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8/16/2008
There's also a special post on Songs and Sonics about what you'll find after you download the tracks. Let the remixes begin! |
8/15/2008
I haven't forgotten about the remix contest! Thank you for your e-mails and postings on various places on the net... Barring any unforeseen catastrophes, everything should be online late tonight (EST). Thank you for your patience!
8/11/2008
A big thanks goes out to Lobster Quadrille for an exceptionally flattering review of the Me and My Arrow EP.
Another big thanks goes out to Adam at Pop Garden Radio for playing The Simple Carnival this past weekend.
Last -- but not least -- a very big thanks goes out to The Christopher Laird Show at radionowhere.org for featuring The Simple Carnival as Artist of the Week! You can download a podcast of the show here.
8/6/2008And now for something completely different. I'd like to announce the Really Really Weird Remix Contest! Long story short: In the very near future, I will be making the raw tracks for the song Really Really Weird available for download. Here's the song I'm talking about: If you're a creative remixing kind of person, you can take these original tracks, manipulate them, and turn them into something that sounds nothing like the original song. A panel of judges and I will rank the submissions. The grand prize is one of the instruments that was used in the song, a circuit-bent Casio SK-1 sampler (considered by many to be the holy grail of weird-sounding circuit-bent instruments), plus a Simple Carnival t-shirt and a copy of Girls Aliens Food. There are three runner-up prizes (consisting of the t-shirt and CD) as well.
Even if you don't win, there's a possibility that your remix might end up on a future Simple Carnival release. You can read all the details here. |
8/4/2008
A big aloha and thank you goes out to Michael McCartney from The Time Machine for playing The Simple Carnival's song, Catilin's On the Beach. Speaking of the beach, The Time Machine is broadcast on KEAO FM, KONI FM, KPMW FM, and KTOH FM... in beautiful, beautiful Hawaii. (sigh...)
Anyway, short of getting a plane ticket to paradise, you can listen to selections from his most excellent show here.
8/2/2008
Thanks to Ed from the Suitcase Full of Dimes podcast for playing The Simple Carnival again!
7/27/2008
A new interview is up on Songs and Sonics, this time with the very insightful lo-fi singer/songwriter Marc with a C. Ever wanted to use an interruption in a recording to your advantage? Check out his cool interview here!
7/23/2008
Small, medium, large, and xtra large Girls Aliens Food t-shirts are now in stock. |
7/21/2008
Which song? Something catchy and accessible from the Me and My Arrow EP? Some dance floor-filling jam (that I haven't yet written)? No... Actually, my understanding is that Apricot, a strange little vaudville-like instrumental I threw together very quickly, is going to be played! The poster on the right for "Les Cox Sportifs" is the gig, and the evening features a "food" theme, which is why Apricot will be played between the live music sets. So... if you unexpectedly find yourself in the UK this Tuesday, and you're in the mood to hear about two non-singing minutes The Simple Carnival, the pub you want to find is called Packhorse. (A thanks goes out to Michael, who is organizing the event! |
It's kind of interesting to discover what happens to songs once they leave the studio and are sent off into the world. Case in point: I've been told that one of The Simple Carnival's songs is going to be played at a pub in Leeds this Tuesday.
7/15/2008
Twink makes wondefully twisted music, appropriate for kids, adults, or stuffed animals that want to get down on the dance floor. Check out the article here! |
7/11/2008
So I was minding my own business, listening to a stream of Arnd Zeigler's excellent German weekly radio show called Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Pop, and I heard a flute playing. I thought, "Hmmm... That sounds like something I might do."
Two seconds later: "Hey, wait, that is what I do!" 
Thanks, Arnd, for playing my little instrumental ditty, Eskimo Kiss, from Sonic Rescue League Vol. 1!
7/5/2008 (Update!)
I've got a new interview up on Songs and Sonics, this time with a terrific studio band called The Sonic Executive Sessions. If you like your pop as smooth as Steely Dan, as driving as Ben Folds, and with a Beach Boys undercurrent, you must check them out.
Also... if you're a vocalist or a recording person who always wondered how to create Queen-like background vocals, the beans are spilled in this interview... Seriously! Here's the link.
7/5/2008
The Me and My Arrow EP is now available through CDBaby!
7/3/2008
Let me know if you'd like to be notified when they become available -- I should be getting more soon. There are still medium and large sizes in stock, though! |
6/30/2008
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6/29/2008
Thanks to Ed from the Suitcase Full of Dimes podcast for leading off Episode 92 with The Simple Carnival's song, Caitlin's on The Beach!
6/28/2008
Hey there -- two new reviews of the Me and My Arrow EP are up, and the first one is perhaps the best one yet! Thanks to Marc over at RetroLowFi for the hilariously enthusiastic review (you'll need to scroll down a bit to read it). Thanks to Dave at Cool Noise for his review as well.
Also, The Simple Carnival is on a Series Two Records compilation. Specifically, Really Really Weird will be on their Volume 6 compilation.
6/24/2008
I'm pleased to announce an interview I conducted with Sean O'Hagan from The High Llamas over on my blog, Songs and Sonics. Check it out! |
6/19/2008 (update!)
Tell me if this isn't cool... Sean from Baroque Pop Radio put Really Really Weird into heavy rotation on his Live365 station. But that's not all -- the Me and My Arrow EP made his Best of 2008 list! Thanks, Sean -- it's an honor to be in such distinguished company!
6/19/2008
The Simple Carnival's cover of Harry Nilsson's Me and My Arrow is featured on the Coverville podcast. Thanks to Brian from Coverville for the nice words on the show and for playing the track!
The Simple Carnival received another fine review for the Me and My Arrow EP, this time from a UK publication called The Beat Happening. Thanks to Chris for the thumbs up!
6/18/2008 (update!)
Wow, I don't know what to say -- I'm speechless!
6/18/2008
A hearty thanks goes out to Donald at is this music? for a fine review of the Me and My Arrow EP!