

write and record a song in an hour. post a link to aforementioned song here by saturday late afternoon/early evening. i will upload all contributions to cllct around 8pm eastern time on saturday.
...

is there a specific time you want these in by on sunday? 11:59pm? noon? just as long as it's before monday?

i will preface this by saying that i am not very good at facebook sometimes.

but, according to the members list, you're already in the group (assuming you are the christina listed in the group...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume21lostbunny
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume21lostbunny
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume21lostbunny...

write and record a song in an hour or less. upload it to somewhere i can download it from, and i'll upload the release to cllct around 8pm eastern time on saturday.

somebody else can pick a...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume20vanilla
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume20vanilla
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume20vanilla...

ahhh i know what you mean and it drives me crazy! vanilla is one of the nicest, most complex flavors and scents, and people say it's plain, and that's just awful. just because something is common...

are you saying you want the theme to be vanilla or are you requesting a plain old hoursong with no theme at all (since, debatably, vanilla is a plain flavor)?

sorry if the answer to this is...

write and record a song in an hour or less. upload it to somewhere i can download it from, and i'll upload the release to cllct around 8pm eastern time on saturday.

the theme this week is... up...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume19gofluxyourself
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume19gofluxyourself
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume19gofluxyourself...

write and record a song in an hour or less. post it here by saturday, and i will upload all contributions to cllct on saturday around eight-ish pm eastern time.

if somebody would like to come up...

it was good to talk to you too, david! i hope your trip back to sicily is going/went well! :)

i've been singing that silly thing all day. it's ridiculous and i can't get it out of my head, ha.

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume18oh
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume18oh
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume18oh...

write and record a song in an hour or less. post it here tomorrow (err, technically today), and i will upload all contributions to cllct around eight-ish pm eastern time.

theme is... up to...

via merge records;




this is going to be SO GOOD. opening with sleepy time down south and closing with takeshi and elijah? and so much wonderful in between? AND circus tent tour? AND npr...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume17summer
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume17summer
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume17summer...

i'll upload.

well it really depends on how much time i have/how much money i can save before she moves out. eventually, i'd like to have a nice analog set up. BUT i don't have a 4-track yet, and my financial...

(i know people have posted threads similar to this in the past, and i'm sorry to make a new thread and be annoying, but it's been a while! and it makes sense to ask here, since there are so many...

i've never listened to big blood, but i just downloaded some of their music on the free music archive, so i'll give them a listen today. where do you recommend starting (there's a lot of stuff up...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume16breakfastcereal
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume16breakfastcereal...

i can upload.

i think you went to elephant6.com instead of cloudrecordings.com. the cloud recordings store is back up, but the store is pseudo-closed while otc is out on tour and anything ordered between now and...

this hoursong has received the john fernandes stamp of awesomeness! everybody listen to it now!

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume15random
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume15random
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume15random...

i always thought that was a sitar. or maybe someone's voice.

i can upload again if everybody is okay with that.

(and if this is okay; david, do you want the "May 21, 2012" part of your song as part of the title too, or is it supposed to be "random people"...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume14fictionalcharacters
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume14fictionalcharacters...

interested parties; this is now available to watch on vimeo!


http://vimeo.com/42177088

ahhh, great theme!!! i might wind up doing two songs this week. maybe three. a lot of my favourite people are people who do not actually exist.

i can upload again, unless someone else wants to...

now with extra lenn9o9n!

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume13peony
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume13peony
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume13peony...

hey anyone who has a way of doing this (skype perhaps?); can someone get ahold of david for me and ask him to enable downloads on his song? i've left him a message on farcebook, but maybe one of you...

i can upload it tomorrow.

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume12moonsongs
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume12moonsongs
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume12moonsongs...

in celebration of this saturday's supermoon, the theme this week is the moon. anything about any moon ever to be a moon for anyone or any planet.

as always, feel free to completely ignore the...

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume11firstperson
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume11firstperson
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume11firstperson...

ahhh i will have this up in the next half hour. please do not show up at my house with flaming torches. i don't think any of you live within a half hour radius of me anyway, but still!

i can upload tomorrow night.

awh thanks, david! you're the first person to ever "love" a song of mine on last.fm. <3

and jesse, you should absolutely contribute to hour songs!!! more people should.

thanks, david. added to the cllct page, will update the mediafire link once the zip re-uploads.

http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume9whydoikeepmakingmusic
http://cllct.com/release/e6townhallhoursongvolume9whydoikeepmakingmusic...

what is your musical moniker? shaun boyle?

i can't tell if a lot of the more recent posters who have posted just a few times are very well programmed spambots or if they're actual people. there was one guy a few weeks ago that something like...

barring any unforeseen circumstances, i will be able to (record something [i missed doing this last week so much, but my computer froze every time i opened garage band] and) upload on saturday.
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