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I'm happy to announce I will be recording vocals for the albums - which essentially signal…
I will be performing online this Saturday, May 19 for the "Big Dawg Music Mafia" website. It's a website for conservative artists. Every week they showcase a particular artist on their site and t…
Mark here. I have been terribly sick the last two weeks. Everything has been delayed. I'm sorry to those who have been waiting for more live streams. I have been going crazy not being able to w…
Last time I talked about recording the various electric guitar parts for Solution and started to describe some of the sounds I designed for the album. Below I’ll describe some of the othe…
Recording the electric guitars has been an interesting experience.
This was a big deal – out of everything else, electric guitars have been my most all-over-the-map instrument since I aband…
This Thursday, April 12 at 7pm EDT, I will hopefully be finishing electric guitars for the album. This has been amazing fun, and a great success (relatively speaking, given my limited resources). …
Recording this album has been interesting.
One of the things I wanted to solve when recording these songs is the reinvention of the wheel that happens when I create a new session for a son…
I have been blessed to get a little more paid work recently, which due to its general scarcity takes priority over anything else. So while I make some changes in my schedule, I've had to temporari…
Recording continues this week, and I'll be live-streaming three sessions, Monday night, Tuesday night, and Thursday night.
Bass guitar sessions went great. One song, "Free," remains. The …
Well, I suppose I should’ve seen it coming. President Obama has tweeted his Spotify
playlist. A story being covered by
news organizations and music websites alike, the crossroads of hipster
Pr…
Due to a software issue, I am unable to continue bass guitar recording this week. The issue has been resolved but I'm taking some extra steps to ensure things will continue smoothly. That means n…
Mark is continuing work on The Solution is the Problem. Last week he began recording bass guitar, starting with acoustic bass on some songs, and the results were great. Bass recording se…
Mark here.
Today the internet is buzzing with very visible protests of
the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, which is being considered by
Congress. The wide-reaching and
poorly-written …
Mark here. In October and November, I recorded acoustic guitar tracks for 19 songs, to be considered for the new album, which will be called The Solution Is The Problem. And this…
Mark here. I just wanted to take a moment and say thanks to some people who have helped out with these Tradition shows this December. This is obviously not a one- or two- person job, and…