I Hate Myspace
i hate myspace
Tomorrow I’m going up to Brooklyn to write and record some songs with a very talented woman named who plays under the moniker “Moon” (moonmoon.bandcamp.com). I’ve been wanting to work with her ever since I saw her play about a year and a half ago at DBA and am basically forcing her to by driving up to Brooklyn and showing up at her door. We’ve never really talked besides on the internet.
I’ve been a lot more fascinated with spontaneous projects like this since about two years ago Berg and Nathan, two good friends of mine that play in a band called And And And, and I decided to write, record and mix a full-length album in the woods of Oakland Oregon in a trailer that Nathan’s dad owns. At the time, I had just met Nathan and Berg, and they were relatively strangers to me when we went in. Really all I knew about Nathan was the album he recorded that year that my friend Nick gave me called “From The Fire Where I Was Born” and I couldn’t stop listening to it. Then one winter when I was visiting Eugene for the holidays I saw And And And play at the infamous Red Room show they were thrown out of for breaking a tom with giant table legs attached to it.
Nathan and I started talking at the after party about the trailer and that he had recorded that album in only a couple of days, isolated and alone in the woods. This, of course, got me going and after an impromptu jam session on acoustic guitars in Berg’s bathroom we discovered we both somehow had memorized lyrics to one another’s songs prior to ever meeting each other we decided the three of us would go to the woods.
A day and a half with an 8 track and a handful of odd instruments, we came up with an album called “Bear Country” that can be listened to in its entirety at myspace.com/bdaygirlz or a couple of tracks are below. Some of the cuts on the album are still some of my favorite songs.
Everybody Wants To Love You by zaunermichelle
Birthday Girlz by zaunermichelle
Mossy by zaunermichelle
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The newest addition to the runforcoverrecords family littlebigleague
June 1, 2013
June
“I had just finished writing and recording a record with my band Little Big League (littlebigleague.bandcamp.com) and was experiencing difficulty writing new material. The band wasn't really doing anything because we were exhausted. We weren't playing many shows to save up for touring a lot when the record came out.
On May 30th I had a dumpling party at my house where I invited all of my friends to come over and make dumplings. We set up Christmas lights in my backyard and all sat around a lawn table drinking beer and scooping small spoons from a big pot of stuffing and folding them into little dumpling wrappers. I invited Rachel Gagliardi from Slutever and we talked a lot about feeling stuck creatively. I suggested that we start a blog. The conceit was that we wrote, recorded and posted one song every day for the month of June. Two days later there was:
rachelandmichelledojune.tumblr.com
The most important part of the blog was learning how to practice forgiveness. This Isabel Allende quote I read on some blog-- "show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too." that seemed relevant too. Instead of sitting down and creating a list of rules (I've written too many songs in the key of D, no more finger picking, no verse chorus structure, etc. etc.) that completely inhibited me from writing, I just had the pressure of needing to have a finished product by the end of the day to motivate me. Despite my busy work schedule, social obligations, even if I only had ten minutes of free time during the day, they would be spent making sure I got my post for the day.
While there are definitely songs I find completely unlistenable and all around awful, I was very happy with a lot of the material I produced. I plan on developing quite a few with LBL for our second LP. I highly recommend the project to anyone who is feeling creatively uninspired. Habituation is the key.
The album is made up of 28 originals and two covers Day 15 is PAWS' "Sore Tummy", Day 23 is a Liz Phair's "Chopsticks".
Here is a list of some of my favorite tracks from the project:
Day 5, Day 6, Day 10, Day 22, Day 28, Day 30
Dan Hughes made my album cover, Ben Pubusky made my banner!
special thanks to: Peter Bradley my bestest friend who makes me so brave and so powerful, Ian Dykstra my twin Machine, Rachel Gagliardi the coolest girl in Philadelphia.”
Little Girl, Big Spoon
“Little Girl, Big Spoon is believed to be the first pseudonym of musician Michelle Zauner, she released one album under this name. Michelle Zauner started performing as Little Girl, Big Spoon sometime in 2005 and released 1 album under the name. Not much is known about this time period in her life” - from
“A big part of it was that Mitski offered me a tour and how do you say no to Mitski???”
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